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Impressions (B1): In the past, we used to …

Are the “good old days” better than current times? In this lesson, students look at old photos and use used to to compare the past and the present.

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Guessing game: Must, mustn’t, needn’t, don’t have to

A small-group card guessing game to practise must, mustn’t, needn’t and don’t have to.

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Pairwork: Should have / shouldn’t have

A pairwork game to practise should have and shouldn’t have.

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Card game: Must and Mustn't

A pairwork card game to practise using must and mustn’t.

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Where were you? Could / Couldn't

A photo card guessing game, using forms of could.

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Evidence: Past modals

Students work together to decide who they think commited a burglary using evidence cards and practising past modals.

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Explanations: Geography

Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in delivering questions and explanations from the area of geography, covering wh- question words, statements as questions, asking for explanations, possibility and uncertainty, explaining a process and conjunction phrases.

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Opinions: should

A pairwork activity at pre-intermediate level to practise the use of should + infinitive.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Celebrity wedding planner

Jodi Hope catches Royal Wedding fever with a love-themed winning lesson that practises modal verbs.

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Guessing game: used to

A guessing activity at intermediate level to practise used to in affirmative and negative sentences and questions.

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Experiments: Gas from garbage

This experiment is designed to demonstrate that biomass, especially when stored in warm, damp conditions, produces gas. Step by step teaching notes and worksheets help teachers and pupils get the most from the experiment and develop language learning skills. Pupils are guided through predicting the results and writing up the ...

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Lesson Share: CLIL: Making sense of road signs

In this fun, hands-on lesson by Gabriela Grigoroiu, students identify and categorize a variety of road signs and then match them with their corresponding words in English.

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Hydrogen Power

Students learn how hydrogen could one day be made and stored as a source of electricity.

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Advice and suggestions 2

To complete sentences using the correct verbs of advice and suggestion.

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Grammar: mood and modality 2

Jonathan Marks explains the difference between mood and modality.

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Grammar: mood and modality 1

Jonathan Marks explains the difference between mood and modality.

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What went wrong?

An American English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, commenting on things which went wrong on vacation.

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What went wrong?

A British English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, commenting on things which went wrong on holiday.

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Time travelers

An American English worksheet to practice differentiating between the modal auxiliaries will and might.

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Speculation

An American English worksheet to speculate about what may have happened to cause situations illustrated in pictures.