All Pair Work articles – Page 57

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    Dictionary skills: Business

    A dictionary skills lesson plan by Tim Bowen on the theme of business, to give learners practice in using the dictionary to check meaning and for vocabulary development.

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    Pronunciation skills: Adverbs of frequency

    Adverbs of frequency such as always and sometimes are a familiar teaching point. This lesson by Jonathan Marks practises some of these phrases with a particular focus on their stress patterns.

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    Teenagers: Speaking: Dream team

    A lesson plan by Gabby Hewitt that allows students to create their own football team.

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    Spot on news lessons for teens: School of hope

    This month's Spot on news lesson is about an 18-year-old girl who raised enough money to build a school in Cambodia.

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    Pronunciation skills: Sound and spelling

    This lesson plan by Jonathan Marks focuses on homographs and homophones, as well as other pairs of words whose pronunciation learners tend to find confusing.

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    Question time: wh- questions

    A card game at elementary level to practise wh- questions and answers.

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    British English vocabulary lessons: listen to / hear

    Students are often unsure when to use look at, see or watch, and when to use listen to or hear. This lesson plan by Karen Richardson aims to practice this vocabulary in context.

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    Progress and achievement

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise using common expressions for talking about making progress and achieving something.

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    The water cycle

    Demonstrate to the geography class how the water cycle works while teaching key subject vocabulary such as vapour, droplets, precipitation and condensation.

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    Secondary Economic Activity

    How does the manufacturing industry turn ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’ into cold, hard cash? Learn all about the systems and stages involved in secondary economic activity in this animation with accompanying language support material.

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    Sea action

    Teach students how load is carried along the sea shore by a process called ‘longshore drift’.

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    Acid Rain

    How do we define acid rain? What causes it? What damage does it do? Show students how acid rain is formed and the harm it does to our environment in this set of useful CLIL resources.

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    Changes

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about how things have changed or been altered.

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    Problems and difficulties

    A lesson by Adrian Doff focusing on the grammar and functional language of problems and how to solve them.

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    Bang, bang!

    This inventive speaking skills lesson by Karen Richardson gives students practice in describing an incident.

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    Money

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to talk about making, losing and saving money.

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    Managing a patient’s dietary needs

    Part three of a series of English-language worksheets for nurses. In this set of reading and listening activities, students learn how to apply the essentials of nutrition and hydration in evaluating the dietary needs of a patient.

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    Pronunciation activities: Part 12

    This lesson plan by Adrian Tennant focuses on homophones and homographs from the perspective of pronunciation and gives a variety of practice activities for students.

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    Studying and learning

    A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to talk about subjects of study and to discuss going to college or university.

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    Young learner topics: Make a monster

    A lesson where students practice using 'I've got...' to describe parts of the body and ask the question 'Have you got...?'