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    Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar practice

    Some useful ideas to get your students to practise their grammar.

  • Photo of teenage students singing a song. If too hard, photo of a CD player, or just CDs, and books to suggest the idea of learning through music.
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    Teenagers: Songs: Songs and grammar

    Ideas for using songs to teach grammar.

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    Lesson Share: Second-hand goods

    In her first diary entry, Amthal Karim talks about the trials andf tribulations of teaching must and mustn't  along with the topic of buying and selling.

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    Pronunciation skills: glossary - homophones

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    Phrase of the week: to get the sack

    Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to get the sack.

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    Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar games

    Some games to help teach grammar to teenagers and young learners.

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    Phrase of the week: to get off scot free

    Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to get off scot free.

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    Grammar: the syntactic function of -ing forms

    An article discussing the syntactic function of -ing forms.

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    Grammar: -ing forms and post modification

    An article discussing -ing forms and post modification.

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    Teaching writing: the forgotten skill

    Advice and suggestions about teaching writing in the English classroom.

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    Festivals: Good Friday

    Good Friday is the Friday before Easter and commemorates the day Jesus was crucified. Good Friday is a day of mourning in church when Christians remember the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross. In some countries people act out the crucifixion and special processions take place.

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    Festivals: Palm Sunday

    Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week (the week leading up to Easter and the resurrection of Jesus). During Holy Week, Christians remember the last week of Jesus' life. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem, accompanied by his disciples. He was greeted by a crowd of worshippers, who ...

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    Festivals: La Tomatina

    At the end of August in the town of Buñol near Valencia in Spain, the locals celebrate their patron saint, San Luis Bertràn and the Virgin Mary. During the week of the festival, there are paella-cooking contests, parades, music, dancing and fireworks. La Tomatina is the highlight of the festival ...

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    Festivals: Olympic Games

    The first Olympic Games took place in ancient Greece and was said to have been held in 776 BC. The object of the Games was to develop benchmarks of human creativity and excellence. Over the centuries, the Games highlighted extraordinary achievements and soon became the stage for noble competition and ...

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    Festivals: Vasant Panchami

    Vasant Panchami is a festival widely celebrated in India and throughout other Hindu communities around the world. Vasant Panchami is dedicated to Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and learning. Vasant Panchami occurs on the fifth lunar day of the month of Magh. In India, schools are closed for the ...

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    Festivals: Shrove Tuesday

    Shrove Tuesday is the last day before the Christian period of Lent, a time of abstinence when people give things up.

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    Festivals: Obon

    This is a major Buddhist festival in Japan's calendar and takes place for three days every summer. It is believed that the spirits of ancestors visit their relatives during the midsummer. Welcoming fires, known as 'mukaebi', or lanterns are lit at the beginning of the festival to guide the ...

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    Festivals: Shavuot

    This is a two day festival which takes place fifty days after the first day of Passover, marking the time that the Jews received the Torah on Mount Sinai. Shavuot is also known as the festival or feast of Weeks. During their escape from Egypt, Moses brought the Israelites to ...

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    Festivals: Oktoberfest (October)

    The mother of all beer drinking festivals held in Munich every year. Six million litres of beer are consumed in huge beer tents. That is quite a lot of beer so the locals generously host a few million tourists to help celebrate.