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    Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3—Company profile

    In this lesson, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company, and write a company profile.

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    Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: bitcoin

    This lesson plan by Kerry Maxwell gives tips and suggestions for using the BuzzWord article on Bitcoin in class.

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Prefixes

    Svetlana Urisman wins the Lesson Share competition with an engaging board game activity to help students revise word formation using prefixes.

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    Lesson Share: Socializing

    Gary Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with a fabulous lesson plan to help students practise making small talk.

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    Business Basics: Ordering a service or product

    In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise language related to describing products and services in a sales context. Exercises include: completing information from an IT website, asking and answering questions, and writing a service profile.

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    Business Top Trumps: Lesson 2—Company structure

    In this lesson, students will complete an organigram of a fictional company and talk about their own company’s structure.

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    Mobile English: Secret instructions

    Students use mobile phones or voice recorders to deliver instructions that include phrasal verbs/verb + particles.

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    Lesson Share: Telling an anecdote

    Gabrielle Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with an imaginative speaking activity to help students practise telling anecdotes.

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    Business Top Trumps: Lesson 1—Playing the game

    In the first lesson of this engaging series, students get to know the Top Trumps cards and learn how to play the game.

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    Second Best: Part 2

    In Part 2, the final part of this story, the sisters walk through the countryside and come across Tom Smedley, an admirer of Frances. In this lesson, the students will: recap Part 1 of the story; listen for gist and detail; listen to the effect of short sentences on mood; ...

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    The Shadow and the Flash: Part 5

    In Part 5, the concluding part of this science fiction story, Paul and Lloyd finally confront each other. In this lesson, the students will: look back over the story so far; practise listening for gist; listen for detail; discuss the tragic end of the story; study the effect of long ...

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Memories of the past

    Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with a unique way to help students remember irregular past tense forms.

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    Second Best: Part 1

    This advanced-level story, by D H Lawrence, is set in the British countryside in the early 1900s. It is about a young woman who is looking for love after a disappointing affair. It is told in two parts; each part contains audio and an accompanying lesson plan written by Daniel ...

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    The Shadow and the Flash: Part 4

    In Part 4 of this science fiction story, we are told how the two scientists finally succeed in creating invisibility. In this lesson, the students will: recall the story so far; discuss the possible effects of invisibility; listen for gist; improve their awareness of the relationship between punctuation and pronunciation; ...

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    Business Spotlight: Powers in the East

    In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, two businessmen, one from Japan, the other from China, talk about the economic challenges Japan and China are facing and dealing with. 

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    Business Top Trumps: An Introduction

    Check out this original set of Business Top Trumps cards and twelve complete lesson plans and inject some fun into your Business English classes.

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    Mobile English: Ideal phone

    Have your elementary-level students use their imagination and design their ideal phone.

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    The Shadow and the Flash: Part 3

    In Part 3 of this science fiction story, the men explain the science behind their diverging approaches and reveal that they are already some way to achieving the impossible. In this lesson, the students will: recap the story so far; do a science quiz about the properties of light; listen ...

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Active listening

    Gabrielle Jones wins the competition with lesson that practises using question tags and asking follow-up questions.  

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    The Shadow and the Flash: Part 2

    In Part 2 of this science fiction story, we learn about the two men’s different theories of invisibility as they continue to be locked in a fierce battle for success. In this lesson, the students will: talk about invisible characters in fiction; listen for gist; discuss the anachronistic racist labelling ...