All Teaching Notes articles – Page 16
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The Golden State?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is written by an American expat who talks about how the situation in her home state of California has changed in recent years.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Do you talk too much?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about talking too much and highlights how you can recognize this in yourself and do something about it.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: The five Ps of participation
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about participating in meetings and offers hints and suggestions which have been divided into five easy-to-remember categories.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Creature comforts
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about pet-care and the estimated global revenue of the industry as well as its many sides - innovative, necessary and emotional.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: A new revolution
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, a Saudi Arabian woman talks about the restrictions that women in her country encounter in their everyday lives.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Reach for the top
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, looks at the pros and cons of appraisals and both employees’ and managers’ attitudes towards them.
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Warmer/FillerCLIL History: The Middle Ages
Check out this engaging Question Loop activity associated with the Middle Ages.
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ArticleHow to make your own question loop activities
Use these teacher’s notes to create your very own question-loop activities for any topic you cover in class.
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Warmer/FillerCLIL Science: Health & Nutrition
Check out this engaging Question Loop activity about health and nutrition.
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Question Loop Speaking Activity: Reproduction in plants and humans: Secondary
Twenty-four question loops on a variety of reproduction vocabulary such as germinate, airborne and bulb for plants, zygote, placenta and umbilical cord for humans.
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Question Loop Speaking Activity: Energy and electricity: Secondary
Twenty-seven question loops that focus on nouns and verbs connected with generating energy, saving energy and energy problems.
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Question Loop Speaking Activity: Water: Secondary
Twenty-five question loops on key verbs, nouns and adjectives connected with water in our everyday lives.
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Question Loop Speaking Activity: Circulation and digestion: Secondary
Twenty-four question loops on specialist anatomical vocabulary connected with the process of circulating blood, medical conditions such as angina and thrombosis and the organs involved when digesting food.
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Electricity: An introduction
A comprehensive set of resources looking at electricity. The first reading text, ‘Electricity and magnetism’, introduces the various pieces of the electromagnetism jigsaw. The second reading text tells of the indomitable spirit of Michael Faraday whose love of science helped him overcome all the adversity of being poor and downtrodden ...
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Physics: An introduction
‘People have always wondered why things behave the way they do’ … this lesson plan looks at how our stories about how the world works have changed with the development of physics. ‘Physics - the new science fiction’ is the second reading text in the form of a report on ...
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Chemistry: An introduction
Students are introduced to this central science via a reading text and learn about three developments that give us the definition of chemistry: fire, the nature of matter itself, and Mendeleev’s all important table. A second reading text looks at the type of careers available to a chemistry student. Listening ...
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Introducing ecosystems
A comprehensive set of resources about ecosystems, introducing habitats and environments, as well as examining the food chains and food webs within an ecosystem. Each reading text is followed by a variety of vocabulary and speaking activities that build students’ knowledge of the subject and confidence with ecosystems terminology. Extra ...
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ArticleBiology: An introduction
A short history of biology tracks the study of life through the ages, showing our fascination with the living world around us, from the ancient Egyptians to Charles Darwin’s theories and the study of DNA. The second reading text is a letter from a professor of biology, spelling out the ...
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Time to take a 'RISC'
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about negotiating and, in particular, a four-step guide to structuring a successful negotiation.
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Environment: Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson plan
In this lesson plan, students learn about important environmental issues: recycling in the UK, saving water in the garden and pollution. A collaborative project asks students to prepare a presentation on pollution. Useful phrases, tips for effective reading and writing and vocabulary builder activities are also included. The listening exercise ...