All Teaching Notes articles – Page 30
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Supermarkets and sales
This lesson aims to help students learn comparatives and superlatives by comparing prices and supermarkets.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Text messages
This lesson aims to help students understand abbreviations commonly used in text messages.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Calendars and dates
This lesson aims to help students with days, months, numbers and ordinals.
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One-to-one methodology: Situation two – dealing with reluctant business English learners
How do you encourage an in-company student to learn business English, when they'd prefer to chat about their family? Alex Case provides tips and advice for dealing with this situation, including a sample lesson plan.
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Minimal resources: Building dialogue
Scott Thornbury gives us some great tips and ideas for building dialogue in speaking activities.
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British English: Describing people – teacher's notes
To introduce vocabulary to do with describing people.
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British English: Describing people – worksheet
To introduce vocabulary to do with describing people.
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British English: Intelligence is a light – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words related to intelligence.
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British English: Life is a journey – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases describing life experiences.
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British English: Responsibilities are like weights – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and expressions related to responsibility.
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British English: Making mistakes – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several phrases related to making mistakes.
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British English: Phrasal verbs with pull – teacher's notes
To present some phrasal verbs in context.
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British English: Phrasal verbs with pull – worksheet
To present some phrasal verbs in context.
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British English: Winning – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to winning and losing in sports.
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ArticleImaginative materials: board games for teaching English
Learners are often familiar with popular board games. Inventing new games (or adapting familiar games) can often produce materials that motivate students to talk and practise language.