All Up to 60 mins articles – Page 31
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Survival Guide: Teaching under the influence
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord ask you to consider what impact different teaching methods have had on your teaching and learning and present a brief history of EFL.
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ArticleSurvival Guide: Teacher’s survival kit
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord give a run-down of the ten most important tools in a teacher’s locker, plus five survival tools for mobile devices.
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LessonAbsolute Beginners: Unit 2 - What's your phone number?
Help your absolute beginner students learn to give and ask for phone numbers in English while practising numbers 0-9 with this lesson by Frances Marnie.
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Business Basics: Taking an order
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise polite language used when taking customer orders. Exercises include: identifying ‘friendly’ and unfriendly’ language, completing the gaps in a conversation and role-playing two phone conversations.
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Teaching toolBusiness 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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LessonMacmillan 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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ArticleAbsolute Beginners Series
Frances Marnie introduces a series of ESOL lesson plans aimed at beginner-level students with little or no previous experience in English.
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LessonAbsolute Beginners: Unit 1 - Hello, what’s your name?
Help your absolute beginner students learn to introduce themselves in English with this fantastic lesson by Frances Marnie.
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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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Teaching toolBusiness 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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Teaching toolBusiness 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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LessonTopics: Easter
Introduce your students to the topic of Easter while they practice reading, listening, and speaking.
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ArticleBusiness 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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Lesson Share: Speaking: Making arrangements
This winning lesson by Claire Gibbs practises functional language for making plans.
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LessonTopics: Christmas
Use this jolly instalment of Adrian Tennant’s popular series and get your students into the holiday spirit.
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Tech Tools for Teachers: Blogging
Nik Peachey looks at blogging and explores how we can use it as a tool to support language learning both inside and outside the classroom.
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Topics: Museums
Students are introduced to the topic of museums in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: The Titanic
Emily Ballard’s historic lesson provides a unique way to practise forming sentences in the third conditional.
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Tech Tools for Teachers: Video-sharing
Nik Peachey explores video-sharing and how we can use it to motivate language learning. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on the use of video-sharing, including a list of tools to create activities around videos, such as ESLvideo, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide.