All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 33
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Coca-Cola's biggest mistake
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about Coca-Cola and a far-reaching marketing decision the company made in the 1980s.
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ArticleLesson 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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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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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Henry Ford's $5 pay offer
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the visions and decisions of Henry Ford and how they impacted on the Ford Motor Company.
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ArticleLesson 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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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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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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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Calm and productive
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about work-related stress, what consequences it has and how it can be relieved.
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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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ArticleBusiness 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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Lesson Share: Integrated skills: B-movies and film stars
Dimitra Eleftheriou-Ernst’s lesson allows students to develop their fluency as well as spark their imaginations by role-playing movie stars at a party.
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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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Mobile English: Mobile phone dictation
A short activity that can be used as a warmer or filler to review language that has already been covered in class. Any model of mobile phone can be used for this activity.
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Warmer/FillerMobile 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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A ghost's guide to London: Christmas special: Part 2
Lord Jeffrey, the Ghost of London, takes students on a thrilling audio tour of London at Christmas time. In the second and concluding part, students will: learn about Christmas traditions in Britain; practise listening for gist and reconstructing audio stories from memory; focus on the meaning, form and use of ...
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A ghost's guide to London: Christmas special: Part 1
In the first part of this two-part special, students will learn about the Christmas lights of Oxford Street and practise listening for gist.
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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 ...