All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 40
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Specialist or generalist?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach discusses why we should consider becoming specialists (rather than generalists).
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (upper-intermediate to proficiency)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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Who can you trust?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach talks about practices and methods used to tell when someone is lying.
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Tourism in Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs)
Students are introduced to the term ‘LEDC’ and asked to consider the implications of tourism in this thought-provoking worksheet. Group and pair work encourages students to think about the different areas of life affected by tourism and talk about their own experiences. Full teacher’s notes accompany these exercises.
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ArticleFootball fanatics
This mini-play features a father and son from Yorkshire, who are on a long-distance journey to a football match. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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Quiz: Present passives
A card game at upper intermediate level to practise using present passives that can be played as a group game or a team game.
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Celebrities
This mini-play features two workmen, who are sitting in a roadworks truck near Dartford, reading the paper. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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Business Spotlight: My home is my castle
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, talks about the Indian government’s use of satellite images of slums and to what ends this information may be used.
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ArticleMini Plays: The Clothes Shop
Boost your students' listening skills with this mini-play of two friends shopping in Manchester.
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Experiments: Roller-coaster ride
In this experiment, students construct a track for marbles to collide on in order to compare the energy stored in a stationary object to the energy of one that is in motion. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise vocabulary related to movement. Students then complete a table and read ...
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ArticlePicture game: Second conditional
A picture and guessing game at upper intermediate level which involves students using their imagination to complete sentences in order to practise the second conditional.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Is it ever OK to lie in a job interview?
In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight magazine, a former recruitment director and a director of an employment website discuss whether candidates should lie in job interviews.
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Experiments: Build a sail-car of the future
In this experiment, students make a sail-car and learn how to harness the energy from the wind to power it. The accompanying activities practise the first and second conditional and modals of prediction. Students then design their own car of the future and talk about it using the future tense. ...
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ArticleTeaching materials: Teaching with the help of songs
This article by Paul Ashe suggests grammar activities and project work based around listening to music in the classroom.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: End and beginning
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, deals with the problematic but essential Business English topic of losing a job.
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ArticleUsing art in the classroom
A series of articles by Jamie Keddie containing lesson plans, teaching tips, and suggestions for using art in the classroom.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Career focus: Recruiter for love
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Sophia McDonald talks about her company and how her people skills helped her become a successful matchmaker.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: What I've learned: 50 Cent
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, the American rapper 50 Cent talks to the author Robert Greene about his life, career and business decisions.
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Lesson Share: CLIL: Sine and cosine graphs
Robin Summers' excellent 45-minute lesson focuses on the similarities and differences between sine and cosine graphs. Students examine the graphs and write descriptions of them with language guidance from the teacher.
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Lesson Share: CLIL: Math and logic: Deduction and speculation
Yuliya Ivanova's comprehensive lesson is designed to develop and encourage logical thinking. Students complete a number of vocabulary-building activities and then read a puzzling tale which will challenge their ability to deduce and speculate.