All Vocabulary articles – Page 40
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ArticleYour English: Idioms: The elements
Spring is in the air but you might want to hold fire on organizing a barbecue as the unpredictable weather might pour cold water on your plans. Tim Bowen braves the elements.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 6
Tim Bowen revel s in some more lonely phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Collocations: petty
We've no petty grievances with this set of collocations from Tim Bowen.
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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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Your English: Idioms: the senses
You'll like the sound of this ... Tim Bowen treats us to a feast for the senses.
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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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LessonSelections Grade 1: Mr Crocodile's toothbrush
Mr. Crocodile has lost his toothbrush! Ask your 1st graders to help him find it with this complete lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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Experiments: Gone with a bang
In this experiment, students make a banger and use this to learn how energy can be released and turned into sound waves. The accompanying activities practise reading instructions and linking words. Key vocabulary and practical teacher's notes are included.
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ArticleAmazing World of Animals
These lessons by Carol Read will build your Young Learners’ language skills and knowledge of the animal world.
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Experiments: 360-degree periscope
In this experiment, students build a periscope and explore the effects of mirrors on the passage of light. The accompanying activities practise preposition phrases and writing a scientific report. Students predict the results of the experiment using future tense. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.
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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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Your English: Phrasal verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 5
Whether you prefer to leaf through or mull over this gloomy article, you will certainly experience the joylessness of an English winter with Tim Bowen's latest collection of lonely phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Collocations: catch
You would really want to catch more than just a glimpse of Tim Bowen's article on catch and its collocates.
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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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Experiments: Rocket mice
This fun experiment reinforces vocabulary and concepts associated with forces. Students make a rocket mouse and learn how to make it fly with the help of a plastic bottle. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise and consolidate concepts connected to forces. Students then talk about their experiment and write ...
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: criticism
They can dish it outbut they can't take it - Tim Bowen's critical account of what's going on in UK politics.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: speaking
Far from rambling on about boring matters, Tim Bowen presents a concise article on phrasal verbs meaning speaking at length. This is why we keep banging on about how great he is!
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LessonSelections Grade 2: I Want Chocolate
Get your young learners to talk about their favourite food and create their perfect menu with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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Dictionary skills: Science and technology
A dictionary skills lesson by Tim Bowen about science and technology. Learners practice using dictionaries to check meaning and for vocabulary development.