All Whole Class articles – Page 49

  • Photo of a basketball team or simply of people playing basketball.
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    The History of Basketball

    When a Canadian teacher was trying to think of a way to keep his students fit during the winter months little did he know that he was about to invent the most popular indoor sport in the world: basketball, now played in over 150 countries. In this worksheet students learn ...

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    Great Composers

    This lesson plan will help to encourage an appreciation for classical music by introducing students to three great composers: Mozart, Liszt and Rachmaninov. Working together in pairs or in small groups, students learn about the composers’ lives and legacy through information gap, reading and matching exercises and also have an ...

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    Buying and selling

    In this role-playing exercise, students practise their reading, listening and speaking skills.

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    Art gallery

    Through this ’spot the difference’ exercise, students will learn key art history terms.

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    The Terror of Blue John Gap: Part 1

    This advanced-level story, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is set in the Peak District, England, in 1902. It tells of how a man uncovers the truth behind the legend of a mysterious monster. It is told in six parts; each part contains audio and an accompanying lesson plan written by ...

  • Young woman standing on street outside food shop looking at fresh produce on stall.
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    Amazing world of food: Lesson 4: Our sense of taste

    In the fourth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to understand the role of taste buds, identify four basic tastes and relate them to different parts of our tongue, and carry out a tasting experiment. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.

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    Reading: How English is English?

    A worksheet with reading and vocabulary activities on the topic of the English language and its origins.

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    Art and Drawing: Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

    This fascinating lesson focuses on perspective: students read an illustrated text on perspective in drawing, followed by true/false and vocabulary exercises. A listening exercise focuses on Claude Monet and Impressionism; a writing exercise gets students to recreate a text on the Parthenon. A pairwork collaborative project gets students to describe ...

  • Photo of generic health and safety signs.
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    Using signs

    Don’t pick the vegetables! In this lesson plan, pupils match health and safety signs to the appropriate places in a summer camp, and number sentences to match the signs to the correct instructions. Teaches young learners about using signs and symbols, while consolidating key vocabulary words such as ‘forest’, ‘swimming ...

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    Things that go!

    Colour the pictures and fill in the blanks to learn about different modes of transport.

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    The media: Types of communication

    In this lesson plan, pupils compare newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and the Internet.

  • Photo of newspapers, a radio or a magazine to illustrate the concept of media.
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    The media: Communication

    This lesson plan introduces the different types of media as well as expressions of time.

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    Stephenson's rocket

    Join the dots and then colour the picture to complete this 1829 prize-winning locomotive. (Answers available to download separately.)

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    Road safety

    This lesson plan reinforces road safety measures using the imperative.

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    People and the economy

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about different jobs while practising the present simple, singular and plural nouns and prepositions of place.

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    Old and new

    This activity sheet teaches young learners how technology has changed as they match the new objects to their predecessors.

  • Photo of different means of transport, e.g.: bus, car, bike, etc.
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    Means of transport

    This lesson plan aims to teach the different types of transport and reinforce prepositions such as ’by’ and ’on’.

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    Land transport

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn the history and characteristics of different means of land transport.

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    Full steam ahead

    Which train does the coal belong to? Learn about the earliest steam engines in this fun Science Museum activity.

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    Dot-to-dot plane

    An activity sheet to join the dots to find out what’s flying through the air and then colour the picture.