Sometimes there simply aren't enough hours in the day to produce lesson plans and resources based on the state of the environment, the fate of the England football team or the fortunes of Posh and Becks. Which is why we've done the work for you. See below for topical articles (from The Week magazine) plus carefully crafted lesson plans, materials and even the occasional wonderfully useful audio file.
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| Topical lesson: No speaka da English (01/09/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sport | | The 'Sport' feature from p22 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about factors affecting language learning, work on skimming, scanning and vocabulary, and a task on how to help Fabio Capello improve his English! The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of the vocabulary task. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: The key to a good night's sleep (26/08/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a beautiful word cloud, a gapped version of the text, work on multi-word verbs in context and suggestions for related songs. The PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Russia suffers from heat and mismanagement (19/08/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Best articles: foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes using vocabulary from the text in other contexts, work on cleft sentences and a natural disasters role-play. The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 5 (matching). | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Athletics: record medal haul raises hopes for London 2012 (10/08/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sport | | The 'Sport' feature from p20 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes scanning, reading for detail, and work on multi-word expressions and figurative language. The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash files are interactive versions of tasks 5 and 6 (matching). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: What the scientists are saying ... (03/08/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p19 of The Week magazine. Includes discussion opportunities, reading and writing activities, and a focus on complex prepositions. The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 3. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical Lesson: Can World Cup success heal the rifts in Spain? (27/07/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Topical resource [The Week] | Politics | Sport | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes reading for gist, reading for detail, summary writing and giving opinions. The PDF is the magazine page.
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| Topical lesson: Don't listen to football in the car (21/07/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on reading to check predictions, saying figures, and comparisons using 'as ... as'. The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 1.3. | | A2 |
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| Topical lesson: sport (14/07/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sport | | The 'Sport' feature from p24 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on the third conditional, presenting an Olympic bid, and a spelling World Cup. The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 2. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: learning the language of orangutans (07/07/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: linguistics | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about body language, reading for gist, work on uses of the gerund and a mime game to practise the present progressive. The PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Health & Science (28/06/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Academic English | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes predicting the content and giving oral and written summaries. Especially useful for students on pre-sessional EAP courses. The PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Best articles: Foreign (23/06/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on collocation and idiom, jigsaw reading, and writing a letter to a newspaper. The Flash file contains interactive versions of tasks 1, 3 and 5 (Magnet, matching, T/F). The PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Review of reviews: Books (16/06/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: literature | | The 'Review of reviews: Books' feature from p28 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes research on the cultural content, reading for detail, work on multi-word verbs and a role-play of an interview with an author. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains interactive versions of tasks C (T/F) and D (matching). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Novel of the week: The Slap (11/06/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: literature | | The 'Review of reviews: Books' feature from p29 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes predicting the content, reading for detail, writing a book review and/or discussing child discipline. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of the speaking task (T/F). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Novel of the week – 'The Last Weekend' (02/06/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: literature | | The 'Review of reviews: Books' feature from p29 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes book vocabulary, scanning and reading for detail, work on adverbs and adjectives, and finishes with students writing their own book reviews. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains an interactive version of the vocabulary task (matching). | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: War Games (28/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Review of reviews: books' feature from p26 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about donating to charity, vocabulary for international aid, reading for gist and detail, and a speaking task about charity gifts. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains a whizzy version of task 5 (T/F). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Gamblers enjoy losing too (18/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes reading for gist, work on probability, comparison or connectors and speaking about addiction. Useful preparation for IELTS writing task 1. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Best restaurant lists are idiotic and misleading (14/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Best articles: foreign' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes reading for detail, vocabulary work, and a fun speaking activity where learners present dubious candidates for 'best restaurant'. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 4 (matching). The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Best articles: Foreign (12/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a jigsaw reading about politics and a fantastic diplomacy roleplay. The MP3 file is an audio recording for task 7 (on English as a lingua franca). The Flash files contain interactive versions of tasks 3A/B (matching). The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Health & Science (07/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Academic English | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. The lesson is geared towards students who need academic skills. It practises note-taking and summarising semi-technical scientific texts, but also includes freer discussion. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris (28/04/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: literature | | The 'Review of reviews: books' feature from p26 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about reading habits, an activity on word class, IELTS-style comprehension questions and a review-writing task. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 5 (T/F) and the alternative lead-in (matching). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Is Malema another Terre'Blanche? (20/04/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: an information-gap activity on the two South African politicians, work on guessing meaning from context and discussion about racism. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: The perils of a junk-food fix (14/04/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion about food and addiction, scanning and reading for detail, work on questions, past participles and pronunciation, and practice giving advice. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 4 (sequencing). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: The SUV of the animal kingdom (13/04/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Teenagers | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: vocabulary for parts of a car and writing a comparison of vehicles and animals. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of tasks 3 and 6 (matching). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: When it pays to pick a manly man (06/04/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion on attractive actors, reading comprehension and research into attractive actresses. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Are you old? Well that depends (30/03/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p20 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: a sequencing activity for the stages of life (plus interactive version), a writing task describing older people, and discovering rules for forming nationalities (with interactive version – Magnet). The first PDF is the magazine page. | | A2 | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: Best articles: Foreign (23/03/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: comprehension questions, extensive work on vocabulary and parts of speech and discussion about privacy. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of tasks C (T/F), D (Matching) and F (Clozer). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Gaddaffi's real reason to turn on the Swiss (18/03/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Vocabulary | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles:Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: comprehension questions, guessing vocabulary from context, work on phrasal verbs with 'turn' and role-play or letter-writing task on complaints in hotels. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains a whizzy version of task 6 (Clozer). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: politicians and the pound (10/03/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'City' feature from p40 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: work on financial and political vocabulary, comprehension questions for each paragraph, and discussion about economics. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of tasks 2 (matching) and 5 (T/F). Suitable for learners with some knowledge of finance. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: The Sleeping Beauty of Worthing (02/03/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Teenagers | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: true/false comprehension questions, work on collocations, a 'find someone who' on sleeping habits, and speaking and writing about fairy tales. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of tasks 3 and 6 (T/F) and task 4 (matching). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: McItaly: the burger that betrayed a nation? (24/02/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: speaking about eating habits, IELTS-style comprehension questions and an IELTS-style formal letter-writing task. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of tasks 2 and 3(Matching) and task 5 (Clozer). | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: We may not be sexy, but we are competent (17/02/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on reading and writing skills: students write an article debunking common misconceptions about their countries. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 3 (Matching and Snap). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Best articles: Foreign (12/02/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: various topics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: predicting the content from the headlines, guessing vocabulary from context, summarising a text and discussing protests, censorship, home schooling and religious education. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains a whizzy version of task 2 (Clozer). | | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Mr Gü's guide to making millions (03/02/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'City' feature from p38 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion about chocolate, work on numbers and business collocations, and writing about food-related memories. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of the warm-up (Syntex), the numbers task (matching and snap) and the T/F activity. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: Why are we insulting this generous man? (27/01/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: business | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about how to become a successful business person, various reading skills, and work on subject questions. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 6. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Don’t spare the rod' (22/01/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion on mischief and corporal punishment, a word cloud for matching vocabulary, comprehension questions, a group problem-solving activity and writing a blog. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains a whizzy version of the matching activity. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Health & Science (11/01/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p15 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: a health and science quiz, multiple choice comprehension questions, vocabulary matching (plus whizzy version) work on reporting verbs, and discussion about health and science. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: How to deal with racist Tintin (21/12/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Best Articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion about banning things, vocabulary for inappropriate behaviour, a crossword, and debating language. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of the lead-in (ranking) and the debating expressions (T/F). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Holy cow – a minister who tells jokes (17/12/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: vocabulary for talking about jokes and humour, discussion about censorship, and writing a tabloid or broadsheet front page. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: A Sahara seething with monstrous crocs (11/12/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Young learners (under 12) | Teenagers | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p17 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: putting words in order to summarise the text, drawing a pre-historic creature and inventing a new hybrid. Ties in perfectly with a biology lesson. The first PDF is the magazine page. There are interactive (Syntex) versions of task 3. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: Switzerland's 'slap in the face' to Muslims (11/12/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a wordsearch for introducing or revising new vocabulary. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | |
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| Topical lesson: Anti-smoking vaccine (03/12/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: true/false questions, a fun exercise on common acronyms, discussion on smoking, and lots of links to useful websites. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy version of task 2 (T/F).
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| Topical Lesson: North Korea's tricks are growing stale (23/11/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Academic English | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: reading to check expectations, comprehension questions, guessing vocabulary from context, class discussion and rewriting the article from a different viewpoint. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: What the experts recommend – dining well on a budget (19/11/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature from p37 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes jigsaw reading, a 'guess the dish' game, writing and speaking about restaurant experiences, and an audio recording of childhood memories of an Irish family eating in English cafes. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Pizza East (11/11/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature from p40 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a cloze exercise, true/false questions, work on the verbs 'lay/lie/lie' and a discussion on British cheeses. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of tasks 3 (clozer) and 4 (T/F). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Amazonian funds: do women add value? (02/11/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: business | | The 'City' feature from p46 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on idioms from the text, discussion about women in top management, listening to a presentation of NetApp and making a company presentation. The PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 is the audio file. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 2 (T/F) and task 3 (matching). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Issue of the week: mortgage crackdown (28/10/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'City' feature from p46 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes printable and interactive vocabulary exercises, discussion on appropriate forms of credit and a role-play of a mortgage application. The PDF is the magazine page. The flash file contains whizzy versions of task 2 (T/F) and task 4 (matching). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: What the experts recommend (20/10/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature on p37 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes developing vocabulary for describing restaurants, writing a review of a local restaurant and posting it on the internet for all to see. The PDF is the magazine page. The flash file is a whizzy version of task 3 (T/F). | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Food & Drink (14/10/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature on p36 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a T/F speaking game on 'the strangest food I have eaten', a listening activity on a recipe, writing a menu and a recipe, and designing an advertising campaign for a sherry. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy version of tasks 6 and 8 (matching). | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: Making money: what the experts think (08/10/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'City' feature from p43 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a financial vocabulary crossword and writing a magazine article offering advice about making money in the current financial crisis. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Britain's best gastropubs (29/09/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature from p36 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a comprehension exercise, a crossword puzzle and a discussion/writing resource. The first PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy version of task 2 (matching). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Making money, what the experts think (16/09/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'City' feature from p47 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary, writing the minutes of a meeting using indirect/reported speech and suggestions for a mini-project on historical forms of currency. The first PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Stop these self-appointed moral zealots (09/09/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature on p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a morality questionnaire (with Flash version), a running dictation, a T/F activity (with Flash version), discussion about banning 'immoral' practices and work on modals. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Making money: what the experts think (02/09/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'City' feature on p41 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on financial collocations and a presentation justifying investment decisions. The second PDF is the magazine page. The HTML file is a whizzy version of task 3 (clozer). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Wine choice (26/08/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature on p31 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a T/F and a text ordering activity (with whizzy versions), a review of comparative and superlative adjectives and a wonderful wine-tasting role-play. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | A2 | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Recipe of the week: Runner Bean Chutney (17/08/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Food & Drink' feature on p31 of The Week magazine. Includes comprehension questions, a crossword puzzle and discussion of food-related proverbs. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Organic food: grub for the gullible? (12/08/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Talking points' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: a 'How gullible are you?' quiz, an 'Are you an ethical consumer?' questionnaire, a jigsaw reading and vocabulary work. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of the 'In more detail' task (matching). | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Swine flu: even teddy bears pose a risk (05/08/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Talking points' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: a cloze exercise plus whizzy, true/false comprehension questions plus whizzy, the use of 'bring' and 'take' and a doctor and patient role-play. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: The Moon landing: where did it get us? (27/07/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: history | | The 'Talking points' feature from p21 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: making notes on the main points of the text and a focus on the emphatic and work on synonyms of 'old'. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Britain's ageing population: the cost of care (22/07/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Talking points' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: completing a summary of the text, a focus on reduced relative clauses and work on synonyms of 'old'. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Dresden: sacrificing beauty for convenience? (15/07/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: architecture | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: describing and comparing cities, paraphrasing, and a role-play about building a new bridge. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 3 (matching) and task 4 (T/F). | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Pirate Party spreads across Europe (07/07/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes some lovely photos, putting the phrases back into the text, T/F questions (plus whizzy version) a focus on participle phrases, discussion questions, and a suggestions for a role-play in which groups form their own political parties. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Best articles: Foreign (01/07/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: various topics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes predicting the vocabulary in a text, T/F questions (plus whizzy version) and some fantastic pictures to match to the texts and write captions for. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson New cars: what the critics say (24/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: engineering | | The 'Consumer' feature on p36 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: multiple choice questions about the reviews, a word search of car parts and how to drive in six easy steps. The second PDF is the magazine page. Includes interactive versions of the driving verbs task (Clozer, multiple choice and sequencing). | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: How to donate to charity shops (16/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Consumer' feature from p38 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion of the cultural and social issues surrounding charity shops and work on giving advice using conditionals. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. Try the related listening activity, 10026 Charity shopping. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: The best ... handy kitchen accessories (16/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: shopping | | The 'Consumer' feature from p38 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: a 'describe and guess' game, a role-play in a kitchen accessory shop and an 'invent a recipe' version of 'Call my Bluff'. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 1. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: 'The best ... bicycle accessories' (08/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: business | | The 'Consumer' feature on p32 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: scanning skills, language for advertising, inventing a new product and writing adverts for everyday objects. Suitable for students in marketing and those who are keen on cycling. The second PDF is the magazine page. There are also interactive versions of Worksheet 1 (ranking) and Worksheet 3 (clozer). | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson 'More dangerous than bin Laden' (03/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p16 of The Week magazine. Includes: discussion about things that are dangerous, a gapfill of the text, true/false questions, work on the verb 'move', a nationalities crossword and discussion about what students are afraid of. The second PDF is the magazine page. Includes interactive versions of task 2 (T/F) and task 3 (clozer). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Jordan: a very public separation (27/05/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Talking points' feature on p21 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: predicting the content of the text, vocabulary matching, comprehension questions, work on direct and indirect speech and discussion about fame and success. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Why Chairman Mao is a la mode again' (21/05/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: history | | The 'Best articles: Foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine. Includes: a photo identity parade of famous dictators, a webquest on them, discussion about dictators' memorabilia and about a clip from Chaplin's The Great Dictator.
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| Topical lesson: The best ... unusual accessories for pets (13/05/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: shopping | | The 'Consumer' feature from p33 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion about students' own pets, multiple choice reading comprehension questions, guessing vocabulary from context, work on prefixes and a speaking task designing a new pet accessory. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Powerpoint slides show lovely pictures of pets! | | A2 | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: The “terrorist plot”: another police fiasco? (07/05/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Academic English | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'Talking Points' feature on p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Focuses on identifying and presenting arguments, the use of quotations as well as providing speaking and writing practice. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (T/F) version of task 3. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Susan Boyle: Britain's unlikely new star (30/04/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Teenagers | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Talking points' feature from p20 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: discussion of how to win a talent competition, work on vocabulary for describing and reacting to people, an interview with the star, and the class's own talent competition. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 2 (matching) and task 3 (T/F). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: The police: a failure in leadership (27/04/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'Talking points' feature from p20 of The Week magazine. Includes: describing and comparing photos, writing and performing dialogues, discussing police behaviour, choosing the best summaries for the article and discussing the use of names in discipline. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy version of task 2 (T/F). | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Consumer' (22/04/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: business | | The 'Consumer' feature from p34 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: work on car vocabulary, technical abbreviations and adjectives used in marketing, jigsaw reading, a product presentation, a role-play on buying and selling a car, and another designing and marketing a new household appliance. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of 'Before you read' (ranking) and task 5 (matching). | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Consumer (16/04/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: various topics | | The 'Consumer' feature from p34 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes: scanning, proofreading, speed reading and internet research. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Bad times in Dubai (06/04/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'Briefing' feature on p11 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about the financial crisis, T/F comprehension questions (plus whizzy version), choosing the best ending to a sentence and finding synonyms. The second PDF is the magazine article. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: The crusader for capitalism (31/03/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes T/F comprehension questions (plus Flash version), a focus on relative pronouns and discussion on books or films that have affected learners' lives. The HTML file is a whizzy version of task 5 (clozer). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Film: Bronson, Marley & Me, The Burning Plain (25/03/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Film' feature from p27 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes scanning and reading for detail, paraphrasing, text organisation and structure, narrative techniques and 'weaving'. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Film' (17/03/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Film' feature on p27 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a version of 'Call my bluff' to preteach vocabulary and a focus on sentence structures leading into rewriting and writing activities. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Does swimming make you fat? (11/03/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p17 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes brainstorming, a crossword puzzle, comprehension and vocabulary exercises, and using words in new contexts. The second PDF is the magazine page. The flash file is a whizzy (T/F) version of task 3. | | A2 | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Greening the Recession (04/03/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes jigsaw reading tasks, scanning for specific information, and a well-constructed role-play. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of 'Before you read'. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: The power of red and blue (25/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p17 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes putting sentences in order, a whizzy Choptalk version of part of the text, a gapfill of verbs relating to thinking and performing actions and another of fixed expressions. Can be used in conjunction with the resource 'Richard Of York Gave Battle in Vain'. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: 'The Nazi "most wanted" list' (18/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a discussion on war crimes, a dictionary race, scanning, a headings match and a debate on the punishment of war crimes. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (sequencing) version of task 4. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'How Darwin changed the world' (11/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The Briefing feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a Darwin quiz, guessing vocabulary from the context and a controversial roleplay. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Depression can be good for you' (02/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p26 of The Week magazine. Includes two different lead-ins and discussion sections, one for mental health professionals and one for learners of general English. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | B1 | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Life after the White House' (28/01/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes reading comprehension, vocabulary in context, textual cohesion (pronouns and articles), CPE-style summary writing, and discussion about retirement. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 6. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Film' (21/01/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Film' feature from p26 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes jigsaw reading, work on adjectives and writing a film review. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of 'Before reading' (matching) and task 2.7 (T/F). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Russell Crowe unleashes his "massive ego" (21/01/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Film' feature from p26 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes completing a summary in table form, watching a clip from YouTube and role-playing a heated interview between the press, Russell Crowe, Sienna Miller and Ridley Scott. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson 'Film' (12/01/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Film' feature from p23 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes speed-reading, completing a table with information from the texts, film genres and descriptions, and discussion about the films that students would and wouldn't like to see. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 4 (matching) and task 6 (T/F). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Health & Science (22/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: various topics | | The 'Health & Science' feature from pp18-19 of The Week magazine. Includes predicting the content of the articles, a spelling correction exercise and a crossword. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (T/F) version of task 1. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Arctic territory role-play (17/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Briefing' feature from p11 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson: a challenging role-play particularly suitable for learners who study or work in the areas of geography, international relations, politics, business studies or economics. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Greenland: northern rights' (16/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Briefing' feature from page 11 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a Greenland trivia quiz, a whizzy date-matching activity, summarising paragraphs, completing a summary, practice with comparative forms, and an interactive crossword to revise vocabulary. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: A loss of humanity in our virtual age (08/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Best of the American columnists' feature from p15 of The Week magazine. Note that although the subject (internet suicide) is sensitive, discussion revolves mainly around learners' use of new forms of communication and their dehumanising effect more generally. The second PDF is the magazine page. The flash file is a whizzy (T/F) version of task 4. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson : This recession won't make us better people (03/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Best of the American columnists' feature on p15 of The Week magazine. Includes vocabulary-matching (plus whizzy version), discussion, and work on expressions of cause and effect. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Congo: war-torn heart of Africa (25/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes guessing the meaning of difficult words from the context and completing a summary of the text. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Something we'll miss about Bush (18/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: linguistics | | The 'Best of the American columnists' feature on p15 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about the the importance (or otherwise) of accurate grammar and vocabulary and has students correcting some classic Bushisms! The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: A dinosaur the size of a pigeon (13/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Grammar | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p21 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes vocabulary and comprehension exercises, work on comparative and superlative adjectives, and discussion of an intriguing evolutionary theory. Not just for experts, though! The second PDF is the magazine page. The Powerpoint presentation is an onscreen version of task 5. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: The car that's faster than a bullet (03/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: engineering | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p21 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a focus on the use of articles, a role-play, and a contextualised writing activity, plus suggestions for a class debate. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 1. | | B1 | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Bankers and their bonuses (29/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'Briefing' feature from p12 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. This resource is suitable for learners with experience in banking or finance. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Best of the American columnists (21/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'Best of the American columnists' feature from p15 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. A treasure trove of material on the US election and the current economic crisis, and even an audio file on the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains a wealth of whizzy versions (matching, snap, T/F and sequencing). | | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Why dads are so embarrassing' (14/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes an adjective-swapping exercise, comprehension questions, work on the past simple passive, and plenty of opportunity for students to talk about their own experiences. The second PDF is the magazine page.
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| Topical lesson: The perils of positive thinking? (09/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'Best of the American columnists' feature from p15 of The Week magazine. Includes reading for gist and detail, inferring attitude, and writing/completing a questionnaire. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: How to stroke pain away (29/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes predicting the content from topic sentences, scanning for missing numbers and work on basic calculation. Also includes detailed reading of the 'How to stroke pain away' text and discussion about students' own experience of pain and pain relief. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 5. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: The Taming of Tibet (25/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: history | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes solving anagrams, completing a summary of the text, and discussing the situation in Tibet and other occupied countries. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Why the French live longer than us (25/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p17 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes completing a summary of the text, discussing lifestyles and longevity, analysing linking words and using them in a for/against composition. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: The "facts" about plastic bags (25/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes word matching, comprehension questions, practice with the passive and a discussion about what individuals and governments could do to save the planet. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: To shed pounds, take pictures (22/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes some amazing food facts, discussion about a balanced diet and experimentation with the tip from the article. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Unveiling the monster (17/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p17 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes word matching, a spidergram of the word 'waste', guess the context, spot the error and practice with the third conditional. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Mapping the African exodus (17/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes guessing the content, a cloze exercise, work on prepositions, comprehension multiple choice questions and small-group discussion. Note: this resource contains sensitive racial issues. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Chicago, Paris and the death of suburbia (10/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Best of the American columnists' feature from p15 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a crossword, predicting the content, guessing meaning from form and context, discussing change, and writing an article. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (T/F) version of task 2. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Red Bull: a heart attack in a can? (01/09/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p20 of The Week magazine. Includes discussion about relaxation techniques and ways of staying awake, a review of health-related collocations, inference from information in the text, writing an email, and creating an advert. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of task 3 (Magnet) and task 6. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: 'Arcadia in Anatolia' (28/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Speaking | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: travel | | The travel feature from p34 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about places that are heaven or hell on earth, matching the places mentioned in the text with what you can do there, role-plays on developing rural areas, and writing a guidebook entry. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Getting fit without doing exercise (18/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p17 of The Week magazine. Includes guessing the content from the title, a comprehension/discussion boardgame, a link to the same news story on CBS and suggestions for writing activities. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 3. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Get a haircut to beat the blues (13/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p15 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a questionnaire about what students would do if they were feeling depressed, cross-checking with the advice in the article, find the equivalents, a quick check of the second conditional and practice on giving advice. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: A Spanish paradise for insomniacs (04/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Speaking | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Travel' feature from p32 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a questionnaire about sleeping habits, vocabulary matching plus whizzy version, reading comprehension and discussion. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Nudge! Nudge! (28/07/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: business | | The 'Briefing' feature on page 11 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion of a marketing ploy, multiple choice comprehension questions, learning new words from context, a cloze exercise, and discussion of the ideas presented in the article. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: The strange, sad fate of the honey bee (25/07/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Briefing' feature on p9 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a link to an unusual news video, as well as skimming for gist, scanning for specific information, summarising paragraphs, general knowledge about countries and languages and work on capital letters. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Birds at risk from urban noise (14/07/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes sharing knowledge about birds from Britain and abroad using the Image bank, a true/false comprehension activity, matching words and definitions, and holding a debate on protecting animal species. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: The Dark Triad (07/07/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: media | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p18 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes describing personality, a James Bond quiz, and a listening activity based on the Casino Royale DVD trailer. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Was Malthus right after all? (04/07/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: sciences | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine. Includes predicting the content, vocabulary matching, a true/false comprehension activity, finding synonyms in the text, and a discussion about 'Frankenstein science'. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy versions of tasks 3, 5 and 8 (matching and T/F). | | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Travel (25/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: travel | | The 'Travel' feature from p35 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a listening activity (MP4 file) with a gap-fill for advanced expressions of suggestion and preference, and a jigsaw reading where students decide which holiday to go on. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Biofuels – the green answer to petrol? (23/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes brainstorming energy sources, guessing the content, true/false comprehension questions, and class discussion about life in the future. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (T/F) version of task 4. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Travel (16/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: travel | | The 'Travel' feature from p37 of The Week magazine plus accompanying lessons. Includes A2 level activities for 'Last-minute offers' and B1/B2 level activities for 'Getting the flavour of'. Both include discussion about holiday preferences, scanning for specific information, and a travel agent role-play. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | A2 | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: A spray for shy people (09/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p16 of The Week magazine. Includes an 'Are you a wallflower?' quiz, a true/false memory test and an advice-giving discussion. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: Britain's impoverished children (02/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'Briefing' feature from p5 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion of what poverty means, compound word 'tennis' using economics vocabulary from the text, and a role-played meeting with a local councillor. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Wiping bad memories (02/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p17 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes comprehension questions, vocabulary matching and discussion on brain surgery and medical ethics. This topic may of course be sensitive for some students. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: How music improves wine (27/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: food and drink | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p 19 of The Week magazine. Includes a pairwork discussion on suitable music for different situations, increasingly in-depth study of the text, a group discussion to plan a party, writing and responding to invitations. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: How to close a sale (20/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: business | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p16 of The Week magazine. Includes mimicking famous people, reading for gist, parts of speech, a true/false comprehension activity, solving anagrams, holding a sales negotiation, and discussing non-verbal behaviour. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Catching serial killers (14/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'The Main Stories' feature from p4 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about serial killers, real and fictional, vocabulary matching, true or false and an agree/disagree discussion about punishment for serial killers. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 4. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Britain's crumbling coastline (14/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: environment | | The 'Briefing' feature from p13 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion and role-plays on the subject of natural disasters, matching titles and paragraphs, ordering paragraphs, and grouping vocabulary items. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Napping good, dozing bad (09/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: health | | The 'Health & Science' feature on p22 and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about sleeping habits, guessing the content of the text, writing questions for information in the text, and discussion about stress in advanced capitalist societies. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Nationalising the Rock (09/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: economics and finance | | The 'The Main Stories' feature from p4 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes word matching, matching comprehension questions and answers, and discussion on national and private companies. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file contains whizzy (matching) versions of tasks 2 and 3. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Sharia law in Britain (09/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'The Main Stories' feature from p4 of The Week magazine. Includes a vocabulary gapfill, reordering a summary of the text and discussion on immigration and integration. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (sequencing) version of task 3. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Baby's remarkable survival (09/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'Europe at a glance' feature from p7 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes vocabulary matching, a gapfill summary of the text and discussion questions on escape and arson. The second PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is a whizzy (matching) version of task 2. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: The world at a glance (06/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The 'world at a glance' feature from p7 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a geography quiz, a jigsaw reading and discussion on indecent dress and national identity/pride. There's a letter-writing activity as a follow-up. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: The tiny rivets that sank the Titanic (28/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: engineering | | The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about poor design and engineering, a spidergram to analyse the different meanings of 'to raise', and the difference between 'raise' and 'rise'. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: It wasn't all bad (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: various topics | | The 'The Main Stories' feature from p4 of The Week and accompanying lesson. Includes three gap-filling exercises, one based on verbs, one on noun premodifiers and one just every ninth word. The second PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Editorial (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: society | | The editorial from p5 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes giving opinions, reading comprehension, role play and synonyms. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Memorial for a bear (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: history | | The 'The Main Stories' feature from p4 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes work on verb meanings and verb forms, mostly regular verbs in the past simple, and open discussion. The second PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Saved for the nation (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: visual arts and design | | The 'The Main Stories' feature from p4 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes listening comprehension, a vocabulary building crossword, and a web research and presentation task. The second PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | B1 | B2 |
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| Topical lesson: Europe at a glance (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: various topics | | The 'Europe at a glance' feature from p7 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes headline predictions, listening comprehension and discussion to rank news stories according to interest. The second PDF is the magazine article. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: It wasn't all bad (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'The Main Stories' from p2 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a word scramble, a cloze activity and a creative writing task. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B1 |
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| Topical lesson: Editorial (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Business English | Topical lessons: business | | The 'and how they were covered' feature from p3 and accompanying lesson. Includes listening comprehension, business vocabulary, and a Dragon's Den pitch. The second PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Teenager sent to Siberia (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: crime and law | | The 'Europe at a glance' feature from p5 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes vocabulary about punishments, questions for discussion, and an imaginative writing or drama task. The second PDF is the magazine page. | | B2 | C1 |
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| Topical lesson: Editorial (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: politics | | The 'and how they were covered' feature from p5 or The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes listening for missing words, true/false listening comprehension, and a nice active discussion task based on prioritising government policy decisions. The second PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Topical lesson: Bulldozers wreck dream home (01/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Listening | Topical resource [The Week] | Topical lessons: architecture | | The 'Europe at a glance' feature from p7 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes stimulus images of dream homes, predictions, multiple choice listening comprehension, and problem solving discussion. The second PDF is the magazine page. The MP4 file is an audio recording of the article. | | B1 | B2 |
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ELT topical lessons by date – ELT lessons based on current news
Few of us have the time to read one newspaper from cover to cover, let alone the hundreds of newspapers and magazines published every week. Taken together, Britain's daily and Sunday newspapers contain a staggering 5,800 pages. Almost 10 million words. Each week.
Few of us have the time to read one newspaper from cover to cover, let alone the hundreds of newspapers and magazines published every week. Taken together, Britain's daily and Sunday newspapers contain a staggering 5,800 pages. Almost 10 million words. Each week.
