Here's a list of latest additions to the C2 upper advanced library.
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| Finding Mr Right (23/08/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Teenagers | Relationships and marriage | | Contemporary expressions for talking about relationships. Learners help each other to guess the meaning from context, then mime them to the class. Fun with older teenagers or young adults. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Sink estates and leafy suburbs (23/08/2010) | | 
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Living places | | Up-to-date expressions for talking about housing. Learners are encouraged to share their knowledge and experiences so that the target words really stick. | | C1 | C2 |
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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: 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: 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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| Save me from certain death (01/06/2010) | | 
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Group decision-making | | A balloon debate involving 16 colourful characters, all of whom want to stay in the balloon, but only 11 can survive. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Say 'Cheese'! (17/05/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Leisure activities (advanced) | | Students explore the techniques involved in taking a good photograph, discuss the role photography in their own lives, then choose the best black and white photograph of the 20th century. Particularly suitable for media studies students and amateur photographers, but of interest to anyone who's held a camera. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Romeo and Juliet (05/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Pronunciation | Grammar | Teenagers | Intonation | | A more cynical and more modern version of Shakespeare's famous love story. Students will enjoy reciting and performing it while practising a wealth of useful language: stress-timing, intonation, adverbs to describe ways of speaking, reporting verbs and idiomatic expressions. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Time safe (05/05/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Teaching ideas | | Discussion on the things we would save to show to future generations. A thought-provoking way of doing fluency work on the subjects of books, media, music, politics, art and fashion. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Bingo mania (27/04/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Pronunciation | Minimal pairs and similar sounds | | Pronunciation bingo to practise discriminating between sounds. Comes in a consonant, a vowel and a diphthong version. You will need to have the font Lucida Sans Unicode installed on your computer to see the phonemic symbols in the master grid on p2, but it is perfectly possible to use the resource without them. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Letter game (30/03/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Spelling | | Spelling practice for all ages and all levels. Ideal as a warmer or a ten-minute filler. | | A2 | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| [CAE, CPE] Walk this way! (02/03/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Teenagers | Synonymy, collocation and idiom | | Serious fun with synonyms of 'walk'. Has both teacher and students miming them, to great hilarity! A really useful resource for exams or just general vocabulary building. | | C1 | C2 |
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| The four Es of performance measurement (22/02/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Academic English | Business English | Academic reading | | An extract from an authentic MBA report forms the basis for this worksheet. Students identify the genre, answer comprehension questions, work on vocabulary and have plenty of opportunity for discussion. Suitable for managers and students of business English. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| The passive voice (08/02/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Academic English | Academic grammar | | A systematic resource on why the passive is used and how it is formed in the different tenses. Refers to a variety of academic contexts. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Old or new? (19/01/2010) | | 
| | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Synonymy, collocation and idiom | | Students sort the synonyms into the correct circles, old or new. The Notebook file is a version for interactive whiteboards. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Getting all emotional (12/01/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Speaking cycles | | A well-structured speaking and listening exercise on the theme of feelings and emotions. It will work best with a well-established class where everyone gets on well. For more information about the process see the Speaking cycles resource in the 'Teaching ideas' area. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Reading challenge advent calendar (27/11/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Young learners (under 12) | Teenagers | Seasonal resources | | A highly original way of using an advent calendar and a highly productive way of using the holidays. Students set each other a different reading task for each day before Christmas. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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: 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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| Displaying products (27/08/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Business English | Sales | | Students design their own supermarket and present their designs to the class. The Flash file is an interactive version of the matching task. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| The art of persuasion (27/08/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Business English | Marketing | | Students learn vocabulary for different advertising techniques, analyse some adverts, vintage and modern, then create their own TV commercial. The Flash file is an interactive version of the matching task. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Communicating with customers (27/08/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Business English | Sales | | Discussion on what is appropriate in different cultures, some essential sales vocabulary and plenty of opportunity for practice and feedback. The Flash file is an interactive version of the matching task. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| From the lush green gardens to the grey city streets (10/08/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Vocabulary | Adjectives and adverbs (advanced) | | A humorous resource with a serious aim: to improve vocabulary and demonstrate the power of adjectives to create positive or negative impressions. Useful practice for writing a guidebook article and for really slating a place you don't like! No offence to inhabitants of Middlesbrough is intended! | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| 'I'll see you tomorrow,' she said. (30/06/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Academic English | Academic grammar | | A systematic guide to using indirect speech to report what was said previously, to challenge speakers and to check understanding of a presentation. Uses both non-academic and academic contexts (global warming). The interactive snap game practises the change in time expressions between direct and indirect speech. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Whodunit? (30/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Teenagers | Group decision-making | | Lady Celia has been murdered and her diamonds stolen! This whole-class role-play of the trial involves some serious legal vocabulary, but also ample opportunity for letting off steam. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Perfect and continuous verb forms (22/06/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Grammar overview | | A challenging resource that gets students thinking about the differences between the present simple, present continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous and future perfect continuous, and actively using them to talk about themselves. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Museum of your life (02/06/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Writing | Guidebooks, holiday brochures and leaflets | | A challenging and unusual way for students to get to know each other better and speak/write about themselves by creating a museum showcasing their real and ideal lives. Can be used to accompany Iconic objects. Also useful for writing practice using narrative tenses and the second conditional. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Considering the consequences of decisions (12/05/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Critical thinking | | A resource that encourages critical thinking about everyday and economic decisions. Students are guided step by step through who is affected, in what way, and what the long-term consequences could be. Could be used with students in any subject, but would be most suitable for business studies, economics or politics students. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Evaluating your problem-tackling skills (12/05/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Critical thinking | | Students assess their ability to discuss problems in English and reflect on ways in which they could improve. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| [IELTS] The board-not-bored game (28/04/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Getting to know you | | A board game to get students talking. Particularly useful for IELTS as it covers typical topics from part 1 of the speaking section and a few from part 2. Also good as a getting to know you activity or as a review at the end of a course. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Writing plan for the argumentative essay (02/03/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Writing | Essays | | Students often have difficulty structuring their compositions. This resource helps students organise their ideas before they start writing. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| How to, and how not to, write an effective introduction (02/03/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Writing | Essays | | Students often have a hard time writing effective introductions. This document gets them thinking about what an introduction should include and what to avoid. It is accompanied by an activity where they practise rewriting poor introductions. There is an interactive version of 'What do you think? (2)' (Matching). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain (25/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Synonymy, collocation and idiom | | A rainbow of bright activities: sorting colours into shades of red or blue (there's an interactive Magnet option for this one), exchanging ideas about colour symbolism, and guessing the missing colour in idioms. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Simple solutions for facade fastening (23/02/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Vocabulary | Business English | Engineering | | Working from an article by a specialist engineering supplier, this resource guides learners through an authentic product review and helps them develop their technical vocabulary. There is an interactive version of the vocabulary matching exercise. Learners then do a roleplay based on the article and there are ideas for two extended projects. | | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Listening to lectures 1: anticipating the content (11/02/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Listening | Vocabulary | Academic English | Academic listening | | This resource helps learners to predict the content of a lecture from the title and to anticipate the vocabulary they may hear. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Listening to lectures 2: understanding a lecturer's signals (11/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Vocabulary | Academic English | Academic listening | | Learners pool their previous knowledge of signpost phrases, study some more, listen to examples of how they can be employed in an introduction and in a main section of a talk, then practise using them in their own introductions and sections. There is an interactive version of task 2 (Matching). The MP4s are audio files. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Listening to lectures 3: to write or not to write? (11/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Listening | Writing | Academic English | Academic listening | | This resource helps learners to decide when to take notes and when not to. They are encouraged to take notes when particular signals are given, when a point is repeated, and when the lecturer speaks more loudly/slowly. The MP4s are audio files. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Listening to lectures 4: note-taking 'shorthand' (11/02/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Listening | Writing | Academic English | Academic listening | | Learners work on a variety of techniques to take down the main points of a lecture: omission, grammatical simplification and symbols. The MP4 is the audio file. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Listening to lectures 5: rewriting notes (11/02/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Reading | Writing | Academic English | Academic listening | | Learners identify which notes are irrelevant and why then rewrite them in linear form instead of spider diagrams. They also get the chance to invent a lecture title and write their own notes for it. | | 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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| Seminar skills extra: making presentations memorable (03/02/2009) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Pronunciation | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps learners to make a striking opening to their seminars through use of generalisation, killer facts, unconventional points of view, sentence stress and intonation. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Becoming the music director (03/02/2009) | | 
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Music | | Students analyse the role of music in film and TV then have the chance to play the role of musical director and even to re-enact a scene. Great fun will be had by all! NB You will need access to a TV and DVD-player/VCR and possibly a digital videocamera/camcorder. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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: 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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| Save my dog - support images (15/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Animals (advanced) | | A beautiful PowerPoint slide of the most adorable dogs, all worthy of being saved! Helps learners with the dog vocabulary in the original Save my dog resource. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills 1: making a contribution (15/12/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps learners to formulate and express opinions in larger and larger groups. Very useful for reticent EAP students! | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills 2: preparing a presentation (15/12/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps students to devise an appropriate title and to prepare a seminar systematically. There is an interactive version of task 3 (Sequencing). | | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills 3: considering different perspectives (15/12/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps students to formulate considered opinions, to see things from different perspectives, and to see flaws in arguments. Includes a useful table for analysing perspectives in written or spoken texts. There is an interactive version of task 5 (T/F). | | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills 4: weighing up arguments (15/12/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps learners to judge the weight of various points that can be used in an argument. Students are helped to develop a stance and justify it. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills 5: answering questions (15/12/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps students to deal with standard, difficult and irrelevant questions and to use tentative language in their answers. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills 6: delivery (15/12/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Pronunciation | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps students give a presentation using the appropriate body language, volume, speed, and signpost phrases. Should also raise some laughs as students direct their teacher like a remote-controlled puppet! There is an interactive version of task 6 (Matching). The MP4 is the audio file. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Seminar skills extra: developing confidence (15/12/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Academic English | Seminar skills | | This resource helps students to prepare for seminars step by step. It builds their confidence through small-group work and positive feedback. | | C1 | C2 |
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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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| A winter's day (28/11/2008) | | 
| | | Related resources: Grammar | Adjectives and adverbs (intermediate) | | Some beautiful slides for inspiring students to make comparisons about wintery weather and even write their own winter poem at the end. Could make a great Christmas lesson. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Christmas word search (27/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Seasonal resources | | A bit of festive fun for teaching some well-known and some more unusual words associated with Christmas. | | 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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| [ICFE] Buying property abroad (18/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Writing | Business English | Economics and finance | | Learners swap advice on buying property in their countries and do reading, writing and speaking activities on the topic of buying residential property in France and in Russia. The resource uses the ICFE format, but is useful for anyone in property or finance. | | 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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| 'Obese' or just 'very overweight'? (14/11/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Synonymy, collocation and idiom | | A blog extract gets students thinking about the differences between the words 'obese' and 'overweight'. The resource then encourages students to explore the differences for themselves using concordance lines from an online corpus. NB You don't need internet access in class to use this resource. | | C2 |
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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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| Academic writing 8: references and bibliographies (27/10/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Writing | Academic English | Academic writing | | Students work on paraphrase and quotation and learn how to order and format items in a bibliography. There is an interactive Notebook version of task 2. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| [IELTS] Academic writing 7: impressing the marker (27/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Academic English | Academic writing | | This resource helps learners to realise the impression they make on the marker and how to improve that impression. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| [IELTS] Academic writing 5: accuracy (27/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Grammar | Academic English | Academic writing | | This resource encourages learners to be aware of, and to correct, the grammatical errors they make. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| [IELTS] Academic writing 4: the main body of the assignment (27/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Academic English | Academic writing | | Thie resource helps learners to consider how the main body of an assignment can be organised into different sections, and to understand how these sections can be organised into paragraphs. Finally, learners have the chance to write about the advantages and disadvantages of living in the UK. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| [IELTS] Academic writing 3: the introduction and conclusion (27/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Academic English | Academic writing | | This resource helps learners to understand the essential components of introductions and conclusions. They also have the chance to plan and write their own effective introductions and conclusions in the context of topical economics and finance issues. The interactive task is a T/F version of task 2. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| [IELTS] Academic writing 2: planning and cohesion (27/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Academic English | Academic writing | | This resource helps learners to understand what a plan should consist of and also gives them practice in writing a plan. The context is modern world political history and economics. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| [IELTS] Academic writing 1: gathering ideas (27/10/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Writing | Academic English | IELTS | Academic writing | | This resource helps learners to become aware of a) their strengths and weaknesses in academic writing and to b) the processes involved in writing an academic assignment. It draws on learners' life experience rather than on any specific academic discipline. There are interactive versions of tasks 1 and 2 (Ranking and Sequencing). | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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: '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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| [IELTS] Debating expressions (22/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Connectors | | A grid containing numerous debating expressions. The cards can be cut up and played during a discussion. Works a treat with any controversial topic. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Iconic objects (15/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Memorable events | | Using pictures from the PowerPoint file, or photos, students discuss iconic objects and images of the 20th and 21st centuries and plan a museum exhibition. Note: pictures of certain political events may be upsetting for some students. Could be used in conjunction with Museum of your life. | | C1 | C2 |
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| The same but different (06/08/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Pronunciation | Vocabulary | False friends and confusing words | | This resource encourages students to see the similarities and differences between words. It can be adapted for different levels and particular vocabulary sets, and is both analytical and fun! The MP4 is the audio file. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Unusual hobbies (06/08/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Speaking cycles | | A well structured speaking and listening exercise on the theme of unusual hobbies. For more information about the process see the Speaking cycles resource in the 'Teaching ideas' area. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| A formal letter of complaint (29/07/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Business English | Letters, emails and postcards (advanced) | | A challenging resource for higher-level business learners. Learners select expressions in the appropriate register then write their own letter. The inappropriate expressions should raise some laughs!
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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: 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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| [IELTS] Intro to IELTS - Running dictation (16/06/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Writing | Academic English | Exam format | | A lively activity that gives an overview of the tasks involved in the IELTS exam. May be used as a webquest or simply as a starting point for discussing what students already know about the exam. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Women and sport - Bend it like Beckham (30/05/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Leisure activities (advanced) | | A discussion-based lesson which focuses on a short clip from the film Bend it like Beckham. Guaranteed to get the students talking and probably laughing too! It introduces some slang vocabulary which may not be appropriate for some learners. There is an interactive version of task 4 (Matching). NB You will need to have access to the video clip on DVD or on YouTube. | | C1 | C2 |
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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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| Prefix and suffix dominoes (24/04/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Parts of speech (intermediate) | | A fun game to practise the prefixes and suffixes we use with different root words. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Cosmetic surgery boardgame (22/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Body and health (advanced) | | A controversial subject with lively presentation, guaranteed to generate lots of discussion! Includes useful phrases for expressing opinion. The statements can be adapted to any topic. Could be used as a pre-writing activity. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Creative talk (10/04/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Creativity | | Great for building confidence in talking in informal situations. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Spot the similarity (08/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Pictures | | A fun resource to practise giving and listening for detail.
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| Which is my view? (08/04/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Listening | Writing | Pictures | | A fun resource to practise writing and listening for detail in descriptions using postcard views. Includes a PPT file with all the images. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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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: 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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| Selling the company (31/03/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Business English | Jobs and recruitment | | A fun way for learners to practise using key business vocabulary and giving presentations, by 'selling' their or another company to future employees. They can also hold job interviews for interested candidates. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Quiz: small talk (20/03/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Vocabulary | Polite responses | | A challenging quiz to test students' responses in everyday social situations. It will generate a lot of debate on the culturally-specific nature of politeness. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Open to suggestions (18/03/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Speaking cycles | | A well structured speaking and listening exercise on the theme of advice. For more information about the process see the Speaking cycles resource in the 'Teaching ideas' area. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Be afraid... be very afraid! (18/03/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Speaking cycles | | A well structured speaking and listening exercise on the theme of horror films. For more information about the process see the Speaking cycles resource in the 'Teaching ideas' area. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Divine definitions (18/03/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Writing | Vocabulary | Newspaper articles | | Lovely ideas for improving vocabulary including a fun definitions game. The interactive matching task can be used as a follow-up. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Young people's council meeting (22/02/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Group decision-making | | Students discuss what can be done about youth gangs and present their proposals to the local council. Includes some good tips for persuasive public speaking. | | C2 |
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| Avalanche survival - group task (22/02/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Speaking | Group decision-making | | As survivors of a climbing disaster in the Himalayas, students must decide how to survive and still reach the summit. A stimulating problem-solving activity requiring team work and collaborative discussion. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Personal language histories (22/02/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Listening | Language and languages | | An introductory exercise to get learners thinking about their own experiences with language and to hear about the experiences of others. Ideal as a conversation starter. 'One of my groups spent more than two hours discussing the questions' – Jane Tate | | C1 | C2 |
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| Simple past clauses in the second conditional (22/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Conditionals (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of simple past clauses and asks learners to analyse different uses of it. Then the learner is asked to do a number of increasingly difficult productive exercises. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C2 |
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| Going to (22/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Future (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of 'going to' and asks the learner to analyse different uses of it. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C2 |
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| Simple present clauses in the first conditional (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Conditionals (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of simple present clauses and asks the learner to analyse different uses of them. Then the learner is asked to do a number of increasingly difficult productive exercises. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C2 |
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| Desert island decisions (21/02/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Speaking | Group decision-making | | Marooned following a shipwreck, individuals within a group must make decisions about their future survival. A lovely resource which will generate plenty of discussion! | | C1 | C2 |
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| Will (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Future (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of the modal verb 'will' and asks the learner to analyse different uses of it. Then the learner is asked to do a number of increasingly difficult productive exercises. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C2 |
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| The present perfect (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Present perfect (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of the present perfect and asks the learner to analyse diffent uses of it. Then the learner is asked to do a number of increasingly difficult productive exercises. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C2 |
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| All in the past (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Writing | Grammar | Past (advanced) | | Students analyse corpus-based examples of different uses of the simple past and then write sentences of their own to practice them. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C1 | C2 |
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| The present simple or present continuous? (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Present (advanced) | | A concise and effective test of learners' ability to use the correct present tense in different situations. | | C1 | C2 |
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| The present continuous (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Present (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of the present continuous and asks the learner to analyse different uses of it. The learner is also asked to do a number of increasingly difficult productive exercises. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C1 | C2 |
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| He turns... he shoots! (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Grammar | Present (advanced) | | This resource presents corpus-based examples of the simple present and asks the learner to analyse different uses of it. There are interactive versions of tasks 2 and 3 (Matching and Syntex). | | C1 | C2 |
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| Thin ice (21/02/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Speaking | Getting to know you | | Lots of lovely ideas to help generate conversation, including introductions, decision-making and opinions. Ideal as an ice-breaker. | | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| You say aubergine ... I say eggplant (21/02/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Vocabulary | British or American | | Lots of fun options for matching American English words to their British English counterparts, as a quiz or a game of dominoes, or as an interactive snap game and a memory game in which students try to find the matching word pairs (Magnet). | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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| Doctor's dilemma (25/01/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Group decision-making | | Group work guaranteed to generate lively discussion. Students debate which patients should receive funding for life-saving treatment. | | C2 |
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| Room 101 (25/01/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Annoying things | | Students discuss which of their most hated items should be dispatched to the abyss of Room 101, made infamous by the novel '1984'. | | C1 | C2 |
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| Save our college! (25/01/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Teenagers | Group decision-making | | Guided resource designed to give students the opportunity to discuss ways of spending money to improve their college. | | C2 |
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| Save my dog! (25/01/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Speaking | Vocabulary | Animals (advanced) | | Lovely speaking activity. Animated discussion guaranteed! Students try to persuade vets that their dog is the most deserving. Includes different role-play cards for each 'dog owner'. There are also support images of the deserving pooches. | | C2 |
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| Reading project (25/01/2008) | |
| | | Related resources: Reading | Writing | Books and movies | | Students share experiences of reading fiction and non-fiction books and produce copy for a leaflet. This resource could be adapted to suit a range of levels. | | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
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