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    This lesson provides students with the opportunity to learn about internet safety. Students will develop their close listening skills by watching and listening to a video and completing a dictation. The lesson will provide plenty of opportunities for discussion and will finish with the students creating a poster to advise children how to stay safe on the internet.

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    This lesson is about food. It is based on a video, which shows students talking about their favourite British foods. The lesson provides students with the opportunity to listen and learn about British foods and to write about and discuss their food tastes in general. 

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    This lesson provides students with facts about their consumer rights, to make them better informed when they are buying items in shops or online. As well as learning common collocations related to consumer rights, they will practise their listening skills and take part in a role-play to return a faulty item.

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    This lesson is about CV writing and is aimed at lower level students. It provides students with a simple example of a CV, and uses this as a model for them to use to handwrite and then type their own CV. 

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    First submitted to the Teaching English website by Nik Peachey on 1 March, 2011.

    What do your students know about Wales? Try this lesson and help them learn more about an interesting part of the UK.

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    This lesson is about CV writing and is aimed at lower level students. It provides students with a simple example of a CV, and uses this as a model for them to use to handwrite and then type their own CV. 

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    This is a speaking and listening practice lesson about any topic you can think of. It provides students with the opportunity to tell you what they know about a topic and lets them work with this language through a variety of tasks (storytelling, debating and dictogloss activities).

    The lesson is based on the principles of dogme in deriving content for the lesson from the students and then working with their emergent language.

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    This lesson plan provides students with a framework for generating and sequencing ideas for writing a short story. 

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    This lesson is about housing in the UK and is based on Housing materials from both the NIACE Citizenship materials for ESOL and the ESOL Nexus learner website. The lesson provides an overview of the types of accommodation available in the UK and develops the learner's ability to ask and answer questions, listen for detail and fill in a housing form.

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    In this lesson, students will develop their vocabulary to talk about the news. They will also be given the opportunity to discuss the news with their classmates and retell a newsworthy story that is important to them.

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    First submitted to the TeachingEnglish website by Nik Peachey on 1 January, 1970.
     
    This is an idea I learned when I first started teaching and still use to this day. The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening and reading skills and also for practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary.

    The activity should work at most levels above elementary, as long as your students have some knowledge of past tenses, but it works best when they also know past continuous / progressive too. All you need to get things started is a sheet of plain paper for each pair of students.

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    In this lesson, students will practise writing persuasive text for adverts using present and past continuous forms. The concept of a storyboard is introduced, an example is examined in detail and students produce their own storyboard to advertise a product.

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    In this lesson students can find out about April Fool's day, which is celebrated in the UK on April 1st.

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    This is the first of two lessons introducing the topic of department stores. Students will develop their vocabulary to talk about the different floors and departments and practise asking and answering questions to find out where departments are situated.

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    This lesson develops the skills needed for shopping in a department store. It expands the students’ vocabulary of items that can be bought in a department store and enables them to practise a simple conversation about how to ask where things are.

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clairewallace

Excellent lesson. Great practice for Speaking & Listening exams. My students love using...
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Darian12

April Fools' Day is conventionally called Hunt-the-Gowk Day is Scots for a cuckoo or a silly...
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angelarichmondfuller

Hi Gaurav, I'm from London and work here at the British Council near Trafalgar Square. We...
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