Reading directions aloud
Reading aloud is shown to improve confidence and understanding.
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Presenting a personal history
This lesson focuses on the past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses in the context of biographies and culminates in students giving a short presentation about a famous person.
Learning about Wales
What do your students know about Wales? Try this lesson and help them learn more about an interesting part of the UK.
Getting to know you
Even simple social tasks like inviting a person out to a restaurant can cause embarrassment and stress. This lesson includes discussions of why such situations are difficult, as well as plenty of practice.
Learning to listen
Perhaps the most important skill connected with socialising is to ‘shut up and listen'. This lesson can help students to become active listeners.
Cycling and carbon emissions
Students think about and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cycling. They then consider what else they could do personally to reduce their carbon emissions.
Getting involved in meetings
Many learners of English worry about their mistakes and allow their insecurities to prevent them from participating in meetings fully. This lesson provides reassurance that such insecurities are very common and normal.
Questioning and clarifying
In a negotiation, it’s very important to know when to speak, when to ask and when to listen. Here students rank and discuss the stages of negotiation, do a reading activity and look at negotiations vocabulary, examine question types, then finish with a role play to practise clarifying, summarising and responding.
The Titanic and the third conditional
This is a way to consolidate the form of the third conditional. it is best used at the end of the first lesson in which students meet the form, or at the latest the one after.
Encouraging migration
In this speaking activity students have to look at how to encourage migration to an imaginary city. They look at a number of projects to help support this and have to agree how to allocate a budget. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project www.opencities.eu