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Rules for dating a romantic hero

This lesson is based on a book from the Quick Reads series, called ‘Rules for dating a romantic hero’ by Harriet Evans. Learners are given the opportunity to use online and classroom-based activities to develop their reading skills. 

Four Warned

This lesson is based on an a book from the Quick Reads series called ‘Four warned’ and was written Jeffery Archer. The extract of the book that is used in this lesson focuses on a dramatic car chase. Learners have the opportunity to develop their reading, vocabulary and storytelling skills by using both online and classroom-based activities.

a theatre

Shakespeare

This lesson gives learners the opportunity to look more closely at Hamlet's famous 'to be or not to be' speech.

Why do we do that?

An activity where students reflect on what they do in the classroom and why, which leads to a discussion about classroom practices.

The soap opera

In this activity, learners create their own characters to develop their own soap opera.

The holiday maze

A reading and speaking activity where students have to agree on holiday plans.

Stop, go back dictation

A dictation activity where learners control the teacher's dictation.

a man watching TV

Review writing activity: sitcoms

Students read reviews of popular sitcoms, then watch a clip of a sitcom and create their own reviews.

Spot the vocabulary

A motivating visual activity to help learners recall vocabulary.

Same as the teacher?

This fun activity can be used as a vocabulary review or to test existing vocabulary knowledge, and generates a lot of lexis.

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