School Discipline  
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Theme: School discipline, bad behaviour, punishments.
Lexical area: Punishments, legal vocabulary
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education, law.

Who does better?  
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Theme: Girls’ performance in the GCSE exams. UK exam system.
Lexical area: School subjects and exam related vocabulary
Cross curricular link: Relevant to all areas of the curriculum

Forced to wear a skirt  
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Theme: School uniforms and teenage dress codes
Lexical area: clothes, fashion items
Cross curricular links: personal and social education

ICT in education: From blackboard to keyboard  
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Theme: Use of technology in learning and the classroom of the future
Lexical areas: ICT, language of prediction, numbers and percentages for statistics
Cross curricular links: ICT, Personal and social education, social science

Child’s play  
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Theme: Childhood games – in connection with the recent ban of conkers and other typical playground games in UK schools.
Lexical area: Games and childhood activities.

Technology for learning  
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Theme: How technology is changing the way we learn
Lexical area: Information technology and education

UK Educational System  
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Age range: 11 - adult
Theme: UK educational system
Lexical area: Education

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