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Essential UK

Essential UK provides lesson plans, materials, activities and useful links based on contemporary United Kingdom topics and issues.

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4.125	A Generation of couch potatoes Theme: Health, fitness, lifestyles Lexical area: Sports, recreational activities, frequency adverbs Cross curricular links: Personal and social education
3.8	UK Educational System Age range: 11 - adult Theme: UK educational system Lexical area: Education
3.666665	Who does better? 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
3.6	Christmas Theme: Christmas Lexical area: Christmas vocabulary
4.363635	Reading house Theme: Buildings and lifestyles, personal taste. Lexical area: Buildings, features of buildings and decoration Cross curricular links: History, Geography, Art.


5	Tattoos Theme: Tattoos Lexical area: Tattoo designs and body parts.
5	Cool Brands UK Theme: What’s cool and what’s not Lexical area: Fashions and branding
5	Child’s play Theme: Childhood games – in connection with the recent ban of conkers and other typical playground games in UK schools.
5	Changing lives Theme: Downshifting and the difference between rural lifestyles and urban lifestyles. Lexical area: Adjectives to describe lifestyle, comparatives and descriptions of routines. Cross curricular links: Personal and Social Education, Social Science, Geography.
5	A Boyhood Home Theme: The National Trust, the restoration of John Lennon's childhood home and the life of Lennon Lexical area: Historical periods, talking about past memories and life histories. Cross curricular links: History, Music, Cultural Studies.


5	A Boyhood Home Theme: The National Trust, the restoration of John Lennon's childhood home and the life of Lennon Lexical area: Historical periods, talking about past memories and life histories. Cross curricular links: History, Music, Cultural Studies.
3.333335	A fizzy drink and a bag of crisps Theme: Talking about healthy eating and eating habits. The poor dietary habits of children in the UK and recent reports on child obesity. Lexical area: food and drink, nutritional content of foods Cross curricular links: Personal and social education, biology and the science of nutrition.
4.125	A Generation of couch potatoes Theme: Health, fitness, lifestyles Lexical area: Sports, recreational activities, frequency adverbs Cross curricular links: Personal and social education
4.545455	A Multicultural Society Theme: Immigration, demography, ethnic minorities Lexical area: Countries, religions Cross curricular links: History, geography, citizenship, citizenship
4.666665	About a novelist Theme: The author Nick Hornby and tastes in books and films. Lexical area: Adjectives to describe books or films, types of story and the language to describe future ambitions. Cross curricular links: Literature.


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A Boyhood Home
A fizzy drink and a bag of crisps
A Generation of couch potatoes
A Multicultural Society
About a novelist
And the Romans came
Animation
April Fool’s Day
Bonfire Night
Brit awards 2010
Changing lives
Charity Wristbands
Child’s play
Chocolate
Christmas
Computer Gaming
Consumer Power
Cooking and TV chefs
Cool Brands UK
Credit Crunch