Essential UK

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

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

Texting for all  
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Theme: Text messaging in the UK
Lexical area: The language of text messages and punctuation marks.

Robots  
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Theme: Domestic robots
Lexical area: Household chores
Cross curricular links: Science
Special Days and Greeting Cards  
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Age range: 12 - adult

Theme: Special days and greeting cards

Shakespeare  
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Age range: 12-adult
Theme: William Shakespeare

Music  
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Theme: Music
Lexical area: Types of music

Easter  
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Theme: Easter
Lexical area: Easter vocabulary

Computer Gaming  
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Theme: Computer games and their effects on young people
Lexical area: Computer language
Cross curricular links: Information technology, social studies, media studies

National identity cards  
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Theme: Identity cards - possible introduction of identity cards in the UK
Lexical area: Personal details / language for presenting a for/against argument
Cross curricular links: Social studies

Red Nose Day  
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Age range: 12 - adult

Theme: Red Nose Day - a bi-annual fundraising event in the UK

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