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	'Staycations' - Holidays at home
Language Assistant Content Age range: 12 - adult Theme: Holidays Lexical area: Holidays Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	Mobile phones
Language Assistant Content Theme: Mobile phones Lexical area: Phone language Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	Toys, fads and fashion
Language Assistant Content Theme: Toys, fashions and consumerism Lexical area: Toys, definitions Cross curricular links: History, social science, economics. Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	A Generation of couch potatoes
Language Assistant Content Theme: Health, fitness, lifestyles Lexical area: Sports, recreational activities, frequency adverbs Cross curricular links: Personal and social education Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	Pocket money and pester power
Language Assistant Content Theme: Young people’s spending habits in the UK, teenagers working. Lexical area: Money, earnings, saving, consumer goods, quantity and numbers. Cross curricular links: Citizenship, economics, social science. Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	Game on
Language Assistant Content Theme: Computer games/gaming. Lexical area: computers, types of game, numbers Cross curricular links: social science, business studies, personal and social education, media studies. Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more

	Reading house
Language Assistant Content Theme: Buildings and lifestyles, personal taste. Lexical area: Buildings, features of buildings and decoration Cross curricular links: History, Geography, Art. Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	A fizzy drink and a bag of crisps
Language Assistant Content 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. Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	Reality TV
Language Assistant Content Theme: Reality TV programmes, the types of TV programmes in the UK, Interactive TV Lexical area:Television, Types of programmes, Tastes Cross curricular links: Media Studies Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

	Computer Gaming
Language Assistant Content Theme: Computer games and their effects on young people Lexical area: Computer language Cross curricular links: Information technology, social studies, media studies Essential UK Lifestyles Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment

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