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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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      Famous Britons

      Theme: Famous British figures and the cult of celebrity. Role models for young people.
      Lexical area: Jobs, professions, language to describe someone's achievements.
      Cross curricular links: Personal and Social Education, Media Studies, History.

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      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.

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      A Multicultural Society

      Theme: Immigration, demography, ethnic minorities
      Lexical area: Countries, religions
      Cross curricular links: History, geography, citizenship, citizenship

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      Diwali - My favourite festival

      Theme: The Hindu festival of Diwali, ways to celebrate, legends and superstitions.
      Lexical area: Celebrations
      Cross curricular links: Religion, citizenship, social studies

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      Technology for learning

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

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      Charity Wristbands

      Theme: Charity wristband trend
      Lexical area: Colours and charities

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      Friends

      Theme: Friendship, using text messages and types of relationship
      Lexical area: Adjectives to describe personality, methods of communicating, SMS messages

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      Photography

      Age range: 12 - adult
      Theme: Photography
      Lexical area: Describing photos

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      The Windrush generation

      Theme: The difficulties faced by immigrants coming to the UK and the origins of the Black community.
      Lexical area: Immigration, adjectives to describe feelings and nationality and identity.

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      Getting Old

      Age range: 12 - adult
      Theme: Getting older
      Lexical area:
      Age and growing up

      A to Z list

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      Volunteering

      Theme: Voluntary work
      Lexical area: Jobs

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      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

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      Women in a Man’s World

      Theme: The changing role of women in the work place
      Lexical area: Professions

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      Young drinkers

      Theme: Drinking habits in the UK and binge drinking problems. Rites of passage.
      Lexical area: Alcohol and adverbs of frequency. Language used to describe quantity:

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      Young roots

      Theme: Talking about cultural heritage and community. Youth work in the UK.
      Lexical areas: adjectives to describe geographical areas, talking about family

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      Learner-English
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      Thanks for sharing this information


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      elodie_
      France

      Fantastic lesson plan. Was searching everywhere for ideas for a lesson on immigration in the USA...
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      Teptaerolla
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      I will stay for a long time on this forum. Thank you!
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