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

Essential UK

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

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4.57143	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.
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.
4.545455	A Multicultural Society Theme: Immigration, demography, ethnic minorities Lexical area: Countries, religions Cross curricular links: History, geography, citizenship, citizenship
4.166665	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
4.333335	Technology for learning Theme: How technology is changing the way we learn Lexical area: Information technology and education


3	Charity Wristbands Theme: Charity wristband trend Lexical area: Colours and charities
3	Friends Theme: Friendship, using text messages and types of relationship Lexical area: Adjectives to describe personality, methods of communicating, SMS messages
3	Photography Age range: 12 - adult Theme: Photography Lexical area: Describing photos
2.833335	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.
2.5	Getting Old Age range: 12 - adult Theme: Getting older Lexical area: Age and growing up


3.5	Volunteering Theme: Voluntary work Lexical area: Jobs
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
4.833335	Women in a Man’s World Theme: The changing role of women in the work place Lexical area: Professions
4.666665	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:
5	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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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