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

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4.75	Easter Theme: Easter Lexical area: Easter vocabulary
5	Child’s play Theme: Childhood games – in connection with the recent ban of conkers and other typical playground games in UK schools.
5	April Fool’s Day Theme: April Fool’s Day Lexical area: Jokes and hoaxes.
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.
4.9	Valentine’s Day Theme: Valentine's Day Lexical area: Love, dating and romance


5	Shakespeare Age range: 12-adult Theme: William Shakespeare
5	Graffiti Theme: Graffiti Lexical area: art, vandalism, museums
5	Brit awards 2010 Theme: The British music industry awards Lexical area: Music and prizes
5	Maths prodigies Theme: child prodigies, education, home schooling Lexical area: school subjects, university
5	Green fingers Theme: gardening, growing your own food, finding food in the wild, guerrilla gardening


5	Computer Gaming Theme: Computer games and their effects on young people Lexical area: Computer language
4.142855	Consumer Power Theme: Consumerism and fair trade Lexical area: Shopping
4.333335	Cooking and TV chefs Theme: Cooking and food trends in the UK Lexical area: Food and kitchen utensils Cross curricular links: Media studies, home economics
5	Cool Brands UK Theme: What’s cool and what’s not Lexical area: Fashions and branding
4.22222	Credit Crunch Age range: 12 - adult Theme: Economic crisis Lexical area: Money


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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