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What do you know about Scotland?This lesson takes what students already know about Scotland as its starting point and tries to develop their knowledge and vocabulary, as well as the listening skills. The listening tasks aim to help students understand quite a difficult script by not demanding too much of them. |
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Heroes and sidekicksThis lesson asks students to talk about international heroes and sidekicks as well as similar characters from local popular culture. |
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It’s 12.00 O’clock! A speaking lesson with no materialsThis is a drawing and speaking activity that is fun to use with primary classes to revise the present continuous form. It is easy to set up and requires no preparation or materials, except a board and a board pen. |
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Facebook and social networkingHow many friends have you got on Facebook? What’s the friend limit on Facebook? This lesson takes a look at trends in online social networking. It gives students chance to create an imaginary online 'wall' where they can interact with each other. |
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Odyssey 2050Many important movies are being made about climate change but few are aimed at young audiences. |
Our levels
We use the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to indicate the levels of our resources. Many lesson plans and activities are flexible and suitable for students learning at different levels.
If you are not familiar with the CEFR, this is an approximate explanation using terms common in many staffrooms:
A1: beginner
A2: elementary
B1: lower intermediate
B2: higher intermediate
C1: lower advanced
C2: higher advanced
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All about meThis lesson provides students with a live listening on the topic of the teacher’s personal interests and opinions. The students then use this as a model to chat about similar topics with their classmates using basic tenses and a variety of structures. |
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Class journalsThis lesson plan looks at one way class journals might be set up in order to introduce students to the idea and to get them working with journals |
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Is it because?This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Is it because? It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children’s literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris. Age group: 9/10 Level: A2 |
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It’s 12.00 O’clock! A speaking lesson with no materialsThis is a drawing and speaking activity that is fun to use with primary classes to revise the present continuous form. It is easy to set up and requires no preparation or materials, except a board and a board pen. |
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What do you know about Scotland?This lesson takes what students already know about Scotland as its starting point and tries to develop their knowledge and vocabulary, as well as the listening skills. The listening tasks aim to help students understand quite a difficult script by not demanding too much of them. |
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What's the Black Country?This lesson is part of a series of plans based on interviews with people from around the UK. It explores a listening text about a part of the UK known as the ‘Black Country’. In the lesson, students have the chance to listen to someone from that area describing what they like about living there and a little about their life. |
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Writing: mini thingsSometimes when we ask students to write a composition they spend very little time at the important editing stage. In this lesson students will do a couple of ‘short writing’ activities with the focus on editing and accuracy.
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YesterdayIn this lesson students practise forming, asking and answering ‘wh’ questions in the past tense. They play two games and do a mingling activity. |
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Young people and televisionIn this lesson the students will look at the television viewing habits of young people in the UK and compare them to the habits of young people in their own country. |
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OPENCities – Lesson 4: Settling down in a new countryTopic: Adjusting to a new environment Level: Intermediate + |
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Pet maniaThis lesson is about pets and focuses on the recent British trend of having a small dog as a fashion accessory. |
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Phrasal verbs with getThis lesson is a self-contained lesson which presents ten phrasal verbs in the context of a dialogue. |
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Politics and youthThis lesson gives students the opportunity to find out about the political system in the UK and to discuss the attitude of many young people towards politics. |
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Consumer societyThe aim of this lesson is to give students practice in reading for information and argument in an article about consumer society and give them an opportunity to discuss their opinions about the topic. |
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Cooking in Britain TodayThis lesson consists of a series of activities to help students talk about food and cooking. The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes. This lesson should challenge stereotypes of British food and encourage students to discuss their own preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants. |
Destination - EnglandThis lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about England. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the four countries that make up the UK. |
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Destination - Northern IrelandThis lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about Northern Ireland. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the countries that make up the UK. |
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Destination - ScotlandThis lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about Scotland. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the four countries that make up the UK. |
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elvisfarias
Brazil
Many Thanks.
It's really helpful. Students love it.
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xiexie
Italy
thank you, I'll try it
daniela
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Paul Braddock
Spain
Hi Nicola
I've checked the lesson plan and you should be able to access it now.
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