Essential UK

Credit Crunch

Jo Budden — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:05:01 +0000

Age range: 12 - adult
Theme: Econmic crisis
Lexical area: Money

'Staycations' - Holidays at home

Jo Budden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:11:05 +0000

Age range: 12 - adult

Theme: Holidays
Lexical area: Holidays

Christmas

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:16:16 +0000

Theme: Christmas
Lexical area: Christmas vocabulary

Royalty

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:09:40 +0000

Theme: The Royal Family in Britain
Lexical area: Family

Mobile phones

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:35:57 +0000

Theme: Mobile phones
Lexical area: Phone language

London Olympics 2012

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:29:18 +0000

Theme: Olympic games
Lexical area: Sport

And the Romans came

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:16:49 +0000

Theme: Museums and their interactive features.
Lexical area: Adjectives to describe opinions and exhibitions.
Cross curricular links: Science, History, Cultural Studies.

Innovation nation

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:35:53 +0000

Theme: Inventions and the impact of technology on our lives
Lexical area: inventions, definitions, comparatives and superlatives.
Cross curricular links: Science and technology, Social Science, Personal and Social Education

Spring into science

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:35:13 +0000

Theme: National Science week, Spring and climate change in the UK
Lexical area: The seasons and vocabulary for talking about the weather. Words associated with Spring and nature.
Cross curricular links: Science, Geography, Cultural studies.

About a novelist

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:34:33 +0000

Theme: The author Nick Hornby and tastes in books and films.
Lexical area: Adjectives to describe books or films, types of story and the language to describe future ambitions.
Cross curricular links: Literature.