Level - Intermediate and above    

This lesson is about smoking and smoking bans. This is a topic which most people have strong feelings about so it normally gets people talking. Ireland was the first country to ban smoking completely in all public places in March 04. Scotland banned smoking in public places in March 06 and there is a proposed ban for Wales from April 2007 and England from July 2007. Norway, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden and Spain are amongst other countries that have recently imposed smoking bans.

Plan components

Lesson Plan: - guide for teacher on procedure including worksheet tasks and answers to tasks.

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Worksheets: - exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:

• Six tasks based around the topic of smoking

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For more information about this topic you can visit these BBC and British Council sites:-

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6700117.stm
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A2702143
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/smokingban
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-magazine-smoking.htm
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-trivia-smoking.htm

Jo Budden, Teacher, Materials Writer, British Council, Spain

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