Love is...?

Intermediate

by Nicholas Sheard

Student's Worksheet

Teacher's Notes

Type of activity: Speaking. Pair work and group work.

Aims: To practise using adverbs of degree.

Tasks: To talk about and grade different romantic situations.

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Basic

Demonstrate and practise using comparative adjectives with Lesson Links teacher's notes, and worksheets for your students.

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Intermediate

Help your intermediate students understand when to use there is and it is with Lesson Links teacher's notes, and worksheets for your students.

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Grammar Tips

It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.

Use these handy tips to help your elementary to intermediate students understand the difference between themselves and each other, as well as how to use the and a superlative adjective without a noun.

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If your intermediate to advanced students need help understanding how to use a conjunction between two clauses or how the third conditional works, then they need these handy tips!

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Credit cards

by Pete Sharma

Level: Intermediate and above

Worksheet

Teacher's Notes

This week's activities:

• Talking about how many credit cards students own
• Guessing the answers to some facts about credit cards in the UK
• Reading an article on credit cards
• Creating sentences to show the difference between pairs of similar words
• Discussing questions arising from the article

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. http://www.barclaycard.co.uk/
http://www.epdq.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclaycard
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/debt/frequently_asked_questions
_about_debt.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/borrowing_debt/default.stm

The Cinema

This week’s lesson introduces different types of film, and includes opinions on the experience of going to the cinema in comparison with watching films at home.

Level
Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)

Student's Worksheet PDF (76K) DOC (135K)
Teacher's Notes PDF (76K) DOC (18K)
Glossary PDF (77K) DOC (28K)

Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
The ‘Top 250 Movies’, as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database. Click on the film titles for plot outlines, reviews, etc. Intermediate level and above.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2953767.ece
‘The 100 best films of 2007’, as chosen by the British newspaper The Times. Intermediate level and above.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7040000/newsid_7048600/7048657.stm
From BBC Newsround, a review of the recent animation Ratatouille. Appropriate for intermediate level.

Crosswords

Intermediate by Tania Bastow and Ceri Jones

Student's Worksheet
Teacher's Notes

Type of activity: Writing. Group work.
Aims: To distinguish between -ed and -ing adjectives.
Tasks: To write and exchange crossword clues.

The UK Parliament

The subject of this week’s lesson is the UK Parliament. The first meeting of what is widely regarded as the first English Parliament took place on the site of the current Houses of Parliament in London on 20th January 1265.

Level

Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)

Student's Worksheet PDF (76K) DOC (135K)
Teacher's Notes PDF (76K) DOC (18K)

Glossary PDF (77K) DOC (28K)

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.

http://www.parliament.uk/

Official website of the UK Parliament.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/a-z_of_parliament/

From the BBC website, an ‘A-Z’ guide to the workings of the UK Parliament.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp

Official website of the office of the UK Prime Minister.

Second Life

by Pete Sharma

Level: Intermediate and above

Worksheet
Teacher's Notes

This week's activities:
Discussing reactions to a number of statements about Second Life
Scanning an article for company names
Reading an article about Second Life
Finding the 'odd-word-out' from a set of collocations
Discussing points arising from the article

Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.

http://secondlife.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_life

http://slbusinesscommunicators.pbwiki.com/Companies%20in%20Second%20Life

Blockbuster

Student's Worksheet
Teacher's Notes

Type of activity: Speaking. Writing. Pair work and group work.
Aims: To practise writing the outline of a narrative.
Tasks: To prepare an outline for a film using prompts from the worksheet.

Newspapers

The subject of this week’s lesson is newspapers. One of the first mass-produced newspapers was The Times in Britain, which dramatically increased its circulation after starting to use a steam-powered press on 29th November 1814.

Level

Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)

Student's WorksheetPDF (76K)DOC (135K)

Teacher's NotesPDF (76K)DOC (18K)

Glossary PDF (77K)DOC (28K)

Related Websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.

http://www.thepaperboy.com/

Quick access to the online content of hundreds of newspapers around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism

The Wikipedia entry for ‘journalism’. Intermediate level and above.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6220424.stm

A BBC article (2006) on the competition newspapers are facing from online news sources.

The 'honesty box' principle

by Pete Sharma
Level: Intermediate and above
Worksheet
Teacher's Notes

This week's activities:
Comparing the different ways in which students buy music
Matching a set of headings with the correct paragraphs
Reading an article about 'trust systems' for payment
Identifying words in the article from their definitions
Discussing points arising from the article

Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2181118,00.html
http://www.inrainbows.com/http://www.3121.com/

In Company

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