Competitive Eating

Straightforward Advanced: Competitive Eating.

Advanced level

What the lesson is about:

Theme: An eating competition and doing things to excess
Speaking Pairwork: roleplaying an interview with Sonya Thomas, a world eating champion
Reading: Me and my big mouth: a magazine article about Sonya Thomas
Vocabulary: Excess

Teacher's notes.
Student's Books activities.
Communication activities.

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Basic

Help your students understand how to build sentences effectively with these grammar tips on the basic building blocks of language - nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns and more. This unit is from Oxford Practice Grammar Basic, with Lesson Links teacher's notes and worksheets for your students.

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Intermediate

Increase your students' understanding of the difference between the active and the passive, as well as their confidence in creating active and passive sentences. This unit is taken from Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate, 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.

If your elementary to intermediate students need some help with understanding uncountable nouns, or how to construct sentences using a lot of/lots of, then they need these handy tips!

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If your intermediate to advanced students are uncomfortable with negative uses of may, might and could, or the use of may in questions, then try out these handy tips!

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Punctuation: the Comma

A comma in writing is a like a pause inside a sentence when speaking. We use commas inside sentences. Commas separate parts of a sentence into logical elements. Commas have no meaning, but they help us to see the structure and therefore the meaning of the sentence.
Put a space after a comma. Do not put a space before a comma.

1. Use a comma between items in a series or list. In a sentence, the last two items usually do not need a comma between them as they are separated by "and". However, if one or both of the last two items are long, a comma may be useful.

coffee, tea, sugar, milk, eggs, butter, salt
My favourite sports are football, rugby, swimming, boxing and golf.
Hunsa was wearing blue jeans, black shoes, his brand new white shirt, and a brown and green cap.

2. Use a comma between three or more adjectives or adverbs.

I like the old, brown, wooden table.
He bought an old, red, open-top Volkswagen.
He ran quickly, quietly and effortlessly.

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Text lingo

How’s your English text lingo? Match the text message on the left with its ‘translation’ in real English on the right.

Text
1) C U L8R M8
2) B4
3) AFAIK
4) W8 4 ME, I’M L8, SOZ
5) KIT
6) RUOK?
7) LUWAMH
8) HAND
9) Zzzzzzzzz
10) KOTL
11) TMB
12) 0 ME
13) EZ
14) BTW
15) C U 2NITE O 2MORO

Translation
a) As far as I know.
b) Love you with all my heart
c) Boring
d) Text me back
e) Have a nice day
f) See you later mate
g) Keep in touch
h) Easy
i) Are you okay?
j) Wait for me, I’m late, sorry
k) See you tonight or tomorrow
l) By the way
m) Before
n) Ring me
o) Kiss on the lips

Answers: 1 – f, 2 – m, 3 – a, 4 – j, 5 – g, 6 – i, 7 – b, 8 – e, 9-c, 10 – o, 11 – d, 12 – n. 13 – h, 14 – l, 15 - k

Genie-us

By Louise Cooper

Louise Cooper’s stories usually have a twist in the tale, and this is no different. It starts off ordinarily enough with a king, a crying princess and a poor suitor for the princess’s hand. So, what happens to cheer the princess up? Probably not what you think……This kit is part of a new section from BritLit, and is in response to teachers’ enquiries. It seems some teachers wanted short and sweet kits – something that could be done in just one or two lessons.

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Key 91k >> Teacher's notes and answers
Context 324K >> Background information
Word work 82k >> Vocabulary building activities
Pre-reading 99k >> Language activities
Flashcards 328k >> Visual support
Text 15k >> The complete text of the story
Audio of the author reading the text >>3.15Mb

Los tiempos del pasado del Indicativo

Nombre de la actividad:
Dijo que era frances (correspondencia de tiempos en estilo indirecto)

Autoras:
Paula Gozalo

Fuente:
“Los tiempos del pasado del indicativo”. Editorial Edinumen, 2000

Nivel:
A partir de B1

Destreza:
Comprensión lectora, expresión escrita

Contenido:
Gramatical.

Presenta, de manera inductiva y partiendo de materiales auténticos y de citas de famosos, la concordancia de tiempos que hay que tener presente al pasar del estilo directo al indirecto. Libro dirigido al estudiante autodidacta, aunque también permite que el profesor lo incorpore en su clase.
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