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Preparing and working with lesson plans

Planning is useful, before we teach a lesson we need to decide what the goals or aims of the lesson are.

Phrasal verbs for business

Help your students learn three phrasal verbs commonly used in business with these downloadable study pages.

It's the Bee's Knees

Try the following exercise to help you be 'top dog' at animal idioms!

Flying out

The teaching points for this exercise are saying the time, distance & frequency, plane travel and cardinal numbers.

Putting the right words together: helping learners with collocation

Why teach collocation? Getting the right combination of words is a challenge, some can perhaps be predicted, others simply have to be learned.

Bob's job

A lesson plan to present and practise 14 compound words related to jobs.

Business one:one - Hints & activities

Choose what to learn, choose how to learn, with Business one:one. The first course written specifically for one-to-one teaching.

Clarifying CLIL

Nina Lauder discusses the benefits of CLIL in the classroom.

The challenge of mixed abilities

Norman Whitney, author of Star Team, offers practical advice for dealing with the challenges of mixed abilities.

Class monster

A fun way to revise vocabulary for very young learners.

The magic of fun and play

Why Derek Strange, author of New Chatterbox, favours a 'seriously fun' approach to teaching children.

Tips for teaching business English

Tips for making the transition from teaching general to business English an enjoyable one.

Getting students into groups and pairs

These two fun activities can be used to encourage students to participate, and interact with one another in the classroom.

What if...

A creative story-making activity which encourages confidence and fluency in spoken and written English.

Little but often - pronunciation can be fun

Fun pronunciation games and activities.