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Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Free time: quality meets quantity
LifestyleIn this CRC lesson students talk about free time, do a quiz, discuss an article and more tips on how to make the best out of their free time.
Critical Reading Club 30 min / 45 min
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Video games as an art form
General TechnologyIn this lesson, students discuss the idea that video games should be considered an art form. They also learn and practise some useful vocabulary.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Slacktivism – to engage or not to engage?
General Global IssuesIn this lesson students discuss the term slacktivism and different forms of activism. They also do a word formation exercise and talk about the article they read at home.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Retrofitting – well worth the effort
Global IssuesIn this lesson, students talk about the concept of retrofitting and how it helps to achieve net-zero emissions. They also learn and practise some vocabulary from the article.
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min
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Fashion, fashion everywhere
LifestyleIn this worksheet students go through a variety of discussion questions about fashion. They also choose between opposing statements, explain their choices and come up with their own definition of ‘fashion’. There is also a set of quotations related to different aspects of fashion.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Small house, small problem
LifestyleIn this Critical Reading Club lesson, students discuss the idea of living in a small house and having fewer possessions. They also learn some useful vocabulary to talk about the topic.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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How to raise confident and empathetic children
LifestyleIn this lesson students discuss the ideas about parenting and misbehaviour from the article they read at home and do a vocabulary activity.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Senior roommates
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson, students talk about the idea of senior citizens living together, do a word formation activity, and discuss retirement.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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How (not) to apologize in the workplace
Business GeneralIn this lesson, students discuss the article and different ways of apologizing. They also practise the use of prepositions.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Can robots be chefs?
TechnologyIn this lesson, students discuss the article they read at home, talk about the pizza vending machine and the future of cooking.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Dealing with heat waves
Global IssuesIn this lesson students learn some advanced adjectives and discuss the problem of heat waves.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Non-native speakers or lifelong learners?
GeneralIn this lesson students discuss the accuracy of different terms referring to non-native English speakers, do a word-formation activity and talk about the article they read at home.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Understanding professional motivations
BusinessIn this lesson students talk about different types of workers described in the article, discuss some questions about motivations, and learn vocabulary to explain what motivates them at work.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Who wants to live forever?
TechnologyWith this lesson plan, students have an in-depth discussion about the idea of recreating dead people as avatars. They also practise useful vocabulary and talk about the metaverse.
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Put a ring on it
GeneralIn this lesson, students learn idioms and phrasal verbs with put. They also practise working out the meaning from context, and have an opportunity to use the new language in speaking activities.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Location-based pay – a thing of the past?
BusinessIn this lesson students learn some useful vocabulary to talk about salaries, discuss if location-based pay should become a thing of the past, and share their views on pay transparency and salary bands.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Is it easy to be kind?
GeneralIn this lesson students talk about how acts of kindness are perceived nowadays, practise some useful phrases used in the article they read at home, and discuss how kind they would be in different situations.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Are we becoming less materialistic?
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson, students talk about materialism and how the pandemic influenced our view of material gains, and do a transformation task.