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Title: Golf Blues
Target Language: Should (Not) Have Done
Description: Some work on golf vocabulary is followed by a light hearted reading to elicit should have done and shouldn't have done. Speaking game to finish with.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 4G1

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Title: The Old Park
Target Language: Causative / Have Something Done.
Description: A lesson based around an old park and the repairs that need doing in it. Students learn the function of the causative and get to use it themselves in a reading and speaking exercise.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 4G2

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Title: The New York Business Trip
Target Language: Future continuous to talk about arrangements.
Description: Cathy is going on a business trip and has a very hectic schedule! Students use the future continuous to talk about future arrangements and what they will be doing at a particular time in the future.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 4G3

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Title: I Want, I Want
Target Language: Past and present wants \ desires.
Description: What we want now and what we wanted in the past. We meet and read about Bill the retiree. Focus on structures such as I would have liked, I would like to have done and I wouldn't mind.
Duration: 45 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 4G4

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Title: Never Have I Seen
Target Language: Emphasis using inversion, politics and political speeches.
Description: A slightly political feel to this lesson as we focus on inversion as a method of emphasizing. Students identify inversion in excerpts from political speeches, do some practice with them and finally use the same types of structures to write their own political speeches.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 4G5

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Title: Murder At Marston House
Target Language: Present and past modal verbs of deduction.
Description: A good ol' fashioned murder mystery - on the dark moors of Yorkshire! Which of the dinner party guests will be the prime suspect in the murder of Lord Marston. Our Chief Inspector and his assistant are on the case and using a lot of modal verbs of deduction!
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 4G6

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