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Title: Reading Into Context
Target Language: Understanding unknown words from context.
Description: Develops the important skill for students of understanding unknown words from context and understanding general meaning from clues given in a sentence.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R1 / August 2005
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Title: The Mazes of England
Target Language: Tourist attractions: reading, writing.
Description: Students discuss tourist attractions in their hometowns, then read an article about mazes as tourist attractions in Britain. Lesson finished with a postcard writing based on an imagined visit.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R2 / August 2005
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Title: Prisoner 7042
Target Language: Wishes and Regrets, article about prison life.
Description: Grammar focus is on using wish/regret. Article about how a prisoner uses his free time and the regrets he has about the past. Fun "Famous Regrets" game to finish with.
Duration: 75 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R3 / August 2005
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Title: Let's Give A Big Hand To...
Target Language: General vocabulary \ speaking about pop groups.
Description: Students read about the stellar rise and giddying fall of a manufactured pop group. Then they become the next group's management team and get the chance to prove they can do better.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R4 / September 2005
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Title: Reading The News
Target Language: Healine vocabulary, reading news headlines.
Description: After discussing where they get their news information from, the lesson focuses on the headline in English and the lexical and grammar differences evident between headline English and standard English.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R5 / November 2005
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Title: Who You Gonna Call?
Target Language: Be able to/managed to/succeeded in/couldn't, emergency services.
Description: Students think about the different emergency services and what they each do and then read about a group of police officers involved in search and rescue work in a rural setting. Grammar focus: using could/be able to, etc. for ability in the past.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R6 / November 2005
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Title: Cargo Cruises
Target Language: Traveling around the world, different modes of transport, life aboard a ship.
Description: This lesson is centered around an article about several travelers who use cargo ships to move around the world's oceans. There is a multiple-matching comprehension exercise, a pre-reading vocabulary section and a fun board game to finish with.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4R7 / September 2007
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Writing
Title: A View Of The Sea!
Target Language: Writing a formal letter/letter of complaint.
Description: Students relive a nightmare vacation at a terrible hotel and then work in pairs to plan the perfect letter of complaint to the offending travel company. Focus on relevancy/tone/style in a formal letter.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4W1 / August 2005
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