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Intermediate

Grammar

Title: Trains Across America
Target Language: Present Simple, Superlatives
Description: Revision of superlatives, reading a travel ad, travel vocabulary, use of Present Simple for future events.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G1

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Title: What Did You Ask?
Target Language: Reported questions.
Description: A quick tense review followed by a reading based activity which focuses on reported questions and the tense changes involved. Extra worksheet included for speaking activity at the end.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G2

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Title: Crime And Punishment
Target Language: Passive - past simple and other tenses.
Description: Some useful crime vocabulary is also taught while teaching the passive voice using the past simple and other tenses. General knowledge quiz and a "Guess The Movie" speaking activity included.
Duration: 80 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G3

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Title: Then Again, If...
Target Language: Second conditional.
Description: Review of past simple structure. Reading about a girl's dream date followed by focus on the second conditional. Use of second conditional in a "You're The Mayor!" group activity.
Duration: 75 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G4

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Title: How Long?
Target Language: Present perfect continuous.
Description: This is a lesson centered around an article about somebody's life changing decision. After speaking about him, students then talk about their own life experiences.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G5

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Title: Looking Forward
Target Language: Future tenses.
Description: After an exercise on time markers, we read about a company manager's plans for the coming month. A review of most of the future tenses in English is then followed by a Predictions speaking activity.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G6

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Title: You Can't Change The Past
Target Language: Third conditional.
Description: Students read about Tamara's disastrous evening and then do some grammar work on the third conditional. Lesson finishes with a writing chain game.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G7

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Title: Bored Of Being Bored
Target Language: -ing/-ed adjectives.
Description: Some useful work on word families starts off this lesson about adjectives such as bored/boring, interesting/interesting. Students use them in a speaking activity before participating in a grammar auction where the error-strewn sentences must be found.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G8

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Title: Both Of Us Study English
Target Language: both \ neither of us.
Description: Talking about personal likes and dislikes to help with the tricky both/neither area of grammar.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G9

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Title: In Case It Rains
Target Language: Conditional expressions: in case, in the event of, unless, provided, etc.
Description: Lesson plan which looks at words and expressions often used in conditional-type sentences: unless, in case, etc. Students read these expressions in context in contract excerpts. Finishes with an in case/in the event of game.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G10

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Title: Changes
Target Language: Used To.
Description: How has Teresa's life changed since she won the famous reality TV show? Grammar focus on used to for past habits.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G11

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Title: The Broken Laptop
Target Language: Use of should/shouldn't have for the past.
Description: Doug returns his broken laptop computer to the store and finds out there are some things he should and shouldn't have done. Good computer related vocabulary.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G12

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Title: Hurricane Herbert
Target Language: Weather vocabulary, modal verbs of obligation and permission.
Description: The first part of the lesson is an exercise on some more advanced weather vocabulary. Students then read a newspaper article giving some advice dealing with hurricanes. The second half of the lesson focuses on the modal verb usage in the newspaper article and the lesson finishes with a fun "Hurricane Facts" game.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3G13

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