Business cards

 Listen to four people talk about their jobs to practise and improve your listening skills.

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Discussion

Which information do people have on their business cards in your country?

Five idioms every English student should know

 

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Discussion

Do you have any favourite idioms in your language? Can you translate them into English?

Travelling – accessible and enriching

 

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 Discussion

What have you learned while travelling? Do you have itchy feet? 

A train timetable

 Look at the train ticket and timetable and do the exercises to practise and improve your reading skills.

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Discussion

How often do you take a train?

Giving directions

 

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Discussion

What do you do when you get lost in a town or city?

TIME names Elon Musk 2021 Person of the Year

 

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Discussion:

1. What did you think when you read the headline?
2. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'time'?
3. What do you know about Elon Musk?
4. Who is your person of the year?
5. How has Elon Musk changed people's lives?
6. What would it be like to be the world's richest person?
7. What else can Mr Musk do to help life on Earth?
8. How can we become as successful as Elon Musk?
9. Should humans go to Mars?
10. What advice do you have for Elon Musk?

11. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
12. What do you think of when you hear the word 'person'?
13. What do you think about what you read?
14. What would you like to know about Elon Musk?
15. Who is your person of the century?
16. What do you think of the car company Tesla?
17. What do you think of PayPal?
18. What three adjectives best describe Elon Musk?
19. How much of a genius and visionary is Mr Musk?
20. What questions would you like to ask Elon Musk?

G7 leaders promise to build a better world

 

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Discussion:

1. What did you think when you read the headline?
2. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'leader'?
3. What do you know about the G7 Summit?
4. Should Russia, India and China be at the G7 Summit?
5. Should the leaders have worn masks?
6. What do you think of a 'Build Back Better World' plan?
7. Do summits like these ever achieve anything?
8. What needs doing to build a better world?
9. What do you think China and India think of the G7 Summit?
10. Who is your favorite world leader, and why?

11. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
12. What do you think of when you hear the word 'promise'?
13. What do you think about what you read?
14. How could the G7 countries help Latin America?
15. How could the G7 countries help Africa?
16. Where will we be with the pandemic in a year from now?
17. What future health crises might appear in the future?
18. What needs to happen in a 'green revolution'?
19. How would the world change if more girls were educated?
20. What questions would you like to ask the G7 leaders?