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*[[SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM 2016 - a 1.5 hr lesson for Upper Intermediate groups: reading, speaking and grammar (passives)]]
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'''Comparatives''': practise comparing literacy and life expectancy in North Korea and Myanmar:   

Revision as of 22:09, 30 January 2017

TEACHING AND PRACTISING GRAMMAR:

Present Continuous: 'What am I doing? ... I'm opening the door...'

Present Perfect: 'How many countries have you been to / shoes have you got / cars have you driven ...?'

Past simple: 'Yesterday, Mary (or some other invented, non-existent person) got up at 7. She had breakfast ...'

2nd conditional: 'If you won £1,000,000, what would you do?...'

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IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS (boring, distant and/or promoting a capitalist / consumerist world view)!!!!

Below are some of the many 'global justice' contexts you can use with articles and Ready Lessons from this wiki:

Present Continuous: what are various countries around the world doing to combat climate change?:

Past Simple (regular/irregular verbs - pre-int level): summarise these short stories about women wearing veils:

Present perfect: what have all the groups in these stories done to help refugees?:

or in Ready Lesson form:

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Passives:

Used to + infinitive:

Comparatives: practise comparing literacy and life expectancy in North Korea and Myanmar:

Present perfect active and passive: compare active achievements of women from the past to now with passive examples of what's been done to them:

Review of conditionals: discussing health inequality around the world:

or a Ready Lesson hypothesizing about conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:

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Question forms: in this lesson about Pangolins (what are they??):