6 C1 1 Topic 2 Education & Knowledge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. (Kofi Annan)

Grammar	Grammar antics
Language Function	Comprehending text or speech
Listening	Jamie Oliver & dyslexia  + audio
Reading	Philip Beadle interview
Speaking	Public or private education
Vocabulary	A crossword
Writing	Verb patterns

5 NI B2 2 Topic 2 Teaching & Learning

A thousand teachers, a thousand methods. (Chinese proverb).

Grammar	Omission of the definite article
Language Function	Sequencing
Listening	Learning and life : audio
Reading	Methodology
Speaking	Education
Vocabulary	Issues in education
Writing	Handwriting

4 NI B2 1 Topic 2 Education & Work

Your character is much more than your looks. (Scott Sanford).

Grammar	Reported questions
Language Function	Reporting speech
Listening	Job interviews : audio
Reading	Education systems
Speaking	School memories
Vocabulary	Education
Writing	Education & learning

 

3 NI B1 Topic 2 Education & Work

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them. (Zig Ziglar)

Grammar	Obligation
Language Function	Expressing obligation & absence of
Listening	Exam results : audio 1 + audio 2
Reading	Back to school
Speaking	Education
Vocabulary	Education
Writing	Voluntary work camps

2 NB 2 Topic 2 Back to the Classroom

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. (Mike Murdock)

Grammar	Present participles
Language Function	Describing how you study
Listening	Education in Britain: audio
Reading	Books and reading
Speaking	Talking about a book
Vocabulary	School subjects
Writing	A book review

1 NB 1 Topic 2 In the Classroom

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. (Michael Morpurgo)

Grammar	Possessives
Language Function	Identifying people's possessions
Listening	Homework : audio
Reading	A Study Timetable
Speaking	Pronunciation
Vocabulary	Classroom Objects
Writing	At school

 

Book 11 An Unwanted Inheritance by Imogen Clark

'That's the trouble with public office,' he'd said. 'Everyone will have a pop, even those who have nothing to do with the situation and know even less. All they see is the final decision. That's what they question. What they don't see is the hours of work that go on behind the scenes, the toing and froing between the planners and the developers, the public consultations, the discussions in the chamber. It can take us weeks to reach the right decision and it can get quite heated. But that's because the decisions we're making are important. They affect people's lives. We have to get it right. But of course, Joe Public doesn't know any of that. They just read the final outcome in the paper and automatically assume there's been something dodgy going on. We just have to rise above it all and keep our mouths shut. It's never easy.'    

For our eleventh book of the year I recommend An Unwanted Inheritance  by Imogen Clark. A family's loyalties are stretched after the discovery of a great deal of money in a suitcase under a bed of the late departed patriarch of the family. Baffled as to the origin of the money, the deceased's survivors struggle with the discovery and their differing opinions on what to do with it. Here is the worksheet.

8 C2 Topic 1 Language & Communication

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. (Carl Gustav Jung)

Grammar	Local lingo
Language Function	Comprehending text
Listening	Human communication + audio
Reading	Language & gender
Speaking	Modern communication
Vocabulary	Collocations
Writing	Speaking another language

7 C1 2 Topic 1 Language & Communication

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)

Grammar	Grammar antics
Language Function	Describing language
Listening	Crying : audio
Reading	The English and language
Speaking	Privacy and social networks
Vocabulary	Dictionary worksheet
Writing	ICT

 

6 C1 1 Topic 1 language & Communication

Language is like wine on the lips. (Virginia Woolfe)

Grammar	Grammar antics
Language Function	Describing language
Listening	Better conversations + audio
Reading	The British and other languages
Speaking	Social media
Vocabulary	Language matters
Writing	Social networks

5 NI B2 2 Topic 1 Knowing Me Knowing You

Know yourself to improve yourself. (Auguste Comte).

Grammar	Find the mistake
Language Function	Retelling/relating past events
Listening	American psycho : audio
Reading	Greeting in the age of Coronavirus
Speaking	All about me
Vocabulary	Fear
Writing	Telling lies