Childhood memories, lesson plan

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the gene that could help people forget traumatic experiences. They say the research could benefit people with painful memories. Soldiers, crime victims and people who survived natural disasters are some of the people this research could help. Many of these people suffer from very bad stress because of their memories. It is an illness called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The scientists found the memory gene in mice...

This is the beginning of our lesson on Childhood memories. Click HERE to download the whole article as well as the worksheet.

Writing a description

Writing an argumentative essay

Writing a discursive essay

Writing a report

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Public figures - Mark Zuckerberg & Beyonce Knowles

Download these PDFs files to practice talking about the creator of the social media site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and the famous singer Beyonce Knowles. The answers are provided too.

Mark Zuckerberg PDF.
Beyonce Knowles PDF.

Writing a review

Writing an article

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Writing a formal letter & email

Personal values

The lesson is based around the recent Dove advertisement, showing the huge difference between women’s views of their looks and how other see them.  The lesson starts by focusing on collocations to describe facial features, such as thick hair, full lips and so on. Students then watch the video and discuss some of the issues raised, including self -esteem, the role of the media,and differences between men and women. More language to describe physical appearance is ‘pulled out’ of the video, and the lesson ends with students writing detailed descriptions of themselves.

An optional extra that might work well to lighten the class a little  is a very funny spoof video, where some men find out that they are actually much uglier than they think they are! The link is in the accompanying notes.

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Writing an informal letter & email

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Updated with vocabulary and useful expressions.