Business Spotlight in the classroom 5/2009

Business Spotlight in the classroom is a selection of ideas and suggestions for using Business Spotlight in your lessons. It is free to teachers who subscribe to our magazine.

There are two sections: The first is a selection of exercises for one-to-one lessons; the second is for group work. Both contain warmers and energy raisers.

Here are the contents of the 5/2009 issue.

One-to-One

Title: Warmer
Language Work: Using capitals
Time: 15 minutes
Level: medium
Material: The Write Way (p. 48)

Title: A hard cell?
Language Work: Reading, discussion
Time: 15/30 minutes
Level: difficult
Material: “Stem cells” (p. 68)

Title: *Can you spare a dime?
Language Work: Speaking, listening
Time: 30 minutes
Level: medium
Material: Head-to-Head (p. 22)

Title: Energy raiser
Language Work: Idioms, vocabulary
Time: 20 minutes
Level: all levels
Material: Names and News (p. 9)

Group Work

Title: Warmer
Language Work: Speaking
Time: 15 minutes
Level: medium
Material: “Using humour at work” (p. 85)

Title: Better off alone?
Language Work: Discussing strategies, conditionals
Time: 30 minutes
Level: difficult
Material: “The new Euro-sceptics” (p. 27)

Title: Time for a quickie?
Language Work: Scanning a text, discussion
Time: 30 minutes
Level: medium
Material: “Into the act of sex” (p. 60)

Title: Energy raiser
Language Work: Designing a cafeteria
Time: 30 minutes
Level: all levels
Material: Vocabulary (p. 72)

Copy File: *Photocopiable material for the one-to-one activity “Can you spare a dime?”

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