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Saying More with Less: C2 Editing Activity
A C2 activity: learners edit a wordy, redundant text into something elegant and concise - cutting, de-repeating and restructuring - justifying each ch
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C2 Unit 5 Activity: Figuratively Speaking
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Life Abroad: Community Mixer Role-Play (Activity)
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The Right Word: C2 Text-Upgrade Activity
A C2 activity: learners upgrade a flatly-worded text for connotation, collocation and near-synonym precision, justifying each change, feeding the prec
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Reading Between the Lines: C2 Interpret & Respond Activity
A C2 speaking activity: learners interpret the subtext of delicate messages and respond diplomatically, using inference, understatement and tactful la
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Making an Impression: C1 Pitch Activity
A C1 speaking activity: learners prepare and deliver a short persuasive pitch using clefts and inversion to foreground what matters, with role cards,
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The C1 Discussion: Extended Nuanced Debate
A C1 exit speaking activity: learners hold an extended, nuanced discussion, developing a sophisticated argument and reaching a considered conclusion,
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A Matter of Style: C2 Recast & Control Activity
A C2 activity: learners convey one message in different registers and tones for different audiences, then commit to a controlled style for a chosen au
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Getting Technical: C1 Explain-It Activity
A C1 speaking activity: learners explain a complex topic to a non-expert using glossing, steps, analogy and register shift, plus honest caveats with l
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Strength of Feeling: C1 Expressive Account Activity
A C1 speaking activity: learners give an expressive, emphatic account of a strong experience or opinion using intensification, emphatic structures and
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People and Personality: B2 Discussion Activity
A B2 discussion activity: learners discuss personality and relationships - what makes people get on, change or clash - using the unit grammar and desc
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The Way We Live Now: C1 Commentary Activity
A C1 speaking activity: learners give a balanced, impersonal commentary on a social trend using report structures, nominalisation and hedging, with tr
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Looking Ahead: B2 Future-Plans Activity
A B2 speaking activity: learners interview each other about plans, goals and predictions for the years ahead, then present a partner's future, using t
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The B2 Discussion: Extended Debate Activity
A B2 exit speaking activity: learners take part in an extended group discussion, arguing a case with reasons, examples and counter-arguments and reach
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Life Choices: B2 Discussion Activity
A B2 discussion activity: learners explore real and dilemma-card life choices through every conditional and wish, with scenario cards to prompt a full
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Sorting It Out: B2 Complaint Role-Play
A B2 speaking activity: learners role-play sorting out service and work problems politely but firmly, using the causative, reporting verbs and polite
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A World of Difference: C1 Describe & Analyse Activity
A C1 speaking activity: learners describe and analyse a place or cultural phenomenon in depth using advanced relative and participle clauses, with pro
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A Different Turn: C1 Speculation Activity
A C1 speaking activity: learners speculate at length about how a turning point could have changed everything, using advanced/inverted conditionals and
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The Bigger Picture: C1 Structured Debate
A C1 speaking activity: learners hold a structured debate, building reasoned arguments with signposting, concession and evaluated evidence, with motio
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Problem and Solution: B2 Talk Activity
A B2 speaking activity: learners prepare and give a short problem-solution talk on a local or global issue, using relative/participle clauses and quan
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The News Story: B2 Fact & Speculation Activity
A B2 speaking activity: learners present and discuss a news story in a five-part structure, separating attributed fact from hedged speculation, with s
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The Story of You: B2 Life-Story Activity
A B2 speaking activity: learners prepare and tell a chaptered life story using used to/would, narrative tenses and be/get used to, then interview and
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Map Directions: A1 Information-Gap Speaking Activity
An A1 pair activity: from the station, Student A and Student B each know the way to two places and must ask for the other two, giving and following di
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C2 Unit 6 Activity: The Persuasive Speech