All Materials

Students learn vocabulary for meals and eating out, read about a birthday dinner, then write about a special meal they remember.

Students build word families and negative prefixes around medical research headlines, then write a magazine article about whether health news can be trusted.

Students learn idioms for getting on, falling out and making up, then use them to write a short story about two people who reconcile.

Students learn to hedge claims with cautious language like tend to and it would appear, then write a careful report on a student survey.

Students match strong collocations for public debate in a memory card game and use each pair in a sentence of their own.

Students learn the language of workplace health, safety and absence, explain causes and effects, and write an email to a board recommending improvements.

Students match formal words with their everyday equivalents in a memory card game and use each pair to say a sentence in both registers.

Students learn to switch between informal and formal register in complaints and emails, then write a formal complaint about a faulty product.

Students learn phrasal verbs for change and campaigning, like phase out and crack down on, then write a proposal for making their area greener.

Students learn strong collocations for public debate, like pose a threat, then write a letter giving their view on a local plan.

Students practise nouns, verbs and adjectives with dependent prepositions to talk about habits and distraction, then write a short article about changing a habit.

Students read short sets of figures and choose the precise verb or adverb to describe each trend, explaining why the other word doesn't fit.

Students learn precise verbs, adverbs and prepositions for describing trends and figures, practise signposting a presentation, then write a short report on a company's sales.

Students practise linking words for contrast and concession, like whereas and albeit, to debate tourism and conservation, then write a balanced essay.

Students learn idioms and fixed expressions for plans and problems through a renovation story, then write a blog post about a project that went wrong.

Students explore connotation, euphemism and spin in corporate language, then write a plain-speaking email replying to a company announcement full of euphemisms.

Students learn the features of academic style, especially nominalisation, by studying a volunteering report, then turn informal notes into an academic abstract.

Students learn to choose precisely between near-synonyms, like imply and infer, through a festival row, then write a letter to the editor.

Students compare broadsheet and tabloid styles in news reports about library closures, then write one story in both styles.

Students choose the precise word from pairs of near-synonyms in a team card game and explain the difference in meaning.

Students analyse rhetorical devices, like the rule of three and rhetorical questions, in a graduation speech, then write a short speech of their own.