Microlesson: Flight Attendants and Stewardesses

This week's microlesson shows how language can change over time, using the phrase flight attendant as an example.

Click the link to see the microlesson:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&acb

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Microlessons: Semicolons

This week's microlesson is on the use of semicolons. This is very useful information for ESL learners who do a lot of writing.

Link:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&aca

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Parallel Sentences

As your writing improves and you start creating longer sentences, the topic of parallelism becomes important. It means ensuring that all the elements of your sentence co-ordinate with each other.

This is a topic suitable for learners at high B2 level and upwards.

Road to Grammar features a hub on this topic with notes and two activities, all in a business context. Click the link below to start:

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz12/

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Microlesson: Words Ending in Away

This week's microlesson covers a list of words that end in -AWAY.

These words are:

• castaway
• stowaway
• runaway
• faraway
• giveaway
• takeaway
• throwaway

View the microlesson here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&abz

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Microlesson: Through, Thorough, Though

This week's microlesson covers a list of words that my students always get confused about.

These words are:

• thorough
• thoroughly
• through
• throughout
• although
• though
• thought
• tough

It's no wonder students get confused - they all look kind of the same, don't they?

View the microlesson here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&aby

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Business English Unit 3: Human Resources

Here is the third in the new series of business English units. Rather than an entirely new unit, this is an old unit, updated and reformatted:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/units/business2/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Grammar
- Discussion

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. Alternatively, all materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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Microlesson: Keep Clean, Keep Healthy

This week's microlesson is "Keep Clean, Keep Healthy".

Teachers, show this to your students before a class on a similar topic!

URL:  http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abx

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New Business English Unit: Making Investments

Here is a new business English unit: Making Investments. It's the second in a new series.

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz11/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Conversation

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. 

All materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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Microlesson: Lifestyles of the Rich

This week's microlesson is "Lifestyles of the Rich".

Teachers, show this to your students before a class on a similar topic!

URL:  http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abw

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New Business English Unit: Large and Small Companies

Here is a new business English unit: Large and Small Companies. It's the first in a new series.

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz10/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Conversation

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. 

All materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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COVID-19 Mirolesson

This week's microlesson is on the COVID-19 virus. This would make a great lead-in for a class discussion of the virus.

You can show the microlesson on a smartboard or ask the students to access it on their smartphones.

URL: http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abu

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Health Vocab Activity

Here is a quick and easy visual vocab activity on the topic of health. It works on phones and smartboards and would make a good warm-up activity for classes. It would be suitable for A2-B1 levels.

I will add a part 2 and part 3 in time, since there is still a lot of vocab on this topic to cover.

URL: http://www.roadtogrammar.com/health/

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Present Perfect Tense Module

This week, I reposted the module on the present perfect tense with a new look, in line with the other materials on the site. This should also make it more user friendly, especially on mobile devices.

You can access these materials here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/presperfect

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Microlesson: HOPE and WISH

This microlesson uses visual examples to review the difference between HOPE and WISH.

See it here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abn

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Microlesson: Thinking Positively

This microlesson features seven slides of vocab plus one quiz question. The topic is suitable for business English classes or B2+ level general English.

See it here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abm

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