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This week's activities:

• Discussing a number of films
• Scanning an article and replacing the missing film titles
• Reading an article about the film Avatar
• Identifying words in the article from their definitions
• Preparing and giving a presentation to raise money to make a film

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This week's activities:

• Deciding how innovative each student's company is
• Guessing the top three innovative companies and scanning a paragraph to check the answers
• Reading an article about innovation
• Identifying the 'odd-word out', which does not form a collocation with the word 'innovation'
• Discussing trends and plans for innovation within the students' own companies

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This week's activities:

• Matching terms with their definitions
• Scanning two paragraphs in an article and replacing the missing terms
• Reading an article about language training in companies
• Identifying the 'odd-word out', which does not form a collocation with the word at the end of the line
• Discussing next year's language training budget and making decisions on how to spend it

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This week's activities:

• Deciding on how long you spend online each day
• Scanning a paragraph to check some statistics
• Reading an article about living without the Internet
• Identifying the odd word out from a list of verbs forming collocations
• Discussing points arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Talking about reading habits and books with a partner
• Matching a series blog posting titles with their entries
• Reading a blog about e-book readers
• Completing the missing vowels from a set of business words
• Working with a partner to create a blog post

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This week's activities:

• Discussing the latest developments in an area of common interest with a partner
• Putting a series of PowerPoint slides in the correct order
• Reading a transcript from a TEDx event
• Identifying words and phrases from the transcript from their definitions
• Preparing and delivering a short speech

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This week's activities:

• Completing the missing information in a chart of Olympic venues
• Matching headings to the correct paragraph in an article
• Reading an article about the recent Olympic vote to choose the host city for the 2016 games
• Deciding if words are nouns, verbs or both
• Completing a fluency task arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Matching words to create collocations
• Scanning an article to look for collocations
• Reading an article about climate change
• Deciding the frequency of words and phrases taken or adapted from the article
• Discussing points arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Deciding on how long you spend online each day
• Scanning a paragraph to check some statistics
• Reading an article about living without the Internet
• Identifying the odd word out from a list verbs forming collocations
• Discussing points arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Deciding if items of clothing are formal, informal or both
• Guessing the correct survey results in an extract from a report
• Reading an article about fashion in the workplace
• Deciding if certain words from the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing points arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Practising saying figures
• Scanning an article to replace the missing figures
• Reading an article about space exploration
• Identifying words in the article from their definitions
• Doing a task arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Matching words to create four collocations connected with crime
• Scanning an article to find the names of crimes
• Reading an article about business crime
• Deciding if some words in the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Doing a task arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Talking about the students' favourite singers and pop groups
• Scanning an article for the names of singers and pop groups
• Reading an article about the advertising link between brands and musicians
• Identifying whether key words in the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing questions and doing a task arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Discussing the term 'mass collaboration'
• Putting the stages of a flow chart into the correct order
• Reading the transcript of a business programme about a new initiative on the Internet
• Identifying words in the transcript from their definitions
• Doing a fluency task arising from the transcript

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This week's activities:

• Deciding if particular words go before or after the word 'tax' to create some collocations
• Completing the missing countries on a graph of tax levels in Europe
• Reading an article about income tax
• Finding the odd word out which does not for a collocation with the word 'tax'
• Discussing questions arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Matching verbs with nouns to create some collocations
• Scanning a paragraph for data about home businesses
• Reading an article about home businesses in the UK
• Deciding if words in the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing a question and completing a task arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Discussing which companies students think are the best ones to work for
• Matching headings to the correct paragraphs
• Reading an article about a competition in the UK to find the best companies to work for
• Completing a word formation grid
• Discussing questions arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Discussing whether students have experience of Twitter or not
• Guessing the correct option to complete some statistics about social networking
• Reading an article about Twitter and Facebook
• Deciding if a group of words are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing the benefits and drawbacks of social networking on business

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This week's activities:

• Discussing ways in which students have cut down on spending, in order to save money
• Skimming an article to match headings to paragraphs
• Reading an article about cost cutting
• Identifying words in the article from their definitions
• Discussing issues arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Deciding what a 'feel-good' film is, and if students have seen 'Slumdog Millionaire'
• Practising saying figures
• Scanning an article and filling in the missing figures
• Reading an article about the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'
• Replacing the missing vowels in a set of verbs which collocate with 'money'
• Comparing 'rags to riches' stories and other points arising from the article
  

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This week's activities:

• Deciding which statement on buying electronic gadgets best reflects the students' own opinion
• Scanning a podcast transcript in order to sequence a list of new products
• Reading a podcast transcript about the 2009 consumer electronics show in Las Vegas
• Identifying words from the transcript by their definitions
• Discussing electronic products and gadgets
  

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This week's activities:

• Deciding the movement of a set of trend words
• Scanning an article to find the trend words from exercise 1
• Reading the article about predictions for 2009
• Identifying one word which does not collocate with 'prediction'
• Making and discussing students' own predictions for the coming year
  

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This week's activities:

• Deciding if items of clothing are formal, informal or both
• Guessing the correct survey results in an extract from a report
• Reading an article about fashion in the workplace
• Deciding if certain words from the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing points arising from the article
  

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This week's activities:

• Matching a set of words with their opposites
• Scanning a radio transcript to find some words from the first exercise
• Reading the transcript about work environments
• Deciding if words from the transcript are nouns, verbs or both
• Ranking facilities for a new, purpose-built headquarters
  

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This week's activities:

• Checking students know some words connected with well-being holidays
• Scanning an article to find the words from the first exercise
• Reading the article on holistic holidays
• Finding words in the article from their definitions
• Discussing and choosing a well-being holiday
  

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This week's activities:

• Comparing the speeds of students' internet connections at home and work
• Completing a chart about broadband speeds in different countries
• Reading an article about the future of broadband
• Guessing the frequency of some of the words in the article
• Discussing questions arising from the article
  

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This week's activities:

• Deciding if a set of business and financial words are positive, negative or neutral
• Sequencing financial headlines in chronological order
• Reading a transcript of a Finance programme about banking
• Identifying the odd word out of a list of collocations
• Discussing questions arising from the transcript
  

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This week's activities:

• Finding out which Google services are known and used by students
• Completing the missing information in a company Fact Box by scanning an article
• Reading an article about Google
• Deciding if words from the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing questions arising from the article

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This week's activities:

• Finding out what students know about the programme Dragon's Den
• Matching headings to the correct paragraphs
• Reading an article about Dragon's Den
• Identifying the one word which does not collocate with the word at the end of the line
• Devising a business idea and making an 'elevator pitch'
  

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This week's activities:

• Comparing how long it takes students to commute to work
• Completing the missing information in a graphic
• Reading an article on international commuting
• Identifying the opposites of a number of common words
• Discussing questions arising from the article
  

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This week's activities:

• Ranking factors when deciding which coffee house to go to
• Completing the missing dates and figures in a time line
• Reading an article about Starbucks
• Deciding if words from the article are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing questions arising from teh article
  

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This week's activities:

• Creating sentences using some key personnel terms
• Matching headings to the correct paragraphn
• Reading an article about the TV show 'The Apprentice'
• Identifying words in the article from their definitions
• Discussing questions arising from the article
  

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This week's activities:

• Deciding how interested students are in watching Euro 2008
• Practising saying numbers and scanning blog entries for what these numbers mean
• Reading six blog entries about the size of salaries for footballers
• Identifying the odd-word out in a list of words which form collocations with '(a) salary'
• Discussing the answers to questions arising from blog entries
  

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This week's activities:

• Filling in the missing words from a set of book titles
• Choosing the most likely way to complete two extracts from a review
• Reading a review about a new management book
• Deciding if words from the review are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing the answers to questions arising from the review
  

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This week's activities:

• Discussing whether or not students are on Facebook
• Putting paragraph headings in the correct order
• Reading a text about technology and office etiquette
• Guessing the frequency of some key words from the article
• Discussing the answers to questions posed on a blog
  

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This week's activities:

• Discussing good and bad presentations
• Sequencing five Powerpoint slides from a presentation
• Reading extracts from a Pecha Kucha-style presentation
• Identifying words in the extracts from their definitions
• Preparing, practising and giving an individual or group presentation
  

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This week's activities:

• Discussing which types of cars students like
• Completing the missing information in a time-line
• Reading an article about a takeover in the automobile industry
• Identify whether some key words are nouns, verbs or both
• Discussing questions arising from the article
  

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This week's activities:

• Creating sentences about students' reading habits
• Scanning a product information box and completing the missing information
• Reading an article about a new e-book reader
• Identify words in the article from their definitions
• Discussing questions arising from the article