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In-Company Classes: General English:  Level 5.1

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, ETC

• LOTS OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES TO CHOOSE FROM

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VOCABULARY

• VOCABULARY FOR UNITS 1 TO 6 SKLYINE 5: You can download it at this site. 

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ACTIVITIES FOR THE DIFFERENT UNITS

• Unit 1 – The twentieth century
  www.filmunlimited.co.uk
  Produced by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, this website is packed with entertaining and well-presented information about movies past and present. It includes features, latest movie reviews, interviews and quizzes as well as a section on the history of movie making. . Also try the links page, http://film.guardian.co.uk/Features/links, for all the up-to-date hip sites including one that features the worst movie ever made.
• http://www.time.com/time/time100/index.html
  Time.com brings us a site with its 100 most famous people from the twentieth century. 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/
  Find out all you want to know about the history that shaped our world on this BBC educational website.  Extensive articles as well as quizzes and a time line help you find your way through the last 100 years.

Unit 2 – People & technology

• http://www.greatachievements.org/
  How many of the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements will you use today? A car? Computer? Telephone? 
• http://www.startribune.com/digage/forcast.htm
  http://www.startribune.com/digage/drkside.htm
  What does the future hold with regard to technology? How good are people at predicting the future?
• http://www.inventorsmuseum.com
  This U.S.-based website is great both as an educational resource and as a reference guide for general interest. Apart from the normal run-of-the-mill details of inventions and inventors this site also contains a really interesting section with contemporary newspaper reports giving people’s responses to each new innovation. 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/
  

Unit 3 – Global vs. Local

• What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten? Is there anything they would never eat? Take a look at http://www.andreas.com/food.html. 

Unit 4 – Family, friends and colleagues

• http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine/
  http://www.stvalentines.net/
  Where does Valentine’s Day come from? And how do people celebrate it? 
• http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
  Lesson 3 looks at "working relations" and communication. One factor of communication is "body language." This site is a comprehensive online dictionary containing pictures and descriptions of lots of body postures and gestures. Why not pick out 10 and to say what they think each one means, then take a look at the site and see what the experts say.

Unit 5 – The best of the past

• http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm
  Take a look at this fascinating site which contains information, as well as pictures and photographs, detailing 50s style, fashion, music, TV and more. 
• http://kids.infoplease.lycos.com/ipka/A0885982.html
  Alternatively take a longer look at the history of music. For many youngsters music starts around 40 years ago, but in fact music is as old as history. This site takes a brief look with a musical timeline which focuses on the U.S. Trace the true history of pop music.

Unit 6 – Our century

• http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/columnists/toffler/toff05.htm
  What else does Alvin Toffler predict for the 21^st century? If you enjoyed listening to the interview on page 50, here is your opportunity to look at more predictions. 

What moral standards will we have in the 21st century?
Can nations survive in the 21st century?
How will future wars be fought?
Can we end world poverty?

• http://www.how-to-keep-your-new-years-resolution.com/
  Why do we make resolutions? What are some of the most common resolutions? And, how do you keep your New Year’s resolution? These are three questions that are answered on this site.