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Topic-based ESL Materials. Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom. If this is your first time here, then read the Teacher's Guide to Using These PagesIf you can think of a good question for any list, please send it to us. Home | Articles | Lessons | Techniques | Questions | Games | Jokes | Things for Teachers | Links | Activities for ESL Students Would you like to help?

If you can think of a good question for any list, please send it to us. If you would like to suggest another topic, please send it and a set of questions to begin the topic. Copyright © 1997-2010 by The Internet TESL Journal Pages from this site should not be put online elsewhere.Permission is not required to link directly to any page on our site as long as you do not trap the page inside a frame. Quirkies | Funny news, Weird News, Strange News. Global from Macmillan Education | Learn English, Learn through English, Learn about English. How to identify your work skills. Battle of Ideas | Battles in Print. In truth schools already see themselves as “engines of social mobility”, where children’s failure to achieve is understood as stemming from a home life deficient in parenting skills, knowledge or opportunity.

The result is that a teacher’s traditional role of passing on knowledge to the next generation has become a side-act to the demand of creating a fair society, but this is a project in which schools can never succeed Sally Millard, 25 November 2011 In face of policy rhetoric about the Big Society and ‘people power’, what happens to autonomy and agency when unseen experts and policy wonks seek to subvert competent adults’ decisions about what they eat, how many units they drink or whether they give up time to help the community. Or, if they decide to do these things, should government determine how? Kathryn Ecclestone, 25 November 2011 The reasons why people use drugs, and the consequences of taking them, are as varied as the forms of intoxication available. Paul Reeves, 24 October 2011. Debating Matters - Topic Guides. Debating Matters' acclaimed Topic Guides place debates in a social context: providing a framework for students’ thinking.

With a current library of over 50 Topic Guides, covering debates relating to big questions about science and experimentation, liberty and the law, arts and culture, health and medicine, politics, the media and more, debaters use these resources when preparing for the competition, but schools are also encouraged to use the guides for more informal debates, whether at the school debate club or as a lesson resource. For further advice and ideas about how to your our Topic guides, take a look at our latest resource pack for schools. Here are the latest Topic Guides currently being used in the competition, but for more please use the categories on the left hand menu, or browse subjects by A-Z.

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