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Warm-up | Where is home?

  • Have you ever considered living in another country?
  • Which reasons do you think are the most common for migrating: love, the economy and career opportunities, the environment, political conditions, the cost of living?
    • Could young fathom leaving home for these reasons?
  • What challenges can you imagine experiencing  when moving to another country (e.g. languages, tax requirements and retirement eligibility, etc.)?

Listening | David and Emma

  • David and Emma moved to Mairena, southern Spain, in 1997.
  • Order the images.

Listening | David and Emma

David, Emma or Both?

Listening | David and Emma

Part 2. Make notes about:

 

  • What they like most about living in Mairena.
  • What they don't like about living there.
  • What they miss about the UK.
  • Whether or not they'll go back to the UK.

Vocabulary | Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Speaking | Moving Abroad

Do you or a friend of yours have any experience going to live in another country?

Pre-Reading | British Citizenship

Do these rules for citizenship seem fair to you?

Pre-Reading | British Citizenship

  • Is it fair to require a specific level of English proficiency?
  • Should you be able to hold dual-citizenship, or does this create a conflict of loyalty?
  • Should residency be based on stay or values?
    • Should there be more emphasis on cultural integration or should multiculturalism be encouraged?
  • Should state support for housing, etc. only go towards birth citizens, based on tax-contribution?
    • Should economic contributions be more important than humanitarian concerns or labour concerns?
  • Under which circumstances should citizenship be revoked? Would it be possible for French criminals in France, too?
  • Do you believe we can and should do more to stop people wanting to migrate?

Reading | British Citizenship

Reading | British Citizenship

Adding Emphasis and Interest | Cleft Sentences

  • Can you rephrase these sentences?

Adding Emphasis and Interest | Cleft Sentences

Focus attention  on or emphasize one part of the sentence. Put it at the start, ...

Example Variations. "This feature enables X"

  • What this feature enables is X.
  • What this feature does is it enables X.
  • And what happens with this feature is it enables X
  • The functionality this feature enables is X 
  • It's X which is enabled with this feature

Review

Review

Speaking Practice | Mundane topics

  • "Terrible weather, isn't it?"
  • Are you interested in any sports?
  • Are you going anywhere interesting this year?
  • Do you have any brothers or sisters?
  • How long have you worked at your company?
  • Do you think going on holiday is a good way to meet new people?

Speaking Practice | Related to Living Abroad and Others