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Working Abroad uses the experiences of real people, both experts and non-experts, to explore some of the cultural and linguistic challenges of living and working in a foreign country - and offers a lot of practical hints and tips to help those who are thinking of taking the plunge. We've created a bank of downloadable classroom worksheets to help you and your students get the most out of the series. We've also written a list of quick and easy teaching ideas and activities that require little or no preparation, - most of them can be used with almost any part of the series:

Teaching ideas (45 K)

We hope you find these worksheets useful - do please send your comments and feedback to us at teachingenglish@bbc.co.uk.

Listening

These worksheets have been written to accompany specific programmes. Each of them focuses on one or more listening skills.

Worksheets:


Programme 2 (3.8 MB mp3) Prediction & comprehension - dealing with different voices	Worksheet (41 K)
Programme 3 (3.8 MB mp3) Comprehension - multiple choice questions	Worksheet (47 K)
Programme 4 (3.8 MB mp3) Comprehension - true/false questions and follow up discussion questions	Worksheet (37 K)
Programme 5 (3.7 MB mp3) Comprehension - true/false questions and follow up discussion questions	Worksheet (65 K)
Programme 6 (3.7 MB mp3) Text organisation - ordering sentences. Follow up activity: Stereotypes discussion	Worksheet (40 K)

Reading

These worksheets are based around the reading texts related to the different people featured in Working Abroad. Each worksheet focuses on a specific reading sub-skill.

Worksheets:


Federico: the Person Comprehension through comparison Ordering events	Worksheet (35 K)
Andre - the Person Comprehension questions	Worksheet (43 K)
Maralde - the Experience Comprehension questions Comprehension through comparison	Worksheet (36 K)
Adam - the Person, the Job and the Experience Anagrams Sentence insertion	Worksheet (48 K)
Chris - the Experience Prediction Comprehension - true/false questions Follow up speaking activity	Worksheet (44 K)

Writing

These worksheets provide guidance and practice on writing different types of text. The theme of each writing task centres on an aspect of working abroad.

Worksheets:


Worksheet 1 Proofreading	Worksheet (34 K)
Worksheet 2 Email	Worksheet (40 K)
Worksheet 3 Formal and informal tone	Worksheet (36 K)
Worksheet 4 A guide to your culture	Worksheet (39 K)

Speaking

These speaking activities provide consolidation and practice of the vocabulary, structures and concepts featured in the series.

Worksheets:


Worksheet 1 Roleplay: job interview	Worksheet (33 K)
Worksheet 2 Ranking discussion: what's important when you're working abroad?	Worksheet (28 K)
Worksheet 3 Pronunciation: minimal pairs	Worksheet (29 K)
Worksheet 4 Pronunciation: sentence stress	Worksheet (33 K)
Worksheet 5 Mingling activity: find someone who...	Worksheet (31 K)
Worksheet 6 Clarifying meaning	Worksheet (34 K)

Grammar

These worksheets provide explanation and practice of some of the structures which are found in these programmes.

Worksheets:


Worksheet 1 Conditionals	Worksheet (38 K)
Worksheet 2 Articles	Worksheet (34 K)
Worksheet 3 Verb forms	Worksheet (34 K)
Worksheet 4 Error correction	Worksheet (42 K)

Vocabulary

Use these worksheets to recycle and practise key vocabulary from the series.

Worksheets:


Worksheet 1 Crossword	Worksheet (38 K)
Worksheet 2 Crossword (easy version)	Worksheet (38 K)
Worksheet 3 People	Worksheet (57 K)
Worksheet 4 Adjectives	Worksheet (37 K)
Worksheet 5 Idiomatic expressions	Worksheet (34 K)

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