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🌏 Cross-Cultural Communication in Science

Added: October 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Reading & Writing • Medical Science

Your co-author is in Canada, your supervisor never says no to the professor, and the volunteers who gave blood thought it was for one study only. Science today is done in international teams, and most of what goes wrong is communication, not chemistry. This reading, critical thinking and writing lesson gives medical science students the language of working across cultures, with vocabulary like collaborate, research team, supervisor, hierarchy, speak up, feedback, co-author, time zone, informed consent, participant, share data, and misunderstanding. Students read The Question She Didn’t Ask, work through three critical thinking sets (Working in an International Lab, Research with Communities, Sharing Science Across Borders), study a bar chart on which countries write science papers together, and read The Blood That Was Borrowed, the Havasupai case that changed how researchers think about consent. A Paragraph Planner leads to a guided paragraph on working in an international team, with a gap-fill version for weaker classes, and a Difficult Moments in Science Scenario Zone rounds it off.

🧬 Forensic Science: Naming the Missing

Added: September 2026 • 2 versions • Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate

Forensic science used to mean crime shows. Today it runs through medical science, toxicology, public health and digital investigation, and students will meet it whatever they are studying. These reading, critical thinking and writing lessons take vocabulary like evidence, crime scene, autopsy, cold case, dental records, rule out a suspect, wrongful conviction, and track an outbreak into real scenarios: the crime scene and the first ever DNA case, disease detectives tracing an outbreak, the question of who can see your DNA, and the tsunami victim identification operation in Phuket, where 300 investigators from 30 countries worked to name 3,750 victims in one of the biggest forensic operations in history.

🧪 Toxicology

Added: September 2026 • 2 versions • Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate

Caffeine, paracetamol, even plain water. Every substance is safe in a small amount and deadly in a large one. These reading, critical thinking and writing lessons introduce the science of poisons through the Tylenol Murders, the case that put safety seals on every medicine bottle in the world, with vocabulary like toxin, dose, overdose, antidote, contaminate, tamper, and, in the harder version, tox screen, cause of death, trace amounts, drug interaction, product recall, and rule out. The Pre-Intermediate version includes a How Much Is Too Much? reading quiz, three critical thinking sets (Toxicology Basics, The Tylenol Case, Working in Toxicology), a graph on calls to a poison centre, and Scenario Zone dilemmas such as wild mushrooms from a night market. The Intermediate version adds word formation, a line chart showing how a double dose crosses the toxic line, and a boardroom dilemma: should a company recall a whole product line over one contaminated batch? Both end with a Paragraph Planner and a guided paragraph.

🦠 Epidemiology

Added: September 2026 • 2 versions • Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate

How do you stop a virus when the nurses fighting it are unpaid and under attack, and people are afraid to come forward? Built around a real Ebola epidemic in Central Africa, these reading, critical thinking and writing lessons follow the health workers on the front line and the communities who don’t always trust them, with vocabulary like outbreak, epidemic, quarantine, contact tracing, isolation unit, protective equipment, and mistrust, and, in the harder version, death toll, infection rate, official figures, safe burial, clinical trial, and efficacy. The Pre-Intermediate version includes What Is Ebola?, the article The Nurses Fighting Ebola, a bar chart comparing five outbreaks, and Scenario Zone dilemmas such as a funeral and 50,000 vaccine doses. The Intermediate version reads Counting an Epidemic, compares official cases with two epidemic models on a line graph, and asks whether to leak a frightening number to a journalist. Both end with a Paragraph Planner and a guided paragraph.

🩺 Medicine 2040: Your Future in Healthcare

Added: September 2026 • Reading & Writing • Level: Pre-Intermediate

An AI program read 10,000 scans and found eleven cancers that two doctors had missed. So what will a medical career look like in 2040, and which skills will machines never copy? This collection looks at the future of health science through vocabulary like telemedicine, diagnosis, genetic testing, personalized medicine, forensic science, herbal medicine, career path, lifelong learning and the human touch. Activities include a reading on the Mia AI screening trial, a timeline tracing artemisinin from ancient herb to Nobel Prize, critical thinking pages on Human, AI or Both? and Choosing Your Specialty, and Scenario Zone dilemmas such as the AI and the doctor disagreeing and a grandmother’s remedy versus hospital medicine. Ideal for pharmacy, nursing and medical science students.

🌫️ The Air I Breathe

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate • Reading & Writing

Breathing the air in some cities for a single day can be like smoking several cigarettes. This reading and writing lesson builds the language of air quality and public health, with vocabulary like pollution, smog, emissions, particles, hazardous, sensor, monitor, premature, and lungs, plus collocations such as raise awareness, wear a mask, check the air quality, and reach hazardous levels. Students work through three critical-thinking readings — Air Pollution and Your Health, Clean Air Action, and Monitoring the Air We Breathe — a short reading quiz and comprehension page, a graph reading on air-quality data, a Subtopic Sorting task, a Scenario Zone decision activity, and a Main Idea and paragraph-writing task on local action for cleaner air.

🌱 Decarbonization

Added: May 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate

EV batteries. Rare earths. Net-zero by 2050. The shift away from fossil fuels has its own language — and students need it for everything from news articles to job interviews. This lesson teaches practical English for clean energy, supply chains, and emissions targets, with vocabulary including carbon footprint, net-zero, fossil fuels, renewable, supply chain, rare earths, and EV battery. Activities include dialogues on the energy transition, vocabulary and collocations practice, critical thinking worksheets, a graph reading on emissions data, and a Green Career Fair talk zone where students explore roles in the clean energy economy.

🔌 Semiconductors (The Chip Industry)

Added: April 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate and Above

One small island. A few key companies. The entire digital world runs on what they make. This lesson covers how chips are designed, where they’re made, and why semiconductors sit at the center of global politics — with vocabulary like wafers, transistors, EUV, Moore’s Law, nanometers, choke points, lifeblood, export controls, and skills gap. Activities include a classroom listening quiz, a Second Conditional role play between an HR Director and a university professor about the skills gap, three critical thinking worksheets (chip technology progress, the chip industry, global chip politics), a global chip manufacturing bar chart, and a Talk Zone with career cards (Chip Design Engineer, EUV Machine Technician, Export Policy Advisor, Silicon Wafer Inspector).

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