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Our featured resources highlight some teaching points for May: Teacher Appreciation Week May 5th-9th Mother’s Day May 11 International Museum Day May 18.
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No cake
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| Date: | 15 May 2008 |
| Topic: | Children in a New Zealand school must not bring birthday cakes to school because of rules for healthy eating. (Diet, children, birthdays, true or false questions, giving an opinion.) |
| Level | Elementary |
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Will You Marry Me?
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| Date: | 3 April 2008 |
| Topic: | A man in London hid a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that his sweetheart, Leanne, (26) would pop the balloon as he popped the question. But then the balloon blew away...(Romantic marriage proposals, predicting, comprehension, past simple tense: regular and irregular verbs, past simple and past continuous). |
| Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Super Sushi
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| Date: | 1 May 2008 |
| Topic: | As Japanese sushi conquers restaurants and homes around the world, industry experts are fighting the side-effects of the raw fish boom: fake sushi bars, over-confident amateurs, poisoned consumers. (Seafood, consumers, answering true or false questions, sequencing, writing instructions, writing a recipe, will used for sudden decisions.) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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A Model Citizen
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| Date: | 2 May 2008 |
| Topic: | Paris Hilton, the celebrity and hotel heiress who spent a stint in jail last year, said on Thursday she sees herself as a role model for young women as she prepared to judge a contest to crown Miss Turkey. (Movie stars, notoriety, role models, skimming and scanning, writing and conducting an interview, crossword.) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Birthday Hell!
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| Date: | 8 May 2008 |
| Topic: | Welcome to the deepest inner circle of parenting hell - the kiddie birthday party. Who knew a simple celebration could generate so much anxiety and overindulgence? Most adults remember when kids' birthdays meant ice cream and a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. Today children have come to expect lavish orgies of gifts, gimmicks and goody bags. (Children, parenting, birthday parties, consumerism, brainstorming, planning a birthday party.) |
| Level | Advanced |
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instant workbook
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Date: 13 May 2008
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| Spoiled Kids |
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Eighty percent of Americans surveyed say children are more spoiled today than a decade ago. Read about bed-making classes and hear what one child thinks it means to be spoiled.
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Pre-Intermediate
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anna grammar
| Date: 6 May 2008 |
| !Imperatives & Instructions! |
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| When we want to tell people how to do something, we often write instructions to show them how it is done. A Grammar Worksheet from Anna Grammar. |
weekly warmer
| Date: 21 April 2008 |
| What are you going to do? |
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| This class role play activity helps students practice using going to to talk about things we plan to do at a future time. |
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