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Featured lessons: Chinese New Year begins on February 14 and celebrates the Year of the Tiger. Valentine’s Day is February 14.
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Spider Eyes
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| Date: | 18 January 2010 |
| Topic: | Eye doctors at a hospital in England have discovered why a man's eye was sore - there were spider hairs in it. Three weeks earlier, when the man was cleaning the glass tank of his pet tarantula, the tarantula released some of its hairs and they hit his eyes and face. (Spiders, dangerous animals, pets, sequencing, reference words.) |
| Level | Elementary |
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"Generation XD"
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| Date: | 9 February 2010 |
| Topic: | They've never known a world without the Internet, but they still prefer to meet their friends offline. A new survey of eight to 14-year-old Europeans by U.S. company Walt Disney Co showed that the children of Generation X are web-savvy, videogame-playing environmentalists who love their parents.(Children, market research, values, interpreting figures.) |
| Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Earthquakes
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| Date: | 21 January 2010 |
| Topic: | One of the health threats rescuers and doctors battle after an earthquake over the coming weeks and days is finding survivors trapped beneath rubble and treatment for people with major injuries. An average 10,000 deaths occur worldwide from earthquakes annually. About 18 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0 to 7.9) and one great quake (8.0 or higher) hit in a typical year. (Earthquakes, natural disasters, Haiti, prefixes and word families) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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The "Lighthouse"
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| Date: | 3 January 2010 |
| Topic: | Sick of no morning sun in the kitchen? Is your sitting room too stifling to use on sunny afternoons? Read about a house that revolves to follow the sun. (Engineering, houses, inventions, New Zealand and Australia, idioms) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Welcome To Clone Farm
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| Date: | 7 December 2009 |
| Topic: | To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't just resemble each other. They are literally identical - clear down to their genes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of food from clones and their offspring, stating the products are indistinguishable from their non-clone counterparts. (Cloning, degrees of certainty, second conditional.) |
| Level | Advanced |
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instant workbook
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Date: 22 January 2010
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| Banker to the Poor |
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More about Muhammad Yunus and microcredit. There are 3 exercises to do looking at banking words and the present perfect continuous.
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anna grammar
| Date: 3 December 2009 |
| "Past Perfect Simple" - Grammar Worksheet |  |
| We use the past perfect simple when we are thinking of a situation in the past and then we refer to an action that happened before this past time. Practice with this intermediate level Anna Grammar worksheet. |
weekly warmer
| Date: 8 February 2010 |
| ?What do they Think? | |
| This warmer helps students practice asking questions to find out the views of other students in the class. |
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