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Are You a Billionaire?
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| Date: | 27 May 2010 |
| Topic: | Warren Buffett is 79 years old and worth about $40 billion. (Billionaire, Warren Buffett, personal information, present simple tense forms, be/have, completing a crossword.) |
| Level | Elementary |
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Bengal Tigers
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| Date: | 8 July 2010 |
| Topic: | Bangladesh has begun a plan to train rangers in the Sundarban forest. They hope the rangers can stop tigers from going to villages on the edge of the forest. Under a Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan, forest rangers and guards will learn to use tranquilizer guns to immobilize and capture tigers that stray into villages.(Tigers, endangered animals, finding the main idea, predicting, present perfect simple.) |
| Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Couch Kids
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| Date: | 1 July 2010 |
| Topic: | American children aren't the only couch potatoes with nearly one third of children globally spending three hours a day or more watching TV or on computers, according to a study of over 70,000 teens. From Argentina to Zambia, researchers found most children aren't getting enough exercise and it made no difference if they lived in a rich or a poor country. (Children and physical activity, interpreting diagrams and graphs.) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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Eye See
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| Date: | 2 July 2010 |
| Topic: | It's estimated that up to 60 percent of school-age children in rural China need glasses to see clearly, but most either don't have them or don't wear them if they do. A new study suggests that misinformation about wearing glasses and the inconvenience of getting them - not cost - may be at least partly to blame. (Eyesight, stereotypes, making predictions, designing a pair of glasses.) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Heroin Help
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| Date: | 5 July 2010 |
| Topic: | The drawings on the wall of the Sanga Amaj clinic show one 11-year-old's family tableau - father and mother huddled over heroin kits as their sons watch haplessly. Sanga Amaj is one of three U.S.-funded drug clinics for women and children in Afghanistan, the most overlooked and vulnerable of the country's many opiate addicts. (Drug addiction, children and treatment, Afghanistan.) |
| Level | Advanced |
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instant workbook
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Date: 29 July 2010
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| Effecting a Change - The Max Effect |
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Misuse of these two words is one of the most common mistakes in English. This exercise could affect your writing.
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anna grammar
| Date: 2 July 2010 |
| Adverbs - An Anna Grammar Worksheet |  |
| Adverbs are words that modify or talk about verbs. Adverbs often tell us when, where, why, or how something happens. This worksheet has 4 exercises for students to complete. |
weekly warmer
| Date: 30 July 2010 |
| Famous Cities - Edinburgh |  |
| This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about the city of Edinburgh and the Fringe Festival held every August. |
max vocab

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