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World Water Day, March 22: “Clean Water for a Healthy World”.
World Meteorological Day, March 23: “60 years of service for your safety and well-being".
Featured resources to mark these two days:
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Tallest Building
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| Date: | 11 February 2010 |
| Topic: | The world's tallest building in Dubai is 828 meters (2,717 ft) high. (Burj Khalifa, Taipei 101, world's tallest buildings, discussion, comprehension, reading for specific information, reference words, identifying nouns, comparative and superlative structures, shouting dictation, information gap game.) |
| 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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Making Up
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| Date: | 11 March 2010 |
| Topic: | The average British woman's cosmetic bag is out of date by ... four years, according to a study on Wednesday. Women are using cosmetics well past the use-by date. Debenhams asked 1,000 women aged 18 to 70 about the contents of their cosmetic bags and their understanding of the health considerations. (Makeup, consumer issues, expiry dates, surveys, doing a makeover.) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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Cyber Romance
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| Date: | 4 March 2010 |
| Topic: | A worldwide poll showed that 30% of web users regard the Internet as a good place to find a boyfriend or girlfriend. And despite the public perception that cyberspace is a shallow, hostile environment, lovers who meet through Internet chat rooms may actually end up forming strong relationships. (Internet chat room relationships, scanning, summarizing, 'despite', 'in spite of' and 'although', discourse markers, understanding a graph, writing an ad, interviews.) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Do Journalists Help?
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| Date: | 11 February 2010 |
| Topic: | "Can you help?". "Oh ... maybe the American soldiers or the Red Cross up there can." "No, can YOU help? I need YOU to help my baby." Veteran journalists from all round the world came to cover the disaster, and it was interesting to see how they handled the often unspoken question of how to help: whether to photograph or carry the wounded baby first. (Haiti, Natural disasters and the role of the media.) |
| Level | Advanced |
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instant workbook
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Date: 9 March 2010
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| Not To Your Taste? |
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Listen to Susan talking about food, read about some strange drinks, talk about people's habits now and in the past, and practise your vegetable vocabulary. There are seven exercises for you to do.
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Upper-Intermediate
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anna grammar
weekly warmer
| Date: 11 March 2010 |
| Complete the Picture - drawing a face |  |
| This fun icebreaker will help students use appropriate questions to obtain information from a partner to complete a drawing and follow instructions correctly. They will also learn or revise words to do with the face and makeup. |
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