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Find the lessons that have been released over the last few weeks. Lessons are listed by type and student level and are in reverse chronological order.
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Pigs Might Fly
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Date: | 26 November 2019 |
Topic: | LiLou the therapy pig helps air travelers. LiLou is a 5-year-old pig. (Airports, therapy, role play, prepositions in, around, to) |
Level | Elementary |
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Trees For Life
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Date: | 2 December 2019 |
Topic: | Blurb People in cities live longer if they are in leafy neighborhoods. Nieuwenhuijsen says leafy areas help people's mental health, reduce stress, cut pollution and encourage people to do more physical activity. (Trees and urban areas, mental health, longevity of life, present perfect simple.) |
Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Halloween Treats at London Zoo
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Date: | 21 October 2019 |
Topic: | Halloween comes early at London Zoo as its giraffes, squirrel monkeys and gorillas enjoyed some special treats in carved-out pumpkins. Keepers at the London park got into the spooky spirit by preparing fiendish surprises for the animals. (Halloween, festivals, vocabulary, T, F & creating an advertisement.) |
Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Wrestling Sexism
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Date: | 11 November 2019 |
Topic: | They're taking on yet another bastion of male privilege: the sumo ring. "Little Miss Sumo". is a documentary tracking attempts to take on sporting inequality in Japan... (Sumo wrestling, women's rights, Japan, sport, sports terms)
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Level | Intermediate |
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Dreaming of a Green Christmas
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Date: | 9 December 2019 |
Topic: | Families should wrap their Christmas presents in recyclable brown paper and make their own Christmas crackers using old toilet rolls this year to help ensure a more sustainable festive season, a leading waste company said. (Gift giving, predicting from the headline, guessing meanings from context, scanning, true or false, jigsaw reading game, present perfect simple and present simple.) |
Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Cloud Cropping
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Date: | 14 November 2019 |
Topic: | At the top of a three-story building in Hong Kong, with car horns blasting on the streets below, Jim Fung teaches a dozen students how to thin out choi sum vegetables. Fung was coaching the first cohort of students in an academy run by social enterprise Rooftop Republic to teach a new generation of urban farmers as demand for their skills soars. |
Level | Advanced |
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Weekly Warmer |
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Find Your Other Half - Weird Trash
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Date: | 22 October 2019 |
Topic: | What's washing up in your neighborhood? This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to learn about a growing concern - the scale of waste and the shape it can take. |
Level | Intermediate |
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