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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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Skateboarding Online
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| Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Topic: | A skateboarding priest is a YouTube hit and women in different countries are now skateboarding. One woman has started www.skateboardmom.com. (Sport, comprehension, complete the table, word order, true or false, the present continuous: is/am/are, extra reading.) |
| Level | Elementary |
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An Expensive Sandwich
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| Date: | 10 August 2010 |
| Topic: | A bear crashed a car after opening the door of a car and getting stuck. The bear smelled a peanut butter sandwich in the back seat and opened the door of the car. The bear climbed in and got stuck. (Bears, dangerous animals, bizarre events, conducting an interview, irregular past tense verbs, word search puzzle.) |
| Level | Elementary |
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Robots
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| Date: | 10 September 2010 |
| Topic: | Robots that can talk, find [lost] glasses, draw airplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors during an expo in Tokyo. Robot nurses may soon be helping the sick by telling them when to take their pills and recording their temperature and pulse. (Robots, nurses, health, technology, 'by + verb + ing' used to say how something is done.)
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| Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Lucky To Be Alive
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| Date: | 13 August 2010 |
| Topic: | A 15-year-old New Zealand boy survived with minor injuries after falling 16-stories from the balcony of his family's apartment onto a concrete floor and a policeman saved the life of a baby boy by breaking the toddler's fall from the third floor of an apartment building. Amazing stories of surviving falls from great heights. (Lucky escapes, telling/writing stories, survival, Past Simple and Past Continuous) |
| Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Computers Harm Kids
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| Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Topic: | Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users. (Pros and cons of the Internet, teenagers, inventions, modal verbs, persuasive speeches.) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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Alive or Dead?
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| Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Topic: | An Austrian woman has had to convince her electricity supplier that she is alive after the company wrote to her asking for information about her contract following her "passing away." (Clerical errors and bureaucracy, reading for overall understanding, reading for details, sequencing, adding extra information to sentences, crossword.) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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On Your Bike
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| Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Topic: | A fleet of 6,000 bicycles for hire will hit the streets of central London on Friday when the city's mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme intended to fuel a cycling revolution in the congested capital. (Traffic problems, bicycles, London, concept of offering a service for free, definite articles.) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Effects of Rom Coms?
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| Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Topic: | Romantic comedies might provide 90 minutes of light-hearted fun but the happy-ever-after movies are also impacting people's real love lives, according to an Australian survey and a study in college dating suggests that American males enjoy teary, romantic "women's films" more than they are letting on. (Romantic comedies, differences between men and women, movie genres.) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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China's Development Juggernaut
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| Date: | 11 August 2010 |
| Topic: | China has put big money down on a momentous gamble: rush to build new cities in its poor interior, then wait for people to come and help drive the economy to a new stage of growth. Here in this corner of the Chinese hinterland, the government has widened farm lanes into highways, turned wheat fields into an industrial park, spent a fortune on government offices, and set up a school for thousands of students in what was a dusty town a few years before. (China, government, development, migration.) |
| Level | Advanced |
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Max Vocab |
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Acad Word List 2 – Max V Worksheet
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| Date: | 10 September 2010 |
| Topic: | The Academic Word List (AWL) is a list of the 3,000 words most often used in English-language academic writing and is recommended for those wanting to study at an English-speaking institution. This worksheet is based on the Upper-Intermediate lesson Redheads Feel More Pain. |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Acad Word List 1 – Max V Worksheet
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| Date: | 6 August 2010 |
| Topic: | The Academic Word List (AWL) is a list of the 3,000 words most often used in English-language academic writing and is recommended for those wanting to study at an English-speaking institution. This worksheet is based on the Upper-Intermediate lesson Eye See. |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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Weekly Warmer |
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World Leaders: And the Australian Prime Minister?
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| Date: | 23 August 2010 |
| Topic: | This warmer gets students to read for specific information in order to complete a biographical table. We have also included a news article giving helpful information on the Australian electoral system and the position they are now facing. |
| Level | Intermediate |
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Famous Cities - Edinburgh
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| Date: | 30 July 2010 |
| Topic: | This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about the city of Edinburgh and the Fringe Festival held every August. |
| Level | Intermediate |
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