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Featured Lessons - It's tomato-throwing time
again! August 27 is tomato war day in Bunol, Spain! Every year the
villagers of Bunol find their population has quadrupled as people from all over
the globe arrive to pelt each other with tomatoes. Try our Instant lesson and
Instant Workbook about this annual event. You could recreate it in your classroom! Visit
the featured lessons page here. Free Microfinance
Lesson The free Intermediate lesson "Loans for hope" is
available from the English-To-Go homepage for all members. We hope by helping
to educate people from around the world that we can stop poverty! English-To-Go
will donate 20% of every new subscription to the South Pacific Business Development
Foundation (SPBD), a Grameen Bank style micro finance organization serving those
living in poverty in the Pacific Islands. There is also a free Instant Workbook
exercise which is linked to the lesson, and a free SelfAccess online lesson "A
Model of Self-reliance" for everybody to use. Please use our Tell
A Friend service to invite your friends, family and colleagues to come and
get the lesson. Online Survey You
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They should enter survey number 679 in the
Take A Survey box (on the bottom right of the page) to take our survey! Here
are this week's new resources: Pre-Intermediate Instant Workbook
- The Things They Get Up To In Europe These exercises look at different
nationalities - nouns, adjectives and stress patterns. Skills: Listening, pronunciation
and word forms.
Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson - New Age Cinema
Bawling babies have ruined films for countless moviegoers but now one
New York cinema is filling an entire theater with them in an effort to win the
business of stir-crazy parents who haven't gone out in years. (Cinemas, moviegoing
habits, parenting and babies, what would you do, categorizing words, true or false,
reading for details, meanings from context, conjunctions (and, but, so, because)
find someone who..., describing a scene, present continuous tense, design project.)
Intermediate Instant Lesson - Turtle Refuge In New York, finding
a nice apartment to live in is all about who you know. For turtles, that person
is Richard Ogust. (Endangered species, turtles, wildlife organizations, scanning,
true or false, crossword - environment words, where and which, information exchange
- marine turtles, dialogue.)
Anna Grammar - A Couple of TOEIC Questions
Anna answers a couple of questions from Japan about the TOEIC test.
Weekly
Warmer - Idioms - True and False - Flames, Fire and Burn This warmer about
idioms encourages discussion and should also be a lot of fun!
Click
here to access this week's new resources. Quote
of the week: "We may have different religions, different languages,
different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." - Kofi Annan. |