Happy Chinese New Year and welcome to the year of the monkey, with a special hello to all you lucky monkeys out there!

Hot Topic: Chinese New Year
Seeing as it's the year of the money how about doing a lesson or two about animals? Browse the Animals section on the Library page, and you'll find, among many others the Instant lessons: "Rats Rats Rats" - Pre-Intermediate; "Bengal Tigers" - Elementary; "Pass the Pit Bull, Please" - Pre-Intermediate ('Pet snake eats pet dog!'); "A Baby's Name" - Elementary ('Man names child after horse!'); "Cyber Lambs" - Elementary ('Sheep on the Internet?'); "Monkey Business" - Advanced; "A Loving Animal" - Intermediate - Upper-Intermediate ('Chicken comforts people!'); "Shelter Pup Finds Career" - Intermediate ('Dog goes from stray to Top Job!'); "High Flyer" - Intermediate ('A pig that flies!').

Featured Lessons - Chinese New Year
January 22 is Chinese New Year's Day. Here are some lessons featuring China and things Chinese..
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Teacher Tip: My students don’t hand in homework!

• Get them to work on projects together. If they don’t do it, they let their partner down.
• Get them to present information to the class.
• Make homework meaningful. Set them real questions which require thoughtful research.
• Save repetitive exercises for speed drills.

Here are this week's new resources:

Elementary Instant Workbook - A Very Long Ride
A rollercoaster fan. Strange but true, human interest, sport and leisure.
Skills: Listening, grammar. Past participles.

Intermediate Instant Lesson - These Music Lovers Are Turkeys
Britain's farming union has released a chill-out album of different sounds to help turkeys keep calm in the understandably stressful run-up to being eaten. (Farming, animals, meat, scanning, true or false, working out unfamiliar words, summarizing, Farm Animal Sounds Game, Completing a Picture game, zero conditional, discussion.)

Upper-Intermediate Instant Lesson - Athletes At Risk
Teens and young adults who regularly train and compete in sports are more than twice as likely to experience sudden death than non-athletes, according to a new study. (Athletes, heart conditions, prefixes: under-, non-, predicting, scanning, brainstorming, survey - leading a healthy lifestyle, vocabulary mime game - sports, information exchange.)

Anna Grammar - Some "If" Clauses
"I need to explain why - "If it didn't rain, I would have played tennis" - is wrong."

Weekly Warmer - Vocabulary Crossword
Hi, I am an English teacher from Brazil. This activity is great for stimulating students to think about and remember the vocabulary they have already learned.

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Quote of the week:
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell.

Have a great week teaching!
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