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Whiz Kid, Homework For Sale and A School
For All
This month's lessons feature the clever, the bizarre and the
good in education: In Singapore a computer whiz kid (aged
9) who has already written a successful Iphone software program
still has to do his homework every night. "Two hours of
computer a day and only after homework," the boy said
sulkily. (Intermediate Instant Lesson: 'Computer Whiz Kid')
 A website that sells homework answers to kids? Is it a good idea?
'"It turns them into consumers. The message is that for the
right price you can get the results you want. It's nonsense,"
said one teacher in response.' Read about the website's aims,
and its demise, conduct a discussion with your students on
the pros and cons of homework and then finish by getting them
to set their own homework. (Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson:
'Homework For Sale')
And just to confirm that people can make a difference, in a country
where an education is often out of reach for thousands of
impoverished children, the Kartini Emergency School in Indonesia is
proving to be an exception. Our lesson looks at one of the free
schools, how it is funded and operated. (Upper Intermediate Instant
Lesson: 'School For All')
In the mailbox this month we were delighted to get this response
to last month's resource on Swishing (Pre-Intermediate Instant
Lesson: 'Swishing') from Carol Tebbutt at Waikato Pathways
College, The University of Waikato in New Zealand, "Just
wanted to thank you for your fabulous article and lesson on
swishing – our work community really wanted to try it
out and so got together to have a party of our own...
... a grand time was had by all and we thank English
to Go for the chance to learn about an effective way of recycling.
Bags and bags of clothes arrived at the party and only one
bag was left to take to the Salvation Army." Have a look
at the photo sent in by Carol next to this month's free lesson.
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Click here to access the newest resources
Newest resources in the Teachers’ Room include:
- Need a Granny?, Elementary
Instant Lesson
A unit caring for the elderly is helping families to find
a granny to hire. The elderly, retirement.
- Homework For
Sale, Pre-intermediate
Instant Lesson
"You can't do it? We're here to help," says the homepage of a new
website. The website allowed children the chance to buy answers for
their homework.
- Computer Whiz, Intermediate
Instant Lesson
A 9-year-old student who has written a successful software application
still has to do his homework every night. Children and hobbies, work,
present perfect simple.
- School For All, Upper
Intermediate Instant Lesson
A free school in Indonesia offers education, meals,
a uniform and school stationery to poor children. Poverty,
education, used to for
habits.
- Shopping,
Pre-Intermediate Max Vocab Worksheet
Shopping words, pair crossword.
-An Anna Worksheet - Most, Most of, All
& All of - Anna Grammar Worksheet
A grammar worksheet looking at these
quantifiers.
- I live At The White House -
Weekly Warmer
Students practice asking and answering questions to learn about the
Obama family. Daily lives, present simple for routines and habits.
- Need Help with Homework?
- Pre-Intermediate Instant Workbook
Read about a site that sells homework answers and learn
about homework.
Skills: Grammar - word order, question order, present simple
- to be, Reading comprehension - short answers.
For access to these and
more than 1,700 other resources
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Try our FREE lesson at Selfaccess.com
to mark World
Earth Day - online listening, reading and writing exercises.
Your students can practise their writing with our free model essay:
Some people feel that it is the responsibility of every individual
to initiate change to improve the environment. Others feel that
only governments and large corporations can initiate changes that
will have a significant effect. Explain both points of view and
give your own opinion.
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Click here to access this
month's featured lessons to mark World Earth Day (April 22).
Featured
Resources
include:
- King Bug, Advanced Intermediate Instant Lesson
Antarctica's Lilliputian land-based creatures and plants
-- so far almost unaffected by humans: but what will happen as the
earth gets warmer?
Antarctica, ecosystems, climate change and adverbs.
- Environmentally Friendly Power Sources, Intermediate Instant Lesson
Wind power is growing in popularity and a cornlike plant that can fuel
cars and be a food source. Alternative fuel and energy sources, the
environment.
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This month's Point of Interest
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This month’s Point of Interest is
from 'I Live at the White House',
a Pre-Intermediate Weekly Warmer.
 'Michelle Obama
says the family have dinner together every night...Later,
the president tucks the children into bed before
they drift off to sleep...
Like other children, Malia and Sasha still make their beds, clean their
rooms and clear the dishes from the dinner table. "People (here) want
to make your life easy, and when you have small kids -- I've explained
this to the staff -- they don't need their lives to be easy. They're
kids," she said.' Thomson Reuters 2009
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