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Don't Kiss Santa
This Christmas, Santas in Hungary have been advised not
to kiss children or shake their hands. This is to stop the
spread of the H1N1 virus. Students can read about how Santa
can avoid getting the flu and discuss different Christmas
customs in our Elementary Instant Lesson, "Don't
Kiss Santa". Continuing the holiday season theme,
our newest Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson "Going
Shopping" looks at the Christmas shopping trends
of Britons and Germans in the midst of the recession. This
year Britons are planning to spend less on gifts while Germans
are planning to spend more.
For all of us who are still fascinated by the story of
Cinderella, or the tricky question of how to find yourself
a millionaire, our Intermediate Instant Lesson will be a
winner. "Expensive Weddings" looks at the
Cinderella fairytale, expressions of quantity and a ball
held in Shenzhen for beautiful women wanting to find their
Prince Charming.
Our Advanced Lesson, "Welcome to Clone Farm",
is about animal cloning and takes a look at the future.
"Consumers are likely already eating meat and drinking
milk from the offspring of clones, which are technically
not clones, without even knowing it." The lesson
looks at the advantages and disadvantages of cloning, degrees
of certainty and the second conditional. And for anyone
wanting to know what the latest research on baby language
is showing, our Upper-Intermediate Instant Lesson, "Goo
Goo Ga Ga", answers the question, "does
your baby cry in French or German?" You may be
surprised at the answer!
We also have a new Weekly Warmer, "What Did They
Say?", looking at the Climate Change Talks which
is part of our Featured Lessons on climate change.
Finally, there is a past perfect Anna Grammar worksheet
for Intermediate level students, and an Instant Workbook,
"Projects Abroad".
Wishing you a very happy festive season and a wonderful
2010.
Best wishes,
The English To Go Team
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Newest resources in the Teachers’ Room
include:
- Goo Goo Ga Ga, Upper Intermediate Instant Lesson
The wail of a newborn may sound the same to the ears of
sleep-deprived parents the world over, but according to
scientists, that's not the case: Babies cry in the language
their parents speak from the first days of life. Babies,
fetuses, human development, language degrees of certainty,
could, might, definitely, likely.
- Don't Kiss Santa, Elementary Instant Lesson
A government website is advising Santa not to kiss children
or shake their hands in order to avoid passing on or catching
the flu. Health and hygiene, H1N1 virus, flu, Santa Claus
and festivals.
- Going Shopping, Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson
Britons are planning to spend less on gifts this Christmas
than last year while Germans are planning to spend more.
Shopping trends, gift-giving, Internet shopping, choosing
a gift.
- Expensive Weddings, Intermediate Instant Lesson
Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish
ball in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, lured by the
dream of a possible fairytale match with a millionaire.
Marriage, finding a partner, weddings, fairy tales, Cinderella,
expressions of quantity.
-Welcome to Clone Farm, Advanced Instant Lesson
To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any
other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in
similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't
just resemble each other. They are literally identical -
clear down to their genes. Pollard says such breeding technology
is at the forefront of a new era in animal agriculture.
Cloning, advantages and disadvantages, degrees of certainty,
second conditional.
- What Did They Say? - Weekly Warmer
An Upper Intermediate warmer that could be done as a review
activity after students have learned about reported speech
and looks at what some leaders hope the Copenhagen Climate
Change talks will achieve.
- "Past Perfect Simple" - Grammar Worksheet
We use the past perfect simple when we are thinking of a
situation in the past and then we refer to an action that
happened before this past time. Practice with this Intermediate
level Anna Grammar worksheet.
-Projects Abroad - Grammar Worksheet
These exercises look at volunteer work and give students
further practice with the past perfect.
For access to these and more than 1,700 other resources
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Featured Resources
include:
- A Vocabulary Worksheet - Global Warming
A crossword puzzle and cloze exercise about the
environment and global warming.
- What Did They Say? Weekly Warmer
An Upper Intermediate level warmer reviewing reported
speech and looking at what some leaders hope the Copenhagen
Climate Change talks will achieve.
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This month's Point of Interest
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month's Teaching Point comes from the Intermediate level
Instant Lesson, "Expensive Weddings".
'Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a
lavish ball in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, lured
by the dream of a possible fairytale match with a millionaire.
More than 7,000 women from all over the country
are applying for one of just 40 tickets to attend China's
version of Cinderella's ball, where several multimillionaires
will pay around $5,400 for the privilege of meeting
them, the organizer of the event told Reuters.
"It's not just about the women finding their
Prince Charming, but also the men finding their princess,"
said Cheng Yongsheng of the organizers, matchmaking
website www.jiayuan.com.
"There are more and more single women in
China nowadays who just want to find a good man. And
if this man has money, that's much better."
As for the women, they will be stringently screened
for their looks, physique and intellect, with marriage
counselors on hand to judge whether they are "kind,
gentle and tasteful," Cheng was quoted by the official
Xinhua news agency as saying.'
Thomson Reuters 2009
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