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Festivities and Famous People
A 1.5 million dollar art installation for your swimming pool?
A $15,000 life size playhouse made out of gingerbread? These
are two of the gifts on offer in the 2010 Neiman Marcus Christmas
catalog. Students can read about these and look at how this
year's catalog differs to that of 2009 in the Upper Intermediate
Instant Lesson 'Try Wrapping This'. Continuing
the Christmas theme, we have a lesson on the recent 'Santa
of the Year' competition held in Sweden. (Elementary
Instant Lesson 'The World's Best Santa').
For students interested in famous people, our Intermediate
Instant Lesson 'The Ups and Downs of Child
Stars' looks at how the lives of Emma Watson and
Daniel Radcliffe, stars of the "Harry
Potter" movies, have been changed by their
stardom. 'Watson, 20, [said] that she was 17 or 18 years
old when she had a "money conversation" with her father.
"By the third or fourth film, the money was starting
to get ... serious. I had no idea. I felt sick, very
emotional. It was a real shock," the actress told Vogue in the
interview. Until then, she had been living on an
allowance of about 50 pounds a week. She took a money
management course and she now has an estimated fortune of
about 20 million pounds.'
We also have a warmer on newly-engaged Prince William of
Britain and Kate Middleton. Students complete a biographical
table of information and then conduct an interview using the
information they have gathered.
And for students who have no interest in festivities or famous
people, there is a new worksheet on Abstract Nouns
('Max Suffixes 3 - Max Vocab Worksheet)
and going to/will and reading exercises in the online Instant
Workbook 'Hot Bodies'.
 We'll be taking
a break over the holidays - making this the final
English-to-go Newsletter for the year. Our next newsletter
will come out in February.
Wishing you a very happy festive season and a wonderful
2011.
Best wishes,
The English To Go Team
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Newest resources in
the Teachers' Room include:
- The World's Best Santa
- Elementary Instant Lesson A Colombian is the winner
of the Santa of the Year for 2010. Santa, superlatives,
competitive games.
 - Peach
The Police Dog - Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson
Japan's newest police dog is a Chihuahua called
Peach. Guessing games, animals who help, animal
associations.
- The Ups and Downs of
Child Stars - Intermediate Instant Lesson Life of
Harry Potter stars, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe,
advantages and disadvantages of being child stars, books and
movies.
- Try Wrapping This - Upper
Intermediate Instant Lesson Neiman Marcus 2010 gifts
return to the extravagant, displayed in the retailer's annual
Christmas catalog. Christmas, very expensive gifts, role play,
vocabulary work, summarizing.
- Famous People: Prince
William and Kate Middleton - Weekly Warmer Completing
a table of information about newly engaged couple, Prince
William of Britain and Kate Middleton.
- Max
Suffixes 3 - Abstract Nouns – Max Vocab Worksheet A
worksheet on suffixes added to make abstract nouns. Suffixes,
pair crossword.
- Hot Bodies - Instant Workbook
Power usage and heating, will vs. going
to. 5 online exercises for Pre-intermediate to Intermediate
level students.
For access to these and more than 1,700 other resources:
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Click
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featured lessons for the Christmas season.
Christmas Resources include:
- Christmas In Different Countries - Weekly Warmer
- Pre- Intermediate - To practice reading for
understanding, asking and answering questions and to learn
about the Christmas customs of different countries.
- Work Dos - Intermediate Instant Lesson -  Almost a third of British office workers
actively hate the annual office Christmas party, new research
has suggested. The poll suggested that the biggest problem
with the office Christmas bash was that it forces them
to socialize with people that they have nothing in common
with other than work. (Office social functions, brainstorming
and problem solving, writing memos.)
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lesson
- The World's Best Santa - Elementary Instant
Lesson Santas from Sweden, the Netherlands,
Estonia, Germany, Hong Kong, France, Colombia, Japan and
Canada competed in tree decorating, porridge-eating and
reindeer-racing to find out who was the best Santa for
2010. (Class vote, discussion, ordering questions,
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This Month's Point
of Interest
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This month's Point of Interest comes
from the Upper Intermediate Instant Lesson "Try
Wrapping This":
 Luxury
retailer Neiman Marcus published 'The Christmas Book',
its 2010 holiday gift catalog on Tuesday, marking a
return to excess after a recession-mandated
frugality.
Items for sale include a $1.5 million
privately commissioned art installation by glass
sculptor Dale Chihuly for the bottom of a swimming pool.
Spending $250, 000 gets you a his-and-hers luxury
houseboat.
In 2009, Neiman Marcus offered a more
modest catalog in deference to tough times. But as the
wealthy gain more confidence, they spend more money on
luxury goods.
"There's a segment of the
population that has gotten even wealthier: Goldman Sachs
bankers, Silicon Valley venture capitalists," said
Milton Pedraza, chief executive of consulting firm
Luxury Institute. "They have so much money, they
don't know what to do with it. They're in the mood to
spend and that's what Neiman Marcus is tapping
into."
Neiman Marcus Group [which includes
Bergdorf Goodman]...is enjoying a rebound. In the most
recent quarter, combined same-store sales at both chains
rose 6.5 percent.
Department store rivals Saks Inc
and Nordstrom also reported a sales resurgence in recent
months.
Other standout items in Neiman's Christmas Book catalog
include an edible, life-size gingerbread playhouse with
a price tag of $15,000. A private party by celebrity event
planner Colin Cowie, where premium Tequila Avion liquor
will warm up the guests, goes for $125,000. Photography
[fans] can own a Leica M9 Neiman Marcus camera for $17,500.
For $75,000, car lovers can drive a 2011 Neiman Marcus
Edition Camaro convertible.
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