How Do We Help?
In tough economic times, teachers have to think carefully before spending some of their hard earned money on a subscription or buying an institutional membership for their school. As this is our first newsletter for 2010, it's a good time to answer the question, "How can English-to-go help you this month?"

The site this month has new resources covering the role of journalists when covering a disaster relief effort such as the Haiti earthquake, being prepared for a natural disaster and an intro to Vancouver, host of the Winter Olympics.

We also have fascinating Thomson Reuters articles in our lessons on what makes for bad train travel behavior in Japan and the lowdown on Generation XD--today's 8-14 year-olds - they're apparently a bunch of web-savvy parent-loving environmentalists, according to them! And our free lesson looks at what's going on with cloning in agriculture: you may even be eating produce from cloned animals without being aware of it!

English-to-go prides itself on bringing you fresh, topical resources that are easy to use and have a high level of accuracy. In honor of this last point, our competition this month is a "Spot the mistake" contest. If you find a typo in one of our 2009 or 2010 lessons, and email us with the details (name of lesson, page number and details of typo), we will enter your name in a draw to win a one month's free gold membership (for non-members) to English-to-go.com or a refund of your membership for one month (for ETG members).

Email your competition entry to editor@english-to-go.com .

Best wishes,
The English To Go Team

- Spider Eyes, Elementary Instant Lesson
When cleaning the cage of your pet tarantula spider, wear glasses. A man in England found this out the hard way. Spiders, dangerous animals, pets, sequencing, reference words.

- Generation XD, Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson
A new survey of eight to 14-year-old Europeans showed that the children of Generation X are web-savvy, videogame-playing environmentalists who love their parents. Children, market research, values, interpreting figures.

- Earthquakes, Intermediate Instant Lesson
An average 10,000 deaths occur worldwide from earthquakes annually. About 18 major earthquakes and one great quake hit in a typical year. Earthquakes, natural disasters, prefixes and word families.

- Happy Travels, Upper Intermediate Instant Lesson
Taking the train in Japan and want to avoid annoying fellow passengers? Keep conversation to a whisper, turn down your iPod and put your phone on vibration mode, a recent survey showed. For Japanese commuters, noise is the biggest issue. Travel, manners, apologizing, direct and reported speech, article revision.

-Do Journalists Help?, Advanced Instant Lesson
The woman carrying the wounded, feverish child caught me off guard during some interviews with survivors in a refugee camp. Veteran journalists from all round the world came to cover the disaster, and it was interesting to see how they handled the often unspoken question of how to help: whether to photograph or carry the wounded baby first. Natural disasters and the role of the media.

- Find Your Other Half - Vancouver
This warmer helps gives practice in listening for specific information, speaking clearly and then listening and writing down exactly what someone says. It has information about Vancouver, host city of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

-Tallest Building - Instant Workbook - Elementary
Find out about famous buildings, the world's newst tallest building, new buildings and old buildings! There are 5 exercises to do. (Grammar - adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, Listening, Reading Comprehension.)