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Balloon Dresses and Roaring Lions
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Welcome to September!
If you're wondering what on earth to teach this month, have
a look at our new resources.
Wondering how to get to know your
students? For those of
you heading into a new school year, our Featured Resources will help:
English-to-go's speaking games and wacky activities can help
break the ice in your first classes.
Wondering where next to teach? Then do this lesson ('The
oldest, the tallest, the most expensive...' - Pre-Intermediate
Instant Lesson) with your students and find
out which cities are the most expensive in the world according
to the 2011 survey.
Wondering what to wear? How about
a dress made from balloons designed by Japanese balloon artist,
Rie Hosokai ('Balloon Dress!' - Elementary Instant
Lesson) Just watch out for needles!
Wondering what brands to buy? Our
latest Upper Intermediate Instant Lesson looks at how brands
can be affected by world events with Levi Strauss hoping to
attract new customers by tapping into the "Arab Spring". ('Once
one of the most coveted in the world...')
Wondering what to do for the 2011
Rugby World Cup with your students? Introduce your students
to Auckland, one of the hosting cities of the Cup in 2011,
with a warmer on Auckland City. See if you can answer some
trivia questions about Auckland and impress your students!
('Famous Cities - Auckland, New Zealand' - Weekly
Warmer - Intermediate and above)
Wondering how to get to sleep at
nights? Would you prefer to be lulled to sleep by lions or
sheep? Our latest Intermediate Instant Lesson looks at what
Britons like to listen to when trying to get to sleep. ('Counting
Sheep?')
Something for everyone? We think
so!
Best wishes
The English-to-go team
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New
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Click here to access the
new resources.
Newest resources in the Teachers' Room include:
- Balloon Dress! - Elementary Instant
Lesson
A dress made from balloons? Japanese balloon
artist, Rie Hosokai, used 200 balloons for a dress. 35-year-old
Hosokai used balloons for the mini-dress. Dress design, do/does
as an auxiliary, shopping for clothes dialogs and language,
completing a table of information about clothes.
- The oldest, the tallest, the most
expensive... - Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson
Tokyo is still the second most expensive city in the world
for expatriates after Luanda in Angola. World's most expensive
cities, superlative adjectives, writing a headline, completing
a table of information.
- Counting Sheep? - Intermediate Instant
Lesson
Britons now prefer listening to lions roaring and monkeys
calling to help them get to sleep, according to a new survey.
Miss too much sleep and risk becoming mentally retarded.
How to get to sleep, research, health, brain, 'even if', 'even
so' and 'even though'.
- Once one of the most coveted in
the world... - Upper Intermediate Instant Lesson
Levi Strauss will attempt to tap into the revolutionary
spirit of the "Arab Spring" with a "Go Forth" global marketing
campaign aimed at attracting youthful customers back to a
jeans brand that was once one of the most coveted in the world.
Brands, prepositions.
- India Schoolgirl
Defies Tradition - Advanced Instant Lesson
Her fate looked sealed when her family began organizing
the nuptial celebrations. But the bride-to-be wasn't ready
to say "I do." 15-year-old Sapna Meena in April joined a small
but growing number of girls who are standing up against the
widespread practice of child marriage in India. Child marriage,
education, marriage, India.
- Famous Cities - Auckland, New Zealand
-Weekly Warmer - Intermediate and above
This activity helps students learn about Auckland in
time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
- Anna Grammar Worksheet - "in order
that, in order to, so as to and so that"
Exercises on the use and position of purpose clauses.
- Safe SUVS? - Pre-Intermediate Instant Workbook
Read about SUV safety and listen to an interview with a contented
SUV owner.
Listening - multiple choice, ordering, Vocabulary - crossword
puzzle, suffixes, Reading - completing a table, short answers
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For access to these and more than 1,700 other resources
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This month's Point of Interest
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This month's Point of Interest
comes from
our Weekly Warmer , 'Famous Cities - Auckland, New Zealand
', venue of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Travel Postcard: 48 Hours
in Auckland
AUCKLAND (Reuters Life!) - Got 48 hours to explore
Auckland? Reuters correspondents use their local
knowledge to help you get the most out of New
Zealand's biggest city...
SATURDAY 2 p.m. - Volcanoes define
the cityscape. Rangitoto island's symmetrical
volcanic cone, visible from all over Auckland,
is a great daytrip: hop on a ferry for forty minutes
from downtown and head up to the 259-meter summit.
A gently winding path leads through the black
scoria fields but if a trek doesn't appeal, take
the easy route and ride up in a small four-wheel
drive tram. Further on across the water are the
vineyards and sandy white shores of another volcanic
island, Waiheke. Fullers ferries organize tours
to three award winning wineries, Stonyridge, Cable
Bay and Mudbrick.
6 p.m. - Back on the mainland, stay harbor side
and try Viaduct Basin after dark. Flagship restaurants
are glitzy Italian Portofino for harbor views,
at 13A Custom Street West, and classy Kermadec
at 1/F, Viaduct Quay, which measures the freshness
of its seafood by the minute, not the hour...
9 p.m. - Stroll back to Quay St in Viaduct Basin
for pubs, cocktail bars and clubs by the sea.

SUNDAY 10 a.m. - Time for a "flat
white". The localized cappuccino, is stronger,
less frothy and larger than the Italian original.
Take the ferry across from downtown for a Devonport
breakfast...Finish off with a walk along Devonport
Beach, and if you're feeling energetic, up the
grassy slopes of North Head - another extinct
volcano.
12 p.m. - Fancy a swim? The city's closest black
sand beaches are forty minutes drive southwest
over the Waitakere Ranges and have been the backdrop
of several movies...
5 p.m. - Back in town brush up your knowledge
of New Zealand art at Auckland Art Gallery. The
gallery on the corner of central Wellesley and
Kitchener Streets has the country's most extensive
collection. Alternatively, for a look at the natural
beauty of the Southern Ocean, head to at Kelly
Tarltons Underwater World on seafront Tamaki Drive.
Kids love it...
7 p.m. - ...To cram in a final bit of sightseeing
as you eat, head to top-level revolving restaurant
Orbit, which circles the top of a 328 meter tower
[called the Sky Tower], the tallest in the Southern
Hemisphere. The tower is also used for bungy-jumping.
Thomson Reuters 2011
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