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Featured Story
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Men in black and Post-Holiday Blues
Another colorful month at English-to-go. Our latest Upper
Intermediate Instant Lesson looks at Britain's Ministry of
Defence 'X-Files'. Did Mork and Mindy really visit? Are there
aliens among us? Do this lesson and find out! ('Are You Out There?...' - Upper
Intermediate Instant Lesson.)
And in the Elementary Instant Lesson 'Holiday
Blues' we learn the best way for recovering from post-vacation
depression--Plan another holiday! Many Americans admit to
feeling depressed after returning from a summer vacation and
this lesson looks at what they do on return and how they try
to cheer themselves up.
If you have a clever pet, you might want to get them to do
this lesson. Beau, a black Labrador Retriever, is a whiz
at math and can bark answers to addition, subtraction and
division problems. Mimi the cat chased away a burglar. ('Clever
Cats and Dogs' - Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson.)
We also have new resources on Paris ('Famous
Cities - Paris' - Weekly Warmer), abbreviations
('Punctuation - Abbreviations'
- Anna Grammar Worksheet) and salute the New York
Public Library with its recent summer scheme of forgiving
juvenile readers their accrued fines by allowing them to 'read'
to 'pay them off' ('Library Fines' - Intermediate
Instant Lesson).
Best wishes,
The English To Go Team
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Newest Resources
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Click here to access the newest resources!
Newest resources in the Teachers' Room include:
- Holiday Blues - Elementary Instant Lesson
Americans hate going back to work after a vacation,
a survey found and some will phone in sick or be late to avoid
work. But the best way to cheer yourself up is to plan your
next vacation. Work, holidays, meetings.
- Clever Cats and Dogs - Pre-Intermediate
Instant Lesson
A Labrador who is a math whiz and a cat that deters burglars?
This lesson looks at brave and clever pets. Pets,
bizarre stories.
- Library Fines - Intermediate Instant
Lesson
The New York Public Library has waived fines for thousands
of its juvenile members. They are welcome to return to
the library and borrow books: How do they pay their fines?
By reading. Libraries, debts, reading.
- Are You Out There?... - Upper Intermediate
Instant Lesson
Men in black, Mork and Mindy, shining lights in the
sky and more than 20 years of other alien visitations and
bizarre sightings recorded in Britain's own "X-Files" have
been available online to the public. Aliens, legendary
creatures, plural forms of words.
- Famous Cities - Paris -Weekly Warmer
- Intermediate and above
Test your students' general knowledge about this city.
 - Anna Grammar Worksheet - Punctuation
- Abbreviations
Rules and exercises on the use of, punctuation for and pronunciation
of abbreviations.
- Sleep Time - Instant Workbook
When meetings go bad! An elementary online lesson
with 4 exercises to do.
For access to these and more than 1,700 other resources:
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Click here to access the latest free lesson!
Balloon Dress - Elementary Instant Lesson
A dress made from balloons?
A Japanese balloon artist used 200 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.
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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
"Are You Out There?
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LONDON (Reuters), Thu Aug 11 'The files are available
to view for free online for one month and include the
tale of one woman and her daughter from the leafy London
neighborhood of East Dulwich who said they saw lights
in a worm shape, wriggling around in the sky before
being visited by two men in space suits and dark glasses
early one chilly January morning in 2003.
The men, who carried a clicking transmitter, introduced
themselves as Mork and Mindy (ironically also the name
of a hit U.S. television comedy in the late 1970s and
early 80s about an alien who lives on Earth).  The beings warned the woman
not to look at the shapes in the sky because of possible
radiation and offered to wash her eyes with a solution.
After inquiring about her star sign, they left.
Although entertaining, the files may prove a blow to
conspiracy theorists who believe the government is withholding
information about extra-terrestrial visitors...
Several of the UFO reports are handwritten letters to
the MoD from members of the public who are adamant about
the existence of what they have seen.
"As God is my witness it's true and you should take
note of it because, who knows, one day they might come
in their hundreds," warns one man, who sighted
a large, silent object with a bright orange light lift
off from the fields near his home in Wales in 2002.
In the same year another man reported seeing six spherical
objects speeding around in the night sky as he and his
son were going to a fish and chip shop in the northern
English city of Lancaster.
Other files reveal that experts from the Defence Geographic
and Imagery Intelligence Agency were called upon to
examine a photograph of a "flying saucer" taken
in 2004 outside a town hall in central England but could
not reach any "definitive conclusions" on the
contents of the picture....'
Thomson Reuters 2011
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