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Time to go back to school? Our featured resources are here to make the job of getting to know your students easier!
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Skateboarding Online
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| Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Topic: | A skateboarding priest is a YouTube hit and women in different countries are now skateboarding. One woman has started www.skateboardmom.com. (Sport, comprehension, complete the table, word order, true or false, the present continuous: is/am/are, extra reading.) |
| Level | Elementary |
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Robots
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| Date: | 10 September 2010 |
| Topic: | Robots that can talk, find [lost] glasses, draw airplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors during an expo in Tokyo. Robot nurses may soon be helping the sick by telling them when to take their pills and recording their temperature and pulse. (Robots, nurses, health, technology, 'by + verb + ing' used to say how something is done.)
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| Level | Pre-Intermediate |
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Computers Harm Kids
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| Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Topic: | Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users. (Pros and cons of the Internet, teenagers, inventions, modal verbs, persuasive speeches.) |
| Level | Intermediate |
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On Your Bike
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| Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Topic: | A fleet of 6,000 bicycles for hire will hit the streets of central London on Friday when the city's mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme intended to fuel a cycling revolution in the congested capital. (Traffic problems, bicycles, London, concept of offering a service for free, definite articles.) |
| Level | Upper-Intermediate |
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China's Development Juggernaut
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| Date: | 11 August 2010 |
| Topic: | China has put big money down on a momentous gamble: rush to build new cities in its poor interior, then wait for people to come and help drive the economy to a new stage of growth. Here in this corner of the Chinese hinterland, the government has widened farm lanes into highways, turned wheat fields into an industrial park, spent a fortune on government offices, and set up a school for thousands of students in what was a dusty town a few years before. (China, government, development, migration.) |
| Level | Advanced |
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instant workbook
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Date: 2 September 2010
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Every day, traffic seems to get worse. How can we reduce the number of cars on our roads? What alternatives can we offer car drivers? What do you think? There are 7 exercises to do.
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Upper-Intermediate
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anna grammar
| Date: 2 July 2010 |
| Adverbs - An Anna Grammar Worksheet |  |
| Adverbs are words that modify or talk about verbs. Adverbs often tell us when, where, why, or how something happens. This worksheet has 4 exercises for students to complete. |
weekly warmer
max vocab
| Date: 10 September 2010 |
| Acad Word List 2 – Max V Worksheet |  |
| The Academic Word List (AWL) is a list of the 3,000 words most often used in English-language academic writing and is recommended for those wanting to study at an English-speaking institution. This worksheet is based on the Upper-Intermediate lesson Redheads Feel More Pain. |

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