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This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about Bhutan’s warning against global materialism.

You can find this story in the News Items section on your Work Area screen.

Here are descriptions of this week’s activities for each language level:

Easy:

Deciding whether statements about the

The great thing about many of the online resources we have available these days is that they are not just resources in a static sense; they are also spaces that we can continually re-source for all kinds of student activities.

Russell Stannard recently spoke at IATEFL about the connected classroom, where we

I don’t consider myself to be particularly anal, except when it comes to my use of English. I hate to be corrected. So it was with a little irritation that I found myself being corrected in a meeting when talking in a general way about computer mouses. “Don’t you mean ‘mice’?”

Distance learning doesn’t seem to be an uncertain alternative to traditional classroom arrangements. Educators together with students have noticed the value of distance learning which has been greatly improving with the development of Internet technology.

The infographic below presents the growth of distance learning enrolment and the benefits of the distance learning

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about recent studies that show that global warming is not affecting the Karakoram glaciers.

You can find this story in the News Items section on your Work Area screen.

Here are descriptions of this week’s

Background

Flickr is a free online platform which allows members to upload and share their photos. Users can annotate and comment on the images, create sets and slideshows of their photos, and join groups based around particular themes and interests.

It occurred to me that these features might well be harnessed to engage

In 1951 British philosopher Bertrand Russell published in The New York Times Magazine his Ten Commandments of Teaching which outlined what he felt were the key responsibilities of the role. 

Whether you feel that these rules have any relevance to today’s ELT classroom or not they can serve as a