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Soon, Ja Rule, the American rapper and actor, will celebrate his ninth birthday, the French film actress Michèle Morgan will be a sprightly 23 and the Russian cross-country skier Raisa Petrovna Smetanina (ok, bit obscure) will officially be 15.

No, they aren’t all ridiculously prodigious overachievers – although it can be argued

The Chinese New Year was celebrated this Monday, with millions of people in China, Thailand, Vietnam and Burma ringing in this auspicious occasion by stringing red lanterns around their houses and letting off firecrackers to ward off evil spirits.

Due to the Chinese lunar calendar, Chinese New Year is celebrated much later

Last week, Apple announced a new iBooks Author which lets educators and authors make their own interactive books for the iPad. It means that self publishing is becoming more accessible and easier to do than ever before.  Additionally, the company equips users with a set of tools and services which seem

We’ve just come back to the office after our two-day annual conference. The conference is always held in January and its purpose is to get the Macmillan English Campus team together to reflect on what we’ve achieved in the past year, to look forward to what we’ve got planned for the

It seems that every corner of the educational system regardless the geographical location is lobbying for using hi-tech tools in the classroom. At the same time, we can sense a growing tension on the teachers’ side, whenever it is mentioned to them. The question is where this tension is coming from

As an editor, I usually spend my days quietly working away at my desk, occasionally communicating with members of my team but hardly ever with the outside world – and I love it that way! Once in a while, however, I get to go on little adventure days out at the

I think that I am at the last stage of Christmas preparation, but things may still go wrong. This year, I decided to do my Christmas present shopping online, but due to lack of previous experience in doing it, I might have underestimated the delivery time needed over the hectic online

If I compare the pre-CELTA era of my working life with the post-CELTA period, I can’t say that there have been huge changes or innovations. The main effect of the CELTA experience was that it strengthened my belief that MEC is an amazing source for teaching materials (as is onestopenglish) and

As part of our CELTA series which we have been running for the last few weeks we met with Kerstin and Casey to talk about the CELTA course they have completed.

In this video I interview Kerstin and Casey who talk why they decided to do a CELTA course, what were the

How often has it happened that you wanted to attend an interesting talk or workshop, but it turned out that at that very time you were teaching or the conference itself was located too far away to fit into your schedule as well as budget? It’s time to relax as a

My name is Ania and I am 29 years old. I was born and now live in Wroclaw in Poland. I graduated from Teacher Training College in Wroclaw. This school provided me with the essential knowledge on methodology and gave me an opportunity to develop teaching skills during many hours of

With October 31st rapidly creeping up on us, here’s a look at some of the traditions of Halloween, from the old to the new…

Beginnings
Although the origins of Halloween are disputed, its history is linked to various festivals held around the end of October in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. For

During my CELTA, I was in a teaching group of five trainees and was lucky because three of the others had to teach the very first lesson – and even though I didn’t have to teach myself, I suffered with the other trainees every step of the way. In preparation for

After getting hooked on blogging and Facebooking the time has come for Twitter. I suppose that it is better later than never and I set up a Twitter account Follow @joanna_mec

Twitter is a brilliant place to quickly exchange ideas, and comment on whether what’s around us is funny,

The CELTA certificate is obviously one of the most popular routes into English language teaching, and here at the Macmillan English Campus offices, we understand how important lesson planning, preparation, and resources are for English teachers to create successful and interesting lessons. In combination with this special series of postings about