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On May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was born under a sycamore or buttonwood tree. Signed by 24 stock brokers, the Buttonwood Agreement promised only internal trading with no auctioneers, and a maximum commission price on any trade was agreed.

With the recent economic crisis being felt across the world,

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

Back in 2011, Joanna posted a beautiful infographic about the flipped classroom. In short, the flipped classroom converts the traditional student-based learning method – watching, reading and listening to a lecture delivered by the teacher – into homework that they do at home, or even on the move, by watching

Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new-style news item!

We are now publishing a weekly news item that includes interactive activities, in response to feedback from MEC customers.

These activities have been graded to suit each of the three language levels: Easy, Average and Difficult. The activities focus on

Who doesn’t love Google Street View? I’m terrible at reading maps, and never go somewhere new without walking the walk through Street View first! And now you can be a virtual tourist, venturing inside some of the buildings you walk past with the Google Art Project.

The Google Art Project is

The previous posting has dealt with ways of introducing an online learning platform without having regular access to incorporating it into your lessons. As we have seen, these obstacles can be overcome by finding ways of using MEC outside the classroom. However, finding the time (and the technical requirements) to turn

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about a recent survey by the charity Save the Children. The survey found that millions of children in developing countries are ill because of the food they eat.

You can find this story in

A growing number of language schools, universities and other institutions face the challenge of catering for the needs of their computer-savvy students: Learners who use computers on a daily basis and whose smartphones provide them with easy access to online resources 24/7 are no longer happy to learn a foreign language

There’s a whole world of English out there. And you can explore it with your students using the web projects in MEC. There are 62 projects covering a wide range of subjects – sports, arts, travel and finance to name just a few. We check each project twice a year to

As Valentine’s approaches it’s time to resurrect our Blended MEC Valentine’s poetry competition. Last year we asked you to get your students to write variations on the ‘Roses are red, Violets are blue…’ poem format, using it to deliver some untimely bad news. You can build on this by

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about a controversial magazine article which claimed that people can seriously hurt themselves doing yoga. Many yoga followers have disputed the claims but some people support them.
You can find this story in

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about how new technology is a part of children’s lives today and how it may affect them.

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

January word games

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During 2011 I’ve been looking at the games in MEC – they’re one of the most popular areas of the site and I’ve been hoping to make you want to go back and look at the games again if you haven’t done for a while so that you can recommend them

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about concerns that financial issues might deter students from studying arts and humanities in the United Kingdom.

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

December word games

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Taking an exam – no matter how experienced you are – is a stressful business. Getting good grades can be essential for getting to the next level of your course, on a degree course or the job you want. Having the support you need can make a big difference to how