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This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about the World Oral Literature Project, an online collection of about 3,500 endangered languages. Researchers hope to protect the culture and history of these languages as well as preserve the languages.

You can find

A few weeks ago I interviewed Matt Kay about a free Sounds App; you can find the full video here.  As we are always happy to announce a competition and give away  prizes, we are thrilled to give you the chance to win a premium version of the Sounds

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about a revolution the vending machine industry is undergoing. An increasing range of goods offered and more sophisticated technology mean that vending machines are becoming an integral part of our modern lifestyle.

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At MEC we get frequent requests for video material from customers all over the world. Over the past few years we’ve been expanding the number of videos on MEC and we now have over 100 video activities.

Last year we published 21 business video activities. The videos were filmed by a professional

A World of statistics! The Joy of Stats is a documentary that explores the world of statistics and the power they have in understanding the world around us. In this video, Professor Hans Rosling, who has become a sort of internet sensation for his informative and humorous web lectures, presents the

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about a study by the African Development Bank, which found that the African middle class is growing.

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

Kerstin

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With summer just around the corner and an unusually sunny spring behind us, talk in the MEC office keeps turning to the weather. Luckily, in English we have a vast variety of words and expressions which keep weather talk interesting. Whether it be almost summer or the beginning of winter, wherever

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Macmillan launched a glorious new app to help students, teachers and teacher trainees practise everything related to pronouncing the sounds of English. Watch Joanna firing questions at Matt Kay about Macmillan’s new and brilliant Sounds app:

With the Sounds app you have phonetic sounds and example words literally at your finger

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about concern over the lack of academic contributions to Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation hopes to change this.

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

Kerstin

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Creating the games for MEC was a huge challenge. We didn’t know how hard it was going to be when we decided that we must have games that were definitely real games with a proper ‘gaming challenge’ as well as real pedagogical value. However, the hard work has paid off; they’ve

Foldingstory is a great place where your students can reveal their creative sides. The site gives your students a chance to practise their writing skills in a novel way that may be more fun than a structured essay. Foldingstory is not really a place where your students

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about the work of the Indonesia Teaching Foundation. The foundation recruits graduates and trains them to teach in remote areas, helping bring education to rural people.

You can find this story in the News

With an estimated 2 billion people watching Prince William and Catherine Middleton say ‘I will’ why not cash in on wedding fever and have a class that elicits some colourful descriptive language and really hones the use of comparatives and superlatives. With the eyes of the world on them the wedding

As English teachers we love studying the English language, discover the new phrases and, of course, exceptions that always appear in this lexically rich language. However, as much as we enjoy using the English language we may also find some of its bits slightly irritating.

I have done a small survey on

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about a new law in Bolivia which will grant nature equal rights to humans.

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

Jeremy

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