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When it comes to online tools, what educators usually look for is a simple and effective solution and Scribblar.com seems to fit that description perfectly. It’s a real-time, multi-user whiteboard with an option of live audio and a chat room. There‘s no user or session limits and it’s free.

This week’s news item, adapted for Macmillan English Campus from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends Report and the predictions for the future.

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

I remember reading that it’s not recommended to use children’s books in an ELT classroom as the language used in children’s books is often playful and irrelevant for language learners. While I’m sure this is true of some children’s books, there are some great examples out there that allow adults to

Sometimes, setting creative writing tasks can be difficult because students are unsure just where to start, especially if they’re not naturally a creative type. But creative writing can be a really great task for getting students to use a wide variety of vocabulary and topics. So, if you’ve got a class

This is a great tool for brainstorming, mind mapping and getting your students interested in word webs. Bubbl.us can be edited collaboratively and saved in various formats. It’s free and all you need to do is create an account.

After you have created your account and signed in you will

This week’s news item, adapted for Macmillan English Campus from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is about Lance Armstrong’s public confession and the response he received from his critics.

You can find this story in the News Items section on your Work Area screen. This news item will be

When we think about teaching English, I’m sure a lot of teachers would turn to Britain or the US as their focus points for language, dialect and culture. It’s sometimes easy to forget that English is also the daily language in countries like Canada, South Africa and dozens of islands in

This week’s news item, adapted for Macmillan English Campus from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is about recent developments in education in Bhutan.

You can find this story in the News Items section on your Work Area screen. This news item will be available on Macmillan English Campus for

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Despite coming up with a (great) idea for this blog post several weeks ago, I still left it until the day before it was due to write it. Why? I simply lacked the motivation/had other things to do. Well, there’s always something else to do, isn’t there? And this happened even

Business English students need to become familiar with specific vocabularies and improve their general communication skills, and fortunately there is a wealth of different apps and web services out there that you can use to liven up your business English classes. Let’s take a look at a few of them now…

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Every 25th January Scotland celebrates the life of the National Bard, Robert Burns with Burns’ Night; an entertaining evening of food, dancing and verse. It’s held on the anniversary of Burns’ birth. The celebrations were originally started by some of his close friends a few years after his death

This week’s news item, adapted for Macmillan English Campus from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is about a report on how much food the world’s population is throwing away and why.

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

Puns can often elicit a collective groan of despair, and some people would even go so far as to say they are the lowest form of humour while others think plays on words are actually very clever ways of manipulating language which were even used by Shakespeare. It seems that many

Perhaps I should be worried. The teachers tell me I have a problem. An addiction. The symptoms, they say, are becoming all too obvious – short attention span, the occasional dizzy spell, withdrawal symptoms when I can’t get my fix. Perhaps it’s time to come clean. I have a tablet addiction.