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We are very excited to invite you to join our series, CELTA Report, that will start this coming Monday, on October 10th. As CELTA is the most popular certificate to study in order to qualify as an ELT teacher, for the next three months we will be blogging about the CELTA experience. We will ask what CELTA means to

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about aid from the world’s richest donors, which continues to benefit companies from their own countries.

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

Kerstin

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When I was a student, I would have loved to be able to use resources like the web projects in my English class. They’re great because they allow students to explore the internet beyond what’s on MEC, thus working with real-life texts in English and researching a huge variety of topics.

Yesterday Google celebrated its 13th birthday and they have entered the very exciting teenage years. It all started small but quickly expanded with few to mention: Google Maps, Google Earth. However, Google has definitely revolutionized the Internet search and is believed to own 90% of the worldwide internet search market.

Have you

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about chronic pain and how millions of sufferers are waiting for a new drug to emerge.

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

Kerstin

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This week London has seen the world’s fashionistas flock into town for its annual fashion week.  So how might you incorporate the festivities into your classes?  London fashion week has a great website that you can use as a jumping off point for a lesson about all things sartorial. 

Understanding and using clichés and idioms in a foreign language is a sign of great comprehension: it edges your language right up there with that of native speakers, and helps you communicate in a more realistic way. What is difficult about these aspects of language, particularly idioms, is that they differ

I remember how bewildered I was when I caught one of my 8-year-old students cheating during a quiz. I couldn’t believe that such a young person was already cheating at the very beginning of his education. Below you can find an infographic which analyses cheating at school with shocking results.

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This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about New Zealand’s rugby team and its importance to the country.

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

Jeremy

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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 slow recovery of the economy and the possible next phase of the economic crisis.

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

Kerstin

The Mona Lisa image is probably one of the most popular and recognizable in the history of art. For centuries the heist of the Mona Lisa painting has been shrouded in mystery. However, it seems that now 100 years after the crime we have found out the truth about the man

Have you played any MEC games recently? A few months ago I wrote about some of my favourites and I thought I would offer a few more suggestions now. To do this I’ve been playing a few that I haven’t looked at in a while. Why not spend a few minutes

This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11.  With the impact of the event felt the world over students are often ready to talk at length about their impressions.  It can make for a good discussion lesson that challenges your students to find the words to voice their feelings about the

Thailand’s Education Minister, Worawat Ua-apinyakul, recently announced that the campaign for one laptop for every primary school child in Thailand, promised during the general election, will be honoured by the government, with hardware beginning to be distributed in 2012 (http://tinyurl.com/3dkcx9k). The One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) was started

Have you ever been bowled over by someone’s kindness or stumped by a difficult question? Have you ever done any blue-skies thinking or been accused of chasing rainbows? The English language is full of idioms that reflect our twin obsessions: sport and the weather. Each English-speaking country has its own variations.