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This week’s news item, adapted for Macmillan English Campus  from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is about a company’s plans to build a warehouse and farm salmon on dry land.

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We’re already more than a week into 2013 and at a time when, statistically, most of us have already failed at our New Year’s resolutions. Whether it was to go on a diet or quit smoking, ultimately the majority of us fail because we are giving up something we enjoy. So,

Today’s posting is about a topic that both language learners and non-language learners alike will have experienced.

What do you do when you have to pronounce foreign words and you’re not really sure how to do it!

It’s mainly food and drink that causes this predicament. The correct pronounciation of certain words has

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.

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As an ELT publisher but also proud new mother, one of my favourite things over the last 15 months has been watching my daughter learn language. It has also been fascinating to watch her use technology – as a true digital native she will grow up in a very different world

With Christmas fast approaching and the Macmillan office wrapping up until 2013, (unless it really is the end of the world on Friday) what better time to reflect on the year that has almost left us. I don’t know about you, but in the UK at least 2012 has

Speaking in Tongues

The last but not least session I attended at the Language Show Live last November was a talk by Itesh Sachev. The aim of the session was to discover the myths about multilingualism and find out how speaking a number of languages affects our brains and benefits

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in The Guardian, is about the origin and future of text messaging.

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

Here are descriptions of this week’s activities for each language level:

Easy:
•    Choosing

It’s almost the end of 2012 and soon, 2013 will be upon us! I love Christmas time and it’s the perfect opportunity to look back at what the past year has brought us before moving on to new and exciting things. With that in mind, I’d like to use my final

I suppose that currently there’s no problem in finding online communication tools and using them with students in language classes; the trick is in finding the one which works for the language benefit and students interests. Students tend to use online tools to communicate in spoken or written format in their

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is about the rise in sea levels and the increased risk of flooding in coastal areas of the United States.

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

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British regional accents are a wonderful talking point. The fact that such a huge range of accents can exist in such a comparatively small geographical space has long been a source of interest – and sometimes confusion – both for the British themselves and for learners of English visiting Britain or

If any of you are living in the UK or have recently visited, you’ll have noticed that Christmas has well and truly arrived. Lights adorn towns and cities across the country, the smell of mulled wine and cider wafts around and shopping malls and high streets are suddenly bustling with people

Fun ways for effective use of technology in your language classroom

When attending the Language Show Live I spent quite a lot of time in the Language Technology Zone. It was an area where, during 30 minute sessions you could try out, on the iPads provided, apps which were part of tasks

This week’s news item, adapted for Macmillan English Campus from a news article originally published in the Guardian, is about the conflict between tobacco-growing countries in Africa and the World Health Organization.

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

Here are descriptions of this week’s