MacMillan English Campus

This week sees the release of the hotly anticipated comedy Bridesmaids about the lead up to a wedding that goes anything but smoothly.  You can watch the trailer with your class here-

Get your students to discuss in pairs the best wedding that they have attended- what made it so special?  Ask

There are hundreds of ELT teachers who, at some stage of their teaching careers, are thinking about becoming an ELT writer or combining teaching with ELT writing. We would like to give you a closer look at what might be a route to become an ELT writer and what it’s like

For the 125th time tennis fans join the world’s top tennis players at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, to witness the world’s most prestigious grass tennis tournament. Not only is Wimbledon a major sports event for tennis fans from all over the planet (go Federer!!),

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about FarmVille’s success as a social networking game.

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

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Dealing with the English language every day as part of your job can mean that you start seeing it in negative terms: stubborn sentences that won’t allow you to rearrange them, recurring structures you dislike and so on. For English teachers and students it often becomes about mistakes, difficulties and failure.

We

Winnie the Pooh, the bear loved the world over, turns 90 this year which is a great excuse for a light-hearted lesson on Pooh, comics and children’s literature.  For a fun warm-up why not introduce them to the Pooh theme song.  Are you students brave enough to

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about the EU’s new plan to charge airlines for emissions and the airlines’ reactions to this plan.

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

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It seems that 2011 is the year of the British royal family. It was just a couple of months ago that we celebrated the royal wedding which was hugely discussed across the globe. Now, we have another reason to rise glasses as Prince Philip, who has been married to

This week’s news item, adapted for MEC from a news article originally published in the Guardian Weekly, is about the growth of medical tourism in Thailand. There are different opinions about whether this is going to be beneficial for the country.

You can find this story in the News Items section on

We publish most of our content to MEC on a monthly basis with the major exception of the news items, which are published every Tuesday. The news items are based on articles from the Guardian Weekly.

Tuesday evenings are filled with expectation because that’s when the new Guardian Weekly becomes available through

This summer we have got an invasion of films based on comic books. First was Thor and we didn’t have to wait long for the new XMan. Next in line are Green Lantern and Captain America. Take some superpower back to class and get your students to transfer into super heroes

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.

You can

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