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Resources for English language teachers this week

- Weekly lesson plan : Destination UK – Northern Ireland by Jo Budden (new)
- Weekly classroom activity : Why didn't you come to the party? by Said Ali (new)
- ELT Article of the week : Evaluating speaking - the IELTS speaking test by Paul Kaye (new)
- Pronunciation activities : Vocabulary recycling and revision of phonemic symbols

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New articles on Cubed Science Webzine (new)

The Electronic Brain
As the Large Hadron Collider experiment gets in its stride a team of scientists have created a technology to spot exactly what’s happening.

The Everywhere Screen
An exciting new technology can turn any flat surface into an interactive touchscreen.

Obesity’s Missing Gene
New research suggests missing DNA may be a factor in childhood obesity.

Read the full articles on our British Council website.

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Breaking News English
- The Most Unfortunate Names In Britain
- Noses To Be Used In Fight Against Terrorism
- Australia’s Curry Protest Against Racism

ESL Holiday Lessons
- Get Over It Day
- International Women's Day
- National Grammar Day

News English Lessons
- Bloom Box – Clean Energy For Our Future
- Chile Quake Made Our Days Shorter
- Superman Comic Sells For $1 Million

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New English language articles online now
- Have no faith in the future
by Tom Hayton
- Build good rapport by Tom Hayton
- Paraphrasing and echoing by Guy Perring

Famous people lessons
- Larry Page
- Anna Netrebko
- Sonia Gandhi
- Quentin Tarantino

Learn English themes
- Weather
- Records
- Nigeria
- Hunting

LearnEnglish Central
Elementary podcast: Series 02 Episode 03

The third episode of our elementary podcast is now live. This episode features: asking for and giving advice, meditation, things and places in airports, space exploration, Carolina meets Jamie's parents, joke, 'too' and 'very'.

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Sports articles with English language tasks
- Something Cheesy by Russell Mullaney
- The Great North West by Thom Kiddle
- The First Gentleman of Football by Brian Boyd
- Hitting the Target by Thom Kiddle

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TOEFL ကိုသာမက IELTS ေအာင္လက္မွတ္ကို USA မွ Ivy League ေက်ာင္းမ်ား အပါအဝင္ ေက်ာင္းေပါင္း (၂ဝဝဝ) ေက်ာ္မွ ဘြဲ႕ၾကိဳ (သို႕) ဘြဲ႕လြန္သင္တန္းမ်ားအတြက္ လက္ခံသည္ကို သင္သိပါ သလား ။ တႏွစ္တြင္ လူတသန္းေက်ာ္ ေျဖဆိုသည့္ IELTS အား Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK ႏွင့္ USA မွ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားစြာ မွလည္း အသိအမွတ္ျပဳပါသည္။

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IELTS လက္မွတ္အား လက္ခံသည့္ USA မွ ေက်ာင္းမ်ား၏စာရင္းကို ဤေနရာတြင္ download လုပ္၍ ၾကည္႔႐ႉ ႏိုင္ပါသည္။

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