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Back from the dead |
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| Elementary | Preposition, adjectives and word stress. | Is it ethically and morally right to recreate dangerous diseases for the purposes of research? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Word building, collocations, and irregular plurals. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Idioms and collocations. | ||||||||
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Tigers and gorillas for sale online |
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| Elementary | Categorizing vocabulary. | The internet trade in endangered animals, worth billions, could wipe out entire species. We ask, should people be allowed to keep exotic animals as pets? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Nouns and verbs, grammar focus: seem and appear. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Categorizing, prepositions. | ||||||||
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NASA gladly loses a spacecraft |
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| Elementary | Opposites, irregular past tenses. | What happened when NASA put a spacecraft on a collision course with a comet? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Collocations, word-building, comparatives with get. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Adjectives, three-word expressions, expressions with likely. | ||||||||
| Firms tag workers to improve efficiency | |||||||||
| Elementary (includes key) | Collocations, prediction and possibility. | Is it an infringement of privacy to expect workers to wear tags that monitor their work? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Word stress and infinitives of purpose. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Present continuous passive | ||||||||
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Superjet launches sky wars |
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| Elementary (includes key) | Comparatives - short and long forms. |
Is it right for the airline
industry to be developing bigger and bigger planes? Should air travel be limited in order to protect the environment? |
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| Intermediate | Modal verbs might and will. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Idioms and prefixes. | ||||||||
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Police accused in Rio massacre |
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| Elementary (includes key) | Past continuous and prepositions | A high crime rate, drug dealing, low police pay and extreme poverty form a deadly combination of circumstances in poor suburbs of cities like Rio. What is the answer to this complex problem? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Past continuous plus past simple. | ||||||||
| Advanced | The passive and collocations. | ||||||||
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Drowning in money |
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| Elementary (includes key) | Adjectives and Keep + ing | What would you do if you suddenly became rich? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Vocabulary chunks and predictions. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Future perfect predictions. | ||||||||
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Rebirth of the Reich land |
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| Elementary (includes key) | There is/ are/ was/ were | Should extreme political parties be ignored by the media? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Reported speech. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Phrases with It's time we.... | ||||||||
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Send Julia Roberts, not the tanks |
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| Elementary (includes key) | Prepositions and irregular past tenses. | Are cultural and economic forces more important than military might? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Will used for prediction. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Using word order to create emphasis. | ||||||||
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Women MPs bullied and abused in Commons |
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| Elementary (includes key) | Prepositions and irregular past tenses. | Sexism in government. | |||||||
| Intermediate | Tenses revue. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Collocations, gerund and infinitive (try and remember). | ||||||||
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Parliament brings end to 700 years of hunting |
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| Elementary (includes key) | Verbs followed by infinitives and prepositions. | Should blood sports be illegal? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Gerund or infinitive. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Modal verbs. | ||||||||
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We need a total ban on ivory sales |
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| Elementary | Prepositions and the infinitive. | Should a regulated ivory trade be allowed? | |||||||
| intermediate | Word-building and conditionals | ||||||||
| Advanced | Collocations, gerunds and infinitives | ||||||||
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Aid agencies warn of Iraq pullout. |
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| Elementary | 'the first time' + present perfect. |
Should television stations
broadcast pictures of kidnappers and their victims? If your country is occupied by a foreign army, does that give you the right to kidnap and kill foreign civilians? |
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| Intermediate | Different forms of a word. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Past perfect forms | ||||||||
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A woman's talent is to listen, says the Vatican. |
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| Elementary | Irregular past tenses, collocations and word building. | Are women really different to men because they can give birth? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Past simple forms in the passive. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Reported speech and collocations. | ||||||||
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Bridge cannot span the divide |
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| Elementary | Irregular past tenses. | Should people be allowed to live separately because of their ethnic background or religion? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Present perfect for recent events with present effect. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Different tenses in the passive voice. | ||||||||
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Gun lobby fires shot for 'free speech' |
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| Elementary (includes key) | 'There is' and 'there are', and verbs to noun conversion. |
In the USA people have the right to own
and carry firearms. If everyone owned a firearm to protect themselves, would the world be a safer place? |
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| Intermediate | Reported speech and prepositions. | ||||||||
| Advanced | Collocations and using the infinitive to express purpose. | ||||||||
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Safety fears over Europe's busy skies |
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| Elementary | Opposites, prepositions and forecasts | Boom in budget flights means that system will soon be unable to cope. Which is more important: safety or cost? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Prepositions and passive sentences | ||||||||
| Advanced | Collocations and passive sentences | ||||||||
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Demand for beef speeds destruction of the Amazon forest |
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| Elementary | Prepositions and present continuous | Which is more important: forests, food or income for local farmers? | |||||||
| Intermediate | Word building and passive voice | ||||||||
| Advanced | Collocations, present simple continuous passive | ||||||||
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Angry Spain ousts ruling party |
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| Elementary | Collocations and prepositions | Shock election results in the wake of the Madrid bombings | |||||||
| intermediate | Collocations and prepositions | ||||||||
| Advanced | Collocations and past perfect | ||||||||
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Koreans succeed in cloning human embryos |
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Prepositions and word-building. |
What are the points for and against stem cell research? Do you think it is morally acceptable to create a human clone? |
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Collocations and prepositions. |
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Prepositions. |
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Global warming threatens to kill off a million species |
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France to ban pupils' religious dress |
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Bali Bomber to Face Firing Squad |
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Prepositions and word building. |
What is a an appropriate punishment for people who bomb civilians in the name of political or religious causes? |
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Word building from verb to noun. |
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Legal terms |
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$300m search for WMD draws a blank |
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Latin America's 'Dirty War': facing up to the past |
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Offshore wind farms in Britain |
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Collocations, word-building and a word puzzle. |
What are the best methods for producing energy. |
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Collocations and word -building. |
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Collocations and word-building. |
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Rich nations refuse to sanction fair trade |
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Opposites and prepositions |
The EU and the USA fail to adopt new policies on fair trade, and continue to make it impossible for developing nations to compete. |
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Collocations and word-building verb to noun. |
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Collocations: verbs and nouns. |
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Axles of Evil |
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Vocabulary: Opposites and prepositions |
Article highlighting the debate about the fuel-guzzling American car - the SUV. |
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Reading comprehension and prepositions |
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Idiomatic expressions and collocations |
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Doctor who identified SARS becomes its victim |
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Prepositions |
The new virus that broke out in East Asia claims the life of the Italian doctor who named it. |
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Word building and prepositions |
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Collocations and prepositions. |
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'Old' Europe: reuniting East with West |
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Vocabulary opposites and prepositions. |
The crisis in Europe over support for the war on Iraq. |
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Verb to noun collocations. |
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Collocations. |
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America's crude tactics for Iraq war |
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Word building - verb to noun |
Is oil the main motive behind the war on Iraq? |
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Word building - verb to noun |
Preposition collocations |
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Word building - adjectives |
Word building - collocations |
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Giving Power to the People |
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Word building |
Are boycotts an effective means of protest? |
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Verb to noun word building |
Prepositions |
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Collocations |
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Is the wearing of fur becoming fashionable again? |
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Prepositions |
Irregular verbs |
The arguments for and against the trade in animal furs. |
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Phrasal verbs |
Phrasal verbs |
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Collocations |
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Bill Gates gives $100 million to fight AIDS |
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Opposites |
Prepositions |
What can people and governments do to fight AIDS? |
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Opposites |
Word formation |
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Expressing probability |
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Radical plans for waste could start a big clean up |
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Collocations |
Word building |
Recycling, the environment and waste disposal. |
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Collocations |
Word building |
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'A chance to save millions of lives by freeing up drug patents' |
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Prepositions |
Word building |
Balancing the needs of the pharmaceutical companies with those of the poor |
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Acronyms |
Word building |
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Verb + noun collocations |
Prepositions |
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'America wants war with all of us' Views from Cairo. |
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Suffixes and prefixes |
Comparatives |
Is it right for America to impose its own solutions on the Middle East? |
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Collocations |
Word building |
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Collocations |
Prepositions |
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Working the land to feed the people (The MST in Brazil) |
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Word building |
In Brazil a popular movement is battling against big business farming and GM crops. |
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Word building |
Prepositions |
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Collocations |
The suffixes less and full |
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Spare a tear for Argentina |
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Word building |
Prepositions |
If countries like Argentina produce enough food to feed their population, why are children suffering from malnutrition? |
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Collocations and prepositions |
Reported speech (will) |
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Metaphorical and idiomatic phrases |
Prepositions |
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Health crisis looms as life expectancy soars. |
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Comparatives and Superlatives |
Comparatives and Superlatives |
Do you want to live until you are 100? |
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Prepositions |
Reporting verbs |
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Prepositions |
Reporting verbs |
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Second class justice system: The Rwanda Tribunal |
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Vocabulary in context |
Prepositions |
Is there a place for an International court? |
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Legal vocab |
Word building |
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Legal vocab. Metaphors and phrasal verbs |
Reading work |
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Afghanistan's deadly crop flourishes again |
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Vocabulary in context |
Prepositions |
Should Afghan farmers be allowed to grow opium poppies to make money. |
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Vocabulary in context |
Word building |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
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Portuguese nurse who ran abortion clinic jailed |
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Transforming verbs to nouns and nouns to verbs |
The simple past passive |
The moral questions surrounding abortion |
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Transforming verbs to nouns and nouns to verbs |
Modal verbs |
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Verb collocations |
Complex verb patterns |
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Airline Security: Dishonest words on racial profiling |
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Transforming verbs to nouns and nouns to verbs |
Prepositions |
Racial profiling |
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Collocations |
Reported speech |
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Vocabulary in context |
Phrasal verbs |
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Where men are men . . . and women don't know the recipe for equality |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
Gender roles in domestic work |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
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Is it closing time for Big Game Attractions? |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
The role of zoos in modern society |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
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Vocabulary in context |
Reading work |
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