GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - SEPTEMBER 2014

This month's main topic is gold and how many problems gold brings.

From the mazagine:

To start, why not try a quick quiz:

• QUIZ - How much do you know about gold?

Here's the most important article about what we can do to stop people mining more gold:

• Stop the gold rush!

And is it possible for gold companies to be "ethical"? They often have a clean image, but there are connected with a lot of abuse - of human rights and of the environment:

• Is ethical gold possible?

And read about the election in Sweden this month - will the far-right win more seats?:

• The far-right in Sweden

The web exclusives:

Read this about the real price of gold - especially about mining in Canada:

• The price of gold

And another really interesting web exclusive about a perfect town - utopia? - in the south of Spain:

• The Spanish town where people are more important than profit

Articles from the blogs this month:

What does the word "development" mean now? and is it good for the West to force poorer countries to "develop"?

• The Western way isn't always the best way

What are "internationalists" and what are they fighting for? Read more here:

• We want solidarity in an age of inequality

And read about doctors from Kings in London fighting against Ebola in Sierra Leone - how can the international community help more?:

• Fighting Ebola

Read about what the Bradford group in Britain is doing about the unjust situation in Gaza.

• Perhaps governments do not talk about Israeli terror, but we will not be silent

And finally, read about the problems of climate change, and why we had climate marches around the world:

• Climate change is bad for our health

• Recycling could stop us doing something about climate change

READY LESSONS FROM THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES:

Here are two complete lessons:

This one will last 1-2 hours and has a variety of different activities: speaking, reading and review of the verb tenses in context, all about the main topic this month, GOLD:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : GOLD

And this lesson, also 1 - 2 hours, working with dictogloss to really focus on the content of the article - all about if 'development' is good or bad:

• READY LESSON (for Upper Intermediate learners): DEVELOPMENT