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Laine Cole

March – Japanese English month

March 1, 2010

It’s Japanese English month. I expect it to be poetic … I don’t have any real grounds for this expectation, it just seems to me that when Japanese meets English, poetry should happen.
Maybe some haikus.
We’ve had some great response from twitter followers and from bloggers, teachers and various peeps in Japan and we’re looking forward [...]

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January – British English month

January 7, 2010

Right. We’re back, we’re on, we’re in for 2010!
What a great way to end the year with an Edublog award; thanks so much to those who voted for us. As for 2010, we have some great things planned and can’t wait to share them with you. As well as more witty, entertaining, discussion-inducing fare a [...]

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Merry Christmas, Teachers!

December 3, 2009

For the month of December we are going to have a number of posts focussing on teachers, and so who better to hook-up with than onestopenglish.com, the number one resource site for English language teachers?
Macmillan Dictionary and onestopenglish.com have got together with expert authors Tim Bowen and [...]

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From ruff ruff to ow ow

November 16, 2009

In our weekly roundup a couple of weeks ago there was a link to a pretty fascinating article entitled: Babies May Pick Up Language Cues in the Womb (with a title that thorough, who needs an article?!). Anyway.
“The finding suggests that newborns just a few days old may already be trying to imitate the prevailing [...]

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Keep yer pants on!

November 3, 2009

I wear pants and my daughter wears trousers.
Ha! You see now, depending on where your familiarity lies you will have either me in my underwear or my daughter in a tweed three-piece suit with a monocle in her eye … sort of.
Pants in BE (British English) = underwear.
Pants in AE (American English) = well, trousers.
Is [...]

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King’s English

October 26, 2009

I’ve had an enlightening week reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I’ve avoided his books – and most of the resulting movies – all my reading/watching life, as …  well, I’m hellishly easy to scare (seriously, Ghostbusters scared me senseless). But his approach and his advice is straight-up and liberating rather [...]

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