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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on May 19, 2011
Last year we brought you The 21st Century Flux and, for teachers, we provided accompanying worksheets for use in class. The worksheets helped students get to grips with advanced-level content and to make the most of the many ideas and issues Dizraeli addressed in his flowetry. So that was last year … This year we [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on February 01, 2011
The 2010 world tour of regional English stops here but not for long … We went around the world in 2010 asking the question ‘What’s your English?’ and we got some great answers. Thank you to everyone who contributed, really. All the content from the 2010 tour is archived here for your global English reading [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on November 02, 2010
It’s Mexican English month! OK, but here’s the thing … all I can think of when I think of Mexico and Mexican English and Spanish in Mexico … all I can think of is FOOD! Tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas and that seems to be the case for a lot of people because when you google around [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on October 25, 2010
Sometimes, I find, after a particularly busy week with lots of words in it, that by the time Friday comes round, I just feel like making up my own words – to hell with all the ones already made! Turns out I am not alone. The What’s your English? Facebook page went literal for a [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on September 01, 2010
G’day mates and good on us: we’ve made it to Strine month, fair go! OK, OK, I know Australians are not comic strip characters who walk around in cork hats and thongs, dodging kangaroos and shouting rounds … I have, in fact, been to Australia once and have been mistaken for an Australian (being South [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on August 03, 2010
I confess, I don’t really know where to start with this one; it’s a big country, lots of different languages and a very rich, unique kind of English … so I have spent the last few days reading blogs by Indian bloggers who I have found on Twitter or on this India Blogs list and [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on June 30, 2010
Over here! Right over here in the red, white and blue … eyes off the ball for a minute! It’s American-English month, yeeha! We suggest that for the month of July you set your, of course, bookmarked/tabbed/favourited macmillandictionary.com to ‘American English‘ and practise pronouncing words in Am rather than Br … obviously, unless you do [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on June 01, 2010
It’s South African English month, lekker! When I got back to South Africa in 2002 having been away for 6 years, I was struck by the change in the English spoken there. It had become more of a mix of the other predominant languages (such as Zulu and Afrikaans) and was a real indication, I [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on May 26, 2010
While enjoying the truly international feel of April’s IATEFL conference in Harrogate we also took the opportunity to ask delegates this simple question: What’s your favourite English word and why? Here’s a short video of some of the answers: Tell us what your favourite word is and why by posting a comment to this post.
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on May 19, 2010
Over on Facebook we asked fans to translate – word for word – sayings from their language into English where the translation really doesn’t make sense in English. This turned out to be quite entertaining for a day at the office, and I’m sure there is a lot more fun to be had in this [...]
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