language resources
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Posted by Sharon Creese on September 09, 2010
Isn’t it interesting the way our definition of what’s ‘correct’ can change over time? I read this in last week’s Language and words in the news, about changes to the ‘Chicago style’ that’s said to form the basis of what we consider to be ‘right’ in writing. I was also reading Lynne Truss’ fabulous Eats [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on September 08, 2010
I saw this blog post recently (part one can be found here), talking about classroom management strategies, and it set me to wondering – what’s the strangest, yet most successful classroom management technique you’ve ever come up with (or, indeed, seen used)?
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I can remember racking my brains for something that would motivate my Colombian English [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on July 23, 2010
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change, and language education too.
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Do contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to [...]
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Posted by Kieran McGovern on July 15, 2010
Did you understand the words and phrases at the end of yesterday’s post? They are a little tricky because they need a little cultural background:
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Blogosphere refers to all blogs and their interconnections. The idea is that all blogs form a social network.
Maven comes from the Yiddish word meaning ‘expert’ or ’someone knowledgeable in a particular [...]
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Posted by Laine 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 Sharon Creese on May 20, 2010
My last post seemed to go down quite well, so I thought I’d have another look at the weird and wonderful words associated with animals in the English language, this time collective nouns.
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We’re all familiar with some of the strange words that can be used to describe groups of animals – a pod of dolphins [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 12, 2010
You may be interested to hear that there’s an audio version of the 21st Century Flux, written and performed by rapper Dizraeli:
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
And don’t forget: there are downloadable resources to go with it on this page.
Hope you’ll find this useful!
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Posted by Sharon Creese on May 11, 2010
I was watching one of those ‘ahh-inducing’ animal rescue programmes the other day, and noticed a rather fun, and cute, word for the young of a particular species (I can’t tell you what it was, as it’s in the quiz below).
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Anyway, it set me thinking. We’re all familiar with terms like cub, pup, kit and [...]
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Posted by Kieran McGovern on May 03, 2010
Here are the answers to the questions in my previous post:
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a musical 1: Westside Story, based on the play Romeo and Juliet
musical 2: Kiss Me Kate, based on the play The Taming of the Shrew
b Shakespeare in Love
c bloody, e.g. Duncan 1.2.1: What bloody man is that? / Macbeth 2.1: This bloody business…
d salad days [...]
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Posted by Kieran McGovern on April 29, 2010
Brendan correctly indentified the Shakespeare play in my last post as Hamlet (a ghost and prince meet/And everyone ends in mincemeat). The mincemeat is a reference to the bloody final scene, in which four major characters die before the final curtain. Brendan also nailed the song as ‘That’s Entertainment’ from the film musical The Band [...]
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