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Month: September 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022September 29, 2022

The Weekend Listener #1

The Weekend Listener is an eclectic weekly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. Posts in this series are published on Fridays, starting with September 30, 2022, coinciding with the International Podcast Day. LANGUAGE Word of Mouth: Accent Bias Accent bias is defined as a discriminatory attitude …

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Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

Eighty years of ‘The Famous Five’

Enid Blyton’s book series The Famous Five turns eighty this year! Still much loved by children all over the world and translated into numerous languages, the series describes the holiday adventures of brothers Julian and Dick, their sister Anne, cousin George (Georgina, that is), and George’s pet dog Timmy. Those of a certain age have …

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Posted on September 19, 2022September 17, 2022

Grammar practice: adjectives in -ed and -ing

[This post has been written with ESL/EFL students in mind, CEFR level B1 and above.] Are you bored or boring? Was the last film you saw interested or interesting?  There are many adjectives in English that can be used with the endings -ed and -ing, and students sometimes confuse them. If you are unsure when …

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Posted on September 12, 2022September 13, 2022

Discussing Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Tables Turned’

In an earlier post about interpreting poetry, I tried to convince my readers of the merits of reading poems and enjoying them as a form of art. There I also presented a six-step approach to interpreting poems that I will be referring to throughout this article, so you might want to have a look at …

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Posted on September 5, 2022September 2, 2022

Top 3 online resources for your vocabulary study

[This post has been written with ESL/EFL students in mind, CEFR level B1 and above.] There are countless resources on the internet that can help you with learning and practising new vocabulary. In this post, I’ll introduce you to just three websites I always recommend to my students and that I regularly use myself. Make …

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