I’ll start today’s post by quoting an excerpt from a poem I really like entitled ‘Leisure‘ by a Welsh poet W. H. Davies. What is this life if, full of […]
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Month: October 2020
Test your prepositions
Another language challenge in the form of an interactive quiz, this time an opportunity to test your prepositions. Suitable for students who are intermediate and higher. Are you up for […]
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48 most commonly mispronounced English words and one awesome idea how to practise them
A lot of students find English pronunciation tricky and are put off by its inconsistencies, but as a teacher I have always advocated placing a lot of emphasis on this […]
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Transgender women in the Olympic Games: is it still a level playing field?
The fight for equal rights for transgender people has reached a yet new level with the International Olympic Committee making the decision to allow transgender women to compete in women’s […]
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Test your collocations with MAKE and DO
The verbs MAKE and DO may be similar in meaning, but when it comes to collocations, they are not interchangeable. In English, you do business and make money, do vocabulary exercises and make progress. […]
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