Aug 9, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: R&R R and R stands for rest and relaxation, rather than rock and roll. So if you are having a bit of R&R, you are having a break or a holiday where you are doing very little other than lying around by the pool or hanging out on the beach or maybe wandering round a city […]
Aug 3, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: the last-chance saloon As part of our Lexical Lab summer school, we offer a full and varied social and cultural programme, but most Sundays, students are free to go off wherever they please. Last weekend, a couple of people went on a day-trip down to Brighton . . . and came back shocked by the levels of homelessness […]
Jul 25, 2018 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: How long is a piece of string? As a coursebook writer, there’s one question about my work I dread more than all others. I’ll sometimes be at a conference, standing around on the publisher’s stand – the display space they have where they show all their books – when a teacher will come up, start flicking through one of my books and […]
Jul 18, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: baptism of fire If you’ve been following the series of blog posts I did about the World Cup, you’ll know that I love football. Now that the World Cup has finished, I’m suffering withdrawal symptoms. Like a lot of other fellow sufferers, I’m basically waiting for the second week of August, when the Premier League kicks off again. […]
Jul 15, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: goal fest It’s fair to say that it’d been quite a while since we had a classic World Cup final. In 2006, Italy won a fairly dull match on penalties; in 2010, Spain beat the Dutch one-nil and Germany won by the same margin in 2014, with the winner coming late in extra time. Today, though, all […]
