Oct 29, 2017 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: famous last words As some of you may know, my father died recently after a relatively short battle with cancer. He was 87, so he had a good innings, and in many ways, he had the death he wanted: he died in his own home, surrounded by his family. Shortly before he died, we spent a long and […]
Oct 28, 2017 Classroom Activities, Coursebooks, Opinions Complicating the coursebook debate: part 4 In this post, I’m going to look at how I would use the material from Outcomes Intermediate that I mentioned in my previous post. As I would generally tend to do, I am going to look at the material in the order it is laid out in the book, but let me reiterate that this […]
Oct 25, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: mortgage A mortgage is a special kind of loan – money we borrow from a bank from a bank – that we get to buy some property – a house or flat. Obviously, buying a house is expensive so you might get a £200,000 mortgage. We also say you take out a mortgage for £200,000. A […]
Oct 22, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: hardcore Last weekend, I was lucky enough to run a two-day teacher development course in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. One evening, a few of us went out for dinner and while we were chatting, one of the organisers of the event started telling me about a recent trip she’d made up to Valaam, an archipelago – a large […]
Oct 17, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: embrace Embrace literally means to put your arms around someone, but in conversation we more often use the word hug – he gave me a hug / she hugged him, etc. Embrace is more commonly used to mean that you accept something or someone and you include them – which I suppose is basically what you […]
