Jan 31, 2017 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: the gig economy Last Saturday night I went to see some old friends from France playing in a great rock’n’roll band called Chrome Reverse. They’re a four-piece band who play wild 50s-style rockabilly, and this was the very first time they’d ever played in London. They were headlining at a club night called Weirdsville that’s held in an […]
Feb 23, 2015 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: the bottom line (revisited) As with single words, we should look for opportunities to revise or recycle chunks. When we do so, it’s good to move beyond simply matching the word or chunk to the same meaning we gave last time. We can explore new collocations and contexts, which may drift into related, but ‘new’ meanings . A great example is […]
Feb 20, 2015 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: the bottom line In class yesterday, we looked at some vocabulary for describing different roles and duties people have at work. Students then went on to discuss which they had themselves, how good they felt they were at them – and which other ones they might be good / bad at. In the midst of this conversation, one […]
Feb 4, 2015 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: Where’s the best place to …? This weekend sees the big match in north London between Arsenal and Tottenham. Among discussions about who has the best chance of winning and what the managers’ best teams are, there’s the more serious discussion of Where’s’s the best place to see the game? Our place of choice is The Beaconsfield, a lovely Victorian pub […]
Nov 6, 2014 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: Just because . . . it doesn’t mean We’ve both often had students act more than a little surprised at our apparently un-English ways. Smiling and being friendly is often enough to start the questions about whether we’re not secretly from somewhere ‘abroad’. This particular chunk helps offer a good answer – and is also great for students themselves. Just because I’m Brazilian […]
