Oct 1, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: hangover Now I know what you’re probably thinking: this is bound to be a post about the kind of hangover you wake up with the morning after the night before; what you get if you had a bit too much to drink the previous night and you crawl out of bed late for work with your […]
Sep 27, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: protest When you protest against something or you protest in support of something, you do something to show that you are upset about an issue and want a change. Here are things people do to protest: The way organisations respond to the protests can obviously vary. On some occasions, they quickly give in to the protests […]
Sep 18, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: negotiations Negotiations happen when different people or organisations both want one thing to happen – they want to form a government, start a business, end a war together, and so on – but they also have different needs or aims that the other side in the negotiation do not want – to put up taxes, to […]
Sep 10, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: one for the road As you may have noticed from our last post, we ran our first-ever Lexical Lab summer school in London this summer. As well as designing, running and teaching on the courses, we also put together a full social and cultural programme for everyone. Most afternoons, we took students to less-visited corners of London that we […]
Sep 3, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: I think not One of the courses we ran this July as part of our very first Lexical Lab summer school was ADVANCED LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, which lasted two weeks and which explored everything from the class system to education to Brexit to women’s issues to race and immigration. It was a wonderful course to design and write […]
