Feb 6, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: in the wake of About two minutes’ walk from my house in north London is a wonderful Turkish supermarket and bakery called Yasar Halim. There’s a chance you may have heard of it, actually, as it once featured in a reading text in New Headway Pre-Intermediate. The piece was called London: The World In One City and also included […]
Feb 5, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: pardon I started teaching English as a Foreign Language back in 1993, and over the years I’ve learned lots of things from the thousands of students I’ve been lucky enough to meet. Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned is that we all share a common humanity – and that even though we are, of course, […]
Feb 2, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: the straight and narrow I’m not a huge fan of Twitter, but one of the real pleasures of the service is Very British Problems, who – in their own words – tweet about how the inhabitants of these isles make “life awkward for ourselves, one rainy day at a time”! Their tweets are very dry, very funny observations on […]
Feb 2, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: Shame on you! The idea of shame is a strange one. Traditionally, shame was usually associated with an uncomfortable and unpleasant feeling of guilt because of our own – or someone else’s – bad behaviour. The behaviour made you feel ashamed. In this sense, I know that I’m not alone in feeling a deep sense of shame when […]
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 […]
