Apr 24, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: get sidetracked Last year we wrote a book called Perspectives. It’s aimed at secondary school students and is loosely based around TED talks – and part of what you have to do for any book you write, but especially for one like this, is a bit of research to ensure that the content you write is authentic […]
Apr 13, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: provincial This morning, I took my kids down to Gökyüzü, one of the many amazing restaurants near where we live, for a Turkish breakfast. As you may have seen from the featured photo, the portions there are so huge that the kids just shared one between the two of them. As I watched them devour the […]
Apr 3, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: craic Over the last few days, I’ve actually been to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, twice! Last Friday, I also spent a few hours in Galway, on the wild west coast of Ireland, where the winds come whipping in from the Atlantic Ocean! I was working with local teachers of English, talking specifically about Outcomes – […]
Mar 27, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: less The other day, just as I was slowly waking up and making my first cup of coffee, I heard a discussion on the radio about the whether or not you can say “less than one in five people”. It seemed that several listeners had said that this was wrong and were insisting that less should […]
Mar 23, 2018 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: pride Pride is that feeling of satisfaction and pleasure that you get when you’ve done something special, or when someone connected to you has achieved something. We often talk about people taking pride in things. If you take pride in something, you feel very proud of it; you feel a deep sense of satisfaction about it. […]
