Jan 24, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: pivot There’s an ancient Greek myth about a king called Sisyphus, who committed a terrible crime against the gods and was condemned to an eternity of hard labour! He was forced to spend each and every day carrying a huge boulder – a great big rock – up a mountain, only to see the thing roll […]
Jan 30, 2015 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: pop One of the best things about adopting a more lexical view of language is that you start to appreciate more clearly how words interact with other words, and you are then able to start passing on to students the message that “these words often go together”. It also means you lose many of the worries […]
