Dream Big Dreams
It takes courage to travel to another country where you don’t know anybody, you don’t speak the language and the culture is completely different to your own. You stay in a home you have never been in...
View ArticleStanding on the shoulders of giants
I read an interesting article comparing the stuffy, conservative, Gen X approach to education compared to the innovative, risk-taking, Gen Y outlook on the same subject. The talk is of a revolution....
View ArticleA storm in a tea cup?
Should non-English speaking countries be concerned when English words sneak their way into everyday vocabulary? It is easy to become blasé about this when discussing the matter over tapas, but perhaps...
View ArticleLearning the Lingo
Many thanks to Helen Herrera-Folley for today’s guest post - Learning a new language can be a fantastic opportunity to broaden your horizons, develop a skill, meet interesting people and develop an...
View ArticleA cornucopia of collectives
What do you call a group of sheep? Is it a flock or a herd? What about a group of lions or perhaps a number of wolves? We have some wonderful collective nouns & test your English by trying this...
View ArticleIce Ice Baby
Northern Norway can be a cold place and for centuries a region that remained largely disconnected from much of the world. It had its own culture, customs and language. However, in the modern world,...
View ArticleAnimal adjectives
Describing someone as having feline grace would generally be thought of as a positive comment. Feline is an adjective meaning related to or characteristic of a cat. Therefore, we are saying that person...
View ArticleAccents in English
When you speak in your own language, what judgements can people make about you? Could they guess the same things when you are talking in English? Will they be able to tell your social class perhaps or...
View ArticleWhat do the words ‘chav’, ‘omnishambles’ and ‘selfie’ have in common?
……yes, that’s right. They’ve all been named ‘word of the year’ by Oxford Dictionaries at some point in time - ‘selfie’ or self-portrait photograph being awarded the accolade this year. Though the term...
View ArticleInspirational quotes – are they anything to shout about?
Inspirational quotes seem to be everywhere in the workplace. We’ve even got a selection of motivational academic quotes as screensavers here at the school and our learners are discussing some of the...
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