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Teaching Teenagers

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What makes teaching teenagers different from teaching adults? How to increase motivation and cope with the extra energy of teens in the language classroom.
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The Genius of Knock Knock Jokes

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Knock knock! Knock knock! Knock knock! Who’s there? Who’s…

Reading with Children

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Everyone knows the benefits of reading to babies and toddlers,…
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English, Emoticons and Emojis 😉

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A friend of mine is concerned about my use of emoticons in…
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An English Empire? Linguistic Imperialism and me.

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When I completed my CELTA (the initial training course for EFL…
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Language Play – Alliteration and Rhyme

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Persuasion, poems, puns. We use language to connect, to communicate,…
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Repetition and Rhetoric

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When people send me their work for editing they most often ask…

EFL Extensive Reading

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In EFL we talk about two types of reading Extensive Reading and…
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Apostrophe Wars

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My week has been punctuated erratically by the ping of my inbox…
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Why rhyme?

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My daughter, Lyra, is learning a poem for a school poetry competition.…

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