It only occurred to me later that there's probably a wealth of material already out there in webspace on dependent prepositions and that it wouldn't be too difficult or time consuming to look for some of it... So here's a... Continue Reading →
It's a slightly strange phrase that - dependent prepositions - gives you the slight air of a bunch of small words hanging around a much larger word who feeds and clothes them and goes and and earns a wage with... Continue Reading →
A yaer or so bcak trehe was a Grdaauin aritcle ctiing sopupsed reecrash form the Uvtrneiisy of Crdmaigbe on how we don't need wodrs to be splet cerltrocy in oderr to gian meainng form ttexs, we jsut need the fisrt... Continue Reading →
What to do with all those words? One of the gripes I have with course books is the often seemingly random presentation of vocabulary sets where the target items appear in a little box in one corner of the page,... Continue Reading →
Yep, hot on the heels of yesterday's post on collocation trees, another activity to see how many collocations your learners can identify and to help them see a little bit better why a collocation is... well... a collocation. Collocation Pyramids!... Continue Reading →
"Teacher, what's a collocation?" "Well, they're sort of words that go together." "Teacher, I don't understand." "Well, you know the expression 'heavy traffic'? Well, traffic's not really heavy is it? I mean, it can be, but... erm.... Collocations are just... Continue Reading →
Just seen on facebook via Anna (thanks Anna!): Max My Dream. Follow the link and animate your dreams! It works in much the same way as the now infamous "Hunter shoots a bear": http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience (which if you haven't seen you... Continue Reading →
In many language schools it's probably a hard fought race between the photocopier and the guillotine as to which gets used most in any given day. Probably the photocopier, but the guillotine usually gets a fair work out. And then... Continue Reading →
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