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Credit Crunch Christmas

December 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

“We are currently witnessing the worst credit crunch the world has ever seen since the term was invented last year.”
I heard someone saying that on the radio a couple of weeks ago and it made me laugh. It also made we wonder when the term really did come into existence.
I can’t find anything online about […]

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Tags: 'Credit Crunch' · Learner-friendly corpora · Using online newspapers · Vocabulary

Hyperlinked headlines

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

A Hyperlinked Headlines document is a Word file containing a number of thematically-selected newspaper headlines each linked to the news story or article to which it pertains. Here is an example:
climate-change-hyperlinked-headlines.doc
Here is one possible way of using such a file in class:
Day 1

Download the file.
If you have a projector in your classroom, display […]

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Tags: Climate change · Learner-friendly corpora · Lesson plans · Newspapers · Reading · Using online newspapers