“A sculpin is any of a family of spiny, large-headed, broad-mouthed, often scaleless bony fishes.”
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I found this photograph the other day and thought my students might like it - especially the ones that think that English spelling is difficult. Can you spot the mistake?

I remember finding this sign one day when I was out for a walk with my dad (that’s him in the photograph). Perhaps whoever wrote ‘Fishing […]

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I love these road signs that you see all over England:

I have been using these images to bring to my students’ attention the two different pronunciations of ‘ow’ (slow and down, know and now, crow and crowd, own and town, etc).
Try getting them to make tongue twisters with the following items:
The ‘hit your thumb […]

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