“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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From flashcards to flash images is the title of a talk I gave recently at the 3rd International Symposium and Conference on ELT Materials (link here). I would like to say thank you very much to everyone involved, especially Sujatha, Jayakaran and the people from Pearson, for organising a great conference and of course, for […]

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Remind and remember book covers

I wrote a posting a few weeks ago to show how Microsoft Paint can be used to cover up parts of images (see posting here).
I have been using the technique recently to hide words and phrases in images obtained from Amazon. For a group of students who wanted to know the […]

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