This is the title of a guest posting I have written for Lindsay Clandfield’s famous blog, “Six Things: A collection of miscellany from the world of English Language Teaching.” You can read the posting here.

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“A sculpin is any of a family of spiny, large-headed, broad-mouthed, often scaleless bony fishes.”
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This is the title of a guest posting that I have written for the Macmillan Dictionary blog (link given below). In the posting, I look at the theory behind a YouTube clip that I made a few months ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5XNR419aXE

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You can read the posting here.

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I found a site that allows you to download high resolution images of the Mr Men book covers (click here for link). Here are twelve.
Q: What do they have in common?

A: Their names all consist of 2-syllable adjectives.
A lesson plan that uses these images can be downloaded on pdf below.
  mr-men-book-covers.pdf

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Just wanted to share a few good image sites that I’ve come across during my online wanderings.
1.  The Life photo archive
Last year, as part of a joint effort with Life, Google began hosting an archive of the magazine’s photographs, most of which were never published. As is the case with the magazine, there is a […]

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