Look! The good people at English Central recorded my webinar: ‘Using Images Creatively’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3ikWbyb8o

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856E_Z-azXk

.

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

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQ3aZhuJto

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-K8RxWB_Q

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGuS5BhvnM

.

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

[Read more →]

There is a new craze happening on Twitter. It’s called ‘Tweeting what you’re Eating’. Everyone is at it. A couple of nights ago, for example, Scott Thornbury shared this with us:
@thornburyscott Home again, and homely food: butifarra amb moniatos:

A few days before that, Gavin Dudeney was kind enough to offer us his […]

[Read more →]

A few months ago, I posted a lesson plan called Do and Make collocations. The activity involves using Google to investigate frequencies of collocation pairs - this sort of thing:

The use of search engines to investigate English is a quite a well-established practice. Google, for example, is often consulted for quick reference by the […]

[Read more →]

After last month’s initial attempt, the Using Images Creatively webinar has been rescheduled to Tuesday 20 October.
This time I will be broadcasting from Spain, the land of reliable Internet providers.
As before, the event will start at 18.00 Canadian Time. This may be a bit late for a European school night. Coffee is the answer.
Eastern Time […]

[Read more →]

the-venus-of-willendorf.pdf
The Venus of Willendorf (below) is an icon of prehistoric art. It is housed in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. One day, a visitor to the museum asks a guide how old it is. The guide replies that it is 25 thousand years and 8 months old. The visitor is […]

[Read more →]