Resource Review: Linguascope
Linguascope The World’s Number One Language Learning Platform for Schools http://www.linguascope.com It has often been said that the UK risks
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Language
A Novel Idea
When you impose constraints on writing then it becomes more of a challenge and that’s a good thing. It’s a
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Metaphorical Comparisons
There is a great activity in the book Five-Minute Activities by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright called Metaphors. This is
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Naming The Months
Why are the months named as they are? A teaching colleague of mine used to say we ought to rename
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It’s BAME Over For Schools
If you don’t have white skin then how do other people refer to you?
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Fam, Take A Look At My Merch
Popular culture, it’s a wonderful thing.
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Child Language Brokers
When I held my first ever Parents’ Evenings at a school in Brent, North London, nothing could have prepared me
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There Is More Than One Way To Peel A Potato
The next time you teach idioms you might want to think carefully about the animal idioms you use. Are they
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Stop saying “EAL”
Is it time we stopped using the term EAL?
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