Resource Review: Linguascope
johndabell Linguascope The World’s Number One Language Learning Platform for Schools www.linguascope.com It has often been said that the UK risks being cut off from the rest of the world because…
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 good thing because it encourages you to think of alternatives…
Metaphorical Comparisons
There is a great activity in the book Five-Minute Activities by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright called Metaphors. This is a seemingly simple activity which encourages students to find metaphors…
Naming The Months
Why are the months named as they are? A teaching colleague of mine used to say we ought to rename the months as follows: Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery,…
It’s BAME Over For Schools
If you don’t have white skin then how do other people refer to you?
Fam, Take A Look At My Merch
Popular culture, it’s a wonderful thing.
Child Language Brokers
When I held my first ever Parents’ Evenings at a school in Brent, North London, nothing could have prepared me for the sheer range of meetings I experienced there. This…
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 promoting cruelty? Phrases such as “bring home the bacon”, “take…
Stop saying “EAL”
Is it time we stopped using the term EAL?