This is to continue on the topic about learning from articles (the algorithm, a discussion task). This is the article in question: From Tamagotchi to Nintendogs: Why People Love Digital Pets The article exemplifies the points I made in my… Read More »Let’s read an article together!
To continue on the topic of improving reading skills by reading articles, I’d like to share some resources I use for myself and my students. And let’s say that by articles I mean longer reads written by professional journalists, and… Read More »And where to find those nice articles to read?..
Did you know that there’s a railway in the Sahara Desert? Or that you can take a ride on a special tourist train there? The Mauritania Railway opened in 1963. It consists of a single, 704-kilometre railway line that links the… Read More »A train in the desert
In one of the previous posts I wrote that it’s an excellent idea to follow work with an article with a discussion of it. But what is a discussion? It may be an exchange of opinions. In the case of the… Read More »An example of a follow-up on a text
Now I’m trying to carve out some time for reanimating my French, and I’m using news articles for this. Articles are great because they are relatively short, can be of a vast variety of topics and the language is not… Read More »Learning From Articles: A Simple Algorithm
Here’s something else for you from Making Sense by David Crystal, about what children acquire in a language after they have mastered its “basic” grammar. I find it especially interesting because it’s a feature of grammar that’s not so often mentioned… Read More »On one of the stages of language acquisition in children
In a nutshell Below is a long read. A journey is a journey, after all. I don’t know how to squeeze it with all its ups and downs in a short post. But I think I’ll spare the reader and… Read More »My Teaching Journey (updated)
Short intro At the end of summer and after the holiday I felt that my English needed a boost. It had become a tiny bit dormant and I started missing the sound of English. I used to binge watch series… Read More »The Magic of the Radio
No, there are no mistakes in the title. It’s a valid example of an English sentence. Read on to find out why. Below is a passage from a book by David Crystal called Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar,… Read More »“A good good example”
I don’t, but I was scrolling through the feed on VK yesterday and, seeing some posts about Halloween, I suddenly remembered about a wonderful BBC drama called Gambits. And I thought – why not share it? And you can imagine being… Read More »Do you play chess?