Archive for September 2011
Friday 30 September 2011
Digital Play Webinar
Digital Play authors Kyle Mawer and Graham Stanley gave a very successful webinar entitled Digital Playtime in ELT on Friday 23rd September. Read on to find out more and to watch the webinar recording.
Read more »Wednesday 28 September 2011
The register of phrasal verbs
by Liz Walter
When we were writing the examples and texts used in Phrasal Verbs for Natural English, a recurring problem was spotting rogue phrasal verbs that had crept into them. We had a rule that only the phrasal verbs being specifically practised in the unit should be used, to avoid confusing or overloading our students. This proved [...]
Read more »Tuesday 27 September 2011
The register of phrasal verbs
by Liz Walter
When we were writing the examples and texts used in Phrasal Verbs for Natural English, a recurring problem was spotting rogue phrasal verbs that had crept into them. We had a rule that only the phrasal verbs being specifically practised in the unit should be used, to avoid confusing or overloading our students. This proved [...]
Read more »Sunday 11 September 2011
What is a phrasal verb?
Everyone agrees that phrasal verbs are an integral part of the English language, but does anyone agree on what a phrasal verb actually is? Well, I’m happy to say that Liz Walter (my co-author on Phrasal Verbs for Natural English) and I are in broad agreement, but you may have other ideas… The first characteristic [...]
Read more »Tuesday 6 September 2011
Rebecca Sewell
It was the need to escape an inappropriate boyfriend that propelled me into EFL. I thought I could travel to exciting countries and use my love of words, inherited from my doting grandfather, in a more attainable way than by writing novels or being a rock-chick (two ambitions I still hold actually). Whilst never actually [...]
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