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BBC News – Electronic cigarettes challenge anti-smoking efforts
BBC News – Electronic cigarettes challenge anti-smoking efforts. Its been some time since I’ve posted anything in my blog. I’ve been quite busy teaching English online and studying for my Masters in Microsystems Engineering here in Germany. As summer has…
Just a Reminder to check out one of the lost episodes of Improving your English with Pat and Rico – Episode 2 – Summer 2012 – YouTube
[youtube=http://youtu.be/4XHz_ifZP88] Improving your English with Pat and Rico – Episode 2 – Summer 2012 – YouTube Please take a look at the second episode that Rico and I recorded of “Improving Your English with Pat & Rico”, giving tips to…
Haiti is a beautiful country and I hope more will be done to help its people this year. BBC News – Haiti quake: Why isnt aid money going to Haitians?
BBC News – Haiti quake: Why isnt aid money going to Haitians?. Did you donate to help the Haitian people overcome the earthquake that occurred in 2010? Accord to this BBC news article only 1% of the aid actually given…
Check out this fun article from the BBC News – Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English
BBC News – Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English. This is a very interesting article that talks about words and phrases that have “crossed the atlantic” from Britain to become common place in America. I definitely saw this coming,…
This is one of my favorite posts from Grammarly – Context and Punctuation Errors
Grammarly is one of my favorite blogs on facebook. Take a look at their latest entry. Its very humbling to see how easily anyone, even a native speaker of a language can make grammatical as well as syntactic errors. In any case…
Can you guess what the oldest world in the English language is?…BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Oldest English words’ identified
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Oldest English words’ identified. This is a very interesting article that discusses how linguists were able to determine which words were the oldest in the English language. Can you guess which ones they…
Raising Successful Children – NYTimes.com
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBM-qSi4gzw&w=560&h=315] I enjoy using authentic materials to get my students talking about topics they find relevant to their everyday lives. For my students who have kids articles like the one below about “Raising Successful Children” written by Madeline Levine…
Olympic Vocabulary Words
I’ve been talking to my students lately about all the events they can watch on TV having to do with the London 2012 Olympics. Its a good conversation starter and it gives them a chance to learn a bit of…