1. Lots of action on the climate front at present: no fewer than twelve new lesson plans here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-action-language-education-lesson-plans and the PDF below is this month’s newsletter on the Climate Action in Language Education programme, including news of Episode 3 of the Climate Connections podcast series, Language recycling. You’ll find notes on the show and a transcript here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-connection-episode-3-language-recycling

2. Here’s an article on Academic English Collocations from Ana Frankenberg Garcia of the University of Surrey http://www.collocaid.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Voices280pp1213_compressed.pdf Be sure to do the gap-fill exercise at the beginning, as instructed! PDF below.

3. Collaboration between the universities of Ljubljana, Warsaw and Alcalá (the birthplace of Don Quixote and his creator!) has produced this new MOOC on Literacy for CLIL. More info and registration here https://literacyforclil.edunext.io/courses/course-v1:literacyforclil+UAH+0/about and a (very) short introductory video here https://youtu.be/RMkI1wmAcyk

4. And, finally, I think this qualifies as ‘showing off’ https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-zoom-where-it-happens

This second article, a bit less so https://stanfordmag.org/contents/11-tips-for-more-effective-zoom-remote-meetings