The plan had been to post this yesterday, as I didn’t want to inflict two posts on you within 36 hours. The seven-and-a half-hour drive home from Richmond yesterday due to a blocked motorway put the kibosh on that!

1. First of two bits of weekend reading from Pilgrims, the new issue of Teacher Trainer Journal https://pilgrimsttj.com/ PDF below.

Try Charlie Taylor’s article on p4, which seeks to establish a correlation between English proficiency and democracy.

2. And the second, the new issue of HLT (Humanising Language Teaching) https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug23/ PDF of the contents page below; there doesn’t seem to be a way of downloading the whole magazine.

The tributes to Philip Prowse, who died recently and unexpectedly, are very powerful testimony to his contribution to ELT and literature more generally https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug23/remembering-philip-prowse PDF below.

3. Two recent blog posts from Pearson with some practical ideas:

Offline English learning ideas https://www.pearson.com/languages/community/blogs/2023/07/offline-english-learning-ideas.html

Motivating children to read English books with fun activities https://www.pearson.com/languages/community/blogs/2023/08/motivating-children-to-read-books.html

4. Here’s Mona Siddiqui from Edinburgh University’s thoughts on hospitality https://www.templeton.org/news/the-secret-power-of-hospitality

Read and/or listen!

5. And, finally and musically more varied than you might expect, the BBC Proms website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v097 All the Proms are available to listen to for a month after the concert.

I went to Mariza’s concert and much enjoyed it https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nnzb and would have been very happy to go to this Bollywood one, too! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001nwdq