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Thursday, 17th September (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ Back home in Cambridge at last! Today’s photo is of the sculpture in the roll call square (Appellplatz) at Dachau Concentration Camp, which we visited for the first time on the way home, despite having lived just … Continue reading
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Thursday, 10th September (Zagreb)
1. The YouGov daily omnibus opinion poll is always worth a look. Yesterday’s, conducted on (rather than with?) 4,506 GB adults https://yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20260909-8d692-1 included the following three items: a) surprisingly strong support for the UK government’s decision to ban the import … Continue reading
Tuesday, 8th September (Zagreb)
LinkedIn newsletter version: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tuesday-8th-september-zagreb-roy-cross-bdute 1. Short notice (sorry!) of an IH London Teacher Portal webinar tomorrow, Wednesday 9th September, Fun apps and strategies in teaching writing, with Nawaf Almahdi https://teacherportal.ihlondon.com/course/webinars Scroll down the page to see the details of the … Continue reading
Thursday, 3rd September (Cres)
If it’s more convenient for you, and you have a LinkedIn account, you might like to subscribe to the new LinkedIn newsletter version of this Free Resources message https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thursday-3rd-september-cres-roy-cross-3oowe I’ll still be offering the WhatsApp, e-mail and blog versions: let … Continue reading
Tuesday, 1st September (Cres)
If it’s more convenient for you, and you have a LinkedIn account, you might prefer to subscribe to the new LinkedIn newsletter version of this Free Resources message here https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7499567271909031936 I’ll still be offering the WhatsApp, e-mail and blog versions: … Continue reading
Thursday, 27th August (Cres)
1. First up today, two pieces on language learning: a) A YouGov poll conducted in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, How do attitudes to language learning differ across Europe? https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55385-how-do-attitudes-to-language-learning-differ-across-europe b) Duolingo’s 2026 report on the people who … Continue reading
Tuesday, 25th August (Cres)
Claude has either just led me up the garden path half a dozen times or has enabled me to fix a complicated internet connection problem on this laptop – DNS this and DNS that – that I couldn’t have managed … Continue reading
Thursday, 20th August (Cres)
1. Alan Milburn has just completed a substantial report for the UK government on Young People and Work https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-people-and-work-interim-report PDFs of both the whole report and of the introductory section only below. This Review exists because today Britain faces a … Continue reading
Tuesday, 18th August (Cres)
1. More – perhaps the last word, for this blog at least – on Jason Arday, again from Tyler Austin Harper (whose Why I Quit the Tenure Track piece I included last Thursday) in The Atlantic, The Truths That Failed … Continue reading
Thursday, 13th August (Cres)
1. If you follow Geoff Jordan on LinkedIn, you’ll know that he’s a man of strong views https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-jordan-0a7658219/ Courtesy of Geoff, here’s a whole book of strong opinions to start with tonight, English Language Teaching Now and How It Could … Continue reading
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