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1. “Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the YouTube sensation that is Mr Beast” is the first sentence of this article that I read last week. I’ve clearly been living under a rock! https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/mrbeast-x-elon-musk-youtube-earnings-835450-20240111 Intrigued … Continue reading →

1. In my first week at university reading English (in my own case, a much more appropriate verb than studying or writing), along with all my friends from school, we went to hear Jeremy Prynne lecture: one of our group, … Continue reading →

1. Will AI rule the world before too much longer? Here’s an interesting paper on exam marking in Spain (courtesy of OLDaily), Consistency analysis of assessment boards in University Entrance Examinations in Spain, the conclusion of which is that humans … Continue reading →

This is the last ‘Free Resources’ message for 2023. I’ll not be back till Tuesday 9th January, so here’s some longer reads to keep you going. Enjoy your Christmas break if you’re having one! 1. What I miss – or … Continue reading →

1. If Christmas is something you simply can’t ignore in your part of the world, Onestopenglish have a variety of resources for Christmas lessons here, many of which (not all) are free to access https://www.onestopenglish.com/ 2. OUP have clearly been … Continue reading →

1. As usual with Green Action ELT events, scroll down the page a little* for more information on this one on at 14:00 UK time tomorrow, Friday 15 December, Showcasing 2023: inspiring environmental stories from ELT https://green-action-elt.uk/events/ Registration here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkceyhrjopE9a7nIzpBobH5EzRW0dFdE9z#/registration … Continue reading →

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. The culmination of the European Centre for Modern Languages’ 6th ‘medium-term programme’ of projects, Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences, which ran from 2020 to 2023, is the conference tomorrow and Wednesday, 13th … Continue reading →

1. Here (below) is a useful one-page summary PDF of TeachingEnglish activity in December. Scan the QR code in the bottom right hand corner to subscribe to their newsletter for yourself, or sign up directly here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter The TeachingEnglish team … Continue reading →

1. Hmm! I’d never heard the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year, rizz, until this morning (and it’s not in my MS Word dictionary either, not yet anyway) https://corp.oup.com/news/rizz-crowned-oxford-word-of-the-year-2023/ Are they possibly trying too hard to be cool? This … Continue reading →

1. Oak National Academy here in the UK is in the news at present, as a result of the UK government’s plans to have Oak offer free curriculum resources to schools, described in apocalyptic terms by The Bookseller as “an … Continue reading →