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1. Visible Thinking Routines in the English Language Classroom​ is the intriguing title of the National Geographic Learning webinar with Alex Warren at 09:00 and 17:00 UK time on Wednesday, 5th April. As the event blurb has it, “the role … Continue reading →

1. Landgeist maps are fun, and you can easily lose an hour or two exploring their site: https://landgeist.com/maps/ Which country in Europe drinks the most coffee? Not Italy … https://landgeist.com/2022/04/19/coffee-consumption-in-europe/ And which country consumes the most cheese? Not France … … Continue reading →

1. The first of two webinars early next week is an exciting-sounding National Geographic event at 16:00 UK time on Tuesday 28th March with explorer and tropical biologist Carmen Chavez, who’ll be talking about her work using camera traps to … Continue reading →

1. There’s been a lot of discussion here in the UK recently about ‘updating’ books to reflect current sensitivities and sensibilities, in particular Roald Dahl’s. Ed Cumming and his team in The Daily Telegraph broke the story, but here’s the … Continue reading →

1. Voices of the First World War is a remarkable podcast series from the Imperial War Museum in London, based on their large, rich archive of recordings with survivors of that war from both sides https://www.iwm.org.uk/VoicesOfTheFirstWorldWar Start at the beginning … Continue reading →

1. OUP (Oxford University Press) now run four editions of their ELTOC (English Language Teaching Online Conference) a year, and the next one is this coming Friday and Saturday, 17-18th March. There are four four-hour sessions – you can dip … Continue reading →

1. Two weeks ago, the research group Autonomy published a report on the trial by a number of UK companies of a four-day working week which got a lot of publicity, not least because the results were so emphatically in … Continue reading →

1. It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow, and one stop english have a lesson on the subject to download here, with versions at intermediate and advanced https://www.onestopenglish.com/international-womens-day/558174.article PDFs below. There’s a fair bit of free stuff at one stop english if … Continue reading →

1. A bit of light reading for the weekend – not. Tony Blair and William Hague have co-endorsed (rather than co-authored, I think) a new report from Blair’s Institute for Global Change, A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the … Continue reading →

1. I first mentioned Michael Barber’s podcast, Accomplishment, back in June. He’s just begun a new series and his first guest is Malala Yousafzai. On Apple here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-accomplishment-podcast-with-sir-michael-barber/id1605826027 or Spotify here https://tinyurl.com/56t2eum6 2. I’m not sure that the link for … Continue reading →