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To get medieval on their asses or to not get medieval on their asses?

I’ve also posted this over on the ELT World Forum as I’m looking for as much advice on this as I can get. Basically, I’ve just been lumbered with absolute beginners at the beginning of the new academic year. Apart … Continue reading

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Guessing vocab from context…

…is a really bad way to acquire new words, at least that’s what I rather provocatively suggested on a thread over on the ELT World forums. Of course, it’s not an impossible skill, as many noted: ‘It’s possible,’ suggetsts Golightly, … Continue reading

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