Aug 3, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: the last-chance saloon As part of our Lexical Lab summer school, we offer a full and varied social and cultural programme, but most Sundays, students are free to go off wherever they please. Last weekend, a couple of people went on a day-trip down to Brighton . . . and came back shocked by the levels of homelessness […]
Jul 18, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: baptism of fire If you’ve been following the series of blog posts I did about the World Cup, you’ll know that I love football. Now that the World Cup has finished, I’m suffering withdrawal symptoms. Like a lot of other fellow sufferers, I’m basically waiting for the second week of August, when the Premier League kicks off again. […]
Jul 7, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: high drama And then there were four!So we’ve now had the quarter-finals of this year’s World Cup, and we know who the semi-finalists are: France, Belgium, England and Croatia.Incredibly, this is now the first World Cup ever in which not one of the big three – Brazil, Argentina or Germany – will feature at this stage of […]
Jun 12, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: a spate of In our most-viewed post of recent weeks, we reported on the fact that there had been a spate of incidents involving people dressed as ‘killer clowns’ and that people dressed as scary clowns had been terrorising innocent members of the public and causing widespread panic up and down the country. When there’s a spate of […]
Apr 30, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: heavy workload If you have a heavy workload, it means you have a lot of work to do and you probably work very long hours. Recently, a report revealed that, on average, teachers in the UK work 40-58 hours a week and a fifth of teachers do more than 60 hours!. Teachers here apparently have the heaviest […]
