I was visiting a school recently for a mini-conference for the school’s teachers and during one of the discussions it
An amazing feat, but that's it I recently watched  the film about the super-endurance swimmer Diane Nyad who swam from
During the 18 months of writing the new edition of Outcomes I put my teaching and language learning efforts on
After the positive reception that my last post on literary figures in everyday speech got, I figured it made sense
I spent last Friday and Saturday in Bologna, Italy, where I was talking at an excellent conference for English-language teachers. In
One of the most depressing things about British politics right now – and trust me, there are plenty of things
The original idea for this blog post came one afternoon when my wife saw my response to an email we'd
A while back, I wrote a blog post about words and expressions that come from literature, but which have passed
In one of my recent classes, we were discussing the way in which the use of social media inside authoritarian
At a party last week I was introduced to a foreign businessman who was visiting London. We got talking and started chatting about what