chunk of the day | Lexical Lab

Phrase of the day: What’re you doing later?

Lots of very common chunks don’t get taught early enough in many course because they are seen as somehow being

14-01-2015

Chunk of the day: Just because . . . it doesn’t mean

We've both often had students act more than a little surprised at our apparently un-English ways. Smiling and being friendly

06-11-2014

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Twenty Things in Twenty Years Part Six: Resistance is futile – but still remarkably widespread

When I was in my mid-20s living in Jakarta and trying to learn Indonesian, I reached a point where I felt I had to start reading more about Islam. Partly this was because so many of my students were –…