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This is a blending and a brushing-up of two posts I first published back on 7th & 14th February 2012. The blending was published on 11th July 2016, after the Competitive Exam for that year We are now updating and revising links so that those students who are currently doing PoppieS Building Block IV can [...]
The Versatility of the English Lexicon
This post is largely based on another revised and published on 2nd October 2017 under the title “13 Questions on the English lexicon and half an answer”. The post has been updated and only one of the questions remains. Lexical Competence and Lexis I am very fortunate and enjoy all my classes, but I especially [...]
How to encourage our students to collaborate in reading and writing in English
(This post was originally published on the then “Sls Hallam website” and remained as a draft for the PoppieS blog. Since we are about to deal with “Teaching reading and writing” in the Primary Pilot Course, I think it’s the right time to publish it. I am also trying to check those links which did [...]
May the Bears and their Stars of Wonder and of Night guide us in 2021
Stars of Wonder, Stars of Night At this time of year, when our kids were little, after Christmas dinner or when friends visited, we used to gather around the piano where Vernon would play various Nursery Rhymes and Christmas Carols. One of the kids' favourites was "We Three Kings". The lyrics go thus: We Three [...]
Un vuelco a las Aulas. Repensando la educación
Nota: Esta Entrada sólo ha sido actualizada en términos de revisión de enlaces. Creo que sigue siendo tan vigente como cuando lo publiqué por primera vez en lo que era entonces SLS Hallam, el 20 de febrero 2013. Esto es una actualización de la entrada publicada aquí el 6 de mayo de 2017. En esa [...]