Language learning, whether classroom-based or naturalistic, whether in an EFL or an ESL context, is capricious, opportunistic, idiosyncratic and seldom amenable to external manipulation

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An A-Z of ELT

P is for Postmodern method

This comes from the teacher’s guide to a  well-known coursebook series: “By the end of Level 1, students will have learnt to express themselves simply but correctly in the present, past and future……

Love this word (because I'm a fan of legal dramas)
a writ ordering a person to attend a court, повестка в суд

Do you know how to pronounce it?
Check yourself:

Sounds like: suh - pee - nah

From late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin sub poena ‘under penalty’ (the first words of the writ). Use as a verb dates from the mid 17th century.

Для тех, кто любит реальные переводческие кейсы:

Канада выложила новый санкционный список, где фигурирует вот такое название:

Minsk Research Institute of Instrument Engineering JSC

Нужно максимально оперативно (за пару минут) выяснить название заведения на русском

OK, I'll start! I think the King should have watched a video on how to cut a pomegranate without making a huge mess before trying to eat it

Sport and idioms

'Cause I should think he could just be a little bit _____"

What does the lady say and what does it mean?

YouTube

✂️ Sports - Horse riding

6 seconds · Clipped by Georgia Ly Greis · Original video "Tsetserleg - Badminton Cross Country - 2024" by boyd martin

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Oipebo10m/?igsh=MXQ1MnlkMnl4bmYyMQ==

"Use of the word 'beaver' on the internet has taken on an identity that nobody could have perceived in 1920," said Deborah Morrison, president of Canada's National Historical Society. "And increasingly, if we put 'The Beaver' in a heading, we would be spam-filtered out."

#ame_fun_news

NY Times

Web Filters Cause Name Change for a Magazine (Published 2010)

Canada’s National History Society, the nonprofit group that publishes The Beaver, decided that the Internet required the magazine to undergo a name change.