What Do You Say In A Restaurant?
Just a quick reminder about language we use when we need to order in a restaurant.
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Is Your Relationship With Technology A Bad Romance?
Ajit Johnson, a Ph.D. student working in cancer genetics and genomics uses art posters to comment on “the invasion of tech addiction without even being aware of it”. He has created a series of “some minimal posters describing our present generation and tech addiction”. Read more about it at boredpanda.com and discuss…
8 March, International Women’s Day
Read about some famous women inventors. Play a matching game on famous women.
Why I Will Integrate Lessons On Relational Aggression Into My EFL Classroom:Resources To Consider
After teaching English to Senior High School students for fifteen years, I had a one-year shift to Primary School, which proved really educational for me. Among other things, it gave me great insight into how roles and relations shape up from an early age. This experience together with some sad…
May Day in Australia – An Article from the 80’s
Click here to go to a news.google.com/newspapers page. Scroll to the middle of the page to find the article titled «May Day» which was published in The Age, 1 May, 1981. You can decrease or enlarge the page by clicking on the magnifying button. Read the article and do the following tasks: A) Match…
May Day,A Double Celebration-Reads,Interactives,Quizes
May Day is an old festival going back in ancient times, when the time of fertility and the start of summer were celebrated. The name of this month is believed to have come from Maia, the Roman goddess of spring and growth, who was in turn named after the Greek word…
Times Square New Year’s Eve Tradition
This is an interactive image. Click on the marks to reveal more information. original link: http://www.thinglink.com/scene/351134983399669760
Το μετακινούμενο χαλί, η Πρωτοβάθμια Εκπαίδευση και άλλες ιστορίες
«Η ζωή ανήκει στους ζωντανούς και όποιος ζει πρέπει να είναι προετοιμασμένος για αλλαγές» Johann Wolfgang von Goethe «Αντί να βλέπουμε το χαλί να τραβιέται κάτω από τα πόδια μας,μπορούμε να μάθουμε να χορεύουμε πάνω στο μετακινούμενο χαλί» …
My Sifting Carpet, Primary Education and Other Stories
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.” Thomas Crum Well, thank you sirs. I think I will need your positive…
Posh and Estuary Accent:It’s all Greek to me!
I came up an interesting article (by Emily Sheridan of dailymail.co.uk) yesterday, which talked about Michelle Dockery’s – the acclaimed Lady Mary Crawley of Downton Abbey actress- weariness over Downton fans who find her real life estuary accent shocking. What a surprise that was to me! First, because I didn’t expect people would care so much.…
The 3 September 1843 revolution, democracy and Noam Chomsky
Yesterday’s 170th historic anniversary of 3 September 1843 revolution, which forced the king Otto to grant Constitution to the Greek people, brings forward thoughts about the development of democracy in Greece and modern societies worldwide. Noam Chomsky’s Media Control – The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda unavoidably comes to mind and provides interesting citations for our higher…