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“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
Chinese proverb

When students are repeating, doing drills and practice tasks they are not really communicating as one would naturally where the interaction has the purpose of getting messages across in a specific     read more >>

Apologies to all you Trekkies out there, but Space is not the final frontier; that space is reserved for death: “the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.” – Hamlet

Is it a bit of a taboo subject in class – death?
Well, if the only two sure things in life are death and taxes, and we can at least try to fiddle our way out of the latter, why not think a bit about the former, which we cannot wriggle out of.

We may not be afraid to die, but we probably don’t want to be there when it happens – unless it’s Robert Patterson sinking his canines into your neck perhaps.

So, doing death in class. (Not the practical!)
First a warning! Do not use activities which might upset students in your culture! You have to be sensitive when dealing with death, ghosts, vampires, zombies and intolerance.     read more >>

1. What is a palindrome?

A palindrome is a word or phrase which is the same spelt backwards, (“Eve” / “Madam I’m Adam”) so what is the word for a word which is another word spelt backwards?

Such a word could be called a semi-palindrome or half-palindrome. The sentence “rats live on no evil star” is full of these semi-palindromes. Check out weird Al on YouTube for a spoof of a Bob Dylan song consisting entirely of semi-palindromes.

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Every culture has its proverbs, sayings and clichés expressing the way of the world.     read more >>