“My very elderly mother just sat up near Pluto*” is a sentence I’ve taught many a student. If you’re not in the know, it’s a mnemonic to remember the order of the planets from the sun (just take the first letters from each word, M for Mercury, V for Venus, and so on). I remember my Slovak students …
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Same sky: Your favourite amusement park ride
I love teaching a multicultural class, and right now my Advanced General English class has seven really different nationalities. So when we started talking about amusement parks, there were the students who don't even have any in their countries, right down to those who live on top of Tokyo …
Same sky: As easy as 1, 2, 3
Can you remember learning to count? I can't. It's one of those basic skills that you learn before any long term memory kicks in. So how come when I landed in Bratislava, I kept getting three hot dogs when I'd only ordered two?Simple, really. It took me a while to discover this fact, but people in …