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Grammar Guru: Nice meeting you/ Nice to meet you

Posted by Anne on June 20th, 2010

Which of these two is correct? We say

“Nice to meet you” when we meet someone for the first time, and “Nice meeting you” when we then say goodbye.
“Nice meeting you” when we meet someone for the first time, and “Nice to meet you” when we then say goodbye.

˙noʎ ʇǝǝɯ oʇ ǝɔıu (s,ʇı) :ǝuoǝɯos [...]

Celebrating language blogs

Posted by Anne on May 30th, 2010

It’s been a rather self-referential month in the “teaching English as a foreign language” blogosphere. I’m extremely honored to be listed by Babla and Lexiofiles among the top 100 language blogs. They put in an enormous and much appreciated amount of work. Frankly, being in that list comes as a huge surprise, considering the players [...]

#hiddengems part 2

Posted by Anne on May 25th, 2010

I’m doing this #hiddengems homework – digging for gold in the archives of teacher blogs – in parts. Here are two more:
Karenne Sylvester wrote about disappointment as a topic for an EFL lesson in “Life is no bed of roses“, building around student input. An excellent business English lesson for managers. I’d update the intro [...]

#hiddengems

Posted by Anne on May 24th, 2010

Darren Elliot gave us homework: Go to your favorite blogs and dig out #hiddengems for the world to see. Mike Harrison has passed this on to me – an honor, thank you very much – and to simplify things I limited myself to posts:

written by EFL teachers and related to teaching
but not among [...]

My six jobs before becoming a teacher

Posted by Anne on May 23rd, 2010

Lindsay Clandfield on his lovely “Six Things” blog has invited us to think back to six jobs we held before becoming a teacher. Good question! None of the English teachers I know have had a straight career. Something drives us to do this crazy job, opening up to anyone and everyone as we support them [...]

It’s worth keeping an eye on this blog

Posted by Anne on May 2nd, 2010

Janet Biancini and Mike Harrison, two excellent bloggers and paedagogical tinkerers like myself, have to my delight included me in their lists of 10 blogs “worth keeping an eye on”, an initiative originating as “Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog“. Thank you!
Now I am to continue the chain by naming 10 more such [...]

Pigeon: Impossible

Posted by Anne on February 22nd, 2010

Pigeon Impossible, the silent animated film by Lucas Martell released on 9 November that took 4 years to make, passed the 1 million views mark on YouTube after less than 2 weeks online. The film is set in the neighborhood of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where two of my nieces and I [...]