In his latest blog, Gerhard Erasmus looks at how to use storytelling as a basis for comprehensible input, and shares examples of how he uses it in his school: modernenglishteacher.com/tprs-and-how-w… #Reading #Storytelling #ELT #TeachingEnglish

101 Interesting ESL Conversation Topics notonceltablog.wordpress.com/2021/03/11/101…

ICYMI: Award-winning novelist Andrew O'Hagan delivered the address at our Angus Millar Lecture last week. Read about the highlights here: thersa.co/4gtwsWl Edinburgh Reporter

It feels weird having #IATEFL2025 in Edinburgh. I’m not sure why - maybe because it’s close to where I grew up, and I associate IATEFL with things that are very far removed from where I grew up.

A plenary without a PowerPoint or Prezi. It can be done! Just the inspiring voice of ELT living legend Catherine Walter at #IATEFL2025 on what has changed over the past 50 years of language teaching.

Officially out today! The paperback edition of 'You're All Talk: Why we are what we speak'. Available in all the usual places. scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/… With some kind words from Susie Dent, David Crystal, Chris Mason, Ian McMillan, Gyles Brandreth and Simon Mayo!

The Surprising Factor That Determines English Fluency youtu.be/7QhK_0leZ7k?si…

'... a prime example of art that connects to the “central questions of the age”' Charlie Ellis reports on Hans Clausen's 'Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth' in Edinburgh. theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/08/a-homa…

Had a great time today chatting with ⁦Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷⁩ about Language, Pragmatics and Cliches. Looking forward to the episode “It’s not what we say, it’s how we say it!” on R4’s Word of Mouth later this month. ⁦Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics⁩ ⁦Manchester Metropolitan Uni⁩

Some people who don’t accept that 2500 years ago ancient Greek sounded different from today’s should hear how English might have sounded a mere 1500 years ago!

*NEW PSA BLOG* Why Study Politics?: an international #student's perspective. Yelyzaveta Yeroshkina is an #InternationalRelations & #Politics student at University of Edinburgh buff.ly/9RcLbkS #PIR #PoliticalStudies

DISAPPOINTING DRUPELETS.—An almost fruitless task along Goldenacre Path: broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/almost-fr… #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #environment

Charlie Ellis remembers Bernard Crick, the man chosen by Sonia Orwell to write her late husband's biography, the academic who collected much information about the author, and the figure whose endowments made keeping his memory alive possible. orwellsociety.com/on-the-crick-t…

CORSON'S NO MORE..—Charlie Ellis on Raeburn Place and the changing character of Stockbridge: broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/corsons-n… #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #retail #Stockbridge

'... the possibility that contemporary listeners and viewers would find him amusingly posh is not something he and his reputation have had to face. Unlike many of his contemporaries, the voice we associate with him is not fixed in time.' #Orwell orwellsociety.com/orwells-fortun…

This sense of déjà vu – of teaching the same language points and topics repeatedly, often from the same pages – is endemic among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. elgazette.com/necessary-repe…

When your translator can’t translate chaos ensues youtube.com/watch?v=qWK4gY…

The English lexicon is famously hospitable. Much to the chagrin of prescriptivist sticklers, it is a language that greets new arrivals with open arms. drb.ie/blog/semantic-…