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    <title><![CDATA[Learn English vocabulary webside]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2024/06/learn-english-vocabulary-webside.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:15:10 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I often use the websites below to teach vocabulary to my students. There are a lot of exercises (with corrections for self-study) to learn vocabulary related to holidays, work, daily life, business.
Interactive English vocabulary exercises by topic for... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Semantle]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:41:39 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Another word game! This one is really difficult, but great fun. You have the guess the word by making associations. "Guess the secret word Each guess must be a word (or short phrase like San Juan or id est). Semantle will tell you how semantically similar... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WORDLE]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:45:31 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A new game! You can play it on your computer or on your phone. No need to install an application! You can play only once a day. Excellent way to learn new vocabulary. 😁
Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Popular Internet Acronyms]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:53:01 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The moment written language was invented, people started thinking about how to say more using fewer words. Acronyms were born. Now, without knowing acronyms, you can't communicate, especially on the ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitve impairment]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2020/10/alzheimer.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:17:33 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I'm sharing an interesting article!
In a paper published in Neuropsychologia, the researchers conclude that speaking two languages on a regular basis – and having done so all one's life – enhances cognitive reserve and delays the appearance of symptoms... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Coronavirus jokes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:54:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[These images / jokes have been sent to me. I really don't know the who wrote / made them. If you are the one who made/wrote them, and don't want me to post them, let me know. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Games to learn English]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2018 09:39:35 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[One of my colleagues shared this with me: a site to learn English, but by doing fun games! Have a look! " The games are aimed at a relatively low level of English with pretty much all the content being around elementary level. A lot of the vocabulary... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The cousin explainer]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:14:18 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A lot of people find it difficult to know how to explain family relationships. The image above might help you. This is an image of a tea towel, but it is sold out, and I don't know which company made it. Below you can find as well the French version of... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;Faux Anglicismes&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:30:53 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[photo du site:  https://quadro.fr/nos-creations/dressings/
What are "Faux Anglicismes"? From the French Wikipedia page on this subject: "des lexèmes pris dans la langue anglaise (ils en ont l'orthographe et la prononciation), mais ne sont pas utilisés... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Phonetics]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2018/07/some-information-about-phonetics-this-is-from-the-blog-language-base-camp-language-base-camp-s-mission-is-to-be-a-community-based-hu]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 09:18:15 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Some information about phonetics... This is from the blog LANGUAGE BASE CAMP: "Language Base Camp’s mission is to be a community-based hub where language learners and language lovers can connect and help each other along the path to learning languages.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Probabilistic words]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 09:12:40 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Interesting!!
In the early 1990s, the CIA published internal survey results for how people within the organization interpreted probabilistic words such as "probable" and "little chance". Participants were asked ... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Unputdownable: 17 books you can read in 24 hours!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 07:57:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If you are looking for some great books to read this Summer, have a look at the list of these 17 books below. The author of the blog ( Anne, a blogger, bookworm, and big- question-aske r) called them "unputdownable".
Every once in a while, I pick up a... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Laurel Zuckerman: English teachers in France]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:32:38 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Laurel Zuckerman Is the current concours system the best way to select and prepare English teachers? Perhaps the most reliable answer is to be found in the students' results. The 2002 European Assessment of English skills is, in its fashion, eloquent:... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Comparison Tenses: English - French]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:17:10 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[English sentence English tense Phrase française temps français I have a car. present simple J' ai une voiture. présent simple I often go to the cinema. present simple Je vais souvent au cinéma. présent simple I' m watching TV. present continuous Je regarde... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Les Anglo-Saxons']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:48:44 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Local 26 October 2017 Ever noticed how the French will refer to the English-speaking world as "les Anglo-Saxons", even though historically-speaking the Anglo-Saxons haven't been around since medieval times? Emile Chabal explains why it says more about... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Freedom (Louis Dudek)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:59:56 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I read this poem a few days ago... My two dogs tied to a tree by a ten-foot leash kept whining and howling for an hour till I let them off. Now they are lying quietly on the grass a few feet further from the tree and they haven’t moved since I let them... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;We need a native speaker....&quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2017/09/we-need-a-native-speaker.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:59:25 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This is not the first time that I talk about the organisation TEFL EQUITY ADVOCATES. This organisation fights "FOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN ELT". Here are some extracts from an article by Karin Krummenacher... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ms.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:43:40 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When teaching 'writing emails', I always have to explain Ms to my students. They know Mr , Mrs and Miss , but in general it's the first time they encounter Ms .
By MARGALIT FOX JULY 6, 2017 (New York Times) Sheila Michaels, who half a century ago, wielding... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;English for Beginners&quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2016/12/english-for-beginners.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:08:23 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Well, this is pretty sweet. Apparently it's a Polish TV ad for an auction website. Enjoy!
Czasami brakuje słów, by wyrazić to, co najważniejsze. W takim przypadku trzeba się ich po prostu nauczyć. #Allegro #CzegoSzukasz #angielski #święta #iloveyou #youareperfect... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Relative Clauses: Pronouns]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:23:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Defining Relative Clauses: relative pronouns Defining relative clauses give detailed information defining a general term or expression. Defining relative clauses are not put in commas. Defining relative clauses are often used in definitions. Object pronouns... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[IATEFL 2016 Plenary Day 2 (Silvana Richardson)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2016/05/iatefl-2016-plenary-day-2-silvana-richardson.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2016 10:49:20 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[As an English teacher who is a non-native speaker of English, I want to "promote" Silvana Richardsons talk! Here is a summary of the presentation by the blogger Lizzie Pinard:
The one minute history of Native Speakerism starring the Monolingual Bias .... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[TEFL EQUITY ADVOCATES]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2016/04/tefl-equity-advocates.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:19:58 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[FOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN ELT
TEFL Equity Advocates was set up in April 2014 in order to speak out against the discrimination of non-native English speaker teachers (NNESTs) in TEFL/TESL industry.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Language influences how people see the world]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2016/02/language-influences-how-people-see-the-world.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:31:31 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express? Article from The Wall Street Journal By LERA BORODITSKY... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[France ranked 'worst in EU' at learning English]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://jottings.over-blog.com/2015/11/france-ranked-worst-in-eu-at-learning-english.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:54:29 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The report noted that France, as well as neighbouring Spain and Italy were behind European averages. However, while Spain and Italy were on the up, France remained stubbornly stuck, well behind the likes of Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. "In fact,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Silent letters]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:51:51 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Based on some other lists that I have found on the internet, I have created a list of words with silent letters. Sometimes, there seems to be a sort of rule, sometimes it is just one word that is pronounced differently. I have marked the latter with an... ]]></description>
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