#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today’s ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a rather grim diagnosis a doctor once gave after a visit to A&E with what I thought was a broken bone in my foot.

Is it the job of language teachers to teach critical thinking skills and how well equipped are they to do so? What do you think?

Queen of the Pickleball Court 🌶

And, of course, the wonderful teachers of @INTO_Manchester responded with #solidarity of their own! #IWW and @UM_UCU together for the win!

#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today’s ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a conversation with an old friend who wasn't entirely honest when filling in the application form for his current job.

Last Sunday, I was planning to talk to Tania Shelepko in Kyiv, but russia knocked out her Internet connection. We’ve managed to reschedule for 17.00 London time tonight. Tania is an English and Drama teacher, and a war report producer for Norwegian media  https://t.co/RB38h1SAeh

Women are evacuating animals from Kupiansk. The author of the video Hanna Kravtsova, wrote: "Have you seen what's happening there? I can't stay calm watching this - my heart breaks from pain and despair I want as many people as possible to see this video, because volunteers

More genocidal ranting about Ukraine from one of Russia's top state TV hosts. Imagine a BBC Newsnight presenter shouting that Ireland doesn't exist and there is and never will be any Dublin. That is Russia's real attitude to Ukraine, not the nonsense about NATO and the EU fed

#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today’s ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a classroom conversation about cute animal videos we'd seen recently.

But---I thought the USA under Trump was going to stand up to Putin. Please wake up Europe--the USA will not defend you against Russia. https://t.co/rgOiwR70z9

#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish What language would you focus on in feedback after a speaking task?

"I have to inform Sultana that her class-war rhetoric would strike working-class Ukrainians as an egregious, pompous luxury belief – marinated in the fashionable politics of people who jet off to Paris to compare notes on the working class... Sultana embodies the kind of British

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🚨 Russian forces attacked a children’s hospital in Kherson, Ukraine today - injuring at least nine, including kids who were receiving care. Just last week, Russia hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv. These were deliberate attacks. Pure evil.

Ed Davey, "We've seen evidence of Russian interference in Poland, Germany and France" "Last month the former leader of a majority party in Wales pleaded guilty to taking bribes for making pro Russian statements" "Evidence shows Nathan Gill was a close confidant of Nigel Farage,

#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today’s ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a student of mine who had a big fancy wedding this summer.

Russia’s coal industry is approaching rock bottom

The abusive American cult "Scientology" is running a big recruitment campaign in Kyiv now; trying to exploit traumatised and bereaved Ukrainians. Ukrainian friends, keep an eye out for these posters in your buildings and remove if possible.

Viktor Orbán and his party have sunk to astonishing depths with AI forged videos. The prime minister, trembling for his power, and his direct accomplices are releasing forged videos about me in which they put words in my mouth that I never said. What they do in their desperation

Switching to the passive voice to describe Russian atrocities, and then sputtering into campist irrelevance by claiming Zelensky isn't focused on class warfare in the midst of an ongoing war of conquest. Far left nonsense helpfully distilled into one clip.

Not all language lends itself to pre-teaching.