English Problems- Why are the jokes so funny?

A message full of hope for all teachers.

Hope you enjoy the video and (if necessary) re-think some of your teaching practices.

Why do you think a Spanish speaker might mistake perception?

A bit of fun is always welcomed!

8 Funny Foreign Signs With Terrible Translations

8 Funny Foreign Signs With Terrible Translations



If you find the errors, you'll laugh a lot. And you'll start double-checking whatever you make public.

ABSOLUTELY TRUE!

Good reading material

Marrying the land. How we broke the ancient bargain.

Do you need to teach food vocabulary?

Have a look at this article and find many items to teach and a good topic for conversation.

Enjoy it!

A month of kid-approved school lunches - easy & creative ideas!

50 Supermarket Tricks You Still Fall For

50 Supermarket Tricks You Still Fall For



Good article to reflect upon our choices.

Can you guess? At the office...

Resort to your phonetics and phonology studies...

Funny facts about punctuation marks

http://www.rd.com/slideshows/punctuation-mark-facts/view-all/?trkid=soc

Have some fun and help.

Anglotopia offers a good variety of vocabulary that might help you while you also have fun.
Enjoy it!

A new creative initiative by John Maidment: Paratrans

Find it here.
I hope you find it useful.

Color Vowel Chart (American English)

Fun and food for thought for "phonetic freaks"

A great idea to develop writing skills.

Transmedia Storytelling 101

Some reading stuff

This link to Reader's Digest will lead you to some funny true criminal stories.

http://www.rd.com/slideshows/dumb-criminals-major-crime-scene-evidence-behind?utm_content=buffer870bd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Hope you enjoy them!

You will find these samples of different accents at

WWW.FONETIKS.ORG

Terminology site

Terminology Coordination Unit is a site where you can find very interesting information and useful links to improve your linguistic knowledge.
You can access articles written by terminologists, linguists and people interested in developing their knowledge about language. There are also links to glossaries and dictionaries that might help you to find those words you need to express exactly what you think.
Hope it helps!

British Accents and Dialects

In this blog you will find numerous samples of different accents and dialects.
Great material to train your ears.
Dialects Blog