Cell Professor David Crystal When mobile phone technology came in a few years ago, the term was immediately shortened. Mobile phones became 'mobiles'. 'I've got my mobile.' 'Have you got your mobile on?' But that was in the UK. In the United States,...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Blog Teachers notes contents 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Audio scripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: The...
Blog Professor David Crystal In 2001, I wrote a book called, Language and the Internet, and I didnt mention the word blog. Well, this year, I have a second edition out. In it goes, thats how fast the internet moves. Those who blog, bloggers, carry ou...
Binge Professor David Crystal Going on 'a binge' has a long linguistic history. It means 'a heavy drinking bout', and goes right back to the 1850s, both as a noun and as a verb you didn't need the word 'drinking', 'binge' meant drinking in those days...
Teacher's notes Bless Teachers notes contents 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Audio scripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: The use of the word bless to talk about sweet or...
Bless Professor David Crystal There's quite a range of explanations using 'bless' in English, all originally from the religious use of the word. 'Bless you!' somebody says after a sneeze. 'Ah! Bless my soul!' - a rather older fashioned one. 'Bless yo...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Bling CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: Music and culture th...
Bling Professor David Crystal Bling, bling it arrived in English in the late 1990s, used to describe diamonds and jewellery and all kinds of showy clothing, accoutrements Well, it became nationally known in the USA when the artist Baby Gangster - Cas...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 26 Hole-in-the-wall CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic:...
Keep your English up to date Hole-in-the-wall Professor David Crystal Hole-in-the-wall is one of those phrases where you get a lot of words hyphenated, if you wrote it down: hole-in-the-wall, being used as a single word, as a noun. 'I'm going to the...
