Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to the European Award for Languages ceremony not, as usual, in London but down the road in the Scottish Parliament. It was a real pleasure to hear about some highly innovative teaching, some with technology some without any at all. You can get a flavour […]

MFLE visitors are an organised lot - there have been over 500 downloads of the MFLE’s Christmas-related plays already. There are Christmas plays in French, German and Italian, as well as a Cinderella play in French. All stories can be adapted, however, to suit whichever language you are teaching.
There’s also a new lesson pack in this […]

A Scottish CILT study has found that more than 100 languages are currently spoken in Scotland’s schools, with at least 12,000 children capable of such diverse tongues as Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Dutch, Farsi, Hebrew, and Hindi. This article in the Herald has more details.

A new book suggests people are keen to coin new insults in the English language, such as ‘tanorexic’, according to this BBC article. There are also lots of new verbs, such as “smirt” (to smoke and flirt). How many have you heard of? Your students will almost certainly know them all…