I'm not sure what the model of 'progress' is for the new GCSE. If learning is just seeing stuff over and over again in new contexts, with the same words recycled, can I easily use a textbook but in a different order? As for core grammar, it needs to be there from topic 1.

Basically this

Surrounded by a whole postwar gen in absolute denial

Because the postwar gen needs to believe their wealth and success was down to their own hard work and sheer talent

Not just the sheer dumb economic luck of being born at the right time. Which it basically was

How on earth did the #bbc election coverage take the line that it's a bad night for Labour?

For those at the back:

There Were No Complaints About Trans Women on Hospital Wards, Investigation Finds | Novara Media novaramedia.com/2023/10/04/the…

This paper reinforces my view that Task Based isn't fancy simulations. It's pupils using their language NOT in order to 'produce' specific structures they have been learning or need to show for example criteria.

We should keep an eye on it in our classes:
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2022/12/task-b…

These are strangely addictive. I think I might start saying several of these:

Now published open access: Taking communication to task once more – a further decade on tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

America:

These are well worth a watch. If you're new to it, or as a welcome refresher:

Millennium bug

American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby bbc.com/news/articles/…

This is Ramón Valdéz who played Don Ramón in the long running comedy El chavo del ocho.

I'm forming a support group for newly redundant satirists.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Kid in my class does French homework on Quizlet etc while walking the dog. Walked into a tree this morning.

Parents in Y8 parents evening think pupils HAVE to do a language at GCSE. Wouldn't take much to make it happen. They expect it! Why are government so cowardly?

Le Sénégal acquiert la bibliothèque de Léopold Sédar Senghor l.jeuneafrique.com/hc

145 años de historia. No es casualidad!
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