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Welcome to the Triple A Learning blog for DP English. The most recent blog posts are listed below and you can access the blog archive by following the appropriate link in the panel on the left.
December 23, 2010
December 18, 2010
US Health Care Debate: An A2 / A Lang and Lit Case Study
The way language is used by politicians in the media to shape public perception and response is interrogated in “Politifact’s Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’.
This would be an interesting case study to follow, using various texts in terms of language, media and cultural contexts.
December 15, 2010
A language lesson made funny
Want your students to brush up on their grammar, spelling, pronunciation, word stress, idioms and vocabulary?
Here you are! A great little clip to start the fun.
December 12, 2010
NEWS FLASH!
The pre-publication Guides for both Language A: Literature and Language A: Language and Literature are now available on the OCC!
Cartoons and Child Abuse
Recently I noticed an Ionescoesque Rhinoceros change in profile pictures on Facebook. This message also began to appear in people’s profiles:
Change your FB profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood. The goal? To not see a human face on FB until Monday, December 6th. Join the fight against child abuse, copy & paste to your status and invite your friends to do the same.
December 5, 2010
Sorry to be boring, but I’m trying to be useful!
This is for all current English A2 teachers,who, like me, are traveling from the Land of the Known (‘Language A2’) to the Land of the Faintly Familiar (‘Language A: Language and Literature’).
We’re all waiting for the grand release of the Subject Guides for the new suite of ‘Language A’ courses—promised this month (December 2010). Then the excitement of workshops…online or face to face.
