| 21 Dec 09 |
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In my perfect world, there would be little difference between desire and reality. When I had an idea, for a story or a film for example, I would be able to create that with only a minimum of effort. T...
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| 03 Dec 09 |
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Not long after I took my seat on the train this afternoon, the guy sitting next to me said ‘Excuse me, can you tell me what this means?’ He was holding open a copy of mX – the free ‘newspaper...
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| 14 Oct 09 |
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These days, as part of my work, I read a lot of essays written by people from a non-English speaking background. Some of it’s very good, some of it’s very bad, most of it’s plain average to tell...
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| 08 Sep 09 |
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Here’s an online film festival for films that are only one minute long! There are twenty-five films, a mixture of live-action and animation, and they are from all over the world.You can watch twenty...
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| 26 Jul 09 |
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In terms of vocabulary, different learners focus on different things. Some learners focus on translating words directly from their native language. Other learners enjoy learning slang. Some learners e...
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| 18 Jul 09 |
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Speaking generally, there are two types of language learner: the first type gets really worried about making errors or mistakes. They think about everything that they say carefully. Sometimes, if they...
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| 14 Jul 09 |
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This is one of my favourite errors that learners of English make. It’s a very common error – I’ve heard learners from beginner all the way through to advanced make it.The error is commonly heard...
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| 05 Jul 09 |
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Students say this to me all the time. I always ask why? Sometimes, the students say that they are planning to take the IELTS test soon, to study at TAFE, or university, or to immigrate to Australia. B...
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| 02 Jul 09 |
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How’s it going? is an extremely common Australian saying. I use it at least half-a-dozen times a day, whenever I’m meeting someone for the first time. This is when the saying is most commonly used...
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| 27 Jun 09 |
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Learning English - boring, right?There are a lot of students from many different countries studying English in Australia. If you walk down George Street in Sydney, you will see people from all over th...
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| 25 Jun 09 |
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He's making an honest woman of her. I’m in love with language, particularly English. I have been for a long time. If it was legal to marry a word or an idea, rather than another person, I would swee...
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