Noah CooperEnglish: The game Bananagrams, showing pieces and banana-shaped carrying container. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How do we learn language? Why do we learn language? Once we have learnt language, what do we use it for? These are all questions I have...
Face palm? (Wikipedia) This is it. Today’s the day. It’s time for the jaguar to drink water. The kick off for the 2014 World Cup is upon us. By the end of the day we’ll know if Brazil have managed to win the first game and maybe...
It is with great pleasure that I am the host of this month’s Multicultural Kids Blogs Carnival. The theme this month is ‘Where do you come from?’ which can be a tricky question for lots of people to answer in this modern world...
I couldn’t find an appropriate image, but I really like this painting by Mark Chadwick – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I recently saw a video of a friend who is bringing her son up to speak English and some Portuguese. I have a lot in common with...
(Wikipedia) A while ago I was talking to a good friend of mine who used to be an English teacher, but who has now moved on to other things. We were talking about how frustrating it can be teaching young children English and, despite only ever...
AHA! (Benabomb on Wikimedia CC-BY-SA 3.0) For a long time Mr. T has been saying ‘dah‘ for ‘yes’ or ‘sim‘, as I might have mentioned before. And then last week it changed. I had half expected him to start saying...
If Darth Vader had been a good dad. blurppy.com I am a bad daddy. My wife is a bad mamãe. My dad is a bad do doe (granddad) and my mum is a bad nana. How do I know this? Because my son has told us all exactly how bad we are. And the thing is I am...
Jacques Rudolph cover drive (Wikipedia) “And Head of the Heard plays a glorious cover drive to reach his maiden century. Surely there are many more ahead of him in what promises to be a glittering career…” I am a cricket fan and...
Never touched him, ref! (Wikipedia) If Mr. T were ever to be a good footballer he would be able to choose on of 3 countries to play for. If he were very good, he could choose to play for Brazil because that is where he was born. If he were average...
The Ashes Urn (Wikipedia) I am rejoicing. It is quite a strange feeling for me, but British sport seems to have developed a backbone and started to win stuff. Following on from the successful Olympics last year the British and Irish (though mainly...