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A-Act English
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! I am a great defender of the use of theatre in the classroom, for any subject, and indeed as a subject in itself, as a learning, social, and cultural experience, as well as being an amazing tool to get students out of Continue reading
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F-Food
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The Podcast interview this week is in Spanish, and all about food. So, because it’s in Spanish, I’d like to give you the main gist of what we talked about, if you are not a Spanish speaker. If you are, you’ll find Continue reading
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Ñ- Añoranza
Un Cuento Cortito. An English translation comes after. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Añoraba el mar. Añoraba la calma que le envolvía al escuchar las olas besando a las piedrecitas de la orilla. Aquí, todo era calma, hasta el punto del aburrimiento a menudo, y otras veces Continue reading
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L-Libraries
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! I’m lucky enough to have always been surrounded by books. From an early age, it was like we had a library at home. Then when I was around 9 years old, I won a competition with the local newspaper and the prize Continue reading
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V-Verse
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The following is an extract from my play The Untaming, Or What She Wills. It is a play based on Shakespeare’s female characters and what would happen if they met each other. Each character is extracted from a specific point in their Continue reading
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G-Games
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! So the Podcast this week is about games, specifically board games, and I wanted to elaborate a little on what we talked about, and add a few musings of my own. I’m not going to explain all the games we mentioned, they’re Continue reading
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I- Iberia
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The Iberian peninsula, so named, it seems, for the River Ebro, which stretches from Cantabria across the North of Spain, to Tarragona. Look at Spain on a map of the world and it barely signifies. Just as Europe itself is tiny compared Continue reading
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A Kind New Year
I love the New Year. I’ve always seen it in, with wonderful family and / or friends, even though, yes, it’s just a date on the calendar. I don’t care. And this year will be a quiet one, though I’m still intending to be up at midnight, come what may. In the past, I’ve always Continue reading
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O-Overseas
A few reflections. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Overseas is an interesting word in English. It is used to describe travelling to another country, but if you are in Europe and you travel from Spain to Italy, let’s say, we would not say overseas. We may just Continue reading
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