Good morning everyone.
The Penguinet will be back in September. See you all then!

Good morning everyone from rainy (good for the garden) Morsum.

Much as I miss my dear students and our interesting discussions, having more time at home means more time listening to BBC R4. I cannot recommend this wonderful Station enough, and if you visit the Website you will find many programmes to Listen Again or download. It's all free.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4


I can also spend more time baking.  Today's cake is a Gooseberry Meringue pie.
Here are some gooseberry recipes:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/gooseberry

Gooseberry is also used in an Idiom:

To play gooseberry

https://www.englishforums.com/English/IdiomGooseberry/crmp/post.htm

Have a great week!

Good morning and back again from the UK, where my Mum is making unexpectedly good progress.
How nice.

I have been thinking about accents this week, so here are some interesting things to watch and listen to:

http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/seminars/speaking-bright-and-beautiful-english-shakespeare-english-language-council-lecture?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc-teachingenglish


http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/seminars/iatefl-pronunciation-sig-natecla-london-conference-accentuate-bringing-pronunciation-fore?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc-teachingenglish


Something we don't practise very often is spelling, although in English this is really, really tricky.
Here's an online spelling test:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/spe-endings.html

And wow this is fun (once you learn how to do it!)

http://www.manythings.org/cts/8987.html

Have a great week!