Ahem.

Sorry, bit of a hiatus.
To put it mildly.
And why? the frenetic pace of work, lots going on, plus, with regard to this blog, a total sense of inertia.
So, what's going on/has gone on in my ELT world?
1) my place of employment has changed owners;
2) because of this, everyone's worried that they're going to lose their jobs;
3) the new owners have done nothing to assuage this worry by doing a legal, but entirely unethical, 'consultation' to reorganise the various curriculum areas in the college that means that they can get rid of a lower echelon of management within 30 days;
4) the impression they give that they regard the place as a business rather than an educational institution;
5) on a brighter note, I gave a presentation at the English UK teacher's conference;
6) I developed a STONKING enrichment activity involving a tent.
right, three subjects I will put on here:
a) a write up of my presentation subject - a linguistic hierarchy of needs, as I began to outline here in earlier posts;
b) a language ability graphic profiling system I developed;
c) a extraordinary suggestion I have that may give an insight into why we use language in the way we do when we're learning, or for why bilinguals seem to prefer one language over the other.
And here's the video of me preparing for my enrichment activity: