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As promised – PARSNIP

My explanatory guide on subjects to be avoided at all costs in ELT materials.

PornographyStudent: Teacher, what is ‘pornography’?Teacher: Er, it’s pictures of naked people.Student: Do you mean like paintings?Teacher: Er, not really.Student (smelling blood now): So, what is the difference?Teacher: … Why don’t you ask Michel? He was looking at some on one of the [...]

The best thing…

…about working in the English Language Teaching (ELT) industry is that you have an excuse to research and write about almost every subject under the sun (apart from those that fall under the PARSNIP exceptions, of which perhaps another post at another time).

Things I have had to think about this week:

-Spontaneous Human Combustion: it can [...]