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One-SIide Presentations

Giving presentations is a very important part of modern language curricula yet most learners do not enjoy it and do not give their best.

Dec 8, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

November 2025

Magic Words: Street

In this series I’ve looked at words with generally positive connotations, words like international, professional, signature and tactical. Now, let’s…

Nov 5, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

October 2025

Summaries and Commentaries

Writing summaries of texts increases learner engagement with texts, and writing commentaries helps develop our learners’ critical thinking skills.

Oct 16, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

August 2025

In 1980 George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published Metaphors We Live By, which quickly became a classic in linguistics and philosophy.

Aug 19, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

The English Ideas Project Substack News

I hope you have been having a great summer (or winter).

Aug 13, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

June 2025

As summer is here in the northern hemisphere I will be taking a break from posting essays here in order to work on two important projects and to have…

Jun 7, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

May 2025

Since I started this Substack I have commented quite frequently on the state of AI.

May 31, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

Can we Use AI to write multiple choice questions and to grade writing?

AI is really being forced on us.

May 19, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

April 2025

A UTWR Writing Task

Writing tasks are always tricky because of issues like the time required, and the fact that if we set writing as homework, many students will not take…

Apr 30, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

We Will Always Have Paris

But which Paris?

Apr 17, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

Essays Visualised

Often, even though we are primarily concerned with language here, it can be useful to visualize things.

Apr 7, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

Thoughts on Notes and Other Matters

Marcus Tullius Tiro was Marcus Tullius Cicero's secretary.

Apr 1, 2025 • Robert Buckmaster

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