smartphones – Andy Highton Language Training

I read a book!

I should begin by pointing out that this is the past tense of the verb ‘to read’. It isn’t an invitation for you to watch or listen to me reading a book. Anyway… I used to read voraciously, I would get through novels incredibly quickly and enjoyed browsing the rows of books in bookshops lookingContinue reading “I read a book!”

Learning tools

When, quite a few years ago, I started my first language teaching course, the tools available to us were limited compared to what is available to the language learner and teacher nowadays. I had to prepare my own OHP slides – something so old that most of you reading this won’t even know what I’mContinue reading “Learning tools”

The Babel fish

“The Babel Fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.” So begins the description of this strange creature in the classic 1979 book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Douglas Adams, the author of the book, described a fantastic creature that you place in your ear and which allowsContinue reading “The Babel fish”

First steps… again

I first started writing a blog many years ago – certainly before my now-teenage kids were on the scene. I think I wrote a couple of pretty good posts but then other events caught up with me and time disappeared, and this was before we all had smartphones permanantly in front of our faces. MaybeContinue reading “First steps… again”