People climb mountains for all sorts of reasons. I can think of few better than Robbie Ives’. Upper-intermediate students will find a word formation exercise attached to this post—as well as a… more →
Sukey Tawdry's Kettle HoleSukey wrote 3 days ago: People climb mountains for all sorts of reasons. I can think of few better than Robbie Ives’. … more →
Lola Snow wrote 2 weeks ago: I was standing at the bus stop this morning, pondering what the hell to do about my current clothing … more →
Sukey wrote 2 months ago: Natural History Museum, Norfolk A good story should have the following elements: title, introduction … more →
Sukey wrote 2 months ago: Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s biography of Vita Sackville-West is one o … more →
Sukey wrote 2 months ago: Read this sorbet recipe, and then do the exercise in the attached file. For A2/A2+ students of Engli … more →
Sukey wrote 2 months ago: What a joy it is to know that justice is done in certain countries! We should have laws like these i … more →
Sukey wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a gapped text for B2 students. I bet you thought I had forgotten all about you. BTW, d … more →
Sukey wrote 4 months ago: Ten questions, three options for each of them, and only one correct answer. Put your grammar to the … more →
grellet wrote 5 months ago: The Al-Jazeera photographer was released after more than 6 years in American custody. He had been o … more →
Sukey wrote 5 months ago: Inspired by Maestro Serrano’s La Verbena de la Paloma, I knocked off this listening exercise f … more →
Sukey wrote 7 months ago: Imagine you were agony aunt Mary from the weekly magazine The Spectator and you had received the fol … more →
Sukey wrote 7 months ago: Step back, Satan, and all ye B2 students step forward! Emotional Problems Cloze Test Emotional Prob … more →
BristleKRS wrote 7 months ago: Bit of a borderline case, this one: Hunger striker Thomas Ashe (played by I don’t know whom, … more →
Sukey wrote 8 months ago: Here’s a multiple choice reading comprehension test for B2 students (all you EOI NA1 and NA2 … more →
Sukey wrote 8 months ago: Should I? Oh, what the heck! Whose blog is it, anyway? Here goes a cloze for B2 students. The origin … more →
Sukey wrote 10 months ago: The Christmas holidays are round the corner, so here’s a little something for all those Advan … more →
Sukey wrote 11 months ago: A match-the-headings-and-the-texts exercise for B2 students about one of my contemporaries with a ba … more →
Sukey wrote 11 months ago: Here’s an exercise for A2 students of English. You have to underline the silent letters (those … more →
Sukey wrote 12 months ago: Here’s a multiple choice questions exercise for B2 students. Did I hear outdated? Yes, as reg … more →