In the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language long rightly dead; while another, from some fancied artistic tendency which always failed to justify itself, might be told off without ...
While we live in a technologically and scientifically advanced age, superstition is as widespread as ever. Not limited to just athletes and actors, superstitious beliefs are common among people of all occupations, educational backgrounds, and income levels. In this fully updated edition of Believing in Magic, renowned superstition expert Stuart Vyse investigates our tendency towards these irrational beliefs. Superstitions, he writes, are the natural result of several psychological processes, including our human sensitivity to coincidence, a penchant for developing rituals to fill time
Teaching Other Subjects Through English (Resource Books for Teachers)
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has attracted great interest in recent years, especially in Europe but increasingly more widely in the world. This is undoubtedly linked to the expansion of subject teaching in English, whether in state pilot experimental schools, universities, or international schools. This in its turn rides on the back of the tendency for parents to want their children to make an earlier start in learning English.
