EFL Notes

Live Air Traffic Control recordings are available from sites such as LiveATC. In the Aviation English literature when transcripts of traffic are published most of the time the recordings are not ...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2022/07/15/recreate-live-air-traffic-control/

RIP Hotpotatoes During lessons with (general aviation) air traffic controllers, students were often puzzled about the verbs plummet and hurtle. Although some managed to guess at their meanings af...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/h5p-image-choice-motion-verbs/

“All kinds of effective training programmes may be based on simplifying assumptions which turn out to be or are known to be false.” (Harris, 2000: 186) The above is part of a footnote by Roy ...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/means-and-ends/

My last two posts (Locating collocation and Thin word lists and fat concordances) have used the ideas of Bill Louw, who kindly agreed to talk about his work. (Note if you are reading this from a...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/bill-louw-i-intend-to-revive-logical-positivism/

The Wikipedia entry on collocation says:“..a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance”. 1This is the description of collocation that...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/locating-collocation/

One of the aspects of the proposed changes in the GCSE modern foreign language, MFL, syllabus in the UK is the use of corpus derived word lists 1. Distribution of words when counted follow a powe...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/thin-word-lists-and-fat-concordances/

This post is adding to what has been written already on how to do picture labelling exercises with Hot Potatotes. It assumes you know how to make a JCloze exercise. The following video shows a sa...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/picture-labelling-with-hotpotatoes/

Interative transcripts are where text appears next to a video or audio and the words being spoken are highlighted on the text as the video or audio plays. This video-post is about making your own...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/create-your-own-interactive-transcript/

In my last post one of the comments (by nmwhiteport) was skeptical about the notion of core meaning of words as I used it to describe the verbs make and do in Collocations need not be arbitrary. ...

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/funky-images/

Explaining collocations

https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/why-the-pineapple/