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Are you still following this blog? If you are, you would have missed two posts which have since been published in the "new" version. See I'm MOVING! for details.

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2012/01/reminder-of-new-version-of-blog.html

I've been putting it off for quite a long time now because of this reason or that, but I've finally done it - just made it before this year ends! The new address is http://aclil2climb.blogsp...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/12/im-moving.html

Broken legs in Andorra? Yeah, that's Cockney rhyming slang for broken eggs with chistorra, and yeah, I've just invented that, the slang, I mean. :-) Cheese-toh-what? Well, that's a type of sausag...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/12/broken-legs-in-andorra-aka-to-hell-with.html

Just as you thought it was safe to store away all your PCs for the festive break, along comes yet another tool to help enrich your browsing experience. Will it? Or will it stay stitched up? Take ...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-7-of-11-stitched-up.html

Where were you last Saturday 17th December 2011 from about 09:00 until 15:00 GMT? Seriously, if you were not doing anything you couldn't postpone such as looking after the sick or the young, or e...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/12/two-for-price-of-none.html

Image by @ij64 on ELTPics; Teaching is, often, a lonely job. If you're lucky, you get to talk about your problems, exchange ideas, or periodically receive some level of motivation in the sta...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-overcome-lonely-teacher-blues.html

This is so hilarious I've just got to share it here, too. Shame it's so fast that learners may have a hard time following it. Anyway, just sit back and try to enjoy it: The History of English in ...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/ug2bk-hinglish-chinglish-singlish.html

Once in a while I read something and I find myself thinking, "Now, why didn't I think of that?". Well, Richard Gresswell had such an idea. He started a blog, called it ELTBITES, and challeng...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/eltbites-challenge-we-like-to-move-it.html

This is a good an excuse as any to listen to a good song, and, at the same time, be reminded of the suffering the great nation had to endure earlier this year. Why not use this video as a springb...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/stand-by-me-japan.html

Words shaped by David Warr's PlantMaker How much is a cheese sandwich and a coffee? How much are a cheese sandwich and a coffee? Which is correct? This is a bit like my post on There is... or the...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-much-is-or-how-much-are.html

As part of the prize package for winning Grammar.net's Grammar Blog of the Year 2011, they have designed an infographic for me - thank you, team! Since I no longer have the dynamic tree menu, I t...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-navigate-around-this-blog.html

C4LPT (Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies), run by Jane Hart, is taking votes for their annual Top 100 Tools for Learning. This is the fifth time they'll be compiling the list, an...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/top-tools-for-learning-2011.html

Many students have trouble understanding the difference between must and have to, and it's really hardly surprising. Before we get into that, I'd like to say, first, that we can use have to and h...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/modal-verbs-must-have-to-or-have-got-to.html

Followers of this blog would have seen me using a few websites to produce mind maps for various purposes. For a list of free mind mappers I've used, see the useful resources page. To see examples...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/11/spiderscribe-mindmapper-now-allows.html

The rule is quite clear...or is it? We generally use 'there is' or 'there are' to talk about the existence (or not) of something, and the general rule is that we use 'are' with plural subjects. T...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/there-is-or-there-are.html

Practice or Practise? Both sound the same: /ˈpræktɪs/, but one is a noun and the other is a verb. The Americans don't make it better by spelling both the same way: practice. The way I remember...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/practice-or-practise.html

First of all, I'd like to point out that in British pronunciation, both/ˈaɪðə(r)/ and /ˈiːðə(r)/ are acceptable. The US tend to use the latter version. Either usually means 'one or the ot...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/eitheror-singular-or-plural-verb.html

There are two forms of 'used to'. When we talk about past habits and states, especially when they are no longer true, used to is followed by a verb in the infinitive form and always refers t...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/used-to-infinitive-or-ing.html

It has been such a frantic weekend that Grammar.net decided to extend the deadline by 3 days, after disqualifying the 'top' two blogs. The official deadline now is Thursday, 20th October, 23:59 P...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/grammar-blog-of-year-deadline-extended.html

What are compound adjectives? These are adjectives which are made up of more than one word, and there are many possible combinations. Examples:adjective + noun: last-minute, shoulder-length noun ...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/compound-adjectives-to-hyphenate-or-not.html

We're getting into the final countdown, and there seems to be a strong surge in voting. A CLIL To Climb is currently lying in second place, with fans of the third-spot blog frantically voting to ...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/best-grammar-blog-2011.html

  If one of our peers can make the mistake, then they must indeed be rather difficult to distinguish, so let's analyse them. In the first instance, both affect and effect have their verb and...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/tricky-words-affect-or-effect-what-are.html

 I was rather surprised to see this tweet, and was even more surprised to see it being retweeted.  So, when do we use 'whom'? To be honest, it is rarely used in informal spoken conversa...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/was-rather-surprised-to-see-this-tweet.html

First and foremost, if an image is protected by copyright, you won't be able to download nor use it. In my Useful Resources page, you can find several links to sites where you can obtain copyrigh...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-insert-image-from-flickr-to-your.html

I was surprised, to say the least, to see this on Twitter yesterday. I immediately responded with this tweet. The apostrophe 's to denote possession is also known as 'Saxon genitive', which origi...

http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2011/10/saxon-genitive-steve-jobss-or-steve.html