Glasgow EFL Tutor

15/03/2026

This is kinda cool.

How can "cleave" mean both to separate AND to join together? Find out in this episode about contronyms and all manner of other -onyms! Jess and Rob delve int...

22/02/2026

20/03/2025

Who's playing the nifty NY Times games every day?

Group words that share a common thread. A new puzzle is available each day.

20/03/2025

Funky new dictionary...

Best dictionary for english learners with over 300,000 words, expressions, idioms, and more. Easy to use, free and no ads.

24/08/2023

Anyone not on Duolingo yet?

Learn languages by playing a game. It's 100% free, fun, and scientifically proven to work.

22/08/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iC_rULeuZc

In English, defining relative clauses give us important information about the person, thing or place that we are talking about. We use 'who' for people, 'tha...

27/06/2023

This is rather nifty :)

ATTENTION: The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/robwords06230 The existing English alphabet is...

05/12/2022

Goblin Mode FTW !!

A landslide public vote chooses the 2022 word of the year from options prepared by lexicographers.

03/12/2022

We are delighted to announce that Gemma Archer from University of Strathclyde will be delivering an online pronunciation workshop with us for ESOL practitioners in Glasgow.
Gemma has delivered fantastic workshops with us in the past and we are really looking forward to this one on Pronunciation in the Scottish ESOL Classroom. Please sign up on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pronunciation-in-the-scottish-english-classroom-tickets-469825088487?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

26/10/2022

Until a friend reminded me earlier, I'd totally forgotten that the 'blog is still there...

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