The Curious Cook

December 14, 2006 | Comments Off

This lovely picture was drawn by Josh Gosfield and is published in the New York Times with an article by the Curious Cook, Harold McGee. Its title is When Science Sniffs Around the Kitchen*. Yes, just like all the other articles by McGee this one also focuses on the alchemy of cooking. And believe me, [...]

New Materials for English

December 12, 2006 | 1 Comment

Practise Your English for Tourism II is finally out! It contains 21 reading comprehension exercises and lots of exercises for practising tourism-related vocabulary. Key included!
It’s available for free download in Å IS.
P.S. [...]

Describing diagrams

December 4, 2006 | Comments Off

A few links for those who’d like to improve their writing skills.

Writing about graphs
Graphs and tables
Writing about graphs and charts
Interpreting graphs
Including charts and diagrams
IELTS Preparation (Holmesglen) (pdf)
Charts and graphs

Please choose a tourism-related diagram for your writing exercise.

Portfolio – Refreshing Brand Australia

December 4, 2006 | Comments Off

Thanks to all those students who informed me that the link to Brand Asutralia’s website was broken. I’m sorry the files are no longer available. The Australians have already changed their branding/marketing strategy. So instead of “a different light” they keep repeating the question “So where the bloody hell are you?”
If you’re interested in the [...]