“The best teachers are storytellers: they craft a narrative, hold the attention of the room, provide examples that stick in your brain. It worked for Aesop, and it’s a method that still holds up today.” Matt Goolding
Category: language
The Queen’s English
“This was always my trouble when I was learning to speak your language. Every word can defend itself. Just when you grab it, it can split into two separate meanings so the understanding closes on empty air. I admire you people. You are like sorcerers and you have made your language as safe as money.” ~ Little Bee
Source: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
It’s How You Say It
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” ~ Peggy O’Mara
Source: www.thesilverpen.com via Angela Maiers
Next Year
“Isn’t l’année prochaine so much nicer than ‘next year’? Do you think in France when they learn English they’re all going, ‘Oh, how ugly’?” ~Sarabeth
Source: Ann Packer’s novel Songs without Words
The Write Quote 