December 1, 2011

Not yet 5 o'clock and it's already dark outside - I can just about see the leafless trees through the[...]

November 24, 2011

I'm sitting here in the Atlas library adding titles to our ever-expanding online catalogue: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/atlaslanguageschool As you can see we[...]

November 22, 2011

Hit the Streets Even the quickest glance at a newspaper or news website today makes it clear that people all[...]

November 17, 2011

"Pun": a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, using the multiple meanings of a word, or[...]

November 8, 2011

A former Atlas student sent me an interesting email at the weekend which included the following link and suggested that[...]

November 3, 2011

If you thought the weather was bad in Ireland, take a look at this video from the BBC Learning English[...]

October 28, 2011

Tonight, Atlas's Halloween party is set to spook the hell outta anyone with the guts to get down to the[...]

October 25, 2011

A wet one"Floody Hell" said the front page headline of this morning's Metro newspaper after yesterday's deluge.  Rivers burst their[...]

October 11, 2011

There's an interesting story on the Guardian TEFL diary about changing attitudes to accents in the US school system.  Here's[...]

October 7, 2011

The blog is back.  And the weather's turned bad, or worse, seeing as it's Ireland we're talking about.  The rain[...]