English
for Academic Purposes | 2019
Pronunciation exercises (F. Ludescher)
22 February
Articles and clips
Leadership Lab: The craft of writing effectively (U. Chicago Social Sciences); lecture handout
Malapropisms (examples/exercises)
Breakfast for Brexit
Grammar and vocabulary
hardy vs hearty
apropos, malapropism, Mrs Malaprop lives!, The pineapple of politeness
rheumatic wheels
dog's breakfast (redux)
1 March
Articles and clips
Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
What are mondegreens? (Phrasefinder), Mondegreen (TV Tropes)
The science of misheard lyrics (New Yorker)
Indecipherable songs (Guardian)
Archive of misheard lyrics
Mondegreen (exercises)
Grammar and vocabulary
spitting image
8 March
Grammar and vocabulary
Binomials (ThoughtCo), Binomials: peace and quiet (BBC Learning English)
Alliterative and rhyming English binomials (exercises)
15 March
Articles and clips
Ronnie Barker, Mispronunciation Sketch, featuring many malapropisms and spoonerisms, transcript
Grammar and vocabulary
Synonymous and antonymous English binomials (exercises)
bread and butter, bring home the bacon
publish or perish
22 March
Grammar and vocabulary
Repeated words and reduplicatives (exercises)
29 March
Grammar and vocabulary
Doublets (common etymologies)
Doublets in English (R. Nordquist, ThoughtCo)
shade/shadow (Merriam-Webster Learner's Dict.)
In the shadow of my wings: Psalms 17:8, 57:1, 63:7, 91
5, 12 & 26 April
Grammar and vocabulary
indefinite and definite articles (British Council)
Countable vs. Uncountable Nouns,
Indefinite vs. Definite, Use of articles: exercises (Finnish Virtual Univ.)
by hook or by crook, by fair means or foul
3 May
English sentence intonation
Comma after i.e. and e.g.
Don't ditch the adverb (Guardian)
10 May
M.-R. Trouillot, An unthinkable history: the Haitian revolution as a non-event (book chapter, in: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 1995).
Articles exercise: Opening paragraphs of Trouillot's book chapter
A.G. Sepinwall Still Unthinkable? The Haitian Revolution and the Reception of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past, J. Haitian Studies, 19:2 (2013)
17 May
English homonyms
cook the books
J. Tutino, The Revolution in Mexican Independence (introduction)
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Academic Writing - Paragraphs (BBC Learning English)