The Joy of Repetition
The joy comes from observing the pattern as it becomes increasingly meaningful to us.
Read MoreHow to Make Your Speech a Moment
A momentous speech is one which makes the moment of its delivery a historic one.
Read MoreWhat Makes Christmas Songs So Pleasing
Christmas songs are an excellent example of euphony at work.
Read More24 Persuasive Devices to Optimise Your Speech
Give the gift of rhetorical force in your speech.
Read MoreWhat is Rhetorical Language?
Rhetorical language is outstanding language used to impress an audience.
Read MoreEmail Sign-Offs: A Working Guide
A working guide to the top email sign-offs currently in use.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Norman Maclean
In a verbal tribute to the primacy of nature, as the foundation of all existence, Maclean describes the world at the beginning and end of time
Read MoreNature in Action
The liveliness of my Y7s transformed into calm effort, and exploded again with energy - that was their nature in action.
Read MoreJohn's Garden
A legacy of lifelong learning, of language and ongoing growth in the world.
Read More‘Thank You’
I have my GCSE and A Level students to thank for this practice being on my mind.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Casablanca
Casablanca’s sentimental script boasts some of the most memorable and repeated lines in popular culture.
Read MoreGreat Lines: John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s style is uncomplicated and unadorned, but in these ways uncommonly clear and incisive.
Read MoreGreat Lines: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth imagines the absolute truth of life and existence in the world around him, and within himself.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Zora Neale Hurston
This blog series is devoted to great lines that strike - in literature, speech, music and film.
Read MoreThe Love of Language - Part 1: Sound Effects
These ‘sound tools’ makes analysis infinitely more enjoyable, as they give students a license to describe the effects of language in fun and satisfying ways.
Read More2020: An End and a Start
Four Quartets is considered Eliot’s masterpiece, and its final lines suggest the culmination of his life’s work in this contribution: Life can be purified in the present.
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