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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 10/10/2026

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Creatures Like Us - Be Gay, Do Anarchy!

A radical queer video game about squatting, mutual aid, and system change. Balance individual & community needs to smash capitalism!

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Last summer I was in Spain. My "deformacion profesional" made me gather examples of "wrong Spanish" displayed in public spaces: nobody cares about A used with non personal objects and even verb agreement is at risk when the subject is a collection of words. Yet my students will be penalised at GCSE.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am using the new GCSE textbook. One of my Y10s asked me about the imperfect and the preterite. Do I show off that I am not a novice and tell him some vague words about non finished actions but not mentioning about aspect or do I give him usual contexts and examples the way linguists work?

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love the art and I love your article. In my opinion, the rules first comes from a disinformed point of view of language. Errors go with you all your life in your second language. If we start teaching L2 as translation of L1 literacy (i.e. rules first) we are disadvantaging some students.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I find it impossible to be responsive with a PWP I have not made or at least significantly tweaked.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good luck with that! I have worked in schools that give you a centrally produced PowerPoint to ensure quality control. It also seems that Ofsted will ask middle leaders how they ensure teaching in departments is consistent... "we use the same PowerPoints".

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From exactly the same place as their other policies: their self belief in their right to be in charge.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do not want to hear how he feels about me being English or not. You are discussing how to lead a country listing the rule of law amongst its defining core values; I don´t want to know how you "feel" when someone says they are English or British or European. Have you got anything useful to offer?

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And if you are an Asturian mother you just ask "¿ayúdote yo?" (shall I help you?), even though they can apply all rules about imperatives and giving orders.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Leaning on the grammar pillar is not enough, and phonics and vocabulary are not much help either. Neither is translation, particularly with students who are developing their literacy in their own language. Pinker studied how natives use verbs: not via conjugation, but domains of fluency.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Spanish imperfect is my favourite example of the paradox: translated as I used to do, I was doing, I would do.... explaining that it is an incomplete action in the past is not much help in Y9. In Spanish we can often choose between imperfect or preterite depending on meaning we want to convey.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We might not be in this pickle is the supporters of the pillars had considered interlanguage and the interlanguage paradox. And you would not have experts delivering training saying that they if only they had learned the phonics of W in school they would not have a foreign accent now.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was a time when people told me -without me asking - that I was not white. Now, if anything, they tell me that I am a good migrant who comes from a western culture with a solid democratic tradition. Tell me you know nothing about my history without telling me you know nothing about my history.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe that is how he kept his beauty. My dad did not like chicken much and would complain that it was full of hombronas. He only started talking about hombronas when I started studying philology and history of the Spanish language. Or maybe chickens were not injected with hormones before.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New bird to go with the new cat!

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I teach languages. When I started teaching there was a comedy show whose catchphrase was "scorchio" Ofsted was pro creativity and fast moving up Bloom's pyramid, which caused many scorchios. Now it is grammar, causing big mistakes and no meaning. All evidence-based.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be clear: Ofsted and Brexit seem to be nobody's favourite. Donald Trump could also have been clickbait.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have just read the article. It made me think of Brexit: nobody's favourite but we are keeping it to avoid arguing about it. The duck was clickbait, never mentioned again.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You cannot escape interlanguage, even with the rules first, avoid mistakes approach. I have just read Pearson's materials to train on phonics and dictation and it advises to focus on the difficult sounds. Which are difficult because of non-nativeness, also called interlanguage. Mi/me, still there.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One is very intrigued by an article that compares Ofsted with Donald Trump.

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Clare Seccombe @clareseccombe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

4 new Primary Languages CPD videos on YouTube today www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... All dealing with French phonics and pronunciation. I think I should be able to get French phonics done in 2 more videos!

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Primary Languages CPD Series - YouTube

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

After each new book we plan from scratch, for no reason but editorial says so. Six years at university so that I can play Onda's grammar videos rather use what always worked for me. Conjugate and infinitive are mentioned but not explained or exemplified.Not worth throwing the baby out or the water.

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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From studying his business activities, it looks more likely that he is a large net destroyer of UK jobs. Kuenssberg is drooling all over him but like many of our credulous 'journalists', she doesn't bother to dig deep and suffers from total amnesia.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story. My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’

Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And Manchester United employs many migrants.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still, it would be nice to find a nicer context... not the first thing that springs to mind when you think of what to teach in the first week....

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My school bought the audio from Pearson. They were baffled, "because it is already in the ebook", but my Internet connexion is pretty unreliable and I do not want to be fidgeting with the keyboard in front of 30 teens who already think I am uncool and inept.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Commercial and bad. Why do we have to create quizlets or blooket sets for homework? Why aren't the books well planned? GCSE students would be A1 level students. Why does the textbook throw so much at them in unit 1. And why does Onda encourage students to say they are stupid?

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But that happens whether you use a textbook or not. I am baffled that there are so many expensive PowerPoints and other resources based on textbooks that are already expensive.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Spanish textbook starts with "revision" because there is no way you would throw so much information at students unless you thought they knew it beforehand. Vocabulary acquisition does not seem to be planned and we seem to expect Spanish to be learned by talking about Spanish in English.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More often than not you don´t translate it. This new approach of starting to teach Spanish as a mere translation of English is doing students - particularly those with poor literacy - no favours.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Year 7 has a new "knowledge rich" textbook that gives Soy Juan y soy tonto as a good answer to ¿Cómo eres? Very early to deal with adjective agreement, as no nouns have been introduced yet. No problem, more than half of them thought silly (alleged translation of tonto) was a noun.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And if there is no level playing field we change the rules, making a consultation referendum binding by the power of bullying everyone into calling it the will of the people.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12/09/2026

You can call this legal. You can call it a donation. But please don’t insult everyone’s intelligence by calling it a “level playing field”.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You had me at "look at that naughty cow". :)

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Maybe we teachers are fostering this attitude without realising when we do retrieval practise? I like explaining to students why we do what we do in lessons, and I have explained the concept of interlanguage. Y7 are probably too young to get it, so I mention my foreign accent and little more.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yes! Noticing and making sense of language, making hypothesis about how it works and checking if we are understood. This makes so much more sense for language teachers than the model of think in English and translate into the target language pillar by pillar!

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Or before, with the colonial wars.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lope the Vega is happy with the clarification.

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carmenzs.bsky.social @carmenzs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Prudencia leaves before the night because otherwise children harass her, Poncia kills her husband's birds because, is unpleasant with the beggar because she can; women are declared bad just on suspicion, gossip or testimony of a dog. It is an oppressive society. And Bernarda is as blind as Oedipus.

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