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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

reading Hail Mary. great book, def recommend!

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Told my father we, teachers in Oz, had striked recently. He told me that people in Switzerland never strike. Well.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Odd thing happened tonight. Received a call from an elderly lady, Dorothy who misdialed, who would not take it that I was NOT Annette. She was confused and asked me 20 times what my name was. On one occasion she misheard me saying Ollie, heard Molly.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My son delivered me a smothered check mate, a forced combination after I thought I had a winning attack. In a swoop, he sacrificed a rook, and I almost fell off my chair when I saw it

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I started play chess because it was a way to spend time with my grandfather. Today I lost in 9 moves to a player ranked lower than me, and my ranking on chess.com is already low. I have to remind myself why I started playing because that makes me want to give up. I’m just terrible at this game.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Obviously the US doesn’t have a gun problem. 🤦‍♂️

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Lucky today! Wordle 1,541 2/6 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Tennis competition in Thursdays is equally about the game as it is about the after game spread. My teammate treated us to a wine from his collection, lifting the standard from here on I hope! 😂😂

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Tonight I had the realisation that I would never beat my son again in chess. I told him so, and felt a surge of pride and affection for him. I remember when I beat my own dad at tennis, and realised I would never lose to him again. He was confused and furious. Still love him though.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Binged on Mo, a series about a Palestinian refugee in US over long weekend. Both light and serious, def worth a watch.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A former student dropped by at work today as part of an alumni thing and told me he has a part in Henry V because his French was so good! He joked he was going to credit me. Told him it was the LEAST he could do 😂😂😂

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Fantasising about selling house, buying a caravan and hit the road for next 20 years.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Athletics day today. I was manning the javelin. Next to me, high jump. Y10 boy jumps, missed the mattress and dislocated his shoulder. lot of pain. I went to him, ‘Seb, you ok?!!!!!?’ ‘Sir, argh aaaaahrgh. You had a hair cut this weekend’ I kid you not. Through the pain, that’s what he told me.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Interested in learning more about TPRS for foreign language classes. Could you recommend resources and references?

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Dr. Liam Printer @liamprinter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🎙️ A look back at Ep. #100 of The Motivated Classroom podcast with Dr. Richard Ryan, co-founder of Self-Determination Theory! Discover Dr. Ryan's practical insights behind one of the most influential motivational theories. 🎧 Listen back in full here: www.liamprinter.com/podcast youtu.be/LcgpezYXUVA

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Dr. Liam Printer and Dr. Richard Ryan, of Self Determination Theory, on The Motivated Classroom pod

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here’s today cryptic clue from cluedle Single copy missing header (4) I find those more difficult than minute cryptic. I got the answer for this clue but kind of mistakenly so…

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Failed at connection today but cryptic crosswords going well :) check out this one cluedle.theoutlier.co.za?utm_campaign...

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Cluedle: The Outlier

Test your cryptic clue skills with a clue a day.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Back in the dark side there is a conversation around content knowledge and general teaching practice, affirming that general teaching practice is inferior to content knowledge in secondary schools. I think the message is that teachers are the specialists of their subjects, which is true, but

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Minute Cryptic - 14 April 2025 "500th out-take from funny Brad Pitt cameo" (3,4) I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Thanks to my colleague who introduced me to cryptic clues a few weeks ago I’m getting better at these :)

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Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Connections Puzzle #673 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 These things are becoming more and more difficult

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Wordle 1,392 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Minute Cryptic - 11 April 2025 "One silver piercing belonging to me. Fancy!" (7) I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Connections Puzzle #670 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Found this one tricky

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Couple of interesting things about Stoker’s Dracula. A page about Dracula’s thoughts on the importance of learning a foreign language and aiming to a level of command of English language that would get ppl to not see him as a foreigner. I know that feeling only too well!

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just started reading Stoker’s Dracula, I had never imagined him with a moustache before. Pretty fun read

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Love watching chess vids. noticed that players drink from water bottle when they just just played a strong move triggering an end game or mate in a few moves. Next time I play against my work place coach I’ll try to put him off his game by drinking when I play a blunder 😂 I’ll be totally hydrated.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Watching Adolescence at the moment, after my year 11 students had a passionate argument in my class about it (nothing to do with the content of my class mind you, but I let that conversation happen - I thought it was important). The series is gruelling but excellent.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Magnificent short series on Netflix, in Italian - the Leopard (Il gattopardo) follows a 19th century noble family from Sicily during and around the unification of Italy.

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I don't love listening to myself, but this was really fun to do and to listen to. If you want to hear about some of my research on #WelshEnglish have listen! Thanks @lexispodcast.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social for inviting me on ☺️ #linguistics

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Minute Cryptic - 24 March 2025 "Centuries ago, you curtailed tour around hotel" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 2 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Omg this one was meant to be easy but there were aspects of this clue that I had not previously encountered. So very happy with this!

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Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My mother turned 80 today. How strange this feels

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

As a y level coord of 15 years I found that calling families regularly works amazingly well as a proactive method to help teens not get into too much mischief. However this only works when parents don’t actively encourage rudeness and promote anti-school sentiment at home…

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What is the name of the sentence type when we write “this one writes well” or the chair sits comfortably” as opposed to “I write well with this pen” or “I can sit comfortably on this chair”?

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Wordle 1,367 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That’s my luck all used up for today

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Watching Ghosts on Prime, and Robin, the stone age character is puzzling me. He speaks English with an accent. Is it not more likely that a person would evolve with the language of the land, in particular in their accents?

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Minute Cryptic - 1 March 2025 "Hacker is transparent about wiping contents of videotape" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Yes!!!! Got this one straight up!!!

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Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Minute Cryptic - 27 February 2025 ""Australian Animals" exhibit in science museum" (4) 🟡🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 1 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Read up yesterday about solving cryptic crosswords and played this one, with a letter hint. :)

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Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

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Joe Lo Bianco @joelobianco.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Finally it’s here. Our book is titled ‘Language Politics in Tunisia: A Study of Language Ideological Debates’, and my co-author is Dr Fethi Helal. Till the end of February you can get a 60% discount with the code LPT60 on the MM website: bit.ly/4aT6ycU lnkd.in/gsNr8zJG

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Language Politics in Tunisia

This book offers both a nuanced picture of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning. T...

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

My wife and I love watching some miniseries on Netflix, and we esp love this in foreign languages. Check out Cassandra in German which was seriously disturbing. Also, the Cook of Castamar, set in 18 century Spain

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Dr Kedi Simpson @kedisimpson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Reflecting on how best to do dictation exercises in class, with contributions from some very insightful year 10 languages students. learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/02/step...

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Steps to dictation - are we going in the right direction?

Dictation is an old thing come back around in the curricular pendulum swing, and as we all know in the UK languages-teaching world, all st...

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1122 5/6 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me Couldn’t see it at all!

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Le Mot - Wordle en français

Wordle, mais en français. Devinez le mot du jour ! Totalement gratuit, en ligne, et sans pub.

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

tweet from the AFMLTA: #School #teachers, are you setting your 2025 #Professional #Learning Goals & Professional Learning Plan? Access our website for professional reading such as “Futures of Languages Education in Australia” & 3 other recently published reports about the #NLPS nlps.afmlta.asn.au

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AFMLTA | Plan & Strategy

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Olivier ELZINGRE @drolelz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#LeMOT 1114 4/6 ⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜ 🟦🟦⬜⬜🟦 ⬜🟧⬜🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 #LeMotLeJeu www.solitaire-play.com/lemot/ 😎

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LeMOT - Wordle en français

Devinez chaque jour un nouveau mot de 5 lettres en six essais...

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