Category Archives: Reading

Reading pride and prejudice part two

By Salsita Says | Published: May 2, 2009

Last week’s conversation class about the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was quite successful. We met at the Egdgware arms pub in Second Life and spent about an hour discussing the first chapter. We mostly spoke about social changes, particularly the role of women in society in the past 200 years. The discussion [...]

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Reading Pride and Prejudice part one

By Salsita Says | Published: April 19, 2009

I am going to run a new and experimental class at languagelab. The aim of the class is to read, study, discuss the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
How can I participate?
1) Make sure that you are a student at languagelab.com. Click here to read more about this virtual school that you can attend [...]

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Using RSS to practice English

By Salsita Says | Published: March 29, 2009

When I was talking to some students the other day I was surprised to find that some of them didn’t know or had misconceptions about what RSS is and how it can be helpful in their efforts to improve their English. I thought that I had better write a quick post explaining what it is, [...]

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