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7 Free Online Courses in March
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I find March a perfect month for online learning - long, rainy days, still cold and grey just made to stay in and study. I have a ton of books to read, but I simply cannot resist a good online course, so here we are with a set of seven fresh online courses.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 1:Why do we play games?)
Today I want to focus on the idea of a game - it can be easily observed that games are more and more popular in TEFL, and in teaching in general, they are enjoyed by students and teachers alike and I wonder: have you ever thought what is the reason of the enjoyment?

A little bit of linguistics can be a lot of fun
Ever thought of introducing linguistics to your students? I used to be extremely bored with it when I was doing my BA, but because of reasons linguistics turned out to be my major during MA studies. I'm really glad I took up this option, because I've learnt linguistics is only boring when you are studying the basics, but later on it magically transforms into a beautiful butterfly of logic, pragmatism and, generally, turns out to be the only aspect of studying a language that makes some sense.

IATEFL Opening Plenary by David Crystal
Yesterday David Crystal officially opened Liverpool IATEFL conference with an awesome plenary - The world in which we live in: Beatles, blends and blogs. You may watch this session and hopefully enjoy it as much as I have, but let me share a couple of thoughts.