November 23, 2024
Bringing Ancient Communication to the Modern Age by David Crystal and Ben Crystal

Bringing Ancient Communication to the Modern Age by David Crystal and Ben Crystal

Author: Macmillan Education ELT via YouTube
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Bringing Ancient Communication to the Modern Age by David Crystal and Ben Crystal

Literary authors have played a major role in shaping the vocabulary of English. In this talk David Crystal picks out some of the words from authors published by Macmillan that have since entered the language during its 180 years, and Ben Crystal reads extracts illustrating them. They also talked about how to use ideas about word formation and literary extracts in the classroom. Beware, there are also some surprises.

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