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		<title>Thank you&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for continuing to visit my blog although I have been writing less and less for the past 18 months. Truth is I went through a very bad period (as some of you might remember) and I felt less and less inclined to update my blog. Then I decided to take a sabbatical and join [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1086&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wish I were there today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were in the UK, no strings attached, no Easter preparations to finish and no one to check on your schedule, where would you be today? Besides wishing I were in the UK today, anywhere, no matter where in the UK, today &#8211; more than on any other day of the year &#8211; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1067&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook is not your friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you care about your privacy and that of your real friends, unfriend Facebook now. We are its product, not its customers.&#8220; Pretty old article &#8211; published about 10 months ago in The Guardian. Yet, still worth reading here. Filed under: General<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://pasaportpentruexcelenta.ro/ Ești pasionat de limba engleză și de cultura Marii Britanii? Îți place să faci fotografii sau să desenezi ? FII CREATIV și chiar tu poți sa fii unul dintre câștigătorii concursului: “Pașaport pentru excelență”. O tabără de două săptămâni, la Oxford, îi așteaptă pe cei care vor reusi să obțină acest pașaport. Cu “Pașaport [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1060&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concurs national de eseuri in limba engleza pentru elevi Dragi colegi, Ne face placere sa va informam ca centrul de învăţare a limbii engleze Shakespeare School lansează cea de a treia ediţie a concursului naţional de creaţie în limba engleză “Shakespeare School Essay Competition”, desfăşurat sub egida Anului European al Voluntariatului. Va adresam pe aceasta [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1058&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London&#8230; forever&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London&#8230; every teacher of English dreams to visit it at least once in their lifetime! I had been dreaming about it for more than 25 years when, eventually, in December 2010, my dream came true! After an adventurous flight to London &#8211; which was supposed to take me there in five hours and, lucky me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have time&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by Octavian Paler, a Romanian writer, journalist, editor and politician. I find this poem so inspirational that I decided to venture and translate it into English. We have time We have time for everything. To sleep, to run to and fro, to regret our mistakes and make mistakes again, to judge others and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To read or not to read aloud in class &#8211; SURVEY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melania</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took me a while to deal with the results to the survey on RA in class &#8211; the one I was mentioning in my post Some more on RA in my classes, mainly because of the following reasons: - disappointment &#8211; I sent the survey to 14 teachers in Constanta, hoping for and looking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=991&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MAKE THEM PLAY YOUR GAME &#8211; 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melania</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the this videoclip from &#8220;Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are dead&#8221; &#8220;WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY QUESTIONS?&#8221; With upper-intermediate and advanced students: Questions is a game which is played by asking questions. Play begins when the first player serves by asking a question (often &#8220;Would you like to play questions?&#8220;). The second player must respond to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=968&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MAKE THEM PLAY YOUR GAME &#8211; 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;READING FOR FUN&#8221;, &#8220;WORD OF THE DAY&#8221; &#38; &#8220;MOM-isms&#8221; “READING FOR FUN” Interesting or funny as they might be, the texts for the reading activities contained in the coursebooks are likely to be considered boring by the students, usually because they involve the same old-same old “Page 56 in your coursebooks. Read the text and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mellaniep.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9422213&amp;post=964&amp;subd=mellaniep&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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