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| From : http://learntocodewith.me/insights/one-year/ |
Without even realizing it, we are in the middle of August and I have decided to keep celebrating my blogaversary, that is, the anniversary of my blog. Last week, I wrote a post about the least successful posts of the blog. This week I thought it might be a good idea to honour the most successful posts of the blog, so I have prepared a compilation of the most successful ones with links and a short description of what you can find in each post.
Let's begin this ranking (do you think you can guess which one it is before starting ?) :
10. Lexical Creativity : The varied and surprising ways the English language has to create new words such as compounding, blending, affixation, clippings, loanwords from other languages... It is amazing to realize how easy and quick can English create new words (sometimes from scratch) It includes a wide range of examples. (65 views).
9. Friday, 13th : The post delves into some interesting vocabulary and expressions related to both good luck and bad luck and some trivia facts about this day. Ideal if you are superstitious (67 views).
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| Image taken from : https://avatel.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/friday-the-13th-its-your-lucky-day/ |
8. Onomatopoeic words : Words that spring out of the sounds they produce such as 'burp', 'crash,' 'crack' or 'flip-flop'. Words are classified according to the type of sound produced (69 views)
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| From : http://stkgroup.weebly.com/onomatopoeiapuns.html |
7. The Crazy Story / I'm a Believer : Both of these entries are somehow recycled from material that I used (or experienced) with my fantastic and enthusiastic students of 1º ESO. The first one includes a video of a short story that they performed at school really well about a fairy tale which does not happen as planned. It includes a presentation with some of the most common fairy tale characters in English. The second one is the famous song I'm a Believer by Neal Diamond, a widely known song due to the film Shrek. This song is accompanied of some gap-filling exercises with verbs in the past and some grammar and vocabulary questions. A good way to practise your listening skill ! (78 views).
6. Somebody I used to know : Love relationships are always complicated. If you don't believe me, listen carefully to the song by Gotye and Kimbra. One of my favourite songs, only this time accompanied with some gap-filling, vocabulary and grammar exercises. Come on, give it a shot ! (81 views).
5. English phonetics and phonology. Some guidelines to improve your English pronunciation : We all know that English pronunciation is somehow chaotic. Spanish speakers mistakenly conceive that there are no rules at all and, although this is partly, right, this post includes some 'tricks' for you to improve your English pronunciation and also a reflection on why English is so difficult to utter. (88 views)
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| From : http://inglesiesollosgrandes.blogspot.com.es/2012/01/pains-of-english-pronunciation.html |
4. Animal Idioms II : I love animals ! They are cute, surprising creatures that we all need to respect and, on top of that, they are the stars of countless and countless English idioms and similes. Expressions such as 'to fight like cat and dog' and 'to be like a bull in a china shop' are common place in colloquial English. Stop by to get to know some of the most interesting expressions involving animals '(95 views).
P.S. I also wrote another blog entry about this which wasn't that successful. Anyway, I will present the link here so that you can learn even more expressions : animal idioms I.
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| From : http://www.slideshare.net/ajitceo/animal-idioms-part-2 |
3. Let's ditch exams : The post revolves around whether exams are the best way to assess the learning process of students and what other ways of assessing there are. Besides, it includes some words that collocate with 'exams' as well as more vocabulary related to this (such as types of exams). (100 views)
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| From : http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/lets_ditch_school/556887/ |
2. Spanglish : English has flooded Spanish languages and there are countless and countless anglicisms in Spanish ('wifi', 'compact disc', 'gaming', 'lunch' or 'cocktail' being some few examples). However, Spanish has also had a big influence on English with words such as 'fiesta,', 'siesta' or 'cafeteria'. If you want to know more examples, revisit this post. (102 views).
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| From : https://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2013/10/09/pardon-my-spanglish/ |
And the winner and the most successful post of the blog (so far) is...
1. Many happy returns : A post with some interesting lexis and expressions related to birthday parties.Ideal if you want to wish someone happy birthday avoiding the same outdated expression. It includes some songs and videos. Since my birthday was two days ago, it is quite a current post. 110 views.
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| From : http://www.commentsyard.com/many-happy-returns-of-the-day-happy-birthday/ |
Did you enjoy these posts ? Do you think they deserve to be in the ranking ? Anyway, next week I will finish with my blogaversary listing all the entries I have written so far in the different categories. I am preparing way more entries that I will start to write in September. Until then, keep enjoying my blog and, above all, keep learning, speaking and listening to English.
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