This week Alan and Chris (joined very briefly by Victor) go gardening and discuss the old view of Parsnips in ELT, and discuss what the new Parsnips should look like, introduced by Aleksandra Popovski in her MaWSIG blog last year. And Alan gets left with the hardest question he's ever had to face - which to live without, Jamón or Queso?!

We we discuss why the old Parsnips of Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex, Narcotics, -isms, and Pork should be universally replaced by Peace, Action, Representation, Self-care, Non-violence, Inquiry and Perseverance.

 You can read Aleksandra Popovski's article on the 3 E's of Material Writing here.

The BBC Planet Earth 2 trailer Alan talked about is available here.

Alan also mentioned the talk given at a TEDx event by Araik Arzumanyan where he discussed Fighting the "Native-speaker fallacy" which can be seen here.  ...We might have a very special guest talking about this in the near future...

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We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for a few years in Cáceres, Spain.  We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd make a podcast on it.

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