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Lana at Wright English
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Online English teacher, GCSE and A-Level tutor, copywriter and editor, voice actor, and teller of bad jokes.
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It's What The Fluff Wednesday, so let's learn all about Tea Fairies and why I married one: www.wrightenglish.com/blog/wtfw-te...

TLDR: I'm British and he makes tea.

#british #tea #weirdo #fairies #learnenglish #englishteacher #esl
Introducing the Tea Fairy |What The Fluff Wednesday| — Wright English
have introduced the Cat CEO, Nanook, the Cat Head of Inhuman Resources, Kodi, and the Dog Ambassador, Bumpy. So, now I would like to introduce you to my husband, Brint the Tea Fairy.
www.wrightenglish.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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skullsandsheets.bsky.social
its disgusting that Foreign Office staff are being asked to resign if they stand up for Gaza.

Being complicit in Ethnic Cleansing and genocidal tactics means you are facilitating the atrocities. It makes me sick.
June 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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skullsandsheets.bsky.social
Still playing about with references from Salisbury Cathedral with this mari
Horse skull dressed in a blue dress and golden shawl that is held by a skeleton hand. Ivy drapes down through the other hand and curls around two black columns
May 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
ARE YOU FULL OF BEANS?! And... would you like to know what that means? It's a nice, simple English Idiom you can use in most situations. Example sentences in the full article: www.wrightenglish.com/blog/vs-idio...
I think I'm full of baked beans, and tiredness.

#idioms #esl #learnenglish #IELTS
3 animals are showing they are "full of beans", an English Idiom meaning "full of energy".
May 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
Now it's our turn UK. Our local election results were a terrifying right wing dog whistle. We belong with Canada and Australia.
vanbadham.bsky.social Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · May 3
Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol
May 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
If you want me to vent about how much I dislike "The Prelude" by William Wordsworth (but in a educational way teaching you the context) then today is your day! www.wrightenglish.com/blog/gag-ata...

Flippin, bloody, sodding, mountain fearing weirdo.
#gcsepoetry #gcseenglish #gcse #englishliterature
The GCSE and A-Level Goblin (GAG) is pointing to a projector showing William Wordsworth saying "Mountains are too big". The title on the projector reads, "Wordsworth: About the Author. Crap homelife, scared of mountains, hated GCSE students." The article provides context for his poem "The Prelude".
May 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
If you have ever had the misfortune of reading "Prelude" (stealing a boat) by William Wordsworth, this might make sense to you: www.wrightenglish.com/blog/wtfw-pr...

Also, my condolences. I share your pain.

#gcse #alevel #poetry #englishliterature #esl #englishlanguage #english #meme
A 4 panel cartoon showing a fox in an exam hall. In each picture, the fox looks cheekier and cheekier. Panel one says, "Just a quick reminder that in English exams" (panel 2) "you can reach any conclusion you like" (panel 3) as long as you have evidence to back it up!" In panel 4 the fox writes, "William Wordsworth was afraid of mountains because..."
April 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
When you directly translate advertising, stuff gets...weird. www.wrightenglish.com/blog/bb-lang...
Not thinking about cultural differences can lead you to name your drink after liquidated people - an interesting advertising strategy!

#businessenglish #esl #englishforbusiness #productfails #memes
3 pictures show what happens when you directly translate advertising into English. Picture 1 shows three people wearing denim running out of a store where someone is shouting, "Buy more denim! You need more denim!". Picture 2 is a man in a forest running from a voice shouting, "Without a new tent, your life is pointless!" Picture 3 is a silhouette of a man running in the night from a person shouting, "Open a new bank account, Simon!"
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….
April 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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April 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
We need to talk about EUGENICS - What it is, what it pretends to be, and how politicians will call it 100 other things before they use the correct word - EUGENICS www.wrightenglish.com/blog/vs-euge...
The article is ESL-friendly, so share with your ESL friends.

#esl #learnenglish #humanrights #efl
3 pictures reflect the terrible results of being seen as 'different' in modern America. Transgender people have their passports taken, autistic people are denied an education, and "foreign" people are sent to a prison in El Salvador.
April 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Harvard’s putting up a fight from the academic sector. Where are our business leaders?? The silence is deafening. The latest No Mercy / No Malice: www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...
April 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
Dear Americans - PLEASE protect one another.
thelushkitch.bsky.social The Lush Kitch @thelushkitch.bsky.social · Apr 27
Certainly we need to organize to protect each-other. Set up ICE watches, give out 'know your rights' cards, form human chains to stop our neighbors from being sent to concentration camps.

Hopefully our courage will frighten them back into the shadows.
April 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
So cute and so talented - love the skelly
semsational.gg Sems 🦡 @semsational.gg · Apr 26
I'm most proud of this guy, though I think others will choose the turtle. Ghost from Modern Warfare! I saw the pattern on pinterest while i was browsing and snatched it up immediately. Very fun to crochet, will make some modifications later and make him some friends. He's going to join me at PAX 🧶
The character ghost from modern warfare, crocheted. he has a removable vest and harness, and a skull mask covering his face. His mask has glow in the dark lines attached to the eyes.
April 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
If we are going to do something so drastic as singling out trans people as 3rd class citizens we better have a bloody referendum. I want to be damn sure we are that cruel and stupid, and it's not just rich American lobbiests buying off the UK gov. You can't buy the truth forever. #trans #equality
April 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
What time is it? It's PREPOSITIONS OF TIME...time... www.wrightenglish.com/blog/gtg-pot1
Learn how to use in, at, and on correctly to refer to different times and events. More prepositions of time for the coming weeks. I will probably also get sick and political, so enjoy?!

#learnenglish #grammar
A silly picture using cats to give examples of when to use In, At, and On as prepositions of time. More information is in the article!
April 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
Revising for your GCSEs or A-Levels? You have my sympathies, and the GCSE and A-Level Goblin has got your back with free resources for improving your 19th-century English. He also lives in hell and has to chew bricks twice a year, so give him a break: www.wrightenglish.com/blog/gag-pun...

#english
GAG the GCSE and A-Level Goblin presents a projected screen of the old satire newspaper Punch for 1841 saying, "Revise 19th-century English the fun way: Read Punch on Project Gutenberg!", while a small creature hiding in the dark says "Heh heh, I'll give him a 'punch'!"
April 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Today's newsletter is free. It features a guest post from subscriber Richard Caldarone, who is an attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center, talks about how damn important it is at this moment to fight, fight, fucking fight. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
A Plea From an Immigration Lawyer By Richard Caldarone Hey fellow CoC subscribers. I’m an immigration lawyer. The “lawyer” part of that forces me to say that what follows are my views alone, not the views of my employer. The “immigration” part, though, explains why I’m writing with a plea that we all fight harder. Here’s a quick, partial rundown of what’s happening in the little piece of the madness I deal with: A man wrongfully deported to torturous conditions in El Salvador. Others, accused without solid evidence of being gang members, sent to the same conditions. Violations of court orders. An illegal closure of the border based on racist “invasion” language. Students being disappeared for daring to believe that Palestinians are human. Show trials in hand-picked kangaroo courts run by executive-branch employees rather than judges. People seeking protection sent to detention camps in the jungles of Panama. Massive raids by (racist, sexist, far-right) DHS agencies to instill fear. Indiscriminate arrests. The targeting of activists. Threats against, and harassment of, lawyers. The mass stripping of protections from removal, and work authorization, without any articulated reason. Removal of all funding for representation of unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings. A “pause” on all green cards for refugees on specious “fraud” grounds. Unprecedented violations of tax privacy and fraud perpetrated via Social Security. And, of course, lots of family separations. Again, that’s just a partial accounting in one specific area. Things, then, are moving very fast. We have two options. We can fight, or we can choose not to fight. Neither option is appealing. One requires us to balance peering into the abyss with everyday life, to find and take comfort in small beauties amidst the evil, and to undertake strenuous and sustained emotional efforts. The other requires us to close our eyes to the evil and absolve ourselves of moral responsibility. My message is that this is not really a choice at all. We must meet the moment by fighting—and fighting harder than ever before. I do not exempt myself from that mandate. Yes, I sue the government all day long, and yes, if you’re curious enough, you’ll see that I just switched employers to take on more responsibility. But when I ask myself whether I’m doing all that I can, the answer is no. If I ask myself whether I’m fighting in the most useful way possible, the answer is also no. Litigation is, as Craig said some weeks ago, like trying to empty a bucket of sand with tweezers. And if I ask myself why I hadn’t gotten out of my litigation comfort zone, the answer is both clear and uncomfortable: I had not found the courage to do so. Craig’s call for submissions finally pushed me to take this first teeny-tiny baby step into doing more. My promise to myself is that it will be far from the last. The rejoinder “but what can we do?” is entirely fair. The answer will be different for everyone. If you have any inclination at all to run for office, now is the time: we desperately need people from the outside to inject a spine into the Democratic party, one office at a time (be it from within or from third-party candidacies). We also desperately need people to organize community opposition to authoritarianism across the country and to coordinate with other local, state, and national groups. We need people to go to protests. We need people to talk to members of the most vulnerable communities so they know their rights. We need people to incessantly bug their local, state, and national representatives. We need people to push their neighbors, friends, and families to join the fight. We need people to write and correct the prejudices of news sources. We need people in positions of relative security to push their employers, their schools, and other institutions. We need people simply to listen to the most vulnerable and to volunteer with organizations that provide the necessities of life. What we do doesn’t matter nearly so much as that we act. And why? Why fight harder? After all, things are so dark already, we’re all emotionally taxed beyond what we thought possible a decade ago, and we all have plenty of other obligations that don’t go away simply because the world is on fire. Despair is tempting; so is the inclination to hide. I feel both temptations acutely. My subtle-as-a-sledgehammer answer is: Martin Niemöller. You may not know that name, but you know what he wrote. Let me update and tweak it a bit: “First they came for the trans people, and I did nothing—because I am not trans. Then they came for the immigrants, and I did nothing—because I am a citizen. Then they came for the Muslims, and I did nothing—because I am not a Muslim. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to act for me.” No, we’re not now in a Holocaust. But we are fast slipping toward a place where violence against more and more people, starting with disfavored groups, becomes entirely normalized. If we all do something—or one more thing—we can at least slow and shorten that slide. The imperative is clear: it’s up to all of us to act.
April 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social
RESISTANCE STARTS WITH PLAIN SPEAKING Fake news is propaganda. The powerful demanding apologies from artists is censorship. Business dealings while in office are corruption. Threatening protesters and petitioners is authoritarianism. Declaring a minority an internal enemy and calling for militarized unity is fascism. Everything starts with naming these things in public.
April 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
This is what happens when you don't use commas. Beware the diarrhea (and the spelling of diarrhea because it is a Greek nightmare).
April 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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uppaalaska.bsky.social
Thank you to those able to participate in the 4/21-23 Work Stop. The next action is a General Strike beginning 5/1. This will need everyone’s participation. Please begin your strategy planning now so we have a large impact 5/1
#GeneralStike
#BuildtheResistance
chng.it/WBR8LRVmr7
This campaign needs you now
Demand the Recall of Donald Trump and JD Vance to Safeguard Democracy
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April 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
I don't think an AI body assistant would be a great idea for people like me...

A certain list of autistic people being made by politicians left me stunned. This was the most cheerful thing I could come up with.

#chronicillness #wtf #meme #memes #humour #esl #english #englishlessons #learnenglish
An AI "body assistant" makes suggestions to me about my health like "Would you like to dislocate your hip?", "I think it's migraine o'clock!", "How about some nice old-fashioned arthritis?", and "We haven't done period pain for a while..."
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Do you get strangely committed to things just because you started them? There's an English phrase for that!

Learn a great British idiom for why you must organise all the books by colour before you leave the library...
www.wrightenglish.com/blog/vs-info... #idioms #esl #english #englishteacher
This picture gives examples of the British idiom "In for a penny, in for a pound" used to describe being committed to finishing a task. There is a small boy looking VERY serious about winning a football match saluting his mother saying "I will win this match, Mother, and bring glory to our home." There is an old lady dressed in wild colours saying, "Don't say 'dress colourfully' unless you mean it!". The last picture is of a dog on a director's chair saying, "I'm gonna need you to commit to this part, Susan. You are dog's best friend."
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
wrightenglish.bsky.social
Hey GCSE and A-Level students, it's free stuff o'clock and I've uploaded I giant guide to choosing good quotes for exams and coursework: www.wrightenglish.com/blog/gag-evi...

Please tell me how fabulous I am and bring me chocolates. The chocolates are the priority.
#alevelenglish #gcseenglish
A GCSE and A-Level Goblin introduces the new webpage to be added to the Wright English website. He stands next to a projector screen with a view of the webpage and announces, "Free stuff, everyone! Get it while you can before Charles the knowledge demon comes back and eats it." There are party poppers, colourful flags and confetti as well as a disco ball to celebrate the new materials.
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM