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Metaphors
I love metaphors. They lend themselves to imagery and they are endlessly creative. And they form much of what is creative and beautiful...

Serena Gammon
Nov 30, 20202 min read


Illustrating Polysemy: Go on Butterfly! (Lesson Plan)
Most phrasal verbs are polysemous, meaning that they have more than one meaning. Let's explore this starting with the very first verb...

Serena Gammon
Nov 9, 20202 min read


Grouping by Concept - ON
It's common knowledge that categorizing new vocabulary, or placing them in groups, enhances memory retention. The most popular ways to...

Serena Gammon
Nov 4, 20203 min read


Conceptual Building Blocks: Spatial Primitives
SURFACE, PATH, LINK, CONTAINER: These four representational images are some of the most basic image schemas in the human mind, present...

Serena Gammon
Nov 3, 20203 min read


Landmarks, Trajectors, and Pompoms
We're going hands on in this post, creating a three dimensional figure to help us visualize the preposition on and how this tiny word...

Serena Gammon
Nov 2, 20202 min read
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