Serena GammonNov 30, 20202 min readMetaphors I love metaphors. They lend themselves to imagery and they are endlessly creative. And they form much of what is creative and beautiful...
Serena GammonNov 9, 20202 min readIllustrating 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 GammonNov 4, 20203 min readGrouping by Concept - ONIt's common knowledge that categorizing new vocabulary, or placing them in groups, enhances memory retention. The most popular ways to...
Serena GammonNov 3, 20203 min readConceptual Building Blocks: Spatial PrimitivesSURFACE, PATH, LINK, CONTAINER: These four representational images are some of the most basic image schemas in the human mind, present...
Serena GammonNov 2, 20202 min readLandmarks, Trajectors, and PompomsWe're going hands on in this post, creating a three dimensional figure to help us visualize the preposition on and how this tiny word...