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ELTWeekly Issue #18, Word of the week: extremophile

By Tarun Patel

extremophile • \ik-STREE-muh-fyle\ – noun

meaning: an organism that lives under extreme environmental conditions

example: ”Cold-loving extremophiles could show us what kinds of creatures might live … in parts of the solar system previously thought uninhabitable.”

To know more about the word ‘extremophile’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Apr.01.2009

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About... Tarun Patel

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than  forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.

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