I told Okaasan that her friend would have changed and she might not recognize her. But looking at the photo now, I see I was wrong. Even if she hadn't told me, I would have known instantly which was which. Her friend still has that look. And Okaasan still looks like the little girl on the left, only with mad hair.
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Links for language teachers
I have noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching "present simple" and "ESL," and assume that this is language teachers looking for ideas or lesson plans. The following links are good places to start.
ESL Lounge Here you will find lesson plans organised by level. A fantastically useful site for busy teachers, and easy to navigate.
British Council Here lesson plans are organized by topic. There are more teaching activities in the 'downloads' section.
The Internet TESL Journal
They have not updated this page for a while, but there is still a lot you might find useful.
Humanising Language Teaching
This is an online journal, good for ideas, inspiration, and especially good towards the end of semester when you're feeling not quite human.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Almost too much to wade through, but a very useful resource. Lots of links to other sources.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
This is a page specifically dealing with teaching simple present and present progressive. I have not tried any of these, but there are a lot of ideas here, and they look good. At the very least you will be inspired.
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3 comments:
The little girl on the left has a TERRIBLE secret... :)
Actually it's the little girl on the right who has the terrible secret. She confessed it to Okaasan when they met. One time, she said, when they had to do some sort of handicraft thing for school, she pretended she'd made something that in fact Okaasan had made and given her.
She'd been feeling bad about it for 65 years, she said.
Okaasan forgave her (well, actually she laughed and laughed and laughed, but near enough), so it's all cleared up now.
I think it's better for your own personal mental health if you imagine it's your mother-in-law as the one with the terrible secret. Somehow I don't think you could tell the stories about your students and joke about it with her though.
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