I discovered today that trying to explain contemporary fundamentalist Christianity in the U.S. (i.e. dispensationalism, as opposed to traditional Christianity) to a Buddhist is like trying to describe a bad acid trip to a straight person, while you're still tripping. You get a reaction that is equal parts bafflement, concern for your sanity, and nervous laughter - and behind all that a lurking suspicion that you're making it all up.
Speaking of which, I spotted a shelf of the Left Behind novels in the English section of a large bookstore here the other day. They were in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section.
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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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6 comments:
Have you actually ever tried to describe a bad trip to someone while you were having it?
Not that I remember. I was guessing. (Although I am told that one time (a very long time ago, when I was young and foolish) I kept 5 flatmates up half the night by talking nonstop for several hours after coming home from a party. I didn't remember a thing in the morning, and nobody would tell me what I'd been going on about. They were all a bit nervous around me for a few days after that and kept asking me how I felt. I felt FINE.
Heh heh. I was thinking that trying to do so would be the sort of cyclical-logic problem which would create the worst bad trip EVER!
I like yr blog - see you again soon!
Wow, that took me on a learning curve. Amazon seems to suggest the subsection 'fiction' within rel & spir for that title also (I had never heard of it) and yes if the link is a fair description of dispensationalism then I am as gobsmacked as your buddhist friend!
I looked at a few more of your posts :-)
Nice, interesting, thought provoking blog
Amazing stuff, isn't it? I hadn't heard of the books either until an American friend told me.
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