Yesterday at a small local park the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.
And despite the rain and wind and the temporary return to end-of-winter weather last night, the trees down by a little river near where I work were still holding out today.
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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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4 comments:
Wow, great pics!
Yum, they look like they're wrapped in whipped cream! :) BeeYOOOOteeful!
Thanks for the pics. My friend just sent a long email talking about the cherry blossoms, so it is nice to have an image to go along with his words.
These are not particularly wonderful cherry blossom trees, in the sense that they're not famous and people don't come from all over to see them. Just a few in a park, and alongside a river. But they are lovely, and enough for me. I wasn't going to brave the crowds to see the 'famous' ones.
The whipped cream effect is the lack of focus, but I'll pretend I did it on purpose. (Actually it was windy and that front branch in the first picture wouldn't keep still.)
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