Today I went down to the little park again. I was meeting a colleague there, for a chat before work. While I was waiting for her I was treated to a glimpse of what is REALLY going on in the park. I thought these were harmless, ordinary pigeons, gathering around and begging for food. I really did. I had no idea. I fed them a bit, and then watched as they did a little preening after breakfast.
At least I thought they were preening. It looked like they were preening. See?
I'll admit I got a little concerned when the head disappeared, but the disappearing head IN NO WAY prepared me for what happened next.
What was THAT?
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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
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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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12 comments:
It made me laugh too, once I'd stopped freaking out. It didn't look nearly as bad on the little camera screen, but blown up suddenly on the computer it gave me quite a turn.
Alien?
Ugh!
:-)
Wow, that is just freaky.
OMG! It looks like that thing turned it's head while standing and just croaked. I think I'm gonna see it in my dreams tonight. Yikes!
dude
I thought it was going to be like that legend of how pelican mothers rip apart their own breasts to feed their starving young...now, THAT's gross!
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I too am guilty of laughing. holy cow.....maybe he survived a spat with a cat.
Nobody needs to feel guilty. A second after this photo was taken the bird looked, again, perfectly normal. There was nothing wrong with it!
I KNEW there was a reason I didn't like pigeons!
Why is it that pigeons seem to be always sporting some bizarre deformity? Like half a leg, one toe, and in this case - a falling-off-head-but-not-really. Creepy!
What on earth!?!?
Nothing like a mutant animal to brighten your day. :)
Omgwtfbbq, that pigeon can't be normal. Haha. XD
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