The weather has finally cooled down a little, and about time, too.
Yesterday morning when I got to the station, I looked down and discovered I was wearing shoes. I was astonished. I could have SWORN I had put on my boots. How did that happen? I'd had no intention of wearing those shoes. They are scruffy, and not very comfortable when I'm on my feet all day. I didn't have time to go back to the house and change, and spent the day being aware of my feet.
Classes went all right, but I HATE these five o'clock risings.
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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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3 comments:
Maybe the 5:00 risings explain the missing spices, too?
once, after donning a skirt and leaving the house, realized that i only shaved one leg. oops.
Indeed!
I also face the same problem in camp.
We would wake up at around 5:45 for breakfast, but all of us would still be in the "Would-you-just-*expletive*-let-me-sleep?" mode that we literally move like automated bots.
It is as if a haze has descended upon our faces. Between shovels-full of breakfast, we would be dreaming about the dream that didn't have an ending... it is almost a pity.
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