"I am not feeling very good today," said the bird. "I think I'll just stand here in the dead weeds, and sulk."
A gull was sitting on a rock nearby. It called out.
"Hey, bird!" it shouted. "I know what your problem is! You're standing the wrong way! It happens to me, too. Look! If I stand this way - "
" - See? But if I stand THIS way - "
"No problem! You should try it!"
"Could that be it?" wondered the bird. "Am I just looking in the wrong direction? Is my outlook all wrong?"
The bird turned around, and regarded its reflection in the water. Nothing had changed.
"PISS OFF!" it shouted to the gull. "DON'T YOU KNOW A BAD HAIR DAY WHEN YOU SEE ONE?"
"Oh, a bad hair day," said the gull. "Can't do anything about that."
"You should have said so in the first place."
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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:
Very creative. I just love how you know exactly what the birds are thinking!
Thanks for the visit and the comment. I laughed at what you said about a student taking up your speech patterns and you not liking it - even though you recognized where she got them.
A psychic once said that almost anything you dislike in another person can also be found in you. Perhaps he was right!
That was great - love the way your mind works...although..with a brain score of 0....naah...the test is screwed up..your brain is cool.
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