Several readers (well, one anyway) have expressed concern that I seem to understand what birds are saying. All I can respond to this is, Well, pffft! Can't you? They may not say stuff out loud, but it's all in the body language.
To demonstrate this, I am holding a caption contest. In these pictures it is perfectly obvious that something is going on. Can't you hear what the birds are saying? Of course you can. And you can tell me, by email or in comments.
The prize (if you can call it that) for the winning caption(s) is that the pictures will be republished along with the winning captions. You may use all or some of the pictures.
Judging will take place a week from now, which means, er, Wednesday next week. (My time, which probably means Tuesday for some of you.)
Go on, then. Prove that I'm not the only one who can read bird brains.
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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.
Good luck!
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7 comments:
picture one: urgh..now where IS it..?
picture two: is it here...?
picture three: or maybe here...?
picture four: or maybe..??
picture five: hey! look at me standing on one leg!
picture six: yeah well, WHATEVER..i'm too busy to be bothered with you..
picture seven: haha! found it!
picture eight: yeah..off i go then..continue standing on one leg for the whole night if you want. i most certainly don't care.
picture one: ... 99, 100!
picture two: COMING READY OR NOT!
picture three: bet you're round this corner...
picture four: or on top of the rock?
picture five: OK, ya found me!
picture six: your turn to hide
picture seven: off you go!
picture eight: ... 82, 83, shit shit, gotta find a rock soon!!!
#1. "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink".
#5. "Herbie gave me this cute new poncho for my birthday, but it's too thin. I get cold in it!"
#1. "Eww, that's not what I think it is, is it? That's disgusting!"
#2. "Oh, no wait, it's not. It can't be, because if it were, you'd expect there to be some round here too, and there isn't."
#3. "Or is there?"
#4. "Nope. All clear. Phew!"
#5. "Oooi! Whitey. Yeah, you, I'm talking to you. Back off, you hear me? This here is my rock, and I'll do what I damn well please. It's all me up in here. Now get!"
#6. "Oops! Yikes. Now, if I just slip away quietly, like so..."
#7. "... head down, careful not to splash..."
#8. "... then I think maybe, just maybe, I can make a clean getaway. Noone need ever know this happened."
#1 Bird waits for tide to change so he can escape
#2 Bird discovers escape harder than first predicted
#3 Bird hunts for new challenge
#4 Bird settles for neck stretching competition
#5 "Hang on while I undo this button"
#6 Bird gives up after 6 hours through lack of competition.
#7 "On reflection...there may be a rival..."
#8 "Oh sod it!...."
So what happened to the judging then?
picture five is awesome.
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