I have still been listening to The Naked Scientists occasionally. Although it is only a once a week program, there are a lot of old programs up on their webpage and I have been going through their archives. Today, they informed me that the average person laughs fifteen times a day.
I have a horrible suspicion I have been using up somebody else's laugh allowance, thereby condemning them to a life of gloom. If it is you, well ... I was going to apologize, but actually it is probably your own fault for leaving your laughs lying around where I can get at them. I mean, really. How could you be so careless?
You can take comfort in the fact that by keeping a straight face you probably have FAR fewer wrinkles than I do. I'm sure you look a miserable ten years younger than you really are.
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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:
There's a silver lining in every cloud.
I wouldn't worry about using up other people's allowance. There should be enough to go around.
Next time I have to interact with a humorless person I'll take them aside and say, "Your laughs went to presentsimple.blogspot.com. If you want to find them, start with DIARHHEA! But watch out for exploding heads."
You are so funny!
My mom had a relative who decided that if she never smiled, and held her face in "repose" all the time, she would never get wrinkles. She was so humourless tht she immediately looked older than she was. Several yers later, after she had abandoned that idea, she looked young again - especially when she had a big smile on her face.
15? Oh dear. I don't think I get there nearly every day.
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