I've been reading a lightweight mystery passed on to me by a friend, and came across this sentence:
Her breath came in ragged pants.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that sentence. Only a silly person would laugh.
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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
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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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I am a silly person too.
(Anyhow, there IS something wrong with it, unless we suppose that the writer of the lightweight mystery was entertaing him/herself. Now you will have to look out for more covert double entrendres).
T.S. Eliot's Kubla Khan has the line:
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing
or maybe thick fast pants, I'll have to google it now, but anyway, when I was forced to learn this poem as a kid (Dad gave each of us a classic poem to learn when we moved to Spain, I guess he was worried about our English) (and I guess this sentence is increasingly proving why), I visualised a round earth bound up in tight nappies, kind of breathing in and out fast ... so I'm silly too! But you already knew that!
well I was right on the fast thick pants, but of course it's Coleridge, not Eliot, and I knew that!
I am silly too, then. That is crazy syntax.
Pants are well and good, but I prefer diamonds
He's a magician! lol.
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