On Sunday, as The Man and I were cycling to the supermarket, I asked a question that had popped into my head for no particular reason:
"Why did Holland have so many great artists, do you think? It's not that big a country."
The Man replied,
"It's because they had so many walls."
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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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2 comments:
If one has just the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)'s widget one is impressed by this - there is so much Dutch painting; and any given painting often seems 50-100years later than its actual date.
Holland was rich! and liked being rich! And out of all that painting comes one perfect artist, Vermeer; and another genius, name starting with...um... R I think :-)
PS Proust has his writer Bergotte die sitting in front of the View of Delft. He dies staring at a perfect patch of yellow wall...
You've got to love explanations like that!
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