I went to meet a friend for dinner today. As I was standing at the subway platform in Osaka the train arrived, the doors opened, and a tall fashion disaster in a pale pink dress emerged. He was carrying a little white handbag and wearing white heels.
I reflected that pink did not really go with a five o'clock shadow, or with an Adam's apple. How tacky! I thought. How wrong! And also, how outdated! The white handbag and shoes used to be de rigueur in spring – in fact you didn't need to consult a calendar to find out when the first official day of spring was because the entire female population of Japan suddenly broke out in white shoes and handbags – but that went out years ago. How could he have not noticed? Has he been living on a desert island?
Some people just have no idea.
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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:
I'm so happy to find out that that rule about white (which in the US is "no white after Labor Day") has finally gone out of fashion. I tend to pull out all my dark clothes for Easter, and want to wear white in the winter, as it is. Pink's a hard color to wear, even for those of us who do not need to shave our face - or belly.
I stay away from pink most of the time unless I'm in Miami, which is, like, never, but I do try to wear my best blue jeans when attending religious services.
LOL. I was once walking in Pentagon City Mall in Washington, DC and passed a tall person in a yellow dress and high heels, with long wavy hair, five o'clock shadow, and feet the size of motor boats. I was dumbstruck!
Uh... here 'bad taste' = good taste. It's 'good taste' which is sooo tacky.
Well exemplified by the costumes in Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the musical of the movie just opening in
Auckland... :-)
Musically, ABBA. Ah, Dancing Queen!
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