Tonight The Man was watching K1 when he called upstairs to me.
"Quick! The New Zealand national anthem is playing!" he shouted.
I ran downstairs, wondering why I was bothering. Sure enough, just before a fight that involved a New Zealander, the NZ national anthem was being played. I sang along hammily. This reminded me of how much I dislike the NZ national anthem. It sounds like something you'd hear at a funeral. And the words are awful. (Actually I've forgotten most of them.)
"Probably you didn't really want to hear that," said The Man as I warbled the last notes ("New Zeeeeeeeeealand!") and started to leave the room. "But I think that was the first time for me to hear it. NZ never wins anything."
I paused on the bottom step, but decided I was too depressed by that mournful dirge to bother going back to slap his face. Besides, I couldn't remember the last time NZ won anything.
When WAS the last time NZ won anything? We never get the sports NZ is good at on TV here.
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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
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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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3 comments:
What are they good at, anyway? Hurling? Sheep-shearing, for certain. Sea kayaking?
=grumbles angrily for a bit=
Honestly, I have as much pride for my country as I have for that magnificent fart I dropped two weeks ago. Both were loud and made a room inhabitable for about 15 seconds, then it was forgotten :P
But I'll check on this "what did we win", based solely on trophies, rather than "Ooo! Look at us! We won a meaningless test against england!"
We've got some good ratings, but I can't really find much without going batty. Really, I lost interest as soon as I hit 'search'. I'm not a very patriotic person. Winning top country is kinda neat though :P Yay elitism!
Yep. I have no idea. But then again, I could care less. Negatives are less, right? :P
I rather like the NZ national anthem. It's less of a dirge than ours, for sure! And it reminds me of the year we spent there, which was quite extraordinary. I miss NZ ... except for the sandflies. And the mosquitoes. And the asthma which quickly had me on steroids.
If it weren't for those three things, we might have applied for citizenship.
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