There's a fat, fluffy little sparrow that has been sitting in the tree outside my room for the past couple of weeks. It spends most of the day there, chirping. Here's what it seems to say:
"Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep! cheep! cheep! Cheepcheepcheep! Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheepcheepcheep! CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEPCHEEPCHEEP! Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep. Cheep."
And here's what it's REALLY saying:
"Mum. Mum. Dad. Dad. Food. Food. Food. Mum. Dad! Dad! Dad! DadDadDad! No, wait, that's not Dad. Dad. Dad. Food. Food. Mum. Mum. Mum! Mum! Mum! Food! Mumfoodfoodfoodfood! FOODFOODFOOD! Thanks. More? No? Mum. Mum. Dad. Food. Dad. Dad. Dad. Food. Food."
ALL DAY.
Who would be a parent?
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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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3 comments:
LOLOLOLOL!
It's funny watching adult birds interact with their adolescent offspring. The adults react just like human parents do: Losing their patience and insisting that the darned brats go get their own food. And the adolescents are like human teens: *whine* I don't know hoooooooooow! You feed me! *whine*
The best way to get 20 seconds of quiet it to open the window and shout at the top of your lungs "CHEEP!"
This confuses the hell out of the small bird, who then mentally resets and goes back to his cheeping 20 seconds later.
This has the added downside of making everyone within ear shot think you're nuts. But I say its worth it, especially if you can see the lil bugger's expression when you do it :D
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