Yesterday I met a friend in the afternoon for coffee, which stretched to dinner, and by the time we parted it was dark. When we came out of the restaurant she looked up at the sky.
"Look!" she said. "Is that a star?"
"It looks like one," I replied.
"I hope it is," she said. "Because I really don't want to wish upon a satellite."
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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:
Yeah, me neither. I think there is so much left-over stuff in space now that we never know if it's a star or a piece of junk.....LOL
I was just going over Jiminy Cricket's lyrics to When You Wish Upon a Star, and couldn't think of anything pithy that rhymed with satellite. Except mosquito bite. So, yeah, always verify.
That's a line from a Billy Bragg song.
:-)
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