Yesterday I wore my favourite hat to work. I think it makes me look like a spy from a WWII movie. When I wear it I feel all mysterious and glamorous. I was enjoying crossing campus in my hat, with my coat collar pulled up around my ears against the chilly wind and the hat brim pulled down.
Then, in the staffroom, one of the other teachers told me that my hat made me look like Mary Poppins. My self-image was rudely shattered, and my ego deflated like an old balloon.
HOW UNKIND.
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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
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Humanising Language Teaching
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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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7 comments:
Here's something to help at a little mystery come back to your hat -- well, at least a different image of Mary Poppins :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
I would still prefer the spy look from a WWII movie.
Aw, what does SHE know?? I'll bet you looked dashing in it!
What??? Mary Poppins' hat doesn't look a thing like a WWII spy hat! No spies ran around with flowers in their hats! (Did they?)
did I miss the photo somewhere?
I can imagine it already.
I usually feel good by my clothes too. Depending on what style I wore that day, I would change the way I walk, my speech and stuff haha.
A good music helps a lot on the visualization too.
Marry Poppins... LOL.
Was it the carpet bag and the big umbrella that did it?
S: That was a revelation to me. I have never actually seen the Mary Poppins movie, but if that trailer is anything to go by, gosh, it's nothing like the book, eh?
(hee hee)
Kenju: I needed to turn the brim up ALL THE WAY ROUND, according to a trusted friend, later. But when I checked in a mirror later... well, then I thought I DID look like Mary Poppins.
Keera: No flowers were involved. I promise!
Tabor: No photos were involved, either. I could not take a photo of what I imagined a WWII spy to look like, and none of the pictures I could find on Google Images did justice to the picture in my head.
You'll just have to imagine it. Something vaguely dashing and romantic, and ever so slightly scary.
(Or Mary Poppins-ish, apparently.)
Megane-kun: I find that colours help a lot, especially. Bright colours cheer me up. Black can make me feel ... more WWII-spy-ish.
Violet: Do you mean I shouldn't have been carrying an umbrella and carpet bag? Why didn't anybody TELL me?
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