Last night I was going to try to dream up a new conspiracy theory about swine 'flu. It seems a perfect candidate for a nice, juicy conspiracy theory. I read a little, to try to figure out what the conspiracy was.
I found this, and learned that in fact 'swine 'flu' is a misnomer, and that this virus is a hybrid of bird 'flu, pig 'flu, and human 'flu.
Birds, pigs and humans, eh? I thought. How SUSPICIOUS!
I tried to think why it was suspicious, and my eyelids drooped.
Er... flying pigs? asked my sleepy brain, and I dropped off to sleep.
Today I was too busy to develop this insight any further. Sorry. But you may be interested to know that I have now caught a cold, thus proving that I am on the right track. 'They' are trying to get rid of me.
Oink!
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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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2 comments:
Letter to an Australian newspaper from a Christchurch (NZ) man, now resident in Melbourne, saying he's astounded at the degree of fear created around news events here in Oz.
He's right of course, and it's the public media - scared themselves of dying out, with no solutions to their financial issues in sight - who are doing this. Fear sells. Unfortunately, fear also corrupts! Oink! indeed...
So much more palatable if it were flying monkeys--still not sure where the human fits in.
I'm afraid Mr. Curley is correct. We may have run out of stuff to be afraid of. It's that media outlets like CNN have cried wolf so much, so to speak, although I remain afraid of their grammatical errors and imprecise headlines.
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