All our shutters are up, and I'm feeling a little claustrophobic. There is a typhoon on the way. We have been told to expect 250mm of rain, and in fact it has been raining hard and steadily for the last few hours. I am hoping that I will have at least a morning off, if the typhoon doesn't move TOO fast overnight and all be over by 6am. If the storm warnings are still in place at 6am morning classes are cancelled, and if they're still in effect at 11am afternoon classes are cancelled, too.
It seems to me that there is something wrong with this arrangement. When a storm has been raging all night and keeping me awake, and the warnings are lifted by 6am, then the last thing I want to do is go to work. I'm too tired to teach well, and those students who bother to turn up are too tired to study well.
Why can't we just have the day off?
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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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11 comments:
Melor sounds nasty! Hope though it does pass over before much flooding, I've a bike that still rusty!
Good luck, BadAunt, kiotsukete!!!!
Having weathered Hurricane Ike at home, I don't envy you. Hope all is well and the storm passes uneventfully.
I hope it passed over you.
The typhoon was noisy and a bit wild, and kept waking me up, but it wasn't REALLY scary because I didn't have to be out in it. We didn't get nearly as much rain as forecast, and while I would not have gone out in the wind it only shook the house a couple of times. Morning classes were canceled, but in the afternoon I had to go in. That took twice as long as it usually does, so it was a good thing I left early. (The trains were running slow, and kept stopping for no apparent reason.) In my afternoon classes half the students were absent. (They were probably still on a train somewhere.) I did language games - with so many absent I couldn't do the test I'd promised/threatened, couldn't move on in the textbook - but things went smoothly enough.
I still think they should have just cancelled classes for the day, though. It all felt a bit pointless!
Are you okay? I read about the storm, I sure hope it didn't hit near you.
Glad to hear you're all right!
Badaunt - are you ok? You haven't posted anything in weeks!
Just worried...
Hope all's ok with you, Badaunt. I keep checking for new posts!
I'm fine - sorry for not posting for so long! I'm just busy, and seem to be going through a dry spell writing-wise. Lots of posts in my head which are not making it to the keyboard.
Will try to rectify the situation soon...
Ah... yokkata!!
Much relieved to see you are back!
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