Wow, the lunch plan I had fell through. It’s shocking to have a day with nothing happening between 10am and 3pm. Maybe I’ll actually have a nap tomorrow… I’ve been adding a lot to the ESL section of this site, which may or may not escape the notice of regular readers since the entries...
Read more →Here’s an interesting enough blog by a (French? I’m guessing from the rare and few grammar mistakes and the name) foreigner living and teaching/studying in Seoul.
Read more →(Here’s a joke that’s all about ESL, but also makes a point about the “listen and repeat” passive learning that happens where students just learn common conversational phrases and don’t learn how to express themselves. I typed it out for a friend’s email and then thought I might as well post it here…It’s a...
Read more →Sometimes, you can find something useful in an advertisement. For example, a kind of Asian Amazon.com-like company… If I hadn’t clicked on an innocent little link, I might never have found this site, where one can order books by all kinds of authors (like the new works by Iain Banks and Kim Stanley Robinson...
Read more →์์ฆ์? ๊ณ ๋๊ฐ ๋น ๋น ์… ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์?์? ์ ์?์? ๊ต?์ก์? ๊ฐ๋ฅด์น๊ณ ์์ด์ฉ. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋งค์?ผ์? ์?ผ์? ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ํด์. ํน๋ ์?ผ์?ด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์ง๋ง ์ ์ ๋ชปํด์. ์ฌ์ผํ๋ฉด ๋๋ ์?๊ฐ? ํ๊ณ ์?ผ์? ๋ ํด์. ํ์ง๋ง ์ข์ํด์. ์์นจ์?, Intro A ๋ฐ์?ด ๋๋ฌด ์ข์ํด์. ์ฌ๋์? ๋ง์๊ณ ์?์ด ๋ง?ํ๊ธฐ ์ ?์ฌ ์ง์ง ์ด์ฌํ ํด๋ด?์. ์ฑ์ ํ์?์จ ๋ชป ์์ ๋๋ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ ์ง๋ง ๋งค์?ผ ๊ณต๋ถ ํ...
Read more →Jonathan Goldstein was one of the people I met during my first year in Montreal. We never really become close, but then most of the people in our class never became too close to him, as far as I know. But he was always cool.
Read more →Samizdata.net – Who should pay for the smell of lasagne? Interesting discussion of externalities, the commons, and payment systems. I made a comment and it’s worth seeing….
Read more →Here’s a double hit; a collection of crazy and funny jobs in a list, and a list of questions using “do you” to be used in question formation. This should be preceded by fifteen minutes or so of listening and practice. Then a short five to ten minute exercise where students try out the...
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