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….
Do you (grammar exercise with jobs list)
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 do you questions on one another, and try to form a few new questions (and follow-up questions). Then, spring the weird jobs onto them and see how they do. This works well at several levelsl; for intro-level the students can play guessing games and work on …
Shooting Fish in the Political Barrel
USS Clueless – The reaction Over at the USS Clueless, the Captain is busy bringing up the most idiotic examples of leftist criticism and smashing them down. Does anyone know the word “strawman”? It doesn’t just mean “imaginary idiotic argument”, it can quite easily mean “real idiotic argument not espoused by anyone who matters.” I know these ignorant rhetoric-spouting leftist whingers, believe me, and despite my sympathies (I dislike most of what they dislike, to be honest), they embarass me. But it doesn’t make Bush acceptable, or the situation in America or Iraq acceptable, either. However, shooting fish in the …
slightly modified jobs list for roleplays
Here’s a slightly modified jobs list more suitable for roleplay situations. In this case it’s for telephone stuff, but many situations would be applicable.
Speaking Americanese
Today I was walking home from the Teacher Training luncheon and I ran into a couple of kids, one of whom I sort of know. She’s a student of my co-worker and friend Kimberley’s. So anyway, she knows me by name, and I know her face, because she’s the daughter of the woman who runs our apartment’s local little corner shop (“the super”). Anyway, the girl quickly greeted me, “Hi Gord!” It was odd enough because I’m used to people calling me Go-duh, the Korean pronunciation of my name. But anyway, I said to the girl, since she’s an English …
Tolkien? Racist? Uh…
Right-Wing analysis Except for the dodgy, bitchy take on Liberals, which should be directed at the extremists only, this is a good criticism of a rather idiotic article about The Lord of the Rings‘ purported racist undertones. I mean, hell, I thought the temptation for evil was something that haunted every character in the story, from Gandalf to Frodo to Boromir… of course, in the logic of fantasy, species are usually aligned with good or evil in general, the same way race used to be (and in many places still is) linked to something like good or evil in the …
A Foolish Discussion of Why Science Hasn’t Delivered What It Never Promised
kuro5hin.org || Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You Here’s an article that, in sad form, bitches and whines that science has not delivered what sci-fi (not to be confused with SF) has promised. Why science should deliver such things as flying cars and cold fusion is beyond me, since scientists themselves never suggested that such devices were necessary, or feasible. The flying car, for goodness sakes, is a film trope that first appeared in Fritz Lang’s 1926 sf film Metropolis. It was a damned visual effect that was simply meant to create a startling image of a futuristic …
아이들이
아이들이 때때로 어른을 닮아요. 네 교실에 보통 매 아이 반에 아저씨 같은 남자 아니면 아주마 같은 여자는 있어요. 도 어른 반에 때때로 아이같은 어른이 있어요. 아이같은 어른 학생을 싫어해요. 단, 어른 같은 아이을이 엄정 좋아해요. 여자 한명이 매 일 마다 엄정 심각해요. 철자법 시엄 써슬테 너무 조심 하고 심각해요. 개임 놀슬테 도 심각해요. 다른 반에 남자는 아저씨 너무 너무 봐닮아요. 말하기 전전히 하고 걷기 아버 같에. 때때로, 아이들이 다른 아이 한테 심술을 있어요. 오늘은 근 남자가 작은 여자를 치기 시작 했어요. John W가 남가를 잡고 사무소에 갔어요. 나줗에 나는 남자 한테 호텅챘어요 (yelled). 하지만 보통 아이가 좋아고 재미 있어요.
Finally Got The Pics
… and some of them are funny. But, since I’m still working in analog that needs to get digitized via scanning, I am screwed as far as my desire to show you the pics at top speed. I also just worked a long freaking day. This overtime business… I taught 7 hours today, and then there was listening to the introductory speeches at teacher training. Most of the teachers had enough understanding to realize that the speaker was, for a good 15 minutes or more, explaining to students where they can eat in the neighborhood. I swear talking about food …
Interview for Intro A Unit 6
This is an interview sheet with questions using the simple present with a bunch of different verbs.