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.
… 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 …
This is an interview sheet with questions using the simple present with a bunch of different verbs.
This document contains a couple of conversations and then a schedule grid. The idea is to work through the sample conversations, highlighting the idioms and common expressions that are in bold, and then have students book their social life for the week solid through practice conversations. This lets students practice present continuous (what are you doing tomorrow night?) and also gets them a lot more fluid with making plans in general. Which, if you spend time with them outside of class, is a skill that’s helpful not only for them, but for you, too…
I’m trying to work on a new song for the band, something to expand our sound somewhat; the song is, I’m thinking, going to be a kind of warped version of the story of Bodhi-Dharma, the famed and highly mythologized Indian monk who went abroad and reputedly spread Buddhism across Asia. So, of course, I have a nice musical sample of what I’m going for. Lately I’ve been gravitating toward older and older styles, such as the road-country of Spiritwood as I intend it to be sung, and while I flirted for a while with a somewhat warped blues form, …