Be Verb Handout, Unit 3 of Intro A

This handout is for a somewhat advanced Intro A class. We won’t work all of the structures in the first class, just say the first 3 or 4. But the interview will be the fun bit of class. The secondary bit will be assigning people to write, using either questions or in declarative form, a personal ad for the newspaper. It’s the same as what’s included as a handout in the teacher training files uploaded on the same day, and I think it’ll be a fun exercise.

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Teacher Training Lesson Plans

This is a lesson plan for this summer’s teacher training session, for use with Unit 6 of the TELL ME MORE! ESL textbook. Some of it is highly cryptic, and might not be much use to anyone but me. But I’m putting it here anyway. If nothing else, they illustrate one principle of my teaching (and also of my learning strategy when it comes to a foreign language), which is, hammering away at a given structure until it comes somewhat naturally.

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Mistakes and Weaknesses

Lately has been a complicated time for me. One of the things I have learned is that life is absolutely complicated, no matter how much we simplify it. It is complicated not just because of the other people in life, which is what is usually suggested by people. But life is also complicated because of what we are.

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My Old Man And The Web

Well, I went ahead and, in an act less of narcicissm than curiosity and a desire to tabulate all the links containing any info about me online, I googled myself. Come on, like you’ve never done it? I found the stuff I already know about, plus some odd hits containing references to my dad. He had been working in quality assurance and also some R&D, I think, in the food treatment industry. Here’s a link where he is mentioned in connection to pea micronization, hemp sterilization, and on standards in Canadian grain regulations. Nice bit of oddness, that. :)

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