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by kimchikowboy
Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:41 am
Forum: English for Specific Purposes
Topic: english for tourism
Replies: 7
Views: 15578

http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/bl_tourism1.htm http://www.esp-world.info/Articles_3/ESP%20for%20Turismo%20in%20Spain.htm http://www.unav.es/espSig/walker4.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4028625/ http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~llcrh/travel1.htm http://www.tesol.org/isaffil/intsec/columns/199...
by kimchikowboy
Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:02 am
Forum: Literature
Topic: Book suggestions for ESL students
Replies: 30
Views: 87804

I teach conversation, but if I were to have to teach a novel, especially to intermediate or even less students, one of my first choices would be "Being There" by Jerzy Kosinski (not sure of spelling :( ). You could also pair it with the excellent movie version with Peter Sellers. It's short and stru...
by kimchikowboy
Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:25 am
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: Is it ok to say "The boss is me!!" (=I am the boss
Replies: 26
Views: 9366

This comes from teaching GMAT a few years ago. This is one of the classic tricks they use in the sentence correction section. After the verb "be", you have to use the subjective form of the verb (transitive/intransitive -- I forgot which and it's late). So it would be, "The boss is I", though we wou...