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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...