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[jonniboy]

Iteslj.org was always a trusty fallback for conversation questions but recently it seems to have gone to the dogs with poorly formed questions which my pre-intermediate group would laugh at. Here's a few gems from the "what if" section....

If you you had to kill a highly religious figure to save your terminal son. Would you do it?
If tomorrow morning when you get up, you can't find people on the streets, in the city, or in the country and later you discover you are the only human being on the earth.
If you would have a chance would you change something in the history, risking that, your parents never will meet with each other and you never will be born?

All this wouldn't be so bad if students didn't use those sites themselves. Are there any other reasonable ones aside from esldiscussions (which has some fairly bizarre and unusable topics?)

[naturegirl321]

I don't know, I used to use iteslj when I taught convo as well. Too bad they're not good anymore. The third question is simply oddly worded as well. And the first too aren't that hot either.

[johnslat]

I think they're channeling old "Twilight Zone" shows.

Regards,
John

[jpvanderwerf2001]

Isn't Iteslj.org a free site? I think it takes some cajones to dog on a teaching tool given gratis. I mean, if it's so bad, why not create your own site with excellently worded and relevant questions, then offer it up for free?
This reminds me of a story I know about an acquaintance whose father lives in a village here in Russia. For years, his father cleaned the roads in the winter for free. No one ever thanked him, or offered him help or pay. Then, one day, he decided to stop (for whatever reason, I don't know--maybe health). The people in the village started calling him to complain that their road wasn't clean, and most ended up disliking him. Anyone who's lived in Russia will appreciate the sentiment behind that story. Anyway, that's what this thread reminds me of.

[Insubordination]

It's a shame it's like a wiki and anyone can add questions. I just paste them all into word and choose the 10 best.

[denise]

ESLpartyland has several categories of questions.

If anything about the questions--the grammar, the topics, whatever--is wrong, it's really not that hard to edit/delete.

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