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[Guy Courchesne]

Need a match?

[moonraven]

I have a whole box of those ones with the Chac Mool on the top in my left hand....

To be honest, I would have the same reaction to all the other textbook series I have seen.

[Nagoyaguy]

IMHO, a lot of the discussion also stems on your class composition in terms of gender and culture. If you are teaching overseas, chances are that your classes are of students from one shared background. If you are in your home country, there may be more variation in ethnicity or race or culture. This can have a big impact on what and how you teach. The situation changes from a "my culture (teacher) and your culture (students)" situation to a "my culture (teacher) and your culture and your culture and your culture and your culture" .

In Japan, it is very common to hear students say, "We Japanese......." when they give their opinions. THey are similarly shocked when I say that my feelings are my own and there really is no form of concensus on most issues that would drive me to say "We Canadians.....".

[Nauczyciel]

look daggers at:
glare angrily or venomously at.

Idiom:
look daggers at
To glare at angrily or hatefully.

�Look daggers at somebody� -
to look very angrily at someone

[courtesy of Oxford iFinger and online dictionaries]

However, Cambridge and Miriam-Webster don't have this entry. I suppose it may be pretty outdated. I've graduated from language studies in Poland and they teach a lot of old-fashioned stuff there

Anybody uses it??

[Brooks]

nope. Never heard it.
At what university in Poland did you learn that?