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[Petulia Pet]

Well looks like I'mcomeing to Guandong in summer, looks like a technology place. That's good because I'm hopeing that I can teach English and if its' a bit like the TAFEs at home then for sure they'll have hairdressing and beauty classes and that's my thing.

Anyways I want to get my hope chest together and my on-line TESOL course said that REALIA was a good thing so can any one give me the low donw on the sort of realia I shold put together, i want to make my lessons authentic which Dr Chicoteau said was very important in English teaching.

So please help.

[saint57]

Just bring your personality. I have never had a moment where I said, "Damn I wish I packed some realia." Once you start teaching you'll realize that no one would ever put so much effort into a lesson as they do into creating lessons while studying to be a teacher.

[thepreferrednomenclature]

Petulia,

The best relia will probably be something you can easily find here in China. Build a relia-based lesson around an interesting situation with a fun, unusual dialogue and a few easily found props off the street or a local market? Sounds like a very good segway into a lesson.

Travel light. Listen to saint57. Keep an open, creative mind.

[Girl Scout]

Pictures. Pictures of your family, your home (apartment), your hometown.

[Yu]

Petulia,
As a hairdresser, I am seeking your professional opinion.

In China, when I get my hair cut the hairdresser has a habit of thinning(xiao bo?) my hair. I cannot understand why the hairdressers do this because the end result is my hair gets too thin. Do you think it is necessary to thin hair when cutting it?

So in terms of realia I think you could bring some good snapshots of excellent haircuts. Especially for western people. Also you could bring some photos of the things you keep in your shop. For instance, you probably use some sort of disinfectant for brushes before using them on a new customer. I have never seen this sort of thing in China. You could also bring some pamhplets from the hairdressing salon that mention prices of services offered at the salon. This could aid with some translation exerciese plus be a good discussion of differences in costs of things between the United States and China.

[Petulia Pet]

I amhoping I can lecture on hairdressing at the Technology uni and I'll for sure do a bit on hair thinning. Take my advice but and don't let them at your hair, their no good at it and that's that and you don't need a professional to tel lyou that. We took on the wife of the local Chinese takeaway as a sort of parttimer. WELL!!!!!!!!!!! It's a wonder we still had th e shop after all the complaints. She thinned hair as if our ladies wanted all american crewcuts. Talk about the beach boys!!!!! No they just don't understand. Here's abit from a inhouse manual:

[Brian Caulfield]

dear Petulia , I have been watching the Olympics and I saw that there are now drugs for men to keep from balding . I am now bald and your suggestion of powdering before I do my power point has made a world of difference in the amount of laughter during my lessons . Do you know about these drugs . You see I don't need thinning but thickening .

[Yu]

Did you ever try the Just for Men's Hair Club? How about that spray on hair?

Petulia, what do you think of these products.

Oh, and a Flowbee would be an excellent example of realia!!! What do you think of this incredible invention?

[Petulia Pet]

Anyways, first before I give out free advice about hair, any more ideasabout realias, what about things about Australian culture, you know the bush and the beach and barbacues. But I suppose some photoes would do. I've got a 5 M digitall camera that I use to use to make photos of some of our best Salon masterpieces, I suppose I could make realia photos witht hat. Some poeple think Oz has no culture but that's nottrue. I did anessay on Austraian Culture for my phd and I proved OZ is as cultured as anywhere.

But anyway, I know you mob want free advice. That Brian Cawfield sounds liek a free loader. I reckon he probably looks a bit like a sheetsu but never mind, I'm here to help. I'm pleased the powder treatment did the trick, I've recommended it to a few and it costs nothing much but works wonders.

We hair sytlistes make our dough out of people with hair, there�s no money for us in baldies but we try to give them moral support. Tell the truth it�s all a load of crap because if your going to go bald your going to be bald. We use to say Just look at your mothers brother and that�s the guts of it. Our stylsites handbook says you can use drugs Finastride and Minoxodil or something like that but they�ll empty your pocket and your still as bald as abadger. Men are so vane. They think a hair down the sink means you know what will soon sag like an old sausage never to rise again BUT THAT�S CRAPOLA. Those two gentlemen, well, there�s not a lot of hair there in one of them at least but his friend says he�s a real goer. You can try a graft but I�ve seen some awaful results there, one bloke it didn�twork on and he looked like some tribe had annunciated him, the scars on his head would put the wind up you, line after line of them, he looked like Auntie Lavinas hairless sheetsu. Gawd the girls at the Salon use to laugh.
I say save your money, I reckon money spent on a shrink to make you feel better is better than all those pots of horse piss or banana ointment I read once. With all that banana crap, you�ve got to rub it in twice a day and as soon asyou stop, your back to square one. But an old standby was rubbing in onion twice a day, the good thing about it is its cheap and they reckon it�ll give you a bit of get up and go. But it doesnt work.

I'd smash allyour Flowbees, anyone coming to the Salon who let on they use a Flowbee,you can tell anyway, gets short shift from us, let them muck up their own hair I say don't come to us once you've sucked big patches out. The flowbees are only good business for people who sell hats an d scarves so people can cover up the evidence.