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Big_Cannon
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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: ESL Survival Kit with silver lining |
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-The Language Log, blogosphere.
-Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (M-W).
-A Grammar of Contemporary English (Longman).
-The Adventure of English (Sceptre) by Melvyn Bragg.
Great stuff. |
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Richfilth
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Location: Warszawa
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| How on earth did you manage to miss out the Raymond Murphy grammar books? |
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phantombedwetter
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Location: Pikey infested, euro, cess-pit (Krakow)
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Richfilth wrote: |
| How on earth did you manage to miss out the Raymond Murphy grammar books? |
Yeah right!
Merrily hand out dozens of photocopies of Murphy's with a masochistic grin on your face as the will to live drains out of every orofice from your students.
Then laugh like a deranged baboon as they start biting their own femoral arteries to stay awake and bleeding out of their toes.
On a serious note, try:
1. Inside Teaching - Bowen and Marks
In my opinion the best practical teaching book ever written.
2. Grammar for English Language Teachers - Parrott
Not only teaches you the grammar, but how to teach it. |
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Big_Cannon
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| phantombedwetter wrote: |
| Richfilth wrote: |
| How on earth did you manage to miss out the Raymond Murphy grammar books? |
Yeah right!
Merrily hand out dozens of photocopies of Murphy's with a masochistic grin on your face as the will to live drains out of every orofice from your students.
Then laugh like a deranged baboon as they start biting their own femoral arteries to stay awake and bleeding out of their toes.
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Within-Temptation
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I just love how you guys try to out do each other:)
Lucky i don't know any of your type seriously:)
We all love to be loved by the polish folk=all ego that's all,
Just be nice for f__ks sake,
It's not what you know, but who you know,
Peace to all |
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Richfilth
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| phantombedwetter wrote: |
| Richfilth wrote: |
| How on earth did you manage to miss out the Raymond Murphy grammar books? |
Yeah right!
Merrily hand out dozens of photocopies of Murphy's with a masochistic grin on your face as the will to live drains out of every orofice from your students.
Then laugh like a deranged baboon as they start biting their own femoral arteries to stay awake and bleeding out of their toes. |
I know there are better grammar manuals out there for professionals, but I'd say 90% of my Polish students have encountered the Murphy grammar books by the time I come to teach them, and I've never been in a school that didn't have cracked-spine well-thumbed copies on their shelves.
And, as you so creatively put, they're VERY good punishment for lazy or surly students  |
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phantombedwetter
Joined: 29 Nov 2007
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In my first teaching job there was a big cardboard box in the corner full of photocopies of Murphy's units.
The idea was that you would take a slack handful into the class and give it to the lazy students 
The school failed to see how counter productive this whole policy was.
If you have a copy in your school, take it to the bathroom with you and you will see how thoroughly absorbant it is. |
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