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dmb
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 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 5:52 pm Post subject: If EFL were a tv programme... |
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What would it be?
Rather then Ready Steady Cook. We could have Ready Steady Teach where contestants are given 20 minutes and various materials to be used in a lesson. ( Nah, sounds too much like reality tv) Forget Fame Academy. How about Teaching Academy where the would be instructors are given Intensive training and have to perform once a week so that they don't get voted out.( Hmmm. Sounds a bit like the CELTA) |
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MartinK
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject: ... |
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ntropy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject: It is a program |
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| There actually is a TV program broadcast in Canada called English teachers (I think it's on the learning channel). They go to Taiwan or someplace and follow the lives of various teachers over a half hour program. This is a regularly running half hour show. |
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FGT
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Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| North-west/south-east enders? |
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Wolf
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Location: Middle Earth
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:21 am Post subject: The English channel |
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Hmm, " Law and Order ", perhaps? " Hardtalk", maybe "? " Arrested Development " is a possible. Or how about "Boy ( or Girl ) Meets World"?
But the heck with individual shows; EFL has a whole channel. It's called "Discovery".
Regards,
John |
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shmooj
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: Seoul, ROK
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:44 am Post subject: |
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Language Improvement with Tim "Tutor Man" Taylor.
Fawlty Tutors
Who's Langauge is it Anyway |
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James_T_Kirk
Joined: 20 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 4:42 am Post subject: Yes, Star Trek! |
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| To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. |
You nailed it Wolf! And thanks for posting the fabulous photo of me in the Captain's chair!
In some countries, a distant second might be "MacGyver"...you know, for those schools you teach at that provide zero resources, so you have to create a lesson plan out of a ball of silly putty and some dental floss. |
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Bookworm
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| 'Trouble at the top' |
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ohman
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| "The Prisoner" about an Aramco contractor who is trapped on a compound simply known as "The Village" |
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Kurochan
Joined: 01 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:35 pm Post subject: Jack*ss TV |
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Hmmm ... last year, at my school, it would have been "Jack@ss TV."
This year ... for some of us with mammoth, packed classes (like my 90 person conversational English class) it would be "Too Close for Comfort." |
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Capergirl
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 2:21 am Post subject: Re: It is a program |
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| ntropy wrote: |
| There actually is a TV program broadcast in Canada called English teachers (I think it's on the learning channel). They go to Taiwan or someplace and follow the lives of various teachers over a half hour program. This is a regularly running half hour show. |
Ugh.  I watched an episode of this program and was mortified. The people they were following around were young first-time EFLers who epitomized the stereotypical backpacker that plays BINGO with their students because they don't know what the heck they are doing. It's too bad the producers couldn't find (or didn't bother trying to find) some EFL teachers who had been doing this for a while and who are actually good teachers.  |
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ntropy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 3:19 am Post subject: Bingo |
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| I've now watched it parts of two times and it certainly doesn't flatter us very much. As Caper Gilr says, just backpackers who don't have a clue how to teach and look like spoiled young children |
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Gordon
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That TV show just wants to show people sleeping around and getting drunk. Not very realistic (I hope  ). It isn`t much better than all those pathetic reality shows. |
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dduck
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Apparently, they have a forum all to themselves. If you want to go over there and give 'em what for...
Look at me, I'm a CANADIAN!
Iain |
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