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I was having a discussion with some fellow colleagues over the British pronunciation of the URINAL. We had just finished a two hour dinner and had been sitting back enjoying after-dinner drinks in a rather quiet, subdued restaurant in a rather noisy, raucus world in which no one was particularly in ...

In my conversation class with some Middle School pupils we had spent an entire week discussing and creating suitable dialogues about Sports. Students in general enjoy conversations about Sports. As an ESL Teacher I have discovered that all ages find that Sports Talk is fun. Some girls and women feig...

For those of us who like to read, and I am a bookworm, not just any author will do. The same applies, in concept, to our students. One cannot expect one's students to accept any suggestion you can offer to them. The books are not readily available and by the time you have them ordered by your school...

Standing in front of the classroom I was in a state of stupefaction. I had just turned around after writing and explaining a distinction between two different idiomatic phrases that apparently, on the surface, meant the same identical thing to my students. Why do you think that, I asked the class of...

No, Teachers should not play the B.O. Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You asked for my opinion and now you have it.


Gimmekimche

I once knew a an ESL Teacher who had rank B.O. She was a little heavy from drinking a bit after work and then who knows when else. Anyway, she had this B.O. problem. The problem didn't arise from garlic. I roomed with her in a two bedroom flat and although we often enjoyed kimchi, in every form incl...

Hey Son, I have been meaning to tell you something for a long, long time - well, in fact as long as you have been teaching ESL which is as long as I have known you which in any case has now become too long and if you don't stop this idiot piffle I will personally see to it that you are removed perma...

Cowbird, cowbird...

Perhaps I can answer one question for you. You need to go. Anywhere but here.

Get a life!!!!!

When I came into the office of the School Director for my appointment (to sign my new contract) I was shown a large entrance area. When I earlier entered the doorway on the third floor of the building I had definitely noticed it. I wondered what it was. A new Video Installation by Paik Jun? No, not ...

There was a class that I was forced to teach and I was soon glad that I had been coerced into teaching it by the director who came up with an ultimatum that I couldn't refuse. She said you either teach this class or you don't. I said, well, okay. The class was ornithological. It soon grew wings and ...