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Hey there folks, I'll be starting TOEFL with some private students shortly, and although I've battled with it periodically I'm not experienced enough to really know which books are better than others. To be honest, to my untuned eye they all look equally dire. Ahem, I mean, they all look pretty much...

(Well, it's an old one, but still...) http://www.theonion.com/onion2816/vowels2816.html Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced U.S. plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American h...

Yep, I can understand how Glenski and others would disagree, or consider such activities as "wasting time" - in many situations this would be the case. However, my classes are 3 hours long! I don't consider 10 minutes of something unrelated at the beginning of the class to be too much of a sacrifice...

Hi there, It would be nice if all the students showed up exactly on time - but... you know! I have a few ideas for "things to do while waiting for everyone to come", and I'd really like some more. The idea is to do something worthwhile (so the students who come on time feel they are gaining somethin...