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I teach my students, and I respect their contributions to the classroom. You're not there to like your students or not. Liking other students is as much a problem as not liking this one. Swallow your unprofessional response and remind yourself that you are what she came for: a teacher. When she inte...

In American English one would say, "at the mouth of the river" over "the river mouth," the latter sounding awkward in English to Americans speaking about embouchures. Another reason I don't like teaching grammar is that communicating accurately is more important in the areas I teach than precise gra...

There is a children's classic read in American junior high schools in about 6th grade that is not about King Arthur but is about medieval England (12th century): A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg.

Also DMV booklet with street signs, field trips with street names of places they go in their city, yellow pages with a few listings (too much at first), trip to supermarket, drugstores, all of the ads in the Sunday paper.

What would really be a surprise is to find out that the spammer has a personal beef with the author and is using these boards for that purpose. Open a dialogue, if necessary. But spammers deserve no respect, as their opinion is not a studied look at anything, rather just a temper tantrum in the supe...

I use American literature with Chinese students (mainland Chinese) as they tend to be interested in Hemingway, Steinback, Fitzgerald and willing to put time into reading these classics. If I tried Stephen King on them they would rebel. I will try SK on some of my other students. Good idea.

Is the company asking you to teach them to swear? Or asking you to teach them what swearing is? I teach my students what swear words and cultural slang mean. Along with the information that they will almost always offend someone in a way they cannot recover if they swear. It can make you look low cl...

Good points, Liz, that the radiographer won't be saying any of these to the patient. However, it might have better established the ESL teacher claim to have pointed out the correct path of transmission of information. The radiologist or, more likely, the general practitioner or the treating physicia...

Good comments from Fluffy and Yoda. This does not sound hard. Although a curriculum takes work and a lot of time to write. It sounds fun and useful for the students. If you have a year of teaching you introduce them to basic vocabulary in English in biology, physics, chemistry, geology, botany, engi...

I am a costumer. Yes, this is a tailor's phrase when making a man's suit. And it does refer to which side a man wears his beep on. A tailor made suit is constructed based on what kind of undergarments a man wears, how he dresses, how closely his suit is fitted to his figure, the style of the suit, t...