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'Hotels' in most of Australia are really bars. Some of them have rooms to rent, but many do not. Those with food often serve minimal food in the bar area. However, 'higher class' hotels (bars) often have a more restaurant-like atmosphere, with a cleaner environment, better furnishings, etc. and have...

Here in Australia, higher class hotels often double as restaurants, so this conversation could easily take place in a hotel.

aye aye, makes sense to me.

I agree. Studying Chinese, I get much more out of ad-hoc chats or dabbling in calligraphy than rigorous rote learning from textbooks.

Hey there, I don't teach at the moment (I'm studying education & languages), however I regularly mentor quite a few friends, mostly from China, by email. If you have one or two (no more than three! :lol:) particularly devoted students, who you feel would benefit from a serious teacher as a native En...

The head my department at University (Asian languages) made an interesting comparison today between language learning & learning an instrument. He said that it was disgusting that when he asked a student who was learning an instrument how long they practiced each day, they inevitably did a bit (1/4-...

i am studying for a diploma of education in sydney, australia at the moment. we just did a unit in our education psychology class on teaching handicapped students. basically, you should focus on figuring out their individual levels and abilities, as the variation here is about as extreme as you can ...

dunno enough about the environment (following idea depends on levels of course)...

is there a restaurant or some other 'destination' close? you could make it an 'out and about' class, and adlib on practical stuff...

what is this garden path of which you speak?!?!

just saw crazy vocab quiz .. this is poorly designed in my opinion as there are too many words lumped at the top and unlike on paper, the student can't 'cross them out' when done. maybe breaking it in to seperate quizzes for different scenes or parts of the movie would allow you to cut the numbers d...

most interesting.

i should say that the drag & drop to pictures thing didn't happen on my browser (mozilla 1.3)

do you have any other types of activities planned for students?