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My friend suspected that it was something connected to music, but we thought Asha was some slang-term for a certain type of house-beat or something. I'm afraid I lost all of my prestige as an expert for the English language from the looks he gave me - sort of "don't they teach you that at university...

Really? You have never seen snow fall? Never done any wintersports? You'll have to come visit me in winter some day, I have friends who live up in the mountains and run a skiing hut, and I help them out when things are busy. If you click http://www.unterberg-schutzhaus.at/ you'll see what it looks l...

What does the expression

brimful of asha on the forty-five

refer to?

It's actually from a song that a friend of mine likes, and I cannot make head nor tails of the lyrics.

You'll find the full lyrics at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Ba ... _Asha.html

Four hours on the bus! That's quite a journey! Do you at least get to read or to listen to music while you're travelling? I am lucky in this respect, I live within walking distance from my school. About that student of mine, I enjoy our classes together, and he tells me quite a lot about China. The ...

Well, the obvious approach would be to focus on something that *you* are interested in, knowledgable about and enthusiastic about, since you've got to get it across convincingly. Do you have any hobbies? Any recent travelling experiences? Any particular interests? If it were me, for example, I'd bri...

You mean they should be studying in order to speak the language, to understand it, and to benefit from your teaching? If they study in order to get good marks excusively, they'll toss their books into a corner never to open them again once the pressure is off, won't they? For me, the best motivation...

Well, you'll never know, Cute Cat, I *might* take you up on this offer. See there is a student of mine who's about to graduate, and he's very interested in Chinese culture since he spent a year as an exchange student in Hongkong. In fact, he's so interested that he's planning on going back to mainla...

Oh, I'm sure they are! What a great idea. The mind boggles at what *my bunch* would come up with if I tried it... they wouldn't just have them stop at kissing, you see, they'd go into saucier stuff just like that. I've got to try it some time, though. It raises interesting issues. Thanks for pointin...

I think that the textbook gave you the answer it did, simply because the writers did't devote too much thought into the issue and expected students to regurgitate the information provided without pausing to think. The crux of the matter is that we don't know which point the "starting in 1892" refers...

I am a little uncomfortable with students not speaking English because I want to know what they are saying. Well, there are limits to *knowing what they are saying*. I mean, you've got Hispanic students in your class, what if you had Nigerians and Slovaks and Turks and Chinese students, too? Would ...

Dear Cute Cat, I'm not *quite* as experienced in business as you might think I am, I've worked in the marketing/international sales department of a local compressor manufacturing plant before I took up teaching at a local vocational college, and I'm trying to pass on skills to students wishing to pu...

It certainly doesn't appear *fair*, that much is true. But then, discrimination against older applicants is hardly fair either, yet a common practise in many European countries. Discrimination against women is not *fair*, discrimination against Black people isn't fair, discrimination against Muslims...

Dear Malan, I teach teenagers of the same age group who *might* be interested. They're Austrian, however, and I'm not sure if this counts as English-speaking to you. They're still in the process of learning, and if I'm honest, they are not *all* that imaginative, creative and eager to get involved i...

Some of them probably do. Most, however, prefer to do things spontaneously, and have made it a habit to say anything that's on their mind without worrying too much about whether it's correct or not - maybe this is also a consequence of me being not really harsh on them when they make mistakes. They'...

Thanks. Looks like good music, thoughtful and all that....maybe I'll get a copy. What a well-thought out lesson plan! You know, it really depends on what time of the day it is, and on what happened before the lesson, and on what's going to happen after, and on the temperature, and on the weather.......