I have decided to quit English teaching and to be the leader of a ministry. I am also attending Bible college. You can read all about my at my regular blog, Senator Quoheleth. Thanks for reading!
A researcher finds that being happy is not the most important thing in life: shock horror! Another article shows some interesting flaws in the Australian university system.
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Here are some more links for teachers that I’ve discovered:
- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/tertiaryplace
- http://www.englishpage.com/index.html
- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/celebration-resources/index.html
- http://www.digitalliteraciespd.pbworks.com
Enjoy 
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To my Academic English students, please find here my expectations of Academic English for you. Also, for your own benefit and personal usage, you can download the Growing Student Dictionary.
PS – If you’re daring, feel free to try these recipes, courtesy of an Australian magazine publisher. YUM!
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Here are some other thinks:
- http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Pathak-ComputerClass.html
- Australia Network.com/studyenglish (Brilliant stuff for IELTS)
- Australia Network.com/livingenglish (great site with a faux TV series for new learners to practise listening)
- Breaking News English.com (excellent stuff with easy-to-read news stories)
- Behind the News (terrific news stories for primary and secondary school students)
- ESL Lab
READING:
- ESL Home
LISTENING:
- http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm (Brilliant site with a guy who clearly has a passion for English learning.)
- http://www.eslhome.com/esl/listen/
LEXIS:
SPEAKING:
- ESL Go
- http://ohio.edu/linguistics/esl/grammar/index.html
PRONUNCIATION:
- BBC Learning English- Pronunciation Tips (Videos on how to pronounce English sounds)
- American Pronunciation (includes and explanation of American pron)
OTHER:
- ESL cafe
(Online Games)
(Online dictionaries and encyclopedias)
(Media)
- http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/
- http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart
- The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)
Tomorrow we’ll look at this story on creatures of the deep sea. This will be the activity sheet.
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To my Upper Elementary B1 class, next Friday I’ll interview each and every one of you, to give you feeback on your speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. This is the form that I’m going to use and give to you at the end of your interview Have a terrific weekend! You’re all fantastic students and I like you all very much
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Hi all, here is my Growing Dictionary, which I hope will help you remember new words. When you learn them, please try to use them. If you don’t use words, you lose them. If you want to watch some videos on how to manke English sounds, you can watch these videos. Here’s a chart of the phonemic sounds, all together. Enjoy!
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Hi all, please watch and listen to this news file on the Australian general election and answer the following questions:
Q1: What’s the measure of success in this story?
Q2: How is success measured in politics in Australia?
Q3: What does it mean to ‘take on’ someone?
Q4: What political party is in power now?
Q5: Who was the Prime Minister? Who’s the PM now and how did she get the job (in your own words)?
Q6: Why are people enthusiastic about Julia Gillard?
Q7: What are people feeling about Kevin Rudd at the moment?
Q8: What will happen if Julia Gillard loses the election?
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Many people today wanted to listen to Coldplay this week. Here are the songs that we listened to:
You also listened to these ones by U2:
Onw student in class has been insisting on the song ’Oh Yeah’ by Yello. Well, here it is It’s strange and bizarre… I honestly don’t like the song or the video but maybe you will!
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