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Start Talking Sense
07/02/2012 03:15
Start Talking Sense
In language teaching in the Muddle East talking about religion, sex, and politics is taboo. Although the UK is more repressed in some ways, the difference is that the Yarubeans are prudish, whereas the English are prurient, for example, Esther Rantzen waving a potato...
Rhino Mud Baloons
07/02/2012 03:05
Rhino Mud Balloons
Surfing the net one day, I came across an ad for someone to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, for 11,000,000 RP a month. The name of the language skull’s blokie was English and they wanted a `native English speaker`; presumably from Australia or Canada was my guess. Someone...
Rhyme and Reason
07/02/2012 03:01
Rhyme and Reason
At Omoan`s Collage of Head Chuck Occasions, Rustidiq, I taught a course module to English teacher trainees, Children`s Literature. It was very popular largely because of its strangenesses: a favorite poem was ‘Humpty Dumpty' (1803):
`Humpty Dumpty sat on a...
Preaching to the Converted
07/02/2012 02:49
Preaching to the Converted
To spoil our weekends (Thursday/Friday in the `Slammer) the management at Jizzy-Ra Academy, Riyald, Pseudi Yarubeer, insist that their teaching staff roll up at 10.00 am on Thursdays for 'training', which consists of one of us gabbling on for an hour or so...
Poe faced in Poland
07/02/2012 02:42
Poe-faced in Poland
Aboard the train in 2000 from Pullover Skirt, the Eastern railway station in Buttapes, to Soreass in Poe Land, after accepting a post teaching English language and British History in English, there was a couple in the same railway carriage. Asking what kind of books they...
Our Old Man in Omoan
07/02/2012 02:37
Our Old Man in Omoan
Teaching as part of a course programme inside an institution of Higher earning is, by and large, a boon to the incompetent. One is always given the least demanding module to teach, with nothing expected of you, and even less of the stud`nts placing themselves at your...
Accuracy v fluency
06/02/2012 21:23
Accuracy and fluency
Teaching good English is the key to functional literacy. By this I mean what is necessary in terms of language in order to obtain our daily requirements.
The Englishman at home listens to his walkman, watches television, uses the internet, and says `Thank you` in the...
Bitchin` English
06/02/2012 19:56
Bitchin' English
Recent `improvements` in Arkaweet at Oxfudge Internal Nepotism (OIN, K, S), Khartoum, Sudan, include a stud`nt inspired move to replace the Academic Director with a talking bird. Innovations at a local Universe City where English words are screamed at audiences of upwards of...
Concentrate
01/01/2000 11:11
Concentrate
The British invented the ’Concentration Camp’ during the Boer war, but it was ’perfected’ by the Germans. What, exactly is a ’concentration camp’ for? Well, er…concentration. Simple, isn’t it? Well, er … no. Why were the Germans so concerned with those two concepts of the...
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