Blog Detail
Recent Posts
Huh?
Testing time again. Part of the test had questions on sports vocabulary. The students were given sentences such as the following:Our school has just got a fantastic new football p............... and invited to fill the gap. The expected answers here,...
Then it Must be True
The subject of alternative medicine arose with my Algerian group today. Most had not heard of acupuncture or aromatherapy, but they all extolled the benefits of cupping. In my ignorance, I thought this practice had been ditched somewhere around the t...
Gurus, Twerps and Huggy Bears
I have recently found the blog of The TEFL Tradesman, and reading him has reminded me of the kind of Teaching English as a Foreign Language looniness that my present job protects me from. For instance, between January 8th and March 2nd 2007 in Vermon...
Praise Ye the God of Wood
If you are tempted by internet porn and fear for your immortal soul, rejoice and be exceeding glad, for help is at hand. We are indebted to the saintly Reverend Ackeroff at Unthinking Anglicans for this good news. Covenant Eyes is a competitively pri...
Of Whupticks and Nunnies
Professor Geoffrey Pullum over at Language Log links to this article about kids, Lego, and the human need to have names for all objects in the immediate environment. If a specific Lego shape has no hitherto agreed-upon name that you know of, you can ...
You Ought Never Shoulded To Have Must
EFL teacherly stuff, this. Some of you might want to go and play somewhere else.I was taking the register with my Algerian group yesterday morning.'Faisal don't come this morning,' said Cherif. 'He's diseased.'I took this to mean that Faisal was a tr...
