Well, gentle reader. It’s been one month since my last post.I’ve been darn busy. Doing what? You may ask (or not) but I am going to tell you anyway.
The first fortnight of July I have been collaborating with Richmond London carrying out some review work for a textbook mainly intended for adults. I quite enjoyed this as it is something different from teaching.
Then the second fortnight of July and a bit of August I have been writing a project about School Libraries that has taken me too long I should say . So as you can see I’ve been busy enough and now….. on Sunday I am leaving for London.
What am I going to do there? I am going to take a course…. yes, a boring course about methodology so when this next course I enter my classes you will see a “brush-up -your- English” kind of teacher … or so. To tell you the truth it is not as dull as it may seem as I hope to have a great time there.I am going to study in a prestigious school called International School in Covent Garden and I’ll be staying in a very nice area near King’s Cross . The place is called Nido’s and it looks very smart. I cannot recommend it yet but it looks perfect to me.
Hey London!!! Get ready !! I’m coming!!
The Importance of Punctuation
An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard: “woman without her man is nothing”. The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the words correctly. The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”
The women wrote: “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.”
Sorry! Couldn’t help it!!! 😉
Another cool website for students
and yet another one! this time from the mighty BBC. Again , I’ve chosen this one to help you practise pronunciation, reading and above all, listening. Hope you enjoy it!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
Adele
This is what I’m listening to these days.
Adele is, according to the BBC’s Sound of 2008 list, the most promising new music talent in UK. Her debut album is called 19 telling us about her age and it topped the British charts this year. In a way she sounds very much like her classmates Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash and she went to the same performing school in South London.
And now… fancy listening to her performing live (Adele_Chasing Pavements) ?
Or would you rather do a listening with this beautiful song ? Yes? Click here
Practise reading and listening
If it ever entered your mind I was going to let you go on holiday without recommending some websites for you to keep on learning, then you don’t know me at all. That’s the first cool one I’ve bumped into, some others will follow.
The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults.The stories are based on real life situations of interest to adults.
Pick a story to hear the story, click the “Listen” button below the story. When you are done reading the story, click the “Next” button to start doing some activities based on the story .