No One Is Laughing At You (A post about jokes)
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. –A. Whitney Brown As anyone who has learned a second language can attest, one of the biggest hurdles you come across is humor. Plays on words require a linguistic understanding that is hard to achieve from just listening to […]
Garfield Cat
At the [tag]Changchun[/tag] Foreign Language School my classroom was a listening lab. It was a difficult room to teach in since the kids all sat behind glass partitions and had computers to play on. Anyway, as I learned to use the (all-in-Chinese) computer software, I spent lots of time listening to conversations that I wasn’t interested in, such […]
Windows 2003–Beijing Olympics Edition
From the “Pirated Software With National Pride” Dpt. A boxed version of [tag]Windows[/tag] costs around Â¥10 on the street. I’ve yet to use a computer here that doesn’t keep popping up messages from Microsoft discussing the “[tag]Windows Genuine Advantage[/tag]”.
ESL Games: Wheel Of Fortune!
Materials Needed: Deck of specially labeled playing cards Blackboard (to keep score) Instructions: (I play the game with cards because I’ve not been able to make a wheel durable enough to withstand my students; unfortunately, CARDS OF FORTUNE! is a stupid name for a game.) Teacher prepares a deck of cards, some given monetary values, […]