I’ve decided to take a tip from the Chinese and deal with troubling times by retreating to contemplate life by the side of a beautiful lake. As luck would have it though, the weather in Lausanne is unremittingly grey today, and Lake Geneva is just an idea in my mind as I watch the rain sleet [...]
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As the saying goes: ‘If you’ve nothing good to say, then say nothing’. So rather than inflict a deluge of Yuletide bad cheer on you, gentle readers, here are some jokes in regional British dialects. If you don’t get them, ask Johnny for an explanation – he has more time on his hands than me. Yorkshire joke:A [...] My explanatory guide on subjects to be avoided at all costs in ELT materials. PornographyStudent: Teacher, what is ‘pornography’?Teacher: Er, it’s pictures of naked people.Student: Do you mean like paintings?Teacher: Er, not really.Student (smelling blood now): So, what is the difference?Teacher: … Why don’t you ask Michel? He was looking at some on one of the student [...] You know you’ve lost touch with reality when you start feeling nostalgic about electricity and running water. I’ve just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and have been watching the excellent Survivors on telly. This morning as I was filling the kettle to make coffee I genuinely thought ‘it’s going to be so sad when I turn [...] I just had to write a chapter on Project Management for a business studies textbook. I used to hate teaching business English and writing business English materials, but then I went freelance and started running my own business and suddenly the subject came alive for me. Working with Americans and Chinese people also invigorated my interest [...] …about working in the English Language Teaching (ELT) industry is that you have an excuse to research and write about almost every subject under the sun (apart from those that fall under the PARSNIP exceptions, of which perhaps another post at another time). Things I have had to think about this week: -Spontaneous Human Combustion: it can kill [...] …I don’t like Mondays. Anyone know how much it costs to petition a company for liquidation? Tell [...] |
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