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Heard a story this evening from a friend who works with special needs kids. When I was at secondary school in the north of Scotland, we had a special needs department as part of the main school complex. The special needs kids were partially integrated into the main school and would join the rest of us [...] 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 [...] …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 [...] Loving this post about buzzwords in education. I’ve had to sit through a lot of meetings and read a lot of emails recently about whether my editorial team should be training our writers to utilise the ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) methodology, or the PPP methodology (Present, Practice, Produce). Then again there’s TTT (Test, Teach, Test) or [...] [...] People who know me often assume that because of what I do for a living I must be the sort of person who foams at the mouth when I spot a typo in a newspaper article, or that I spend my weekends stomping about town with marker pen and Tippex, adding missing punctuation and erasing unnecessary [...] … I have to remove another set of unnecessary quotation marks from a perfectly acceptable word used in a perfectly ordinary context the rivers of Hampshire will run red with the blood of [...] My mother just informed me that she has been urinated on by a frog. Picture by rcolonna; found on Flickr. Apologies for the pig (frog) Latin. In other news, I have just become aunt to a blue kitten. Congratulations Patroclus and Blue Cat! [...] I can’t believe I’ve managed to reach the age of thirty without anyone telling me what mensuration is. Things your mother never [...] |
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