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it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
Lost Pilot
I’ve put together a lesson for my advanced class on the pilot episode of Lost. Actually it’s only the first half of the pilot. The pilot episode is 2 hours, really 90 minutes, and my classes are only 100 minutes long. It will take the whole two hour class just do what I’ve got planned in for the first half of the pilot and even then it will be tight and rushed.
If students want to see the rest, the can buy the DVDs, borrow them from the library, or acquire them some other way. I’ve watched TV/Movies in the past strait through and you always end up with students sleeping in class. Now when I teach using video I regularly stop the video and have discussion time - usually every 10-15 minutes. This way it keeps everyone awake and is really more about language learning as you are checking listening comprehension, idioms, difficult vocabulary and any number of other aspects.
Page six of the handout was originally developed by Gord Sellar who shared it with me via email a couple of months ago. I dropped one section of what he did with his since his focus was different, but kept the majority of it. You will see his name on page six but no link to his blog since he asked the students not be told about his blog.
For the record I am aware that the picture I chose on page six is from season three, I used it anyhow because I think it is a great image. I hope you find this handout useful. If you would like to make changes let me know and I can email you the original file in MSpublisher format.
Katie wrote 53 words on Tuesday May 29, 2007 at 02:53 AM
I am so excited to see this. I haven’t even opened your lesson yet, but I started watching Lost just a couple of weeks ago and am hooked. I hope I have a class I can incorporate this into soon! If not, I will watch the pilot again and do the lesson myself.
Sean. wrote 31 words on Tuesday May 29, 2007 at 05:46 AM
Katie,
It’s designed for a fairly advanced class. I’ll also be preparing a Prison Break lesson sometime over the summer as well in the same style and for the same level.