Random Quote
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
"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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Olympics News
I’ve been using newspaper articles with a couple of adult students for some time now. I thought it was time to share another resource - I just finished preparing an article to use later this week - it’s olympic related and was published today.
If you haven’t milked the olympics to death with your students you might find this useful. Taekwondo fighter kicks referee in the face - I took one article reformated it and found comments on another article and added that two page two - I think it should make for an interesting discussion. If you like it please leave a comment. As usual it’s available both pdf and
publisher.





Chris Cotter wrote 55 words on Monday Aug 25, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Sean,
Good article. I especially like the comments you provided on the second page. I think that this really gives students a basis to agree or disagree, and an example of how to better formulate their own opinions. I’ll have to try this with my students in the near future.
Chris Cotter
Heads Up English
Sean. wrote 44 words on Monday Aug 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Chris glad you liked it. In the post I linked to above there is a zip file with about 20 other similar articles.
I’ve actually made another 20-25 since I posted that entry and am considering doing a part 2 with an updated zip.