I’m blogging this because I often find that Taiwanese students believe that everything is better in America. Many of them don’t understand what a world-class health care system Taiwan has. I’ve created a few activities on the topic of health, and there’s probably content in this article that could be used for general discussion and/or [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Ethically correct? Is that legal? (Sorry, ‘legally allowed’)
I’m not sure if this headline is ungrammatical, but it’s certainly redundant and just plain ugly: How to spend an ethically-correct Christmas – Yahoo! News Shouldn’t that headline read, “How to spend an ethical Christmas”? There’s no such thing as ‘ethically correct’, is there? Isn’t ‘ethical’ a synonym for ‘correct’? Furthermore, if the phrase ‘ethically [...]
DownloadHelper and StoryCorps.net
It’s official. DownloadHelper does work on StoryCorps.net. Powered by ScribeFire.
Children’s stories – Flash sites
You can find some good Flash stories for children at Another good site is http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-short.htm. And more at http://www.sillybooks.net/ .
Useful tool for K12 teachers
Here’s a good site for K12 teachers: http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk It allows you to search for lessons and materials.
Simple pronunciation activity
Present a list of 5-10 unknown words to the class. Put students in groups of 3-5 Give them a few minutes to discuss how the words are most likely pronounced. Allow low level classes to use dictionaries. Give a member or members of each group an opportunity to pronounce a word. The group(s) with correct [...]
Updating blog css
I’ve only just installed this blog, and obviously I need to clean up the CSS a bit, but once it’s truly up and running it will serve as a place to post links and information about language instruction and educational technology.