Posts from ‘September, 2009’

Home remedies, have any?

I’m a huge believer in home remedies and nine times out of ten find that they work better than pharmaceutical options. Following are some excerpts from a story about a folk remedy that has proved useful for treating swine flu. I often use home remedies as a basis for a class activity, and there’s an [...]

And for those of you who thought cocaine was a safe drug…

Drug abuse is probably less frequently a topic of discussion in ESL classes than in some content courses, but that probably also depends on location. Regardless, here’s an important article that discusses a highly dangerous drug added sometimes added to cocaine. It’s not often that I see such specific, detailed information about the danger of [...]