We leave for our cross country road trip tomorrow. It’s pretty much the Great American road trip, going through almost 15 states. Why are we not doing the usual Route 66, driving across the middle of the country, because it’s so cold right now. It’s barely November, and a lot of places in the North [...]
I will name him Jinx. Isn’t that a really pretty name for a doggie? One day, when I have a home, I will have a doggie. Something sweet looking.. maybe like this..
This is the home I want to live in, all my life, beginning asap. http://www.oprah.com/media/20091021-tows-stine-home-tour Oprah toured this totally-enviable home in Copenhagen. I think this woman must be rich to afford such a wonderful home. And I love how clutter-free it is. I’m sure all those anti-clutter and home-organizing bloggers and flockr groups will inundate [...]
After reading this super-scary post on a blog about robbery in Ho Chi Minh, I advised Pratik to leave his $500 Android in India when we go to Vietnam. Remember the $500 Android he bought because he was so excited about creating applications! (Well, he never did that) Here’s some excerpts from the post. Sqcary… [...]
So what do you do once you’ve finished your TESOL or TEFL course? Hell man, I’m gonna get a job in China/France/Haiti/Brazil and I’m gonna be gone while you guys clean up the mess around here!! Uhmm.. wait. Did you sign your contract yet? Did you get the figures right? Are you sure you’re going [...]
So I know I’m not going to Africa anymore but I did plan to, just about a few months ago. Google wasn’t very helpful, for once, because there simply isn’t enough information for job seekers wanting to relocate to Africa, or people who want to live there, for longer than two weeks in a safari [...]
There are two main articles in the English language – a and the. A variant to the first article is an, which is used before words that begin with vowels. Articles are used before nouns, and just like adjectives (also used before nouns), articles also modify nouns. Know what modify means? It means ‘to change’ [...]
It’s no secret formula to great writing. In fact, it’s been around for exactly 2009 years. Which means, back in 1 B.C., someone came up with this wonderful simple rule. And how do I know of it? Why, Wikipedia of course! This quintessential simple rule to rocking writing has been drilled into every journalist living [...]
Most ESL students (and their parents) lay an inordinate amount of emphasis on conversational skills and gloss over the need to learn how to write. It’s true that conversational skills are the most important ones to teach. If immersed in an English speaking environment, students pick up conversational skills sooner or later (which is why [...]
This is a lesson plan for teaching articles that was requested by a reader. Articles are possibly the simplest, yet the most most arbitrary grammar rules to learn. Most languages apart from English do not have articles, and I know most ESL students are completely flummoxed by their need. But well, strange is the English [...]
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