I have no idea why I didn’t think of this earlier, and why, in my incessant trolling of the world wide web, I didn’t find a recipe for this kinda avocado omelet. Serious to goodness, this has to be the only decent way of eating omelettes, hell, eating eggs. This is how you do it. For [...]
This is such a simple game, and can evoke some very imaginative ideas if you have some motivated students. Take a flashcard to class. It could have any picture on it, but I prefer something with a scene, not a single object. The last time I took a picture of a blue lake surrounded by [...]
I’m very obsessed with eggplant, very. There was a time when I used to scrunch up my nose at the mere mention of baingan, or eggplant. Perhaps it was just that I had grown up on a weekly diet of awful baingan sabzi (which had healthy amounts of heeng, that I used to hate) and [...]
Here’s an excellent ESL icebreaker game that I always go back to on the first day of a new class. Preteach Language – 1. What’s your name? 2. When’s your birthday? Round 1 – Have all SS stand in a semi-circle in the classroom. On the floor, write down January 1 at one end of [...]
I know a post is overdue but Phu Quoc is too close to my heart to be written about at the moment. Here are the pictures though.. hundreds of them. Just for the sake of a memory and a date entry. http://picasaweb.google.com/Pulkit.Vasudha/PhuQuoc
This is a fantastic warmer to revise vocabulary with ESL students. Divide the class into teams of no more than 3-4 people each. In this game, only one person in every team is active at any point of time, so if the teams are big, the other students tend to get bored and/or distracted. In [...]
I had two days off.. believe it or not.. it was my first two days off in a row since I started working at ILA. So we took off to Vung Tau, a small seaside town about 125 km from Saigon. We’d heard the hydrofoil was the romantic way to head to Vung Tau, so [...]
…women dare to walk about in dirty, stinking feet. Vietnam is a country of salon services. Manicures and pedicures can cost as little as 10,000 dong (or 50 cents) each, feet cleaning costs about 60,000 dong ($3), hair cuts cost 40,000 dong ($2), and getting your nails done (which is a mani/pedi plus painting the [...]
Well, considering I’m not doing much with it anyway, and it is slipping away from me for lack of practice. I really don’t mind doing a language exchange with people who want to learn Hindi. At the very least, you could learn a few useful phrases for when you’re traveling in India, and I will [...]
Surprisingly unmentioned in guide books and expat magazines in Saigon, Akbar Ali has been around for a good number of years and serves a smashing chicken curry. Akbar Ali is located at 240 Bui Vien, in the Pham Ngu Lao (backpacker) area of Ho Chi Minh City. I have to say, Akbar Ali is our [...]
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