It’s been a while since I’ve written anything real here. A month, in fact. April ended thusly: – I went home for Birdy’s wedding about a month ago. The wedding itself was absolutely lovely: the weather were perfect, Jeff and Kathryn were adorable, the reception was fun, and watching my best friend get married wasn’t [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TEFL’
the end of April:
Posted in regular, spring, year 1, tagged Dad, home, joy, students, teaching, TEFL, visits, wedding, work on Sunday 25 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slovenija!
Posted in descriptive, photographic, winter, year 1, tagged Christmas, cold, food, Ljubljana, roommates, Slovenia, snow, students, TEFL, trips, work on Friday 28 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have a lot to catch up on in these past few frenetic weeks, beginning with our weekend trip to Slovenia! Julia and I finished work on Thursday the 20th. The last week of teaching was nice–most of my classes had tests, and instead of normal lessons I had them do Christmas-themed word finds, [...]
hmmm
Posted in photographic, regular, winter, year 1, tagged irritation, knitting, random, roommates, teaching, TEFL, work on Thursday 13 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bad: – Teaching defining and non-defining relative clauses to an EFL class, even an advanced one. To the Italian grammatical mind there IS no difference between, “The sailors who had cabins below deck all drowned” and “The sailors, who had cabins below deck, all drowned.” Shoot me in the head. – Certain EFL textbooks that [...]
aneurysms, anyone?
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged frustration, language, random, TEFL, work on Tuesday 20 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching your own language in another language in which you’re only just becoming fluent is a really good way to make your brain explode. It helps if they can’t grasp that the possessive ‘s goes on the possessor, not the possessed. End.
miscellany (what else?)
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged Bologna, chocolate, Chocolate Festival, Christmas, cold, friends, hot chocolate, roommates, teaching, TEFL, work on Monday 19 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 12:53 am; I teach at 9:00 am tomorrow (today?) and thus have to get up at 7:30; I should be in bed. Unfortunately teaching until 10:30 pm leaves me wide awake for a good couple of hours (I think the double espresso taken at 8:30 in order to make possible has something to do [...]
laryngitis, 50-year-olds who are 10, intensifying adverbs
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged friends, irritating, language, laryngitis, roommates, students, teaching, TEFL on Thursday 15 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Really, the fact that I haven’t posted on my blog in a long time is a good thing. It means that nothing hilariously (or non-hilariously) disastrous has happened. And it’s true; the last couple of weeks have been fairly normal, whatever that means. It was sunny and warm again briefly, which means that we spent [...]
what a sublime irony…
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged rain, teaching, TEFL, work on Wednesday 31 October, 2007 | 3 Comments »
…that today in Italy it was 50 degrees and raining while in Vermont it was 60 degrees and sunny. Grrr. It’d be nice if it weren’t for the creeping suspicion that this *IS* Bolognese weather from here on out, at least until, oh, April. In other news, I just realized today that now that I’m [...]
just living
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged language, teaching, TEFL, tourists, translating on Friday 5 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We all feel so busy these days; everyone always has somewhere to be, even on Saturday. And yet we’re still not really working full time or making enough money to, you know, pay the rent. Yet. Anyway, now Julia goes to Vignola to work at the Wall Street Institute on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays (and [...]
