Comments on: You’ve been in TEFL too long when… http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bonnie http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2450 Bonnie Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:48:08 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2450 You know you've been in TEFL too long when you go back home and people ask what country you're from. This is a true story! You know you’ve been in TEFL too long when you go back home and people ask what country you’re from.

This is a true story!

]]> By: EFL Geek: ESL &amp; EFL in Korea http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2449 EFL Geek: ESL &amp; EFL in Korea Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:35:54 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2449 <strong>You’ve been in TEFL too long when…...</strong> Alex Case has a MEME related to TEFL going. I'm copying it here and then adding my own to the list. You laminate your shopping listsWhen you have a house or family meeting, you ask people to discuss the issues in pairs first Two thirds of your fav... You’ve been in TEFL too long when……

Alex Case has a MEME related to TEFL going. I'm copying it here and then adding my own to the list. You laminate your shopping listsWhen you have a house or family meeting, you ask people to discuss the issues in pairs first Two thirds of your fav…

]]> By: Sandy http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2447 Sandy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:20:47 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2447 My God, there's even this... "1. Talk to your partner about toilets (on airplanes & trains, in McDonalds or public toilets, at train stations & airports, the school toilet or your own toilet, your country’s and other country’s toilets…)" I am NOT making this up!! My God, there’s even this…

“1. Talk to your partner about toilets (on airplanes & trains, in McDonalds or public toilets, at train stations & airports, the school toilet or your own toilet, your country’s and other country’s toilets…)”

I am NOT making this up!!

]]> By: ESL/EFL links of the day : Daily EFL http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2446 ESL/EFL links of the day : Daily EFL Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:35:51 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2446 [...] You’ve been in TEFL too long when…. [link] [...] [...] You’ve been in TEFL too long when…. [link] [...]

]]> By: Sandy http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2445 Sandy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:10:43 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2445 Good on yer, Alex. No harm intended, by the way. Incidentally, do you think you could spare a bit of time for this marvellous piece of EFL idiocy - er, sorry, methodology... "Walk around the class and talk to other students about camels. Change partners often. After you finish, sit with your original partner(s) and share what you found out." Don't laugh, it's been taken from here... http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0804/080403-camel.html I'll be using the text in question today in class, but I reckon I'll be skipping that neat little warmer. Sandy Good on yer, Alex. No harm intended, by the way.

Incidentally, do you think you could spare a bit of time for this marvellous piece of EFL idiocy - er, sorry, methodology…

“Walk around the class and talk to other students about camels. Change partners often. After you finish, sit with your original partner(s) and share what you found out.”

Don’t laugh, it’s been taken from here…

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0804/080403-camel.html

I’ll be using the text in question today in class, but I reckon I’ll be skipping that neat little warmer.

Sandy

]]> By: Alex Case http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2443 Alex Case Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:28:24 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2443 Having a bad day Sandy? I'm not "doing nothing". His name is appearing on new blogs all the time, including 2 this week and, believe it or not, my school teachers' newsletter, which will go out to 250 people in the next couple of days. All this is driving him to increasingly desperate and pointless attacks against me, which are no doubt distracting him from doing more damage elsewhere such as saving his business or attacking you. I have achieved all this by sticking to the easily provable facts and so coming at him from a position of strength- the facts being that Paul Lowe threatened to sue before there was any mention of him on my blog and the unpleasant comments he emailed and posted here since. If you think it is better to give him ammunition with racist insults and by publicizing rumours that probably started with the man himself, I am afraid I disagree. The fact that the only place you can now freely (give or take a few edits and deletions after advice from a journalist friend) comment on him is here suggests to me that this different way of doing things is at least worth a try. Having a bad day Sandy?

I’m not “doing nothing”. His name is appearing on new blogs all the time, including 2 this week and, believe it or not, my school teachers’ newsletter, which will go out to 250 people in the next couple of days. All this is driving him to increasingly desperate and pointless attacks against me, which are no doubt distracting him from doing more damage elsewhere such as saving his business or attacking you.

I have achieved all this by sticking to the easily provable facts and so coming at him from a position of strength- the facts being that Paul Lowe threatened to sue before there was any mention of him on my blog and the unpleasant comments he emailed and posted here since. If you think it is better to give him ammunition with racist insults and by publicizing rumours that probably started with the man himself, I am afraid I disagree. The fact that the only place you can now freely (give or take a few edits and deletions after advice from a journalist friend) comment on him is here suggests to me that this different way of doing things is at least worth a try.

]]> By: Sandy http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2441 Sandy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:27:27 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2441 And there's this one too, along the same lines, from Edmund Burke (?). "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Get my drift, Alex, eh?! And there’s this one too, along the same lines, from Edmund Burke (?).

“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.”

Get my drift, Alex, eh?!

]]> By: Sandy http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2440 Sandy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:24:58 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2440 "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato (I think) Just thought I'd throw that one in. Now watch Alex make a blog-entry all about it! “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” - Plato (I think)

Just thought I’d throw that one in. Now watch Alex make a blog-entry all about it!

]]> By: Sandy http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/youve-been-in-tefl-too-long-when/#comment-2439 Sandy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:22:47 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=962#comment-2439 ... you start reading this blog. ;-) … you start reading this blog. ;-)

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