Posts tagged with "ESL"
Thursday, 7. February 2008, 13:34:30
friendship, ESL
I have not done an ESL post in a long time. So...
Here are some questions. Answer in English. Answer any that you like!
The topics require a different point of view, so use different grammar, past-present-future:
Describe an object that you use every day (present)
Describe a vehicle that you would like to own (future)
Describe a happy event in your life (past)
Describe an activity you enjoyed in a school lesson (past)
Describe a favorite place in your city that you know well (present)
Monday, 7. May 2007, 00:59:14
humor, ESL, English
For the first 500 or so of my DVD collection, I had really neat disk cases that had an index on the lid, and a little sliding button on the front. When you slid the button to the index number and opened the lid, the proper disk was lifted out for use. This was all referenced via Excel in my computer, so I could find any movie easily.
Then... I failed to keep up...
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Monday, 9. April 2007, 02:52:59
ESL, friends
A very nice person just added me as their friend and I want to let everybody know about her great blog. ==>
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Monday, 12. March 2007, 00:52:50
ESL, poetry
All poems don't have to rhyme. What makes something a poem? Focus and economy! Poems value words and don't waste them. Poems are not careless with words. Poets try to find the right words to portray exactly what it is they want to say. There are many styles of poetry. Here is a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, called 'A Vast Confusion.' What do you think of it?
Long long I lay in the sands
Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as of some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto voices murmuring
a vast muttering
a swelling stuttering
in ocean's speakers
world's voice-box heard with ear to sand
a shocked echoing
a shocking shouting
of all life's voices lost in night
And the tape of it
somehow running backwards now
through the Moog Synthesizer of time
Chaos unscrambled
back to the first
harmonies
And the first light.
Does it put you to sleep, trying to figure it out? Does it make you think?
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Wednesday, 7. March 2007, 06:12:41
ESL, poetry
OK, can you write a poem?
Copy the poem into the comment box and add your words to match the pairs of letters.
(A) sounds like (A) like (blue) sounds like (shoe) or (try) sounds like (fly)
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Tuesday, 21. November 2006, 03:22:00
ESL
This link is to a wonderful story. I hope you enjoy it!
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Monday, 13. November 2006, 23:58:41
ESL, china, Learning Chinese, Funny
The Chinese chatters often use numbers to replace words or show emotions. The numbers sound like this:
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Thursday, 9. November 2006, 15:44:44
ESL, Teaching in China
I have been teaching in China for about 8 years. Here is a few words of advice:
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Thursday, 9. November 2006, 14:34:46
lunch, ESL
I had lunch with another teacher today. Near the campus is a nice restaurant called The Sail Ship. Yes, I think it should be called The Sailing Ship. But, whatever....
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Friday, 20. October 2006, 00:59:30
constellations, ESL, Astronomy
Tuesday, 17. October 2006, 01:46:51
ESL, Learning English
Do you want to read words online with definitions that help you build your English vocabulary?
Here are two sites. I hope this is a help to you!
http://www.soundkeepers.com/SAT/http://www.freevocabulary.com/If you want to guess the missing words in a song, try this:
http://www.4english.cn/learningandfun/music/songs/songs/88.htmlDo you like to study English?
ESL LinksGood luck!
This page has me reading an article about '
Good Health.'
The sound file is 1.4 megs. Enjoy!
Wednesday, 4. October 2006, 10:34:24
Learning English, physics, ESL
Another of my hobbies is to answer questions on Yahoo! Answers. Take a look below. Click on 'My Answers' and take a look. I think you will enjoy reading some of my answers! Looney or not!
If you block 'Pop-Ups' then go directly to my page in Yahoo!
Momable!
http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile?show=AA11991317
Saturday, 23. September 2006, 03:45:54
ESL, Learning English
This is a lesson about failure.
Is failure a bad thing? Failure often happens. It is everywhere in our life.
Students may fail their exams, scientists may fail in their experiments, and athletes may fail in competitions.
Although failure happens to everyone, attitudes towards failure vary.
Some people don’t think of their failures as very important at all.
They pay no attention to them. As a result, they will have the same failure again.
Some people think of themselves as fools and lose heart in everything after they meet failure.
Consequently, they spend their time and energy on useless things and they may be the fools that they thought themselves to be.
Other people are quite different from the two kinds of people mentioned earlier.
Instead of being distressed and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.
After hard work, they will be successful in the end.
It is said that failure is the mother of success.
Success will be gained after times of failure so long as we are good at drawing lessons from our failures.
In my opinion, failure is not a bad thing.
The really bad thing is taking failure as nothing but a failure or even to lose heart after failure.
What do you think? If you want to listen to my recording of this essay, click the Title:
Is Failure Bad?
Monday, 24. July 2006, 00:34:48
poetry, ESL, Learning English
Alice put this poem on her blog. I liked it so much, I decided to share my version with you... thanks Alice.
The Folly Of Being ComfortedBy William Butler Yeats
Read by Jon Miner
The Folly Of Being Comforted Click to open the MP3, and come back to this page to read along.
One that is ever kind said yesterday:
"Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey,
And little shadows come about her eyes;
Time can but make it easier to be wise
Though now it seems impossible, and so
All you need is patience."
Heart cries, "No, I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain.
Time can but make her beauty over again:
Because of that great nobleness of hers.
The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs, burns but more clearly.
O she had not these ways when all the wild Summer was in her gaze."
Heart! O heart!
If she'd but turn her head, you'd know the folly of being comforted.
Friday, 7. July 2006, 15:29:28
ESL, Children's Song, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Halloween
I know that some of my friends are teaching or learning English.
This is a song for Halloween.
One version has the voice part, and one is only the background part, that you can use when you or your kids sing the song. Have fun!
;-D
The Casper SongThe Casper Midi
Saturday, 17. June 2006, 12:02:05
ESL, Learn English, ethics, New Zealand
Have you thought about
New Zealand?Start the Kiwi's sound and then open the link.
audio4.1.ram 
New Zealand
New Zealand has a jungle dwelling penguin!
Thursday, 15. June 2006, 09:11:46
Learn English, ESL, English
I enjoyed this tale which was often read to me by my mother.
I hope you enjoy it too! But, Don't get into mischief!
PS. All the links should open in new windows. So, come back here to click them!
Go to Project Gutenberg to read the story while it is read aloud.
Peter Rabbit Illustrated Text Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Thursday, 15. June 2006, 08:51:30
poetry, English, ESL, Learn English
Alone
by Edgar Allan Poe
Click the link and come back to read the poem...
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/gutenberg/1/2/7/1/12714/12714-m/12714-m.mp3
From childhood's hour I have not been as others were
I have not seen as others saw
I could not bring my passions from a common spring
From the same source I have not taken my sorrow
I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tones
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone
Then — in my childhood — in the dawn of a most stormy life was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill the mystery which binds me still
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain
From the sun that 'round me roll'd in its autumn tint of gold
From the lightning in the sky as it pass'd me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm and the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view
Thursday, 8. June 2006, 15:25:57
ESL, Learn English, student life, study
To use your imagination
______________________ is to create a new world.
To write your thoughts
______________________ is to expand your mind.
To write beautifully
______________________ is to communicate clearly.
To use your curiosity
______________________ is to expand your knowledge.
To be involved in cooperation
______________________ is to embrace success.
To use creativity
______________________ is to increase your potential.
To be organized
______________________ is to use the wisdom of the whole.
To use good design
______________________ is to show your sense of style.
To share your understanding
______________________ is to invite friendship.
To share your experience
______________________ is to invite joy into your life.
by China Jon
Saturday, 6. May 2006, 10:47:30
song, guitar, ESL
My wife asked me to sing this old song, Jambalaya... So you can have a listen too.
Jambalaya!
I hope you enjoy it and it makes you smile!
Best wishes
Jon
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