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Category Archives: ESL Links
Bumpkin Country
The Dowbrigade uses an icebreaking exercise with groups of recently arrived students in which one of the categories for discussion is “One thing you really want to do before you leave Boston”. When our turn came we always list visiting … Continue reading
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Scary scary costumes
Can you spot the real Dowbrigade? On Halloween (which would have been game 7 of the World Series that wasn’t) we were confronted, at the ungodly hour of 9 AM, by an apparition that would curdle the hair of any … Continue reading
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Calling Adam Curry
God help us, we’re going back to England. Back to the Olde Sod, back to that deranged and diseased island which has spawned the best and the worst of modern culture, from Pink Floyd to Princess Diana. Our track record … Continue reading
Posted in ESL Links, Latin America, Media News
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Don’t Quit the Day Job
Haven’t been posting much lately, as a result of real, interesting work in our non-blogging existence, lack of any specific focus for our spleen or wit, and general indolence. However, any readers interested in the application of technology to higher … Continue reading
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English as an Insulting Language
They say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the Dowbrigade out of business, one way or another, sooner or later. … Continue reading
Can’t Stand the Sight of You
width=”228″ height=”169″ align=”left”>They say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the Dowbrigade out of business, one way or another, sooner … Continue reading
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Fetus Eating Sect in South China
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages are known for xeno-philiac eccentricity and bizarre, unstable behavior, but this is mostly due to the weird and exotic locals in which we often end up plying our trade. Be that as … Continue reading
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So What’s Up in San Francisco?
It looks like the Dowbrigade won’t be making his big presentation next week to the 40th annual National Teachers of English as a Second Language conference in St. Petersburg (Florida not Russia). We wanted to take Norma Yvonne as a … Continue reading
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Language Arts: Buzzwords
Tomorrow, we plan to introduce the following paragraph in class as part of the language component of the Science and Technology section we are currently teaching. ”Yo! It’s the buzzphrases, stupid. Is this a no-brainer, or what? What we need … Continue reading
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Cash for Class – Paying Students to Study
CHELSEA — The high school here will try a new way this fall to make students show up for school: Pay them. Under a privately funded program, students will get up to $125 a year for perfect attendance all year, … Continue reading
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North Korea Goldmine for ESL
Any day now the Dowbrigade may be looking for a new job as far off the beaten track as possible. We are keeping our eyes, and our options, open. The following article makes North Korea sound like a promising possibility – … Continue reading
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Mea Culpa
The Dowbrigade has just finished editing, or correcting, his last student paper of the Summer One semester at a Major Boston University. Somewhat ill-advisedly, we volunteered to teach the night section of "Advanced Academic and Professional Writing." We like teaching … Continue reading
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