camelconvention asked: Hi! I'm helping run the Spanish club conversation hours this semester at my college and you and A inspired me to do an captioning activity with weird pictures at the meetings!
It’s my favorite exercise of our lessons, because there are always opportunities to explain word usage/shades of meaning and grammar.
As a side note, if you are captioning a picture while you’re online, Google Images can identify an object sometimes if you don’t know the word in a given language. It’s better than Google Translate for nouns that are also used as verbs, like “corkscrew.”
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Posted on Wednesday January 18th
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About me
About the site:I am an ESL (English as a Second Language) tutor over Skype. I do a visual exercise with one of my students, "A," where I show her a picture, then she writes two to four sentences about it. My friends love her sentences and urged me to start a Tumblr, so here it is.
About us:
We are the same age, and have the same shoe size and height. "A" lives in Japan, and I live in the United States, in Northern California. We are quite different; "A" likes silver and pink, Lady Gaga, and beautiful dresses, whereas I like black, grindcore music, and combat boots. However, we are also similar in our loves of the English language and making people laugh. We have been working together for a year, and hope to grow and learn together for years to come. We hope you enjoy our site.
Links:
About.com's ESL portal is a valuable resource for lesson plans, quizzes, and information on getting started in teaching ESL.
If you are interested in teaching ESL as a hobby rather than a profession, some websites at which to meet students are Livemocha and Lang-8.
Pronunciation drills can be found here: Pronunciation Exercises by Michael Climo.
Breaking News English contains news articles for intermediate to advanced ESL students and accompanying classroom exercises.
Lastly, Pony's friend Adam writes and draws the adorable Books of Adam, a comic blog which you should definitely check out.
