Students were asked to write a drafted ethics code for an employee in the financial world. One of my better groups actually chose the President of the Bank of China. One of the requirements was a statement about avoiding conflicts of interest. They wrote:
“When the president works in the bank, he is avoid working with others or sleeping.”
0_0 Oh dear. That poor man!
My students are all Senior’s in college, and as such are prepping for their big college entrance examinations / English proficiency exams. Many of the come to me looking for help with their papers and writing practice, and I’ve been noticing a particular trend in their work.
They almost all have excellent understanding of noun, verb, adverb, adjective placement; however, two significant blocks for them are the Prepositions and the Articles (a, an, the). The students simply don’t understand how those words fit in with everything else.
So I pulled together a brief list of practice worksheets I found on the internet. Just in case someone else was interested, here they are!
In August, I will be officially changing my residence address to one in Xinzheng, China, selling my possessions here in the States and starting a new life over there. I have been really blessed in that my University has established a Facebook Group for all the foreign teachers there. All of us newbies are asking tons of questions of those who went before, and I thought I’d share some of the important ones as they come up. If you are moving to teach or changing jobs for one overseas, you might want to ask your organization or contacts the same questions!
1. What’s for Sale?
I never really thought about, but sometimes the people leaving have things for sale. Leaving teachers at my school are offering things like medicine, water purifiers, American towels, potted plants, shelving, curtains, etc. The kind of things I don’t want to take, they don’t want to bring back, and no one wants to buy. See what your place has to offer!
TESOL ~ Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Situations where English is taught as an L2 or where it is taught as a foreign Language.
ESOL (English for Speakers of other languages)
ELT (English Language Teaching)
EMT (English as a Mother Tongue)
ESL (English as a Second Language ~English is being taught and learned in countries, contexts, and cultures in which English is the predominant language of communication)
EFL (English as a Foreign Language ~ English is neither widely used for communication, not used as the medium of instruction)
EWL (English as a World Language)
ESP (English for a Specific Purpose)
EAP (English for Academic Purposes)
EST (English for Science and Technology)
SLA ~ Second Language Aquisition
L1 ~ English as a First Language
L2 ~ English as a Second Language
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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