Singapore versus Hong Kong

This is the song from Singapore that has caused rivalry between the two countries, oops country and SAR.



This was the response from the Hong Kong Wokstarz.



So, what song do you prefer ? Comments please !

Timing

New teachers should always wear a watch. After a while you know when to start finishing a lesson. I worked in Taipei with a teacher who overran a class by 30 minutes. We were doing back to back teaching so his next class was short change by 30 minutes and so was mine.

Second Life

Here is a quickstart guide for Second life.

Hail to a redundant technology ?

“A book is a wonderful thing, it doesn't care what you look like, your race, or your social status. Yet it offers the same treasures to all who are wise enough to seek it out.”

On line literature resource

Here is an online literature resource. There are a few books in this web site so there might be something for everybody.

A picture dictionary

I have always found picture dictionaries very useful. Anyway have a look at this picture dictionary maybe you can use it. Here is a dictionary and here is a thesaurus. Free Rice is a way of bolstering your vocabulary or maybe your students vocabulary.

Re reading for week 7 by Liou

A response to Practical Considerations for Multimedia Courseware Development: an EFL IVD Experience. Hsien-Chin Liou.

In Taipei in 1998 I was drafted into transcribing some of the scenes from the movie The Mask. Every time I missed a word I would have to replay the movie and I would have to go back about 7 minutes and watch again and try and transcribe the word. The net result was it took a lot of time to transcribe even a small clip of the movie. Liou describes a technique called IVD Interactive Video Disk. This article was written nearly 6 years ago, so I would expect that the technology has vastly improved since then, a 486 and 8Mb of RAM was mentioned. One of the movies being used to developed this was Ghostbusters. This is all very well but some would argue that this was a bit dated. Today's blockbuster is tomorrow's old movie. Maybe now the technology has evolved so that Hollywood's latest can be used in the classroom almost immediately. It strikes me that students would really enjoy this sort of activity. It did mention that lay teachers would be able to use the software. That would be a huge plus IMHO. Quizzes can be constructed, there seems to be many options for students to interact. If this sort of thing could be used with the latest popular movies I am sure it would be very useful indeed. The bottom line is will the students like it ? Esperanto is the perfect language, regular verbs, easy to use, the only trouble being hardly anybody uses it so it is worthless.