A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about online resources that work really well for my ESL students. They are a combination of websites and apps and some of them were better for printing worksheets while others presented ideas and different ways to teach vocabulary and concepts to my students. Today, I would […]
An interesting thing happens, when you live in a different country for a long time. You tend to embrace the culture you’re in more and more with each year, it kind of becomes part of you. And if you don’t visit your home country often enough, you may become a bit out of touch with […]
Aah, food. Love to eat it, love to prepare it, but it confuses the heck out of me. The other day I was thinking yet again about eating out, but the same eternal question started bothering me: why go out to eat on a workday when you can make a delicious meal for a fraction of […]
Teaching is an incredibly rewarding activity but at the same time it is no easy feat. I know, I didn’t say anything new here. Teaching ESL (or English to speakers of other languages), on the other hand, brings the rewarding and complex parts of our honorable profession to a whole new level. In simplified terms, […]
As I was pondering what to include in this month’s blog posts about dinner recipes, I went through a dozen ideas. The criteria to follow here is that it has to be relatively quick (under 1 hour preferably), and not difficult to make. Oh, and made from ingredients that you already have in your house […]
As the month of soups is coming to a close, here is a little recap for you: all four recipes in one place! Enjoy!
As I was preparing this week’s recipe, I realized that I don’t have a particular story to share. Just conversations with my father, from whom I got this recipe, and snippets of reactions of people who had never tasted it before and were “converted” after they did.
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Yep, you read that right. Today is all about peas. Now, before you close this without even reading the recipe, give it a chance. Last night, my very good friend came over and as usual, I offered her something I had made. She usually is very happy to try my creations but when I answered […]
The new year has arrived and so have new ideas and inspiration. I am always on the quest to delve deeper into what it takes to learn a language and so I have decided to start a series of posts for those who are teachers of English learners as well as anyone interested in language. […]