Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / November 2005

my name is José, I'm from Chile, I'm 22 years old
I currently studying English teaching
I'd like to share experiences and get to know teachers of english from
all over the world

Were all humanity taken and crowded together in one place, it would
occupy three hundred billion liters, or less than a third of a cubic
kilometer.  It sounds like a lot.  Yet the world's oceans hold 1,285
million cubic kilometers of water, so if all humanity  -  the five

What does a speaker mean when he describes s.o./sth. as
"PUNCTUATION-HAPPY?" No dictionary for language learners provides a
definition.
Thanks for your kind explanation. Artur

The person who has five ideas but throws out four of them because they
are wrong appears less creative than the person who has five ideas and
keeps them all because he does not realize they are wrong.
  - Edward de Bono

Hi to everybody!
I'm a brand new user of this blog.
Could anyone help me to understand the real use of this group?
Thanks in advance, Thomas

i would like ask you where I can found theoretical base of englis idioms.
It means that I looking for cassification or grammatical base. google
return me short descriptions  but I need more and more information... I
will be grateful to you for help.

Can anyone advise which would be the most useful qualification for
Teaching English as a Second Language?
Plan is to teach English - either in Australia or in Asia.
Or does it not matter, so long as one has ONE of these?

Which sentence is the correct one?
Everybody sends his/her love
Everybody sends their love
Thanks in advance

Before you can speak like an American,
you've gotta hear like an American.
The primary obstacle to speaking American well is
the fact that ESL students are listening with

Algebra applies to the clouds;  the radiance of the star benefits the
rose;  no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is
useless to the constellations.  Who, then, can calculate the path of the
molecule?  How do we know that the creations of worlds are not