Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / March 2007

I went to a Columbia University (at the School of Continuing
Education, not Teacher's College, and it's close to $10K!!!!)
information session for their 8 week summer TESOL intensive program.
This is not an MA or MA track program, and though there is some NY

Hi.  I'm a 39 year old native English speaker - white Australian
living in Sydney.
I've got a degree in computer science and have worked for many
years as a computer programmer, but I'm basically sick of it, and

I am teaching a beginners ESOL + adult literacy class
~
Preparing classes for these two types of students is hard.  When you
teach, say, Bengali, Arabic or Chinese students to write "the strokes"

I have a mechanical weighing device where a pointer
moves along two parallel series of numbered marks.
One of the series tells me the weight in kilograms,
the other in pounds and ounces.

Hey everybody...
Do the following sentences have the same meaning? Is one of them non-
sense?
Select new predefined messages.

Hi, I am an Italian student and i need some suggestions for my thesis.
I am conducting a research about the influence of latin in English, mainly
from the legal point of view. For this reason I am looking for a legal text
( it could be of any kind, an act, a bill...) which could be ...

Which sentence is right?
If you don't do this, you can get an electric shock...
or
If you don't do this, you could get an electric shock...

I saw the sentence "So? Like I care?" .
It is difficult for me, would you let me know the meanning about "So?
Like I care? "
Thanks in advance.