ELT Russia

Dear Colleagues,

http://www.eltrussia.ru/ - This is the site where EFL Teachers' Associations of Russia meet. The target group are Russian EFL teachers and those who are interested in the Russian EFL community. The feeling that there are buddies all over the world and they can give you a helping hand is very heartwarming. How to find like-minded people? How to keep up good work and share the gained knowledge? You are not alone, just look around and decide for yourself whether it is worth being a member of an EFL Teachers' Association.

Stress reduction Kit

Funny Short Story

                                           

The following is a direct quote from the Center for Strategic and International Studies report on GLOBAL ORGANIZED CRIME; the author who introduces the story swears it's true.

FBI agents conducted a raid of a psychiatric hospital in San Diego that was under investigation for medical insurance fraud. After hours of reviewing thousands of medical records, the dozens of agents had worked up quite an appetite. The agent in charge of the investigation called a nearby pizza parlor with delivery service to order a quick dinner for his colleagues.

The following telephone conversation took place and was recorded by the FBI because they were taping all conversations at the hospital.

Agent: Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of soda.
Pizza Man: And where would you like them delivered?
Agent: We're over at the psychiatric hospital.
Pizza Man: The psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's right. I'm an FBI agent.
Pizza Man: You're an FBI agent?
Agent: That's correct. Just about everybody here is.
Pizza Man: And you're at the psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's correct. And make sure you don't go through the front (go) to the service entrance to deliver the pizzas.
Pizza Man: And you say you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. How soon can you have them here?
Pizza Man: And everyone at the psychiatric hospital is an FBI agent?
Agent: That's right. We've been here all day and we're starving.
Pizza Man: How are you going to pay for all of this?
Agent: I have my checkbook right here.
Pizza Man: And you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We have the front doors locked.
Pizza Man: I don't think so.

A Web of On-Line Dictionaries

You and your students may find useful language reference tools on the Web. A Web of On-Line Dictionaries (http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html) is a compedium of links to more than 800 dictionaries in more than 160 languages. Isn't it the best site for translation?

Dave's ESL Cafe

This cafe can help you in finding new original ideas for teaching, such as private teaching, activities and games, texts, information about exams as TOEFL.
There are a lot of useful staff for students also, such as grammar lessons, interesting idioms, pronanciation power, queezes etc.
The most important thing that not only teachers and students can visit this web-site but also people who are just interested in english language, they can visit a bookstore and chat with someone they like!

Oxford University Press

Today I visited a very useful web-site of Oxford University Press 
( http://www.oup.co.uk). There are a lot of interesting books that can be neccessary not only for students of our universities but for teachers too. If you are really interested in teaching english, higher educational textbook, online products and publishing and in general reading, I adviыe you to visit this web-site. Good luck!

Today is the birthday of my blog!

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