So, I’ve been out of commission for quite some time now. My summer vacation from teaching has arrived with a corresponding vacation from blogging about teaching.
Also, I moved to a new flat and we still don’t have internet hooked up yet, so you can imagine that pretty much eliminates any possibility of getting your blog on, shall we say. I mean, you really start to think a bit harder about whether what you have to share with the rest of the world is so important that it’s worth paying 30 cents for 15 minutes at the cybercafé.
I hadn’t been reading or keeping up with my fellow TEFL blogger types for quite some time, so the other day when I started sifting through the avalanche of bloggery that was awaiting me it was pretty overwhelming.
The main conclusion I took away from that is, I need to step my blog game up.
Unfortunately, or rather, fortunately(!!!), I’m going on vacation for real now (i.e., actually leaving my apartment!) so all that game-stepping-up business will have to wait. Until then, I can just tell you that there will be changes in the look and feel of $4MT, I promise I’ll get some PDFs up in this mother, etc., etc. You know, all those tips I read about in the 5,781,423 blog posts that have come up recently about How to Blog.
In the meantime, I’m going to steal a page from Lindsay’s playbook and hit you off with some links to my “greatest hits” (another tip being put to use):
1. Beyoncé “If I Were a Boy” 2nd conditional lesson plan
2. Past continuous (narrative tenses) story
3. Titanic past continuous lesson (kids)
Those three are far and away the most popular in terms of clicks and views and all that crap. Below are my three personal favorites.
1. “Unemployed Scientists” passive / past participle clause lesson The first post. It holds a special place in my heart, what can I say…
2. Mr. Show “Lie Detector” Past simple/present perfect lesson My favorite of all the Mr. Show lessons I’ve done. Spices up a topic that most teachers find gets very old after a while.
3. Eminem “Guilty Conscience” Reported commands lesson For the sheer perversity (is that a word?) of it, and because it kind of sums up what $4MT is all about. Yeah, I mean, it’s all good, you know, being all like “learner-based” and doing everything strictly for the students (which in this case it actually was, since he requested to do this song specially), but what about the teachers. This is Strictly 4 my T.E.A.C.H.E.R.Z., byotch, I thought you knew!
O.K., I’m done until September. Peace!
