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"Beale St. After Dark" – Matt Barr as Dan, Ashley Tisdale as Savannah in HELLCATS on The CW.
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Ashley Tisdale drags costar Matt Barr onto the dance floor in this new still from Hellcats.
In the upcoming episode "Beale St. After Dark," Savannah (Tisdale) is nervous about her first date with Dan (Barr) so Marti (Aly Michalka), Lewis (Robbie Jones) and the rest of the Hellcats team accompany her on their date which ends in disaster.
Meanwhile, Marti tries to impress her law professor Julian (Gale Harold) in the hopes of joining his legal team but he doubts she can balance both her studies and cheerleading.
Desperate to get her spot back, Alice (Heather Hemmens) turns to pills to kill the pain so she can get medically approved to re-join the team.
"Beale St. After Dark" premieres NEXT Wednesday, September 22 @ 9PM ET/PT on the CW.
Ashley Tisdale lays a big kiss on Matt Barr as they film an upcoming scene for their new series Hellcats in Vancouver on Monday afternoon (September 13).
In tomorrow's episode, Dan (Barr) starts to take an interest in Savannah (Tisdale) — JJJ loves where things are going!
Ashley and Matt were also spotted walking around a tiny section of town so Ashley could get a warm coffee.
Check out a preview of "Say A Little Prayer" below and remember to tune in at 9PM ET/PT on Wednesday, September 15 on The CW!
]]>Ashley Tisdale leans back in her chair as she chats about her new CW series, Hellcats, on the PIX Morning Show in NYC on Wednesday morning (September 8).
The 25-year-old actress caught up with US Weekly mag about loving food. She shared, "The guys [on set] are like, 'You eat more than we do!' It's kind of crazy. I eat food for the energy, and obviously I have to eat a lot because I'm burning so much."
Ashley dished on her fitness routine which features kickboxing and lifting weights during one-hour sessions, six days per week. "It's great for cardio. It's great for your abs and your whole body. Weight training is great for toning up and leaning up without bulking up. But the kickboxing is really amazing because it just works everything at once," Ash shared.
DID YOU CATCH the premiere of Hellcats last night? What did you think?
FYI: Ashley is wearing a MINKPINK Little Miss Muffet Cami and Pray for Mother Nature Slick Rick Jeans. She accessorized with Jane Basch and Alisa Michelle jewelry. Her leather jacket is from McGinn Collection.
]]>Hellcats starlets Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale pose for a group pic with the New Rochelle High School cheerleaders during a private party at the Hearst Tower in NYC on Tuesday (September 7).
The blue and black team performed special cheers for the girls in honor of Hellcats at the party thrown by Seventeen mag.
Ashley, 25, told the mag in their October 2010 issue, "I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do."
]]>Ashley Tisdale shows off her family backstage just before she goes on to film her appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in NYC on Tuesday afternoon (September 7).
The 25-year-old actress, wearing a Camille K necklace, chatted with Jimmy about her new show and growing up in such close proximity to other celebs.
Ashley shared about her new home, "It's a green home, so it's solar-paneled. We recycled everything when we tore the old home down. So the windows and doors went to Habitat for Humanity. It took six months to tear it down and another six months to get permits. In my mind, I thought it was only going to take like three. So, I kind of fired my dad about twenty times before he got it done (laughs)."
Check out this new behind-the-scenes pics with stars Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale from their new series, Hellcats.
Aly, 21, told our friends over at TVGuide about the show, "It's not about cheerleaders looking sexy and shaking pom-poms all the time. It's about the competitive aspect, how dangerous it is and the fact that these girls are counting on each other to bring it when they're out there on the field."
Hellcats, also starring Robbie Jones, Heather Hemmens and Matt Barr, premieres TONIGHT @ 9PM ET/PT on the CW.
]]>Ashley Tisdale and Blake Lively give in to a little girl talk before they head in to the Lincoln Center in NYC to attend Fashion's Night Out: The Show on Tuesday evening (September 7).
The 25-year-old actress tweeted afterwards, "Had so much fun at Fashion Night Out, it was my first fashion show. A-MAZ-ING!"
Ashley told Seventeen magazine about the important of friends and cited BFF Vanessa Hudgens as one of her greatest. She shared, "Vanessa is just such a great friend. Like recently, we were at a premiere and I saw a reality star who I thought was really cool. I'd watched her show; so I was excited. But she wasn't nice to me when I met her. All I really wanted to do was take a picture. So Vanessa stood up for me — she confronted her and was like, 'Hey, Ashley's actually a really big fan.' She is one of those girlfriends who has your back. I love that about her."
FYI: Ashley wore a lovely Cynthia Vincent gray dress with Guiseppe Zanotti booties. She completed her look with a cute Alisa Michelle "Evil Eye" necklace.
]]>Check out your first look at Hellcats hotties Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka on the October 2010 cover of Seventeen mag!
The mag threw a private party for the girls to celebrate their cover at Hearst Tower in NYC on Tuesday afternoon (September 7th). Aly and Ashley were surprised by the New Rochelle High school cheerleaders who performed special cheers for
them in honor of Hellcats.
Inside the issue, the girls opened up about their love lives and what they really look for in a guy.
Ashley (wearing MINKPINK's Crochet Smochet Cami) shared, "In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute. Now, I am more into a guys personality. I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down. At the same time, I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him."
Aly added, "I'm not [dating] – I wish. I'm so ready to have boyfriend. I just need to find that guy who's worthy of committing myself to, because I'm not your average girl. And I think a lot of guys are intimidated by girls who know what they want. I still live at home when I am in L.A., I'm really close to my family, I have a busy life and I'm super-close to my sister – so basically if you date me, you date her. And he's either into it or he's not."
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I know that the United States Antarctic Program has at least four helicopters based at McMurdo Station, which are used for flying personnel to field sites that are within helicopter range. There are no helicopters at South Pole Station. I can't speak for other stations or other nations.
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Can anyone tell me where to enter it or is this code now obsolete?
Official response would be most welcome, but anyone who know can reply. Link to source info if possible.
Thank you in advance.
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I wouldn't worry about registering the playstation 2 network access code. All the games that used this type of login under the Central Station service have now been retired.
The game servers that are still up are mainly run by Gamespy registering to play these and network access can be easily done in game.
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Thank you, just had to make sure since the code was included with the latest slim version that is "only" four years old. I was suspecting this was the case though.
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• Prepare lessons for family home evening.
• Prepare lessons for Church meetings.
As you study this manual, seek the Spirit of the Lord. The Holy Ghost will increase your understanding and testimony of Jesus Christ, his atonement, and the restoration of the gospel. Through your study of this text and its related scriptures, you can find answers to life's questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and solve personal difficulties. Many of the instructions for teachers listed below are also important when you use this manual as a personal study guide.
Instructions for Teaching at Church and at Home
In one way or another, everyone is a teacher. Being a teacher is a great opportunity and responsibility. The most important things you will ever teach are the doctrines of Christ as revealed through the scriptures and modern prophets and as confirmed by the Holy Ghost. To do this effectively, you must obtain the Spirit of the Lord. "The Spirit shall be given unto you by the prayer of faith," said the Lord, "and if ye receive not the Spirit ye shall not teach" (D&C 42:14). The Holy Ghost is the real teacher, so it is important to create an environment in which the Lord's Spirit can be present.
You can do many things to bring the Spirit into your class or home. The following suggestions will help you be a better teacher:
• Pray continually for divine understanding and guidance.
• Establish a habit of daily scripture study.
• Testify of the truthfulness of the gospel to your family and friends.
• Let sacred, uplifting music help you focus your thoughts and moods.
• Keep yourself free from sin, repenting when necessary and striving always to improve.
• Express your love to others and to your Heavenly Father.
• Rely on priesthood authority and its power to bless.
Related to these suggestions are some other ways to come unto Christ by drawing upon the Spirit. Consider fasting. It can give you spiritual strength and confidence. Attend the temple as often as possible. Ponder the covenants you have made, the ordinances you have entered into, and the gospel truths you are learning. As you draw close to the Lord, you and those you teach will receive more than mere intellectual understanding; you will receive a knowledge of truth that only the Spirit can give. You will experience the love of God and the benefits of living the gospel, which will greatly enhance your capacity to teach.
Obtain divine knowledge and spiritual guidance through careful study, prayerful preparation, and righteous living. Never speculate about Church doctrine. Teach only what is supported by the scriptures and the Holy Spirit.
Read and teach from the scriptures regularly. Remind those you are teaching to use their scriptures at home and in class. If necessary, obtain extra copies of the scriptures so that all may refer to them. Help others become more familiar and confident with the scriptures. Give scriptural references clearly and, if needed, provide help in finding them. Lesson discussions should lead participants to read and ponder the scriptures personally and with their families each day. Emphasize that the home is the main setting for gospel learning.
Become familiar with the teaching resources in this manual and, if available, the materials in your meetinghouse library. There are visual aids, music, audiovisual materials, general conference addresses, Church magazines, and other resources. Find out what they are and use them when the Spirit impresses you to do so.
As you teach, help others see how gospel principles apply to daily living. Encourage discussions on how these principles can affect our feelings about God, ourselves, our families, and our neighbors. Challenge participants to live according to the principles.
Try to involve as many people as possible in the lessons. You can do this by inviting them to read aloud, answer questions, or share experiences, but do so only when you are sure it will not embarrass them. You may want to make special assignments to class members while preparing the lessons. Be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others. You may need to talk privately with individuals before the lesson and ask how they feel about participating.
Some of the people you teach may need special attention. Be sensitive to those with language, cultural, social, or age differences; hearing, sight, physical, or speech difficulties; or mental, emotional, or learning disabilities. In some cases, you may want to talk with a person's family members or with Church leaders. When appropriate, speak to the person directly about any special concerns.
The Lord's Spirit will be present when love and unity exist. The Lord said, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20).
When the Spirit of the Lord is present, you will see significant results. The Lord promised that "every good tree bringeth forth good fruit" (Matthew 7:17). The following list suggests some of the fruits that you and those you teach will enjoy:
• Knowledge and understanding
The desire to search for eternal truths.
The desire to live according to the word of God.
(See D&C 1:37–38.)
• Faith
The desire to believe.
The desire to draw closer to God.
The desire to act in faith.
(See Alma 22:16; D&C 11:17; 88:63.)
• Prayer
The desire to worship God.
The desire to communicate more with him.
The desire to give thanks.
The desire to seek direction.
(See 1 Nephi 15:8; 1 Nephi 18:3; Alma 33:1–11; Moroni 10:4–5.)
• Humility
The desire to submit to the Lord.
The desire to seek the Lord's will and glory.
The desire to remove pride.
(See John 6:38; Mosiah 3:19; Alma 34:38; D&C 5:24, 28.)
• Repentance
The desire to repair any wrongs against others.
The desire not to judge.
The desire to change.
The desire to acknowledge unworthiness.
The desire to do good works.
The desire to live according to the doctrines of Christ.
(See Alma 26:21–22; 34:32–35; 38:14.)
• Covenants
The desire to obtain all the saving ordinances.
The desire to keep and renew covenants through priesthood ordinances.
The desire to obtain spiritual strength and power through priesthood ordinances. (See Ezekiel 11:19–20; D&C 84:19–21; 136:4.)
As you draw close to the Lord, you will find happiness and the fulfillment of Paul's words in Ephesians 4:13–15:
"[We will] come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."
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Have to say thanks to Marius for planting the seed in my head long ago in these forums to play it
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The game plays like a full release already. It probably has LESS bugs than most PC full releases in it's Beta!
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I gave decent money to Crate on Kickstarter for Grim Dawn, and the main thing that game will have over PoE so far is the offline play - but PoE is free!!! Not only free, but the micro-transactions will not affect gameplay in any way. Runic did a great thing making Torchlight 2 so cheap, cause there is definitely some competition in this genre now!
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With four days to go until the presidential election, a new poll indicates the race for arguably the most important battleground state remains very close.
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Fifty-percent of likely voters questioned in the poll say they are backing the president, with 47% supporting the former Massachusetts governor. Obama's three-point edge is within the survey's sampling error. The survey was conducted Tuesday through Thursday. The poll's release comes on the same day that the president holds three campaign events and Romney holds two events in Ohio.
"The race in the Buckeye State has remained essentially the same throughout October, with all three CNN/ORC polls taken in October showing President Obama at 50%-51% and all three showing Governor Romney at 46%-47%," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
The CNN poll is in the range of the three other non-partisan, live operator surveys of Ohio likely voters also conducted entirely after last week's final presidential debate. The University of Cincinnati's Ohio Poll and an American Research Group survey both indicated Obama with two-point edges and a CBS News/New York Times/Quinnipiac University poll indicated Obama with a five-point advantage. All of those margins were within the sampling errors of those polls.
The gender, generation and income gaps that CNN polls have indicated in other states are readily apparent in Ohio as well, with Obama winning women by 16 points, lower-income voters by 30 points and those under age 50 by 15 points, while Romney leads among men by 13 points, and holds the advantage with older voters by 6 points and those making more than $50,000 per year.
"The president's prospects are boosted by a strong showing among white women, support in the northern parts of the state as well as the Columbus area, and a big margin among early voters," added Holland. "Romney's chances in the state rest on white men and a good showing in the central part of the state as well as the southwest corner, home to Cincinnati and Dayton."
"It's so close the president will need to run up the margins in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland and its suburbs) and in Columbus, and Governor Romney needs to win Hamilton County (Cincinnati and its suburbs) and elsewhere in southwestern Ohio. It's not an accident he is in that part of the state tonight," said CNN Chief National Correspondent John King.
"Base versus base, in a fairly even divided state," added King, who is reporting Friday from Ohio.
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Learning English
She has got a little English as she works with tourists, but definately needs some help !
Does anybody know where i can find her the help needed. She lives and works in the Cheong Mon area.
Thanking you for any info.
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Re: Learning English
I am sorry to have not had the chance to reply over the last ten days - stuck in an ICU ward until yeterday arvo. Considering that there have been no responses to your request over the past 12 days, I hope that there might be two possible options as suggetions that might assist your friend with her foreign language studies. Please disregard this post if you have made alternate arrangements already.
The first thought that comes to mind is that there must be oodles of drugged-out English-speaking foreign hippie tourists combing the beaches on Samui with the sort of experience required with language English and pasa Thai, and it might be not difficult to find another ex-pat who might be interested in trading language for language on a 1:1 basis. Learning Thai is perhaps more valuable in Thailand on the street, but from what I've heard or experienced, it is usually a matter of trading hour for hour so she learns better English one day while the English teacher learns better Thai the next.Swap your A,B,Cs for your gor-ah-gaa, kor-ah-kaa. Win-win situation - No money down?
The secondary thought that comes to mind is for you to take on the role of the English teacher/pasa Thai student. The four tools that you would require for the job are:
1. A student.
2. A curriculum for your student to study.
3. Your time.
4. English Grammar In Use by Raymond Murphy.
Quote: I'll let you in on a little secret. It's a myth that all or even most EFL or ESL teachers love grammar. A lot of them don't even understand most of it when they first begin teaching. As someone said to me when I was starting out, The trick is to stay one exercise ahead of the students. Now decent lesson planning does take a bit more preparation than that, but I regularly learn grammar rules just a day or two before I teach them for the first time. The problem isn't that I don't know what you say in English, but that I don't know how to explain why it's correct in a simple way my students will understand. Enter Murphy.
One step ahead is all you need to keep your friend busy with learning English.
Murphy 's sixth edition (last one I had from memory) is a couple of hundred A4 pages and rather more comprehensive than what a native-English speaker might learn at high school. You might find it invaluable though when you need to answer some of the typical questions that Thai English students invariably come up with, but the main criterion is for the student to have studies to go on with. The one I have found most useful in teaching adult graduate students is the Headway course, which has six levels from beginner to advanced:
Supposing you were to spend one formal hour every other day teaching English, I'd imagine that she could learn to read, write and speak English to an advanced level in perhaps three months. It comes down toyou simply guiding the coursework that has already been developed. The usual Thai style of pronouncing room as loom and vinegar as winegar are the sorts of things where your own conversational English skills will help, but as quoted from the Murphy text abstract above, all you need to do is stay one step ahead of the student.
Good luck whether you DIY or farm the job out to a local hippie.
PS: if for some reason the DIY option is not an option, perhaps check out http://www.ajarn.com/ and see what the cat drags in from there?
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Noaksy wrote:Hi V.I.,
For someone new to teaching (either in a classroom or out of it), staying one step ahead of your student is often enough. But with the best will in the world, I seriously doubt whether many people 'could learn to read, write and speak English to an advanced level in perhaps three months' unless they were almost advanced already: 'one formal hour every other day' learning English adds up to only 45 hours in three months. Those 45 hours wouldn't get you through even one of those Headway books if taught properly.
I can imagine the surprise I would have felt had I read Murphy's words, "one step ahead of your students" back when I was teaching the Headway course to small adult classes in 2005, because I was so gung-ho about it that I'd studied through the text books (beginner & intermediate) and listened to the cassette tapes repeatedly in the weeks before starting classes, but looking back on the 22 classes of 45-50 Mattayom students in 2006, I can see where he might be coming from. I wonder if perhaps it's enough just to have some faith that there will be more to teach after this week's sessions are over, which might enable the teacher to concentrate fully on the act/s of the week, trusting that next week's lessons will be divulged on Sunday night when you open the book at the next chapter.
In 1997 I taught Chalore English in ten weeks of one hour sessions *** straight from a ten chapter textbook we'd picked up at the campus library. I had to return it and take it out again twice to avoid late-return penalties. Chalore went on to open her own English school and she was the head teacher; she was the one who put me onto the Headway course, actually.
I forget how many chapters in each of the Headway books now, but three one-hour sessions per week at a chapter each session would get you through 36 chapters in twelve weeks, which is probably around half-way through the whole course, and that's more advanced than the average native-English speaker.
Anyway, I reckon Murphy was rather genius in that "one step ahead" motive. It helps keep focus on the students in the actual class rather than generalised lesson plans that these textbooks are comprised of.
In any case, now that I have Linux and Skype VOIP working, it's much easier to learn a new language via the Internet than by having to jump on a plane and risk your life flying all over the World for the sake of an education.
*** In fairness, I should mention that it wasn't quite Graduate-British-English in Ten Hours because each of those ten lessions did entail around 4 kays of walking to and from her on-campus dorm room and my SOHO classroom, as she was a young lady and required an escort to walk through my neighbourhood in daylight hours back then, so we probably managed around an hour of pure conversational English either side of that formal book-learning (we had to walk fairly slowly because I didn't realise that traditionally in Thailand the woman walks two paces behind the man and until we'd discussed this, I'd keep slowing down my walking pace because I thought that she was falling behind, to which she would then slow down even further to remain two paces behind me. In hindsight, it was rather hilarous, eh?
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by Noaksy on Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:21 am [115.67.163.xx]
I see you are a man with a sense of humour, Sean.Sean Moran wrote:... three one-hour sessions per week at a chapter each session would get you through 36 chapters in twelve weeks, which is probably around half-way through the whole course...
One chapter in an hour! That's not teaching or learning; that's skim reading with little understanding unless at an advanced level already.
The first page of each chapter is predominantly pictorial, and so you can breeze through that in around 10-15 minutes with a new class, and 5-10 after the first chapter. Pp 2-3 are then where you bring the cassetet player into action with the vocals/examples, and then sometimes there's time for the exercises on pp 4-5 if they have any, but there's always a half-hour at the start of a two-hour evening class where you wait for so-and-so to arrive, and it's best to knock off 20 minutes early, so there's really only two 30 minute sessions with a ten minute break in between and as long as you never forget to remind everyone to catch up in their homework before next week's lesson then you'd be amazed at how many chapters of the beginners' / intermediate stuff they can get through if they're keen to get it over with.
Sean Moran wrote:... which is probably around half-way through the whole course, and that's more advanced than the average native-English speaker.
There are 6 books in the series. If you look at the pictures you provided, you'll see the six levels are classified as: Beginner, Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-intermediate and Advanced.
An average adult native speaker would have no difficulty with that advanced level book, whereas a learner who has only reached Pre-intermediate or even Intermediate level would struggle with the advanced book. The language ability of adult native speakers is without doubt at a higher level than someone who has only reached the equivalent of Advanced level books designed for non-native English language learners.
There were only four books in the series back when I was teaching it. They never thought about the future of Wall Street when they added the 1a and 1b sections to cater for the whatever market.
Regarding your mention of adult native-English speakers, I am referring to the entire population of native-English speakers from first-world Western nations, rather than a few academics like Twain and Verne. Westernised standards of the English language are a complete joke still, even since the US election.
I suppose it depends on what we consider "advanced", but you can't go wrong with the Headway course, even though not many English speakers have probably ever heard of it before.
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Noaksy wrote:Sean,
I also like the Headway series of books and have used them myself in teaching. The 1a and 1b sections you referred to are probably in the American Headway series. The books in your pictures are the British English series.
No, the Headway course is Oxford. That is why they call the language "English". If you want to learn American Spanish, then go to Mexico, and for American Portuguese, try Brazil. For American English, I'd hazard a guess that Canada might see you right, but you must beware the Hollywooders. Looking at the titles, "Elementary" and "pre-Intermediate", it is fairly obvious that the two extra additions were only there to cater to the tastes of the Sesame-Street English contingency. Adding two more levels to a four level course will see a 50% increase in profit, won't it? Ain't that the amelican dream?
Noaksy wrote:Regarding your mention of adult native-English speakers, I was also referring to the entire population of adult native-English speakers from first-world Western nations. Their proficiency level in English would without doubt be higher than a language learner that had reached even the level of 'Advanced' learner.
Yes, it depends on what we consider "advanced", but language centres, universities, publishers and books designed for and targeted at English language learners all use the same or similar terms to grade their books or courses.
I suppose then that most of the newspaper journalists in the western newspapers that I read are foreigners who never made it to advanced level. Same goes for those interviewed on the television news. Same goes for Australian politicians - they must be all definately failures at ESL studies, eh?
Half of the lecturers at the university where I have been studying (English/Teaching funnily enough) this semester can't even work out their own schedule from their skedule, and so it goes ... the dumb teaching the blind.
Just to clarify this issue over the differences between "Beginner", "Intermediate" and "Advanced", Beginner level means that you are allowed to get away with a few mistakes with the normal high-school level stuff, Intermediate level means that you've worked out the high-school stuff already, but you might still be a little unsure on a few higher-level things, such as discrete and discreet, and Advanced level means that you can quote Act II Scene I from Romeo & Juliet from "Ye jests at scars.." to ".. as daylight doth a lamp." off the top of your head.
The standard benchmark is the level of language skills expected at the completion of high school. Beyond that you start getting more advanced. Below that, you need to go back to school and concentrate harder next time. Often as not, these "so-called" native-English speakers that we have to listen to in Australia every time we turn on the television news or read the Yahoo! pages have yet to make it to Intermediate level IMO. Goodness knows what they ever did with their high-school English teachers to matriculate?
Noaksy wrote:Getting through a course as you described above probably isn't the same as learning the content of the course or being able to use the content afterwards.
No. There's no difference. Have you ever done any formal studies in colloquialisms?
Noaksy wrote:Sean, you seem to be very interested in languages and teaching. Have you ever taken any formal training in teaching English as a foreign language? I'm guessing not but if you have, I would be interested in knowing what, how much and where.
What: English, (the language that they speak and write in England).
How much: lots of it.
Where: here in Australia, where English is/was our native-language.
What is the job that you are offering?
How much will you pay me?
Where is my classroom?
Also, will I be using blackboards, whiteboards or modern technology?
I don't mind either way and I don't give a damn about air-cond either.
<I think we should start a new thread on this or better still, why don't you join http://www.ajarn.com and go postal there?>
*** I have a premonition that you're still going to find this 1a/1b thing a little complicated, so here is a picture.
Take careful note of the word "NEW" on the two volumes 2nd and 3rd from the left, (where the red arrows are pointing!)
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Re: Learning English
Noaksy wrote:Sean,
Have you ever taken any formal training in teaching English as a foreign language? I'm guessing not ...
BTW: Training is what you do with your dog to make him walk on a leash.
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Sean Moran wrote:Noaksy wrote:Sean,
Have you ever taken any formal training in teaching English as a foreign language? I'm guessing not ...
BTW: Training is what you do with your dog to make him walk on a leash.
I can honestly say that I have never taught 1,000 words to a single, solitary dog in all my life!
<"Fetch! Rufus" 500 times doesn't count!>
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Noaksy wrote:So the answer is no. That's what I thought.
I suggest you go back and read the entire reply more carefully this time. +++
Noaksy wrote:For the benefit of anybody else who reads this board who might be confused by Sean's posts, here is a link to the Oxford University Press 'American Headway' section.
You'll see at the bottom of the page that books 1A and a 1B are available. It's also possible to get a 2A and 2B (see here) as well as a Starter A and Starter B. You'll notice an absence of 1A and 1B on the books in Sean's picture. That's because the British English version series does not use a numerical designation - see here.
The NEW that Sean referred to indicates that the content inside the book is new (completely new updated material). It's not a new level in the series. Like the other levels, the elementary and pre-intermediate books have been around for a number of years. If you look closely at Sean's pictures, you'll see they say Third Edition. I believe the second edition was published in 1996 and the third edition in 2003. A fourth edition is now available - see here. The Publisher is Oxford University Press for both the American English and British English books.
Well, thank you for the information and Merry Christmas to you too Mr Noasky. ***
Do you really actually imagine that the OP of this thread, being an Australian, would want to clog up his friend's mind with such a bastardisation of the English language as Big Bird English? I've told you straight out in writing, and even went to the trouble of drawing you a bloody picture of what I meant by 1a & 1b that got you so confused in the first place, and you STILL don't understand. Probably because you simply don't WANT to, but I can appreciate that you may have been brainwashed by the yankees and don't know any better. It's fairly clear in the selective nature of your replies that you find it more comfortable to skirt around the issue raised by the OP, although I'm still not sure if it is me personally that you wish to attack, or all English teachers, or just everybody. May I just say that when you try to tell me that I am to fast for your liking, the first reply that comes to mind is that perhaps you are just too damn slow?
One of the reasons that you might have so much trouble and take so much time to facilitate the learning from these series is due to the confusion that you cause your own students from the first lesson with your continental mixups - that same old oxymoron that they call "American English". England is an island off the coast of the continent of Europe, on the East side of the North Atlantic Ocean. America is a CONTINENT (the name refers to two continents actually) on the West side of the Atlantic Oceans; North and South. You might find Gavin Menzies' thriller, 1421 - The Year China Discovered the World, http://www.1421.tv/ of some help in this regard, because there are maps included for you to look at if it helps.
So young Somchai turns up for his first day at English school, takes off his shoes and finds a desk at the front of the classroom, and the completely *new* updated ESL teacher begins by telling the class that it is NOT English that they are studying but the *new* variety - AMERICAN ENGLISH! Somchai rolls his eyes stares up at the nearest fan hanging from the ceiling and asks himself whether he is indeed sitting in a classroom in Thailand or could it be the Maldives? He pulls a hair from his right forearm just to make sure that he is not dreaming and then stares out the window until class is over.
Being stuck in a course of study and finding out that you're not really learning what you set out to learn, but some cut down, ASCII text version only really suitable for web-design or SMS, must really have quite a serious effect on student morale, which is likely to impede the progress of the lessons. So, maybe you could pick up the pace and put a little more sanuk back into your teaching if you stick to the real thing and stop discouraging your students with inferior substitutes for English?
*** I mean, seriously, it's 5am on Christmas morning and I've just got out of hospital the afternoon before, still high as a kite on unwanted morphine and secret bromide pills, and I see a post by an Australian bloke who wants to help his missus learn English, and bearing in mind that Chalore's school didn't bother with those two extra books that I dubbed 1a & 1b, and you still haven't clarified the number of chapters in each volume anyway, and none of us have any idea of how long Mr VI's friend has been working in the tourist industry, AND it's Christmas! all you seem to want to do is discourage his endeavours in any way you can, such as warning him of possible relationship problems etc. so is this what you're like with your students as well?
+++ Further, you post under the pseudonym of Noaksy which makes you basically an anonymous nobody to get into asking people personal questions and I am NOT even the OP of this thread, and when I tell you that I am currently ENROLLED in a 4-year BA in Teaching/English, then make sure that you bloody-well get the message but stop with the personal questions whether you're willing to listen to the answers or not.
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Noaksy wrote:I hope you get well soon Sean. Keep taking the medication. I'm sure it will help.
Thank goodness you've finally come back after so long, sweetie. I was so worried that you might have left me for another man because you were away for so long. So good to have you back again and I hope you can stay for a long time now.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Game 10 - Winner of Game 7 vs. Winner of Game 9, 12 p.m.
Game 11 - Winner of Game 7 vs. Winner of Game 9 (if necessary), 3:15 p.m.