by | December 29th, 2007
None of that twelve days business here at the TEFL Logue. To round out the year, here are a few numerical links. What does 420,000 stand for? I’m taking guesses as comments - once I get a few creative ones, I’ll give a clue!
- On the first day of TEFL, you might want to try some of these TEFL warmers.
- On the second day of TEFL, you should probably do some revision activities.
And then we have
- 1 article on making money blogging (Without being a real blogger who has done things from scratch, my take is: it’s probably not as hard as you think to make money with a blog, but I suspect it depends more than this article leads you to believe on what you blog about….how much people are searching for that…how many others are blogging about that … how well you know how to use the right keywords and how good you are at combining those keywords with genuinely good content. The Daily Kimchi had a few words to say about this theme too.)
- 6 months of TeflTastic, where Alex Case is thanking people such as his hairdresser, and oh yeah, thanking me too!
- 8 differences between a British and Brazilian Christmas
- 10 years before EFL Geek scored an oven to cook his holiday Turkey dinner in.
- 13 “Best of” posts from 2007 courtesy of Larry Ferlazzo’s Website of the Day Blog.
- 16-18 weeks for the FBI Certificate of No Criminal Record, which may or may not be needed in Korea for US citizens. See my tips about this criminal record check too.
- 46 separate forums at Dave’s ESL Cafe, excluding the eight Korea forums.
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629 comments on the TEFL Logue.
- 4246 spam comments caught (since when, I’m not sure) including one which attempted this fine line as flattery: Hopefully you will keep droping those little gems of advice that i just love to gobble up.
If I were not too full from all of my holiday celebrations, and especially if you were pre-intermediate or intermediate students dealing with numbers, I would probably separate the numbers from the sentences. I’d then give one person a mixed-up list of the numbers, and their partner a list of the sentences, and they’d have to work together without looking at each others’ lists to figure out which was which.
Ideas on the 420,000?
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Views?
Not views, and the first clue is that it is not really related to the tefl logue.
(Meaning that “number of posts I’m aiming to make in 2008″ is out, unfortunately!)
I know what 420 means, but I don’t know about all those extra zeros…
Haha - Good one! (not the meaning I was going for, but good anyway).
In class, this would be the perfect point at which to make a fun detour into “urban slang” or something. So, from this point on … I’m taking guesses on the 420,000 AND contributions for interesting slang terms.
Teacher! Teacher! We give up! Stop eliciting and just give us the answer!
One final clue - multiple choice:
Is 420,000…
- the number of board pens I went through while teaching a rowdy group of 11-13 year olds?
- the number of exceptions to English spelling rules?
- the approximate number of pages of paper I’ve cut up for class games?
- the number of registered members at Onestopenglish.com?
…king of a long lead up to that one, huh? I was kind of hoping it would just slip off the radar and I wouldn’t have to reveal the answer…
Since this one was a little unusual, Alex and Carrie tie for runner-up. Thanks for playing, guys!
Ha! I see you haven’t got the hang of designing a question that can’t be answered by a 5 second google search yet, quiz master… Lucky our students don’t all have google when we try eliciting!
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