Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Super Teens Rock!!!

Hi Guys,

have you all seen Super Teens Blog?

Hmmm?
Have you?
It's fantastic. I'm dedicating this post to the brilliance that is the Super Teens. They make the rest of you look... you know it ... RUBBISH!!!
Anyhow, this is just a quick note to say thank you to super teens and well done. I look forward to your posts in the future.
I hope the green Medan stuff is coming along nicely.
See you later,
take care Guys.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Green Medan

Hi Guys,

I hope you are enjoying An Inconvenient Truth. I know that it is taking a while to get through it but there is a lot to talk about. I also hope you all get involved with the Green Medan blog. I'll talk to you about it all later today but for now, I thought I'd add a link to the site here.

So, click here to get involved with Green Medan.

Take care Guys.

Monday, April 16, 2007

A Puzzling Picture



Hello Guys,


Today I have a picture for you to look at. I want you to try to work out what is going on in this picture.


How did this happen?


Why did this happen?


We'll get into this more in class next week.


Take care, Guys.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Sunburn is horrible

Hello Guys, Well, I have had an interesting time since my birthday. I went to Bali on Thursday (when you were all doing that very difficult listening test) and checked into a very nice hotel in Legian. The place had a large restaurant and a bar where they had a live band every night. The room was comfortable, with a nice large bed, tv and dvd, and a great bathroom. After a fantastic night's sleep, I got up, refreshed, and had a lovely breakfast and a few cups of strong Bali coffee. I then grabbed my book and my hat and headed out to the beach. Now, I have never been much of a beach person because my skin burns very quickly, so I knew I would need some shade pretty soon if I were to enjoy my time on the beach. I found a man who rented sun beds under large parasols and hired one for three hours. I had never hired one of these before as they had always seemed like an unnecessary expense. This time, I was blown away, after ten minutes, lying in such comfort, watching the sea and the surfers I felt so stupid for not having used them before. I started reading my book (The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco - good but not as good as The Name of the Rose). After a couple of hours of reading in the shade, I started to feel as if my skin were tightening in that way all too familiar to those who get sun burnt. I couldn't believe it, I was in the shade. It turns out that the sun must have been reflecting off the sand and burning me slowly.

I have never been so badly burnt. It is now the following Wednesday and I still can't walk without considerable pain. I have a lesson in 45 minutes and I'm not sure whether I can teach it or not. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hopefully, the pain will go away soon.

The next time I post something, hopefully all will be well with the world and my legs.

Take care, guys.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Thanks Guys

Well, yesterday was my birthday and I had completely forgotten. There I was in class, telling off those two students when, there at the door, was an enormous cake with little candles showing my age. Didn't I feel like a mean teacher?!?

Thank you all for the cake and the tie. It was a wonderful surprise.

Take care guys

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Weekend Puzzle

Hello guys,

So, some of your blogs are coming along nicely. I haven't put anything on here for you to look at for a while so I thought I'd better post something.

Ok, this is a puzzle with several parts. If you get it right, you will be able to find a wonderful prize.

Part 1 - Complete the crossword puzzle.
Part 2 - Unscramble the anagrams. Ok...Sorry... this won't work because I messed up. The yelow job is 'policeman' somehow I made a mess of colouring the squares on the crossword.
Part 3 - Put the yellow job into google.co.uk and open the second link.
Part 4 - In the first post there is a link to Johnno's site, open it.
Part 5 - Open Johnno's Black Book
Part 6 - How old is Johnno? Save that information because it will be the start of next week's puzzle.
Good luck.


These clues are all taken from definitions from dictionary.com.
Across
3. A person who repairs and maintains machinery or motors.
4. A person selected to rule on the plays in a game.
6. A person responsible for the interpretive aspects of a stage, film, or television production; the person who supervises the integration of all the elements, as acting, staging, and lighting, required to realize the writer's conception.
7. A murderer, esp. one who kills a politically prominent person for fanatical or monetary reasons. The word derives from a fanatical group, active in Persia and Syria from about 1090 to 1272, who ate cannabis before killing crusaders.
10. A person whose profession is inspecting and auditing personal or commercial accounts.
11. A person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc.

Down
1. A person professionally engaged in the design of constructions.
2. An academic rank given in colleges and universities to a teacher ranking below assistant professor.
5. Someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating.
8. A person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
9. A female servant.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Web Challenge!!!

Hi guys,

I have a challenge for you!!! Here are some websites that I think are pretty cool. they come under three categories:

1. Good for your English
2. Fun
3. Interesting

I challenge any of you to find sites that are better in any of these three disciplines!
If any of you can beat my sites, I promise I will be humble for a week and address you as: 'Dear Lord or Lady of the Internet whose knowledge of all things web wise far exceeds mine' from then until I find a better site than yours.

1. Good for your English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/communicate/blog/student/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/communicate/blog/teacher/index.shtml
http://www.theneverendingstory.co.uk/

2. Fun

http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/cube/index.html
http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/


3. Interesting

http://maps.google.com/maps
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
http://www.snopes.com

I bet you can't.