I forgot. I said I would post the web address for the OWL at Purdue.
Lots of great things for would-be writers.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Enjoy!!!
Also a little anecdote for those of you who are interested...
Yesterday I went to my night job teaching English to ESL kids from Korea. I hit the elevator button and leaned against the wall for a brief moment of peace. The lobby attendant saw me happy in contemplation and found it necessary to come and disturb... er converse with me. I suppose it's in his job description.
He sauntered up and said, "So, you work up on there with the Korean kids?"
"Um, yeah." I eloquently replied.
"So, what do you do?"
"I teach them English." Says I.
He looked puzzled, "So you speak Korean? That's cool."
"No actually," I reply, "I don't speak any Korean."
"How you teach them then?"
"Well, they know some English, but even if they didn't, I could teach them."
"No
"Yeah, no
“How you do that?” He looked completely and totally confused.
“Well, there are pictures, acting things out, materials that are useful. I taught English to kids in Japan for 2 years without saying a word in Japanese.”
“And it worked? No
Thankfully at this point the elevator arrived and I bid farewell.
What’s the lesson of this story? I really don’t know, but I thought it was funny and just a bit interesting.
