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I didn �t mean to offend anyone and am herewith taking back the words � narrow-minded � and � not so modern �. Sorry !
Our dear little Babz,
I really like your sense of humour and I �m not angry because you don �t think my ws was an ESL resource. I surely won �t make anybody download it ! But for some teachers it may be worth a try. Got a few encouraging comments already, so I am very, very, very happy !! :-)))))))
Dear JulietaVL,
thank you so very much for your support. I really appreciate it. :-)
Dear Ladybird,
thank you for your gorgeous comment on this worksheet ! I believe you are a very kind and sensible person.
Dear Cheezels,
I loved to read your posts ! You seem to be a very tolerant person and you think before you speak. ;-))
Dear Baiba,
thank you for wise words ! :-))
Dear Moravc,
thanks to you for enlightening me and giving me some advice !
Samanta,
quite a bunch of people here don �t seem to take you very serious and I begin to understand why !
Noone has to come to the forum to defend their worksheet because you order them to do so.
I said what I had to say in my first post and it seems that some people, not you of course, have understood what I tried to explain and they even like my former prof �s approach to learning new vocabulary and want to give it a go in their classrooms. So there you go !! :-))))))))
Oooooooooo almost forgot to mention it !!!! I am a HE-teacher not a SHE-teacher ! Your accusations are complete nonsense. :-D
So the owner of ESL had to come to the forum to delete part of your first post. I think that says it all............
Oh Happy Austrian, what you think about me, honestly doesn �t mean anything to me. That you suggest and think other members dislike me, doesn �t do anything to me either!..
And I �m still waiting for your answer and to expalin how can this so useful worksheet, according to you, can be used and exploided in class. Seems like that you don �t even have idea about teaching!
Best of luck!....
Oh! And it is indeed a good way of advertising. 15 downloads so far! better than the 3 from last night!
OHH and about my post being with the moderators comments being deleted... What says it all? why do you feel you won something!? I was only after a meaningful answer that by the way no-one could give. NOT even you could tell us what could be done by putting words in order like that in your first worksheet. As you can�t defend your work you start accusing and arguing and deviating the purpose of the original report. Victor Kindly pmed me and expalined to me the reasons and that he hadn�t had time to check carefully this about your worksheet and account! ..:-)))))))
if Samanta hadn �t reported my ws without a good reason, I wouldn �t have come to the forum to explain, not to advertise.
In fact she has been giving me all this � publicity � which I never even wanted to have ! ;-))
Dear JulietaVL,
again I have to thank you for being so nice.
Sammantha,
Once again for you because you still don �t understand:
1- In my 1st post, I have already explained the purpose of the exercise in question and I �m not going to repeat myself. Others have been able to read and have understood the background, so why not you ?? Perhaps you are the one who hasn �t got any idea about teaching eh ?? :-))))))))))
2- You have no right to judge the quality (including the purpose) of my ws or any other member �s ws in ESLP.
3- No wonder I got only 3 downloads the day before ! If you hadn �t unjustly reported my work, it could have been much more.
4- You are the one who started all the accusing not me..........
5- Victor can check whatever he wants to check about me......... I have nothing to hide. Oooops !!
Hi Samantha,
Frankly, I don �t see why you insist on getting a complex explanation of
something so simple. I understood from what Happy Austrian has explained in his
first post that this task is just a way of drawing students � attention
towards certain vocabulary items in an attempt to make them memorable. If the
students succeed in remembering them or not, well, that �s another story.
According to Happy Austrian it does work. IMHO we can �t judge his approach to
vocabulary teaching until we try it ourselves. So I �d suggest you stopped all
this argument around this particular worksheet since, obviously, it �s going
nowhere...
Have a nice day,
I haven �t read all the replies but I do
agree with a few members here. Rules are not being followed. A non-ESL
resource should be something like a picture with nothing added, two
lines of gibberish or a Physic �s lesson and even then I �d have a hard
time saying it wasn �t if it had been properly presented.
We shouldn �t report things because:
A) We don �t use them B) We don �t know how to use them
Just
because you �d never use it, does NOT give anyone the right to Report
something. And I will say this again as I did on the reporting page...-
People have got to STOP thinking that an ESL Resource needs to be
something spectacular that needed a 100 hours to do!! Not all good
things in life are beautiful or elaborate!! The most simplest looking
worksheet is sometimes the best. AND since I �ve been teaching Word
finds and Crosswords have always been considered as resources!!
I
am very sorry that this happened to you Happy Austrian. I �d like to
apologize for some moderators behaviour but quite frankly, lately, when
I see "It �s not an ESL Resource" because that person has never taught
a child, or a student whose native language is different from our
alphabet and letter recognition worksheets are removed, I am hard
pressed to not think that some are not as open-minded as they would
like to seem.
Im sorry It was just a joke to put some cold water on this hot and sad conversation.
But I do agree with your WS utility. In fact I like it to be so a different method. Sometimes a simple twist can work for specific students and make them remember a word.
You will laugh at me if I told you my ways to remember a word in a diff language. But they work for me! and that�s is all that counts.
Teaching is a way full of love dedication and creativity, finding the ways to make ss love English, and I work everyday for that.
Don�t explain yourself more and just close the door leaving out this frustration and move on! Go on being happy and I will be looking forward to your new contributions.
