I live in rural Illinois, and I deeply love the nature here. The only nature I love more is in the North of Quebec. I especially love that my town is extremely walkable. Miles and miles of walking trails. I can walk from campus to home without ever coming in the vicinity of a car. Hell, I can walk from campus to church, although that would take hours. And maybe the word “hell” was not the best choice in this sentence.
To the reader who wrote all the sweet stuff, I want to say, thank you! This means an enormous lot, especially when you say you like my book recommendations. I live to recommend books.
Also, a great question about language teaching. I don’t do singing in the classroom, although singing is great for language learning. But I’m not only a terrible singer. I also get extremely distracted by music. I don’t do fun stuff in the classroom at all. No games, skits, videos, PowerPoints, projects. God, how I hate projects And you should see the face I make when students call me by my first name. I do a lot of traditional stuff. Conjugation drills, translation, daily quizzes. OK, I kind of suck. But students love it, so it works. I’m like this really old-fashioned professor from a C.P. Snow novel dressed like I’m on my way to a disco bar.
These are all great questions. I’m going to put this link on top of the page instead of the email because I never check the bloody email and it daunts me.
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