ESL – Janet Givens

9 Apr 2014

School Part 5 Remembering Names

This completes my run of Deleted Scenes from my early days and weeks at school. My second classroom challenge was more idiosyncratic than cultural. I had a terribly hard time with their names, both remembering them and … Read More

1 Feb 2013

First Friday Friend/Idioms

How important punctuation is. You’ve seen, I’m sure, the “Let’s Eat Gramma.” vs. “Let’s eat, Gramma.” buzz on Facebook. I’m sure Gramma would agree, commas are important. So are capitals. Last week I began a new feature I called … Read More