The TESOL Convention in New Orleans has just ended and I attended very interesting sessions. My presentation was Saturday and I everything worked out. If you attended the convention, please tell us what you thought about it and if you enjoyed it.
|
|
|
|
|
Popular Posts
-
This is the opening scene of this funny movie with excellent characters. I left the answers to the exercises on the blog post just to help y... -
his movie has very good moments, but it could have been better. I used this scene to contrast the use of GET (followed by nouns or verbs). T... -
The first chapter of Joyce's Ulysses is both inviting and lightly bewildering, providing almost no background information on characters...
-
Long-lost jazz recordings pique my interest as much as the tease of the most infamous lost films. The frequent airing of Miles Davis' va... -
I've got not one but two (sadly not three) pieces on Musketeer movies freshly up on the Internet. One is a discussion between myself and...
-
From the opening title card, featuring the "O" in the film's title turning into a cartoon mouth with pointy teeth, House more... -
The article of Free Radicals ' title gives away its main strength and weakness: this is a story of experimental film, not the story. F...
-
Man on Fire was not Tony Scott's first triumph, having streamlined Quentin Tarantino's script for True Romance into something that... -
This a great drama full of cultural references. I love this scene because of the American guy who is having dinner with his fiancee's fa... -
Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time is a baffling, frustrating but utterly intoxicating film, a long-delayed project that displays its pieceme...
Popular Posts
-
It cannot be denied that the fight choreography in Gareth Evans' The Raid: Redemption ranks among the finest ever put to film. A showca... -
Long-lost jazz recordings pique my interest as much as the tease of the most infamous lost films. The frequent airing of Miles Davis' va...
-
Cary Fukunaga displays such an immediate grasp of the Gothic tones of Charlotte Brontë's eerie, macabre romance that the speed with whic... -
Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century is so ahead of its time it serves as a precursor to two great types of Hollywood storytelling: the behi... -
[This post was written for Sheila O'Malley's Iranian film blogathon running Feb. 21-27. I encourage all to participate. More details... -
[This film is being considered for 2011 end-of-year lists.] Like my favorite Chinese genre films, the kung-fu movie Gallants is as much a c... -
his movie has very good moments, but it could have been better. I used this scene to contrast the use of GET (followed by nouns or verbs). T...
-
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946) On the basis of film noir, were I husband in the '40s, I'd never allow my wife to... -
This segment is great for children. Play it from the beginning up to 3'22. Ask your stud ents to watch the segment with attention and d... -
[Link to previous chapters here ] Let me me briefly summarize how I've gotten through Ulysses to this point. After constantly checking ...