Sunday, November 26, 2017





http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/tensions-rise-as-chinese-governments-influence-infiltrates-aussie-universities/news-story/e7768b0bb1f5953a7608884527387372





https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/08/you-should-consider-our-feelings-for-chinese-students-the-state-is-an-extension-of-family



https://www.thoughtco.com/is-taiwan-a-country-1435437


http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86011850/2001-09-20/ed-1/seq-16.pdf

APA format


Here are some introductory materials to help teach the APA format. The APA format is a standard format used in academic writing.



http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/resources/handouts_apa/Citing1.pdf



Some well liked Public Speaking Videos


























































Introduction to cause and effect essay and paragraph writing


Here are a few videos that help teach writing about cause and effect.

This one is on how to write a cause and effect paragraph.


These are on how to write cause and effect essays. There are many others on the web as well, but they tend to be long.






Writing a Five Paragraph Essay

Here are some materials I've collected for help in learning to write five paragraph essays. I used these when teaching English 101 at the proprietary college.

















http://www.edb.utexas.edu/minliu/pbl/ESOL/index.htm



https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/05/

Simple cause and effect videos

 These are a few videos I've collected to help explain cause and effect. Many are designed for children, but they do a good job of getting the basic idea of what one is talking about before moving on to more advanced vocabulary. 











Saturday, November 18, 2017

1970s Science Fiction --Dangerous Visions and the New Wave






Films





ROLLERBALL




Clockwork Orange



ZARDOZ



DEATHRACE 2000

Start at 15:30 and play until 19:30




The 1996 film of JG Ballard's "Crash" based on the novel from 1973.