… but I am prepared to laud Maya Puiu and Lisa Edwards for their Pascal Press Study Guide for “Belonging” and Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle. It really is a thorough and extremely intelligent guide.
It is in fact so good it could be dangerous for some students, if they were to draw on it too [...]
Posts Tagged ‘coaching’
13 Apr
Welcome to the Sydney English Student Blog
Here is a new blog designed, it seems, for the many overseas students here in Sydney:
The blog is written by English teachers, for English students. Here you will find everything you need to know about accommodation, work, schools, technology, English resources… Everything you need to live and study in Sydney, written in clear, simple English [...]
13 Mar
Tutoring site
Emma’s English Tutoring is a Sydney site that is partly commercial, in that it offers services. However, her background is certainly interesting. I am quite flattered that she has chosen to reproduce, with acknowledgement, How can I improve my essay grades, especially in exams, without learning “model essays” off by heart? from my pages here. [...]
12 Feb
Tutoring, reality, and results
I have written on coaching before. As you will see if you check the “About” page, I do tuition in Chinatown here in Sydney — one-to-one only — and have for some time. Tuition is meant, in my opinion, to supplement what the school might be doing; it certainly does not substitute for the school, [...]
24 Dec
ESL and the Art of War — from my archives
A Talk to Bilingual Parents
I gave this talk at the first NESB Parent Night at Sydney Boys High in 2000.
There are times when I am quite proud to be an Australian. One of those times was late 1998 when I made friends with a backpacker named Kyohiko Kato from Sendai, Japan. Why was I [...]
16 Dec
Thoughts on coaching
Consumer Guide to Coaching
I was coached–by my grandfather, a retired teacher, in Mathematics. It was only that and former SBHS Principal Bob Outterside’s teaching that enabled me to get through a subject in which I was far from gifted or talented!
It was a good deal, mind you; rather than me paying the coach, he paid [...]
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