Your Funny Jokes of the week

The Pope, Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts were in a three-way plane crash over the Pacific Ocean. They all died and went to heaven together. “Oh, this is terrible,” exclaims St. Peter, “I know you guys think we summoned you here, but this is just one of those coincidences that happen. Since we weren’t expecting you, your quarters just aren’t ready… We can’t take you in and we can’t send you back….” Then he got an idea. He picked up the phone, “Lucifer, this is Pete. Hey, I got these three guys up here. They’re ours, but we weren’t expecting them, and we gotta fix the place up for ‘em. I was hoping you could put them up for a while. It’ll only be a couple of days. What d’ya say?” Reluctantly, the Devil agreed. However, two days later, St. Peter got a call. “Pete, Lu. Hey, you gotta come get these three clowns. This Pope fellow is forgiving everybody, the Graham guy is saving everybody, and that Oral Roberts has raised enough money to buy air conditioning.” 

Cultural issues

Many ESOL students come from countries where the education system is based on rote learning through the teacher. The idea of them getting involved in their own learning is not something that comes easily. In some cases students might think that all they need to do is turn up to class to learn English. Keep monitoring targets to avoid this.

EFL students are largely very westernised and most published materials are aimed at the cultural models they are comfortable with. ESOL students, on the other hand, may not know or care who Brad Pitt is. Make sure your material is right for them. Sometimes this makes it difficult to get hold of culturally appropriate materials.