Foreword
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In my country, Burkina Faso, French is spoken and taught as a second and official language at primary school. and even at kindergarten. English is also taught as a foreign language at high school and at university. But the difficulty with English is the lack of teaching/learning materials. To design reading texts and assessments is exhausting for teachers.
This situation made me think about creating an online bank of texts and tests to alleviate teachers and learners burden in the search for documents. EFL-Burkina is then dedicated to teachers and learners of English as a Foreign/Second Language.
What I need is support. Many people visit the website to copy texts, but they do not want to contribute with new ones. Please, register and post your contributions. Let's share what we have.
All my gratitude to TICE-Burkina (Adama TRAORE), WorldLinks (Abdoulaye YATABARE), IICD, Burkina-NTIC (Sylvestre OUEDRAOGO) for the opportunities these associations gave us to learn and improve new technologies in education.
Please feel free to contact me for any incorrectness you may find.
We learn through trials and errors.
Bernie
Teaching and Your Health
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Had a life-changing experience last Thursday. I had my blood pressure checked for the first time in five years. Always thought I was fit and healthy. I exercise, don’t smoke, drink only at EFL conferences and watch what I eat.
But then I keep forgetting my profession, for all that’s great about it, is usually in the top 5 of the world’s most stressful jobs. More on why in a later post.
When the nurse read my blood pressure reading and asked me what medication I was on I was a little surprised. “None,” I said. She told me my BP was 175/104. Those numbers meant little to me but I wanted to know more after another nurse, a nutritionist and a doctor told me the figures were seriously high. The doc said he’d fast-track me to see a specialist cardiologist.
The first Internet result I looked at on the search “blood pressure 175/104” said: “You shouldn’t be in front of the computer reading this; you should be at the ER.”
Children Who Steal
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By Leah Davies, M.Ed.
Stealing is taking things that belong to others without their permission. The act is common in young children because they tend to be self-centered and feel that it is all right to take what they want from others. A child’s true understanding of the concept of stealing usually occurs between the ages of five and seven. By this time, children can understand the idea of ownership and realize that taking things that belong to others is wrong.
Motives for stealing can differ from child to child, and any one child can steal for a variety of reasons. Children may steal because:
- They have poor impulse control and want instant gratification.
- They want an adult’s attention.
- They have not been taught that stealing is wrong.
- They have observed the adults in their life take and keep things that did not belong to them -- for example, dad bringing home office supplies or mom keeping incorrect change when the store clerk made a mistake.
- They lack family closeness and feel neglected; a stolen object might serve as a substitute for love.
- They are suffering a form of abuse and need help.
Aggressive Girls
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By Leah Davies, M.Ed.
Aggression or bullying can be defined as any action that inflicts physical or mental harm upon another person. Girls usually differ from boys in the type of aggressive behavior they exhibit. While boys tend to inflict bodily pain, girls most often, though not exclusively, engage in covert or relational aggression. Girls tend to value intimate relationships with girls, while boys usually form social bonds through group activities. Aggressive girls often gain power by withholding their friendship or by sabotaging the relationships of others.
Relational aggression is calculated manipulation to injure or to control another child's ability to maintain rapport with peers. For example, a relational aggressive girl may insist that her friends ignore a particular child, exclude her from their group, form secret pacts to humiliate the child, call her names, and/or spread rumors about her.
Socrates
