letters between friends

Hey Nathan, Thanks for the update - Robt told me about the stabbings and holdups. I've not been blogging much this week. I think I will try to get Adult Matriculation courses rewitten - we're to get new secretaries to do the typing and I need teachers to let me know about the curriculum as I am not the syllabus content expert. I could teach English but it would be English as taught in Australian schools and thus the problem. It needs contextualisation which I cannot do on my own. I'd like to see PNG idioms taught: you see the ads on EMTV - western English and cultural sophistication - and the PNG English/Language curriculum as I see it - I repeat I - to emphasise that the other and not I should be writing the content. You know what I mean. Margerine ads; sexy swaying girls selling mobile phones or Ella motors cars. Where's the PNG idiom? Anyway, I'll see if I can at least get this project started. Talk later on if not Sunday. Geoff. Contextualisation is important Geoff - and we'd all like to be perfectionists on the pedagogical ladder of cultural relativism - but a good teacher is a good teacher and good materials (can be) good materials regardless of how 'in-cultured' they are. So I hope you're not 'holding up' too much on those points! But I agree - would be fascinating/good to teach on PNG idioms...