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by Mr. Vig
These are two things you don’t see together back in the States.
If a place serves alcohol, and it’s not a restaurant, there will not be anyone under the age of 21 anywhere near the place.
True story: When I went home for Christmas I saw the grocery store clerk ask for my dad’s I.D. – and he’s 83! Read More >
by Mr. Vig
It’s about, What if the US had lost World War Two?
In this depressing alternative reality, the Third Reich controls the East Coast of the US and the Empire of Japan controls the West Coast. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Last Thursday I gave a presentation at one of the TEFL schools in Prague.
This is a school that trains English teachers.
I was there to talk to them about teaching private students, and one of them asked me an interesting question, “Do all students want grammar?” Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Saturday was hot.
So I decided to escape the burning cobblestones of the center and go to a secret pool in the woods.
Well, about a thousand other people had the same idea, and my “secret” pool didn’t feel so secret. Read More >
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by Mr. Vig
Maybe you grew up in a city and never had this problem.
But if you grew up in a suburb, or in the country like me, then you know what it feels like to be a kid trapped at home.
Any time you want to go somewhere – to a friend’s house, to the store, to the playgroun – you have to ask, and sometimes beg, one of your parents to take you. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
Café Grand Orient, Prague.
A few years ago.
I sat down with a new student and asked her about her English. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
“Should I use his technique?”
My student was talking about A.J. Hoge.
A.J. is an online teacher, but unlike the sea of other English teachers on the internet, he’s the only one I recommend to students. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
You know those big, yellow school busses in American movies?
Well, I used to take one of those to school every day.
And every morning, I had to walk from my house to the bus stop down the street. Read More >
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