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Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. If
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I �m afraid they will all be removed. The urban legends are fully taken from about.com. It doesn �t matter if you added a possible activity in the description, the content of the worksheet is not yours.
The other ones are copied or partly copied from other esl websites, so they are clearly breaking the rules of the website.
@Caela:
Let me tell you something: Most of the users who "work hard, make great contributions and have no time for nonsense" would not like a website where they work hard while others just contribute with copies.
BTW, you forgot to add number 3: the ones who create fake second accounts just to criticise others.
@el_profe55: The word original is in the rules so don �t tell me not to use it. That �s great to see you went through my contributions so you could see for yourself they are NOT copies, therefore they ARE originals!
Of course overything has been here already, when talking about "original contributions" clever people will understand it means NOT COPY!
You are too young to talk to me like this, boy. Have a great day.
If you visit the the description and the rules page http://www.eslprintables.com/rulesofthewebsite.htm you will see that the word original isn �t mentioned even once.
I took some time to look at some of your worksheets (I �m allowed to do that, right?) and it seems that we have used the same website as a source to create our worksheets. In fact, you haven �t fully copied from the website, you have just partly copied from it. Just like I did. So, I guess both of us don �t create original worksheets. You even copied great part of the exercise.
If my phrasal verbs mini book should be removed, I think yours should too, because besides copying part of your ws from the website, you haven �t cited the source, which is much worse than what I did.
Website: http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasalverbs1.htm Your contribution: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=334943#thetop My contribution (if it is still available): http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=298801#thetop
The problem is that you have not created any activity with those texts and this is the main problem with your ws Nana. Next time try to do a complete ws with exercises, examples of grammar topics to be used with them etc. This will facilitate to the moderators to check and vote for removal or not. Texts can be taken from web sites but just them can not assure that they will be accepted here even when you put the links on them like you did and the worse they are in British English and they are very hard to the students translate the stories. I have used all 6 mini stories about your Urban legends this week, but I had lots of issues to solve to apply them correctly to my students and I had to translate 1 by one by myself for each group before I add tasks to them and later I had to bring the groups to the lab to check the web site about.com and I made them to use google translator and Babylon for them understand all the stories..It was a very hard task for them, but fortunately I have added exercises and training on the LAB to not lose all the main objective of this activity you did...and the mostly because they have found it very difficult for them. In your instructions you say just to form groups and give to them the stories just this..nothing more..if I did not use my mind and skills to not lose the activity and put myself in trouble with them these texts could be really put me in trouble..inside my classrooms.Fortunately I have used my mind and all was ok and now we are going to study Edgar Allan Poe horror stories but now my students know what to do.
I appreciate your efforts and thank you for the idea to use Urban legend to discuss about Halloween. Thanks for it. Hope your ws are not being removed but if they will be removed, do other kind of ws exploring those stories..like I said to you above. Have a nice day! ;-)
When I first wrote
the post I just wanted to understand what was going on. I didn�t write to
offend anybody and had no intentions of harming anybody.
I believe you could
have answered my post just like everybody else did: showing the fact.
I didn�t expect an
answer like yours saying �This page is for
original contributions, unfortunately your wss aren �t much
original:o( The are not original exercises added, nothing. That
�s the reason they have to be removed!!!�
You said to el_profe55
�That �s great to see you went through my contributions so you could see for
yourself they are NOT copies, therefore they ARE originals!�, but that is not
true.
When I asked the
definition of �original� for the website was for that reason. You said your
worksheets were original and mine weren�t and both of us did the same thing.
You could have
explained how you understand the word �original� and not called me or anybody
else �not clever�. You offended me and I guess you have also offended �el_profe55�
by saying �Of course overything has been here already, when talking about
"original contributions" clever people will understand it means NOT
COPY!�
Dear Starr, This semester, the only group I have is an Advanced Four group, which means they are in their last semester of an English course. I have struggled to get extra material to use in class, once it is a conversational class and the common topics like globalization, drug use, sex, etc have been discussed already. Right now I don �t have any grammar topics to cover so that is why I didn �t add any to be used with the urban legends mini books. I designed my mini books to be used by me with my students and did the activity that I thought best suited my objectives for that specific class "have my students talk" and my class was very successfull. I know that the level of the text might be a problem to some learners but my students did well. It depends on the group you have. Every teacher knows their groups and uses the material that best suits the group. Thank you for taking the time to suggest some tips and I �ll do that for my lower level students. Bom dia e obrigada. -- Have a nice day and thank you.
