Commentary on areas of concern, mainly in Malawi, in the realm of human rights and the rule of law but not excluding other personal observations on matters of general interest.
Government hides the truth
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.
Noam Chomsky
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.
Peter Newman
Mhlako
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
BREAKING WIND - AN ENGLISH LESSON
The local and international press (and the Minister of Justice) got it wrong. The revision to the Malawi law was not about farting but about other forms of fouling the air. Nevertheless, it got Malawi almost as much publicity as Madonna did! It even inspired a lesson to be used by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL or ESL). Teaching of English as a Foreign Language is quite a difficult discipline - I know, because I found it very difficult. I just managed to pass in 2003! To see how complex it is and to find out how Malawian farts have helped in the teaching of English or if you are a EFL teacher who would like to use the lesson in order to teach English click here.
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