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Yes, I was harsh and yes we all start somewhere, but the O n do. This OP doesn't want to improve his teaching. He wants someone to prep a lesson for him or show him some resources so that he can plug and play so he doesn't actually have to do his job. I don't care if it is a formal classroom or not, teaching children, or adults doesn't matter. No one should go into a classroom as a teacher if they don't have any clue whatsoever.

There is a difference between someone's first day on the job that has some training or at the very least researched the field and someone who thinks youtube videos are a proper method of instruction. On the first day you should be building a rapport and getting the students comfortable with each other. A couple of random youtube videos doesn't help you do that. I use a lot of multi media in my lessons but they are created or chosen very carefully and support a lesson not replace it.

If his post read "I am new to teaching and would like some help making my lessons more effective. I struggle with ..., ...,... do you have any advice how to make this better. Or I am planning on doing this..., this... and this... do you have any suggestions that would make the lesson more interactive, effective, student centered, etc. Then I think he would get a lot more help.

Yes. But please don't attack people.

You've just made me fall off of a chair, with laughter.

I am so surprised that this book, almost unknown to most of the Thais, has been asked by multiple AIS outlets.

I am reading in this forum for about 5 years and can not remember such requirement.

Haha, should you be saying things like thus in Wayward Pines?

Windows 8 has its own stock cloning software, http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/using-windows-8s-hidden-backup-to-clone-and-recover-your-whole-pc/ .

Before this I would use DriveClone Pro.

Is it true that after a phone is rooted that the system no longer updates to a newer Android system version?

According to one of the women speaking in the video,"it isn't hard", hahaha.

Children with too much money.

That's why 7/11 asks for a degree.........everyone's got one.

The hi so Chinese gf who so many here seem to be with........have three!

Thai degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

So Farang degrees in Thailand are genuine then???

7/11 Thailand does NOT require job applicants to be degree holders.

Maybe a zombie attack as it looks like the assailants tried to scratch him to death.

Two thousand five hundred bucks is nice .

Yeah, seen these weird farang before.

Free bugs are a bonus!

For you that missed it, a small taste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1maxJm8LXQ4

Easy win for Saiyok.

I wasn't aware that Tripadvisor had any credibility. Now, it's been confirmed that they have absolutely no standing whatsoever.

That's just one tiny street though and there is other food stuff there on the street itself even though there seems a lot of pad thai (don't forget pancakes )

I think when talking of 'khao san' these days it's really more than just that one street, the connecting streets too and then the choice is up there with plenty of other areas in BKK, for me

Correct! Also, there is a concentration of restaurants serving Western food at prices not available elsewhere in Bangkok.

Rich merc driver will take care of the copper's family.

KSR is a shithole. Stinks of piss/shit/vomit, middle of nowhere, tourist trap, full of backpacker cocks getting ripped off by tuk tuk drivers and fortune tellers.......dreadlock-growing, fire juggling, tye-dye wearing, naive, cheapskate backpacking f**kwits. What a shithole.

It has its positives. I quite like some of the local talent. Also, a wide range of cheap and abundant food. All in all, plenty of fun times to be had there.

oh... you lucky man, very lucky.....

I'm considering carrying a stun gun-fighting fire with fire. However, I'm worried that it may not be practical.

It wasn't a scam, just as so many incidents that appear on TV labelled scams are not scams.

It was possibly attempted pickpocketing, but it certainly appears to have become attempted assault. Your description doesn't really indicate that it was straightforward extortion as you do not say that you were threatened with violence unless you paid money.

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling "penal pump" , and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection.

A scam is:

A confidence trick (synonyms include confidence scheme, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. Confidence tricks exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion,

credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté and greed.

The tuk-tuk drivers offer of a "holiday special" temple tour costing only 20baht (during which, at one of the temples, you will be approached by a friendly "fellow visitor" who will tell you about his success re-selling diamonds he has bought) and including a visit to a "government" diamond merchant is a scam.

That's right, a local person comes up to you acting friendly, gives you a hug and has a chat. After the person has left you realize that you're short a wallet, mobile and so forth.

That's gaining a person's confidence and then shagging them!

Leading a dying market - I'm still not buying shares

I would not say its dying ... its shrinking there will always be PC's needed. You cant work behind a tablet.

Can you please eleborate on why not?

I'm sitting here typing off a tablet connected to a 20' inch monitor and other peripherals.

You need to have your radar on at all times here, especially in places like KSR.

I doubt they would have tried it on me, but I would never have let them get close enough to try.

There was nothing I could have done to stop that from occurring.The perp came out of nowhere.

I wouldnt have let it get to the 'wrap his arms around me' stage but I assume this all happened very quickly. I rarely advocate violence but these two deserve what's coming to them and hopefully it will result in a permanent limp and facial disfigurement. Something that frightens small children and gives tourists plenty of warning.

That's probably their next part of the scam, money for not going to the police, hospital bills etc.

I was standing back while my Thai friends were at the kebab stand, so perhaps that had bearing on why I was chosen to be their next victim.

then you fell into or out of bed ??

If you or anyone else can ID these characters, please let me know by PM.

I would be more worried about your wife's reaction!!

Exactly, things could have turned extra nasty, that's also one of the reasons why I'm posting this Thailand anecdote.

Thailand- it begins with the people

Yes, I hope a passerby managed to record the incident on their mobile!

Late at night on Friday, in the middle of KSR, while waiting with a few friends for kebabs that we’d ordered, I had an effeminate local man grab and procede to wrap his arms around me, while he got all touchy-feely. When I quickly objected to his advances, he and his blonde-haired Caucasian male partner tried to say that the local guy knew me as we had previously engaged in a one-night stand (hahaha, wasn't true), so, they were now going to beat me up for this open public rejection.

I was lucky as my group of friends and I were able to persuade these pair of bandits to flee. Beware of this scam. It was obviously an attempted pickpocketing turned into a violent attempted robbery.