Letter 1

Hania

Its an honor for me to have the article in your journal. My native language is Amharic and I would like to write about English language learning and Amharic some time. (…)

Several collegues of mine are very interested in sending articles whch would be very useful for your readers and humanistic in nature. Patrica Alavrez, a linguist has one on "classroom projects and motivation" and "e-communication" Regards,

Ezana

Letter 2

Dear Mario,

I enjoyed the Simon Mumford article (grammar metaphors), having finally caught up with it just now on the strength of your recommendation in the newsletter. It's up my street, too. Particularly liked the broken window image for present perfect.(…)

Nicholas Warren

Letter 3

Hi Hania,

Thx a zillion for including my article into HLTM web-site. Hope people will benefit from it or develop it to do something more effective. Your idea of using cartoons in language classes is excellent! And if you kindly excuse me, I would like to add an ACTIVITY 6 to do with them (this is something I do with my classes sometimes and it's always worked well)

-Teacher brings enough copy of a cartoon in the class without caption
-Students are asked to write their own captions (You can either ask them do this individually, in pairs or in groups)
-Next each individual, pair or group put up their captioned cartoons either on the bulletin board or the white/black board.
-Then the teacher gives the real caption of the cartoon and the student(s) who have guessed the closest caption is/are given a reward.

These are a few things that has come to my mind right now after I saw your activities. Sure, as one uses these in the class, they would add or substract or partially change the activity and form a different one.

Good luck with your studies and lots of love from Istanbul

Mahir Sarigul