You and I

You and I

Only one I in the whole wide world
And millions and millions of you,
But every you is an I to itself
And I am a you to you, too!
But if I am a you and you are an I
And the opposite also is true,
It makes us both the same somehow
Yet splits us each in two.
It's more and more mysterious,
The more I think it through:
Every you everywhere in the world is an I;
Every I in the world is a you!
From: MY SONG IS BEAUTIFUL (Little, Brown and Co., 1994)

food for thought

"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time."
Hebrew proverb


I categorize teachers into three types:
1) Neomethodomaniacs (those who blindly follow new methods)
2) Neomethodophobes (those who are allergic to new methods)
3) Neomethodophiles (those who find new methods meaningful and useful and try them)
A successful trainer should be a neomethodophile. To put it differently, a neomethodophobe cannot be a successful trainer.

Reading Groups at Encompass Culture
I´m the local coordinator for the reading groups at Encompass Culture. Argentina and other parts of the World such as : Kenya, India, Macedonia, Pakistan, Kyrgystan, England, Peru,Mexico,Bahrain and Tunisia form part of this discussion group. Our students at the ISFD y T Nº5 are involved in the reading of literary texts and their discussion online. The innovation is that this time our students, trainees at the teacher training course will have their say in literary matters, so , this time the voices of the students will be read in the forum.
The ELT e-Reading Group was created by a collective of English language educators from all over the world with the support of the British Council. It aims at encouraging ELT professionals to read literature in English, helping to build bridges between cultures and contributing to build tolerance and intercultural competence through the discussion of literature .

Pilar Martínez

Project Coordinators:
Chris Lima - Plymouth, UK.
Sanghita Sen - Kolkata, India.

Local Coordinators:
Hildaura Rosario Conejo - Peru
María del Pilar Matínez - Argentina . Pergamino
Ruben Mazzei – Argentina. La Plata
Emmanuel Flores Flores - Mexico
Pushpa Nagini - India
Murali Nair - India
Partha Sarathi Misra - India
Rama Meganathan - India
Ronita Roy Basu - India
N.V.Bose - India
Kalyani Samantray - India
Nayyer Chandella - Pakistan
Ali Ahmad Al-Rabai - Bahrain
Anzhela Nikolovska - Macedonia
Tashmatov Abdimitalip - Kyrgyztan
Ahmed Mekki Elatrach - Tunisia
John Otieno Okach – Kenya


Students who participate actively in the discussions:

Florencia Paciaroni, Eugenia Laguía, Ana Maino, Maricel Bamonde, Natalia Torchelli, María Elena Gómez, Florencia Mugica, María Gastaldo, Florencia Deminicis, María Belén García, Marian Fartado Lomellino.