http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mary-poppins/727503/
Speaking of videos though, I thought that Jodie's use of the "American Tongues" video was great. Not only did it enhance her presentation, but parts of it were pretty funny (i.e. the one woman who wouldn't have babies with a southern accent "crawling around inside" of her). It just goes to show how prejudice people in the US can be about other dialects, even when their own is strange to begin with. I had seen this video in my Introduction to Linguistics class that I took as an undergrad and I remember that we also watched a few videos about pidgin English too. I've always thought it would be fun to be able to teach some aspects of creole or certain English dialects like Irish-English, but I don't know what practical purpose that would serve to the general ESL/EFL student. I did manage to find an ESL website rather easily that gives quizzes on Creole-English though:
http://iteslj.org/v/creole/
So it is obviously used by some ESL teachers.
The other thing that I'd like to mention about our last class was the fact that we got to work in our Multi-Genre groups for over 30 minutes. This helped immensely. My group (Adib, Stephanie, and I) got to throw around some ideas about how to make our next two genres better and being able to ask Esther some questions helped a lot also.
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