Denis Hoppe
E-Mail: dhoppe at umich.edu or denish at kfupm.edu.sa
teacher
Link to Sisyphean in
iPhone%Android format
Blackberry Table Test for Vocabulary sheets
Link to Vocabulary Word list for Oxford English for
Careers Technology 1 & 2, which I added Arabic to last semester.
Link to Section 81New Headway Academic Skills
Level 2 (writing class) class shared with Jason Sandy, who will teach the
Technology 1 part of the class.
Link to my old KFUPM class web pages.
(Link to Faculty discussion on
textbooks: Sulayman Mazyad, etc.)
- Graduate AP in French, Greek and English, The Hill School
- BA Oriental Studies, Princeton University
- MUP University of Michigan
- CELTA International House, ILC Paris
Background
I was born in Belgium and went to Nursery School there when I was 4; so I speak
French because my mother helped me to not forget it when we came back to the
United States. I learned Arabic when my father got a job in Damascus, Syria in
1957 and ever since then I have been interested in the archaeology of the Middle
East and the Mediterranean. I've been an archaeologist and English Teacher in
the Middle East and France. I am beginning my fourth year of teaching English at
KFUPM. In my first two years, we used the RMIT method
in the Preparatory Year Program. We started a new series of classes
based around textbooks from Oxford University Press in September of last year.
While looking at different textbooks, I wrote a little historical meander
through the evolution of Language teaching, which you can link to here: (Draft
of Paper for KSAALT). KFUPM is the acronym of King Fahd University of
Petroleum and Minerals, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. My mailing address is Denis
Hoppe, KFUPM Box 1745, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. During the summer,
July 10-August 31, 2011 only, my address will be Denis Hoppe, Centre MBE 343, 2
bis Avenue Durante, 06000 Nice, France.
Interests, Activities & Plans
Member, American Translators Association 2003
Historian of Cities: I am currently working on a translation of Maqrizi's
Khitat, but not making much progress because of new interests in teaching
English by the CELTA method.
In the future, I hope to continue teaching in Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, where I
can be close to the old medieval cities like Jeddah, Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo
and study their influence on the Medieval Civilization of Southern France,
through the transmission by the Arabs of Philosophy and Mathematics to
Europe(Avicenna's Al-Shifa and Kanoon).
Other Interesting Things
I am hoping my proposal to give a short talk at the KSAALT conference in May
2010 will be accepted. It wasn't accepted.
Other Places in Webspace
Google
Gutenberg Books
How to burn the Gutenberg2006 DVD with Nero 9
How to copy and paste your class list
from OSIS into an Excel 2003 Template
My old personal Web Page
Sample web page in Homemaker by one of my students
Last updated on Thursday, 23rd of June, 2011
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University of Petroleum and Minerals.
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