#6 Go out and teach! Teaching aids

❗️Imagine you’re just getting into the classroom with nothing but yourself. Can you teach? No worries, there are teaching aids to help you during class.

🔎 There’s classroom equipment like a blackboard, whiteboard, smartboard, a projector, a computer, loudspeakers, etc.

🔎 You’ll probably use some printed materials like coursebooks, textbooks or handouts. Perhaps also what hangs on the walls, like maps or posters, and also flashcards. Likewise you may also use electronic materials, like PowerPoint, pictures, videos, etc.

🔎 More special for the students, especially young learners, are real objects, also called realia. When you teach a lesson about vegetables, why not just bring some to the class?

❗️Think for a minute. Ideally you’d just be standing in front of your students and do a great job without anything more than your hands and your mouth. Use your teaching aids but make sure you’re a good teacher even without!

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#37 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following sentences:
• Visit the cinema if it is interesting.
• Rick is a little bit busy.
• The rich kid lives in a villa by the river.
• Give him a drink.
• Six women sit by the big window.
• His sister is sick.

❓What might be the problem here?

❗️Many students have problems with the short [ɪ] sound. It should sound different from the long [i:]. Russian doesn’t have the short [ɪ] at all while Uzbek has something very close but not completely the same. Try to pay attention to the short [ɪ] in the sentences above.

❗️There are a few word pairs of ɪ and i: that often cause misunderstandings:
• his – he’s
• fill – feel
• live – leave
• sit – seat

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#5 Education Video: Chinese teachers in the UK

❗️Today’s video is about a group of Chinese teachers who go to the UK in order to teach British teenagers in the “tough” Chinese style of education. This experiment produced a lot of funny situations and culture shock on both sides. We can see just how different teaching and studying can be in different countries. How should teachers and students treat each other? How much authority is good? Should students study for exams or more than that?

The original documentary has three parts but it was taken down from YouTube because too many people started arguing about it. Watch at least the third part to get the idea!

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYGxAwRUpaI

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#18 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in a roadside wonderland

❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?

❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!

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#13 Tongue twister: Is it corona?

❗️Challenge yourself and practice your pronunciation with this tongue twister today.

▶️ The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.

Translation:
Oltinchi kasal shayxning oltinchi qoyi kasal.

❗️Pay attention to:

🔘 Pronunciation – there is a tricky mix of similar consonants (fricatives) here: [s] and [ʃ] as well as the ‘th’ sounds [θ] and [ð].

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#13 University Vocab: Degrees

❓Academic degrees used to be quite different from country to country but in the age of globalisation they have become remarkably similar. What are they?

🔎 Your first academic degree is a Bachelor’s degree or short a Bachelor’s. In North America and most of Asia you can get it after 4 years while in most of Europe it only takes 3 years. For scientific subjects you get a Bachelor of Science (BSc), for other subjects a Bachelor of Arts (BA).

🔎 After your Bachelor’s you can do a Master’s which takes 1-3 years. There are Master of Science (MSc) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees.

🔎 If you still can’t get enough you can study fore a doctorate degree usually called PhD which literally means “doctor of philosophy” (and not of medicine).

❗️ When using these words, most importantly don’t pronounce the words your mother tongue in an English way (“Magister” – ouch!) and forget the ‘s after “Bachelor” and “Master”.

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#2 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you find the right country? Pay attention to the language and style.

👉@afandi_english👈 #song_quiz

Hm, looks like you need to learn more about your neighbouring countries!
👎 Tajikistan: Yes, the language is a match but the style of music sounds nothing like that of a former Soviet republic. Just a feeling.
👎 Pakistan: Close enough but it would have to be some minority language in Northern Pakistan rather than the national language Urdu or the majority language Punjabi. And there is no element of Indian-ness in this song. Culturally Pakistan isn’t really any different from India. Only religion separates the two.
👍 Afghanistan: Bingo! The language is Dari, the Eastern Persian spoken by the majority of people in Afghanistan.
👎Yemen: If you said Yemen you’re pretty far off. Even if the style of music could be similar the language is no match at all. Yemen speaks Arabic.

#38 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Ketdik kafega, mening qornim och.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Let’s go to the café, I’m hungry!

✅ Well, it should be:
Let’s go to the café restaurant, I’m hungry!

❓Why?

❗️ Internationally, a café is a place where you can have a drink and talk with your friends or colleagues or someone you need to talk to but don’t want to invite to your house. After all, “café” means “coffee” in France, the home country of café culture. Only in countries of the former Soviet Union a “кафе” is a place where you primarily eat.

❗️ In English even a small restaurant is still a restaurant. If it’s fast food we would just say the name of the fast food restaurant rather than the word “restaurant”. What you mean when you say “ресторан” is more like a “fancy restaurant” in English.

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#12 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Langfocus

⛓ Link: www.youtube.com/channel/UCNhX3WQEkraW3VHPyup8jkQ

📊 English Level: Upper, some technical terms

🔤 Subtitles: Usually available

💬 Topics: Languages, linguistics, language learning, culture, geography, history

💡 Content: This channel is a great source of knowledge for those interested in languages. Paul, the host of the channel, patiently and competently explains characteristics of languages and presents lots of interesting and weird facts about them. You learn a lot about different countries and cultures in the process. There are also language comparisons and language learning tips – all in all a good range of videos.

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#19 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi enjoying a late summer day in a pomegranate tree

❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?

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