#4 Documentary: 3 women, 3 lives

▶️ Today you're getting as many as (=a big amount) three documentaries that all have – you guessed it – something to do with the International Women’s Day. Although this holiday isn’t so international actually it’s still a welcome opportunity to think and discuss about the role of women in society.

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#4 Documentary A: Siti, a flight attendant from Malaysia

Watch this video about a flight attendant working for Emirates airlines in Dubai and gets to travel the world while getting paid.

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#4 Documentary B: Naeema, a strong woman in Pakistan

Watch this video about a confident young lady from Pakistan who struggles in a male-dominated society.

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#4 Documentary C: Claire, a British actress in Nigeria

Watch this video about a British young lady who became a celebrated actress in Nigerian movies (“Nollywood”).

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#26 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?

Today’s quiz is about pugnacious (=willing and ready to fight) senior citizens.

▶️ The English language is notoriously (=known to be bad) difficult for spelling. There are a number of strange homographs – words that have the same spelling but completely different meanings.

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Not too bad!

👍 Fence is the correct answer. While the noun fence is just something made of wood or metal surrounding a piece of land, the picture shows people fencing – fighting with long thin swords. Fencing is also an Olympic sport.

👎 Bear is wrong. The noun bear is the animal we all know and love whereas the verb bear means carry or hold.

👎 Object is wrong. The noun object is an international word meaning thing or item. The verb means disagree or oppose.

👎 Swallow is wrong. The noun swallow is a type of bird while the verb means making food or drink go down from your mouth into your stomach.

👎 Miss is wrong. The noun miss is a form of address for a young woman; the verb means not being able to do something, fail to hit an object or feeling sad because someone or something is not there with you.

👎 Park is wrong. The noun park is a place in town with grass and trees; the verb means putting your car or any other vehicle in a place for some time.

Dear Inyaz students, English teachers & future English teachers in and around Andijan,

I’m glad to announce our new weekly READING CLUB at Inyaz library!

We will meet in the library EVERY THURSDAY at 3pm. Starting tomorrow.

What do we do there?

3-4pm: We will silently READ books about TEACHING METHODOLOGY.

4-5pm: We will DISCUSS interesting points that we find in those books.

The Reading Club is free of charge.

Join us and become a hero teacher!

Questions? Private message to @jochenho

#19 Learn how to learn: Dealing with mistakes

❓ Do you have the feeling that you make too many mistakes in English? Then mistakes are your enemies. But how can they also be your friends?

1️⃣ Mistakes are enemies. They can make us look stupid and feel bad and because of them we cannot score high in exams. Of course we hate them for that. The worst mistakes are the ones you don’t know about. We also call them errors.

2️⃣ Mistakes are friends. When you notice your mistake you actually learn. In fact, you cannot learn without making mistakes. Our brains are unable to produce perfect sentences when learning a language and we must make mistakes.

3️⃣ Mistakes are “frenemies”. We want to speak English without mistakes but at the same time mistakes show us the way. Let’s take mistakes for what they are – a necessary evil.

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#62 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• adjective
• ancestor
• detail
• embassy
• interesting
• metal
• necessary
• organism
• recently
• relative

❓What do these words have in common?

❗️ They are all stressed in the beginning:

• ✅AD-jec-tive
• ❌ad-JEC-tive

• ✅AN-ces-tor
• ❌an-CES-tor

• ✅DE-tail
• ❌de-TAIL

• ✅EM-ba-ssy
• ❌em-BA-ssy

• ✅IN-teres-ting
• ❌in-te-RES-ting

• ✅ME-tal
• ❌me-TAL

• ✅NE-ce-ssa-ry
• ❌ne-CE-ssa-ry

• ✅OR-ga-nism
• ❌or-ga-NISM

• ✅RE-cent-ly
• ❌re-CENT-ly

• ✅RE-la-tive
• ❌re-LA-tive

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#20 World Englishes: German English

❗️ German speakers come from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Many of them know English quite well and travel the world, both for business and tourism. So there is a chance that you will hear them or even talk to them at some point in your life!

🔘 Pronunciation: Like so many people on Earth, German speakers may struggle with the English ‘th’ sounds. They also tend to over-pronounce the [ɜ:] sound as in girl. Consonants in the end position are always hard in German, so dog may become dock and god may sound like got. [w] may be turned into [v]. German speakers are also bad with linking between words.

🔘 Grammar: Tenses are less complicated in German, so expect some trouble here.

🔘 Vocabulary: The word already and can be overused they use or as a tag question, e.g. You are already ready, or? Besides, there is often confusion with similar words that have different meanings, like become and bekommen (to get).

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