#12 It’s a strange world: Workaholism

❓You work, earn money and use that money to enjoy your life with your family. That’s how it works, right?

❗️Not for some people who work endlessly and forget their friends and family. We call these people “workaholic” – people for whom working is an addiction like drinking alcohol. Find out more about what it’s like when you don’t work to live but live to work.

⛓https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workaholic

▶️ Here’s a YouTube video about the psychology behind workaholism:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3_S9YgRBc

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#8 Go out and teach! Seating

❗️Students sit in rows facing the teacher, right? Well, actually there’s more to it:

🔎 The traditional order. Advantages: Students can follow the teacher be controlled. Disadvantages: They can’t easily interact and always depend on the teacher.

🔎 The U-shape – students sit around a space in the middle of the classroom. Advantages: They can see each other, interact and feel as a group. Disadvantages: Students can distract each other and the teacher may find them harder to control.

🔎 Clusters – the students sit in groups around tables. Advantages: Students can work together and the teacher can easily move around to monitor or participate. Disadvantages: They’re harder to control and can’t easily turn around.

❗️Seating has a huge influence on how well your activities work. Sometimes it’s worth changing! More seating arrangements: www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2019/12/19-classroom-seating-arrangements-fit-for-your-teaching

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#7 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?

Today’s quiz is about a naughty (=badly behaved) seagull (=the bird in the picture).

▶️ You enjoy some quality time by the sea. It’s a warm summer day and so you get an ice cream. Unaware of the danger overhead (=above) you start enjoying your ice cream in the open air. Suddenly a seagull comes out of nowhere and gone is your ice cream.

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Not bad but not really good either!

👎 Smacked means hitting something or someone, especially to punish a child. Why would a greedy seagull do that?
👍 Snatched is the correct answer. When you snatch something you steal it with a quick movement, just like that nasty bird.
👎 Stitched is a textile word. When you stitch something you sew two pieces of cloth together or you sew some decoration onto a piece of cloth.
👎 Snapped has several meanings: 1) break sth with a sharp noise, 2) move sth in a position with a sharp noise, 3) suddenly become angry, 4) say sth angrily, 5) try to bite, 6) take a photo – goodness, this must be a super seagull!

#43 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• biscuit
• chef
• choir
• conquer
• Cuba
• dinosaur
• foreign
• mosque
• pharaoh
• sci-fi
• shampoo
• soldier
• suit
• target
• tired

❓What sound do these words have in common?

❗️Not much actually, but they are often mispronounced by Uzbek English learners. For clarity in Cyrillic:
• biscuit – wrong: бисквит, correct: бискит
• chef – wrong: чеф, correct: шеф
• choir – wrong: хор, correct: квайер
• conquer – wrong: конкюр, correct: конкер
• Cuba – wrong: куба, correct: кюба
• dinosaur – wrong: динозавр, correct: дайносор
• foreign – wrong: фориджин, correct: форин
• mosque – wrong: москю, correct: моск
• pharaoh – wrong: фараон, correct: фараоу
• sci-fi – wrong: скайфай, correct: сайфай
• shampoo – wrong: шампун, correct: шампу
• soldier – wrong: солдиер, correct: соулджер
• suit – wrong: свит, correct: сют
• target – wrong: тарджет, correct: таргет
• tired – wrong: тайред, correct: тайерд

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#7 Education Video: Changing Education Paradigms

❗️Today’s video is from a lecture by Sir Ken Robinson, a British educationalist who famously argued that we need to radically change our education systems to prepare children for the demands of the 21st century. Robinson passed away earlier this year but his lectures have become classics and live on.

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

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#24 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi enjoying offline education in Asaka

❓ 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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#15 Tongue twister: Yes we can!

❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister today:

▶️ How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as any canner can, if a canner can can cans.

Translation:
Agar bitta konservachi konserva bankalarini konservalay olsa, u qancha konserva bankalarini konservalay oladi? Agar konservachi konserva bankalarni konservalay olsa, u boshqa konservachi konserva bankalarini konservalagandek shuncha ko’p konserva bankasini konservalay oladi.

❗️Pay attention to:

🔘 Weak forms – Distinguish between “can” (noun), “can” (main verb) and “can” (modal verb). The noun and the main verb have to be pronounced fully as kæn while the modal verb is reduced to its weak form kən, unless it stands at the end of a phrase:
➡️ can = strong ➡️ can = weak
How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as any canner can, if a canner can can cans.

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