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ESL Lesson Plan on Winter Olympics - Breaking News English Lesson
- thaw in relations
- attempts at improving ties between the two
- signed online petitions
- forget about the plan
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Indian Scientists Invent Nose Filter to Protect Against Air Pollution
- thick, gray haze
- smog
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Drive-thru funerals newest product of Japan's 'demographic time bomb' - Business Insider
- low fertility rate
- widespread aging
- "demographic time bomb."
- a vicious cycle
- friends marrying one another out of desperation.
- to cater to
- to pay their respects
- The idea was hatched
- burdensome
- old folks
- bid farewell
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English stuff, Kiwi stuff, Colombian stuff, lot´s of stuff
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Daily bread 01/30/2018
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Daily bread 01/28/2018
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A tale of two utopias: How life in Scandinavia and New Zealand compares | Stuff.co.nz
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Bogota ban on pillion passengers angers motorcyclists
- shut down traffic
- banned
- pillion passengers
- were unjustly stigmatized
- A ban on pillion passengers
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Daily bread 01/27/2018
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- dealt with by
- taken offline
- impediments
- accomplish
- focusing on
- resolve the issue
- product backlog item
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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Rise of the machines
- Rise of the machines
- can machines ever out-think humans?
- This week's question:
- Vocabulary
- Transcript
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The Best Time to Visit New Zealand in 2018 | Travel + Leisure
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Daily bread 01/25/2018
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- exceeded
- industry
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- advantages and disadvantages
- narrowed down
- narrow
- disagreement.
- defer
- commit
- unanimous
- defer
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ESL Lesson Plan on Handwriting - Breaking News English Lesson
- handwritten
- officials
- illegible
- lecturer
- a downward trend
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Daily bread 01/24/2018
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- heaviest snow since 2014
- transportation disruptions
- snarled traffic
- snowfall
- tapered off
- snow-choked roads
- travelers were stranded
- slick
- clear a backlog of
- stuck at Narita airport
- throngs of commuters
- long commutes
- on the hunt
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- worth a try
- it’ll
- "outside the box"
- Make sure not to judge or criticize others' ideas
- advantages
- combine
- mentioned earlier
- I wonder if we could...
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- accurate
- Excuse me for interrupting
- clarify
- I’d like to clarify something
- Would you mind if...
- What does... stand for?
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- Pardon me,
- stand for
- accurate
- Excuse me for interrupting
- clarify
- Sorry to interrupt but
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Daily bread 01/23/2018
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Eleven intervention strategies for underachieving L2-listeners | The Language Gym
- 1. Caveat: No quick fix
- to improve substantially you will need three to four months of systematic work of the kind envisaged below. Listening skills are notoriously slow to develop because they require the mastery of a vast array of challenging micro-skills that must be executed at very high speed in the brain (words lingering in working memory for only about 2 seconds). Hence, you need to be systematic, patient and resilient, mindful of the fact that the improvements your students will be making will be invisible for several weeks to come but will definitely show up in the end.
- 2.Daily exposure to substantive amounts of aural input
- practise listening on a daily basis
- they are not processing aural input often enough and/or not in a way that is conducive to learning.
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Who were the first humans to reach New Zealand? | Stuff.co.nz
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Spain to replace US as second most popular tourism spot - BBC News
- tourist arrivals
- strong momentum
- 'Key driver'
- mature region
- the third export sector in the world
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Daily bread 01/22/2018
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English Teaching Methods - PPP Lesson Plan - The Unconventional Life
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- Is there anything you would like to...?
- follow up with (someone)
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- As far as price is concerned
- Concerning payment
- outstanding issue
- best dealt with
- remaining issue
- We have a deal.
- relevant parties
- What we should do is...
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- asking a little too much
- make any more concessions
- draw up a draft agreement
- going nowhere
- nowhere
- reopen
- get back to
- timing
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- revised
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
Daily bread 01/21/2018
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ESL Lesson Plan on Glitter - Breaking News English Lesson
- sparkly, shiny
- does not break down
- the plughole
- discontinuing
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BBC - Future - How much is ‘too much time’ on social media?
- How much is ‘too much time’ on social media?
- whether social media addiction constitutes a mental disorder
- social media addict
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Friday, January 19, 2018
Daily bread 01/19/2018
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- worked in my company as our English Coach.
His methodology to is different from other teachers, because apart from teaching, he follows
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Daily bread 01/16/2018
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Reports reveal top jobs of 2018 | The Sacramento Bee
- five key categories
- salary, advancement, job openings in the U.S., growth of job openings (year-over-year) and regional demand
- Software Engineering Manager
- Solutions Architect
- Data Scientist
- Data Engineer
- Frontend Engineer
Monday, January 15, 2018
Daily bread 01/15/2018
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Study: STEM Students in US Most Likely to Change Majors
- fine art
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- what does stem stand for?
- science, technology, engineering and math – in other words, STEM fields.
- The study looked at 25,000 college students who entered into degree programs for the first time in 2011
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- what was the sample size
- By 2014, about one in three first-time students seeking bachelor’s degrees changed majors. One in ten changed majors more than once.
- students in STEM fields are about 6 percent more likely to change majors than non-STEM students.
- one third of STEM students who changed majors left the STEM fields completely.
- students who start in mathematics are the most likely to change, with 52 percent choosing another field
- due to the differences in teaching styles of STEM educators at the high school and university levels
- classes are often much smaller
- feel they have a more personal connection
- many professors feel college-level STEM classes should be difficult
- think of the early courses … as being screening courses
- regime
- educators will have to learn to be more inclusive.
- teaching more relatable
- way material is covered
- more abstract ideas
- do not always do the best job of explaining how students will use these ideas in real world situations.
- test students on how well they remember these complex ideas
- more time to be spent on STEM courses for elementary school children
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Why does the UK have so many accents?
- matters
- More often than not,
- lived in relative isolation
- more pronounced
- due to the lack of
- tended to
- the Danes
- are not restricted to
- settlers who came from
- received a big influx of
- social class
- working-class
- middle and upper-class
- regarded as prestigious
- by the elite
- After all
- never stands still
- are deemed
- become fashionable.
- Ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and age can all affect
- are bound to
- be vanishing
- a consequence of
- public interest in the subject is growing
- consensus has not yet been reached
- spreading like wildfire
- Humans enjoy being part of groups
- differences between “us” and “them”.
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Sunday, January 14, 2018
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Daily bread 01/13/2018
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Shit Product Managers Say, Translated – Hacker Noon
- Shit Product Managers Say, Translated
- “Hey, let’s close the loop offline. I’ll block some biweekly time for us to sync. Gentle ping to submit your AI.”
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
Daily bread 01/11/2018
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A small town in Japan doubles its fertility rate - Cash for kids
- A small town in Japan doubles its fertility rate
- a baby bonanza
- remote corner of the country
- the local government increased incentives to have babies
- receive a “celebratory” gift of ¥300,000 ($3,530) when she gives birth
- subsidised baby-sitting service is available for just ¥1,800 a day, along with subsidised carseats and other baby accessories.
- she will receive ¥90,000 a year for each one who attends.
- all but the poorest and the old in Japan have to pay 30% of their health-care bills (with the national government picking up the rest), in Nagicho the local government pays the 30% for children.
- relies on a network of volunteers to help keep its two nurseries open
- Businesses that move to the town receive rent-free land
- a clutch of refurbished or newly built apartments and houses for rent at subsidised rates
- Nagicho has lost a third of its population since 1955, and a third of the 6,100 residents who remain are over 65
- Deaths outstripped births by a record 300,000 in 2016
- The town’s dilemma is replicated across the country
- projections say the population of 127m could plummet by a third over the next 50 years
- Perhaps there is something in the water
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Daily bread 01/10/2018
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Iran bans English from being taught in primary schools - BBC News
- Iran bans English from being taught in primary schools
- a "cultural invasion"
- strengthening Persian language skills and Iranian Islamic culture
- Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously expressed concern about the teaching of English.
- seen as an important skill by many Iranians and is widely studied
- primary schools which teach English as an extra class outside of school hours were committing a "violation
- anti-Western, isolationist view
- could lead to "western cultural infiltration"
- children should be taught other languages like Spanish, French, or eastern languages.
- President Hassan Rouhani disagrees with him
- But he had little power to stop the ban
- unlikely to stop families from pushing their children to learn English.
- The move comes amid significant turmoil in Iran
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Daily bread 01/09/2018
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Want a Better Pitch? Watch This. – Firm Narrative – Medium
- oomph
- telling a compelling story
- craft a better strategic story
- Musk’s delivery isn’t stellar. He’s self-conscious and fidgety
- five things right that you should emulate in every pitch you ever make to anybody. And you should do them in this order:
- #1: Name the enemy
- start by naming the thing that’s getting in the way of your customer’s happiness
- an emotionally resonant picture of how your customer is struggling, who/what is to blame, and why.
- #2: Answer “Why now?”
- Audiences — particularly investors — are skeptical
- showing that we’re at a critical point
- If we don’t act now, things quickly get much, much worse
- #3: Show the promised land before explaining how you’ll get there
- describes his version of happily-ever-after:
- when an audience knows where you’re headed, they’re much more likely to buckle in for the ride
- #4: Identify obstacles—then explain how you’ll overcome them
- Now that you’ve shared your vision of the future, (a) lay out the obstacles to achieving it and (b) show how your company/product/service will overcome each one. (There had better be some big, nasty obstacles — otherwise who needs what you’re selling?)
- addresses three obstacles
- the salvation
- #5: Present evidence that you’re not just blowing hot air
- give them evidence that the future you’ve laid out is, indeed, attainable
- though results from early (or beta) customers are more compelling.
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Monday, January 8, 2018
Daily bread 01/08/2018
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South Korea Worried About High Cost of Olympics
- South Korea has the highest poverty rate among the aged of all OECD countries.
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
Daily bread 01/06/2018
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Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents? - The Atlantic
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Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?
Children’s shows often use non-standard dialects to voice the "bad guys," sending a dangerous message to kids about diversity.
- differences between Mufasa and Scar
- Mufasa is heroic and steadfast, while Scar is cynical and power-hungry
- Mufasa has an American accent, while Scar, the lion of the dark side, roars in British English
- Scar’s accent as part of a disturbing pattern in the film: Foreign accents and non-standard dialects were being used to voice all of the “bad” characters.
- Scar’s minions, the hyenas, spoke in either African American English or English with a Spanish accent.
- a study of language patterns in animated kids’ entertainment,
- analyze 323 animated TV characters using measures such as ethnic and gender identification, physical appearance, hero/villain status, and linguistic markers
- a random sample of 12 shows, which spanned a variety of networks, air-times, and genres
- lots of kids’ shows use language to mark certain traits in a given character.
- In many of the cases studied, villains were given foreign accents.
- most of the heroic characters in their research sample were American-sounding; only two heroes had foreign accents
- this correlation of foreign accents with “bad” characters could have concerning implications for the way kids are being taught to engage with diversity in the United States.
- The most wicked foreign accent of all was British English
- British is the foreign accent most commonly used for villains
- German and Slavic accents are also common for villain voices
- Henchmen or assistants to villains often spoke in dialects associated with low socioeconomic status, including working-class Eastern European dialects or regional American dialects such as “Italian-American gangster
- None of the villains in the sample studied seemed to speak Standard American English; when they did speak with an American accent, it was always in regional dialects associated with low socioeconomic status.
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10 strategies for success on the CELPIP English test | Canadian Immigrant
Friday, January 5, 2018
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Daily bread 01/03/2018
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Hey uce, here's a mean-as guide to Kiwi regional slang | Stuff.co.nz
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Tim's top tips for progressing to advanced English - Stop Saying! - YouTube
- Tim's top tips for progressing to advanced English
- How to get to the top of Mount English:1. Expose yourself to as much natural English as you can - read, write, listen to and speak. Take advantage of any opportunity you have to communicate with native speakers.2. Note down any new phrases, collocations or chunks that you come across (encounter) - don-t just remember individual words, but whole phrases.3. Listen to native english audio/video / record yourself repeating what you hear, then listen to yourself / how did you do?4. Relax and have fun - think of why you are learning English and don-t be too hard on yourself.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Daily bread 01/02/2018
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Trump drops climate change from US national security strategy | US news | The Guardian
- unveiled
- hamstrings
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“US leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth energy agenda that is detrimental to US economic and energy security interests,” the website quoted the document as saying.
“Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”
A senior official said on Sunday the main difference between the Trump NSS and its predecessors was a new emphasis on border security and economic issues.
“The economic piece … gets much more attention,” the official said. “The insistence that economic security is national security.”
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In unpublished testimony provided to Congress after his confirmation hearings in January, Mattis said the US military had to consider how the thawing Arctic and drought in global flashpoints would pose present and future challenges.
“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” Mattis said in written answers to questions posed after the public hearing by Democratic members of the committee.
Mattis and the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, are reported to have argued against leaving the Paris climate agreement.
Officials said the new NSS was based on Trump’s previous speeches on national security and foreign policy. The president was said to have decided to break with normal practice and launch it with a speech.
“As far as we have been able to determine, no president has ever rolled this out with a speech before,” a senior administration official said.
“The president was briefed on the document all the way along but when it was near completion and when it was shown to him what it looked like, he was very excited and he personally said he wanted to introduce it to the American people and to the world.”
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Study: 4 Factors That Determine How Much You Can Earn As A Freelancer
- 4 Factors That Determine How Much You Can Earn As A Freelancer
- conscious career route
- perks of freelancing certainly are plentiful
- gray area – the compensation.
- worldwide average hourly rates for freelancers is $19
- massive survey of some 17,000 self-employed professionals
- 1. Your location
- correlate with the average salary offered for the same position in-house
- UK settle for the highest hourly rates of $46,54 per hour,
- Philippines workers feel fine earning just $11.72 per hour
- Canada goes in front of the US with an average freelance hourly rate of $40.17 compared to $37.87 paid to the stateside freelancers.
- 2. Your experience
- Continuously investing in self-education through courses, certifications, workshops and, well, actually doing your job pays off.
- regularly review your rates to reflect the newly acquired expertise
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3. Your industry
- Entry-level freelance developers receive $19.44 per hour
- Professional developers with 2-5 of experience earn $20.80/hour
- Developers with 5-10 years of experience charge $31.97/hour
- Developers with 10+ years of experience average at $40.36
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4. Personal website
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- average hourly rate for personal brand-conscious freelancers is $33.90/hour
- $20.57 charged by workers without a website.
- having a portfolio website showcasing your work, expertise and testimonials from past clients can help you land higher-paying jobs
- positioning yourself as an authority and can build a more personal rapport with the client during the negotiation stage.
- multi-tier payment packages, outlining the exact value of your services and direct the prospects towards case studies highlighting the results you have generated for their peers.
- growing your expertise, complementing your skills with knowledge from the boarding industries and creating an attractive personal website should be on your agenda for next year if your goal is to earn more.
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Monday, January 1, 2018
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