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Do wives still obey their husbands? | Stuff.co.nz
- Do wives still obey their husbands?
- Do wives still obey their husbands?
- Prince Harry and Meghan chose to omit the word 'obey' from their vows, as did Diana and Charles.
- an egalitarian marriage
- chalked up to
- newly minted
- a nod to
- cultural conditioning.
- this little gem
- how fiercely people defend
- fathers walking daughters down the aisle
- women's subordination
- happily ever afters.
- the power of veto
- rarely puts his foot down
- has the right to "put his foot down"
- it impacts on
- the family budget
- women often defer
- men assert the right to
- make certain decisions
- are not raised in a vacuum
- masculinity is inseparable from dominance and control
- "p...y whipped".
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English stuff, Kiwi stuff, Colombian stuff, lot´s of stuff
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Daily bread 05/31/2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Daily bread 05/29/2018
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Reading2success: Meet the Consonant Digraphs - th, sh and ch!
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Hey Siri, Should I Give My Children Their Own Smart Speaker?
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Hey Siri, Should I Give My Children Their Own Smart Speaker?
- Voice-recognition technology isn’t going anywhere — might as well teach kids to use it responsibly
- feel obliged to
- a journalist covering tech and music
- loom large
- dashing into the office
- follow suit
- running away cackling
- they’re enlisting the HomePod
- pestering Google
- tech-savvy
- I’m a bit touchy about
- messing up
- fretting about privacy
- blown up into a
- to can the Aristotle before it even went on sale
- asking the company pointed questions about
- to ignite children’s imaginations
- have a creeping sense that
- deal with our personal data
- locking down privacy settings on your devices
- a good primer on
- Getting on top of
- my slightly fuzzy parenting strategy
- the pitfalls to avoid
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Memory Tricks: The Production Effect - InformED
- Memory Tricks: The Production Effect
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Sunday, May 27, 2018
Daily bread 05/27/2018
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4 reasons we should fix economic inequality |
- The 4 biggest reasons why inequality is bad for society
- It’s safe to say that
- bothers us
- we should tackle — and fix — the problem.
- is deeply troubling
- something should be done to reduce or eliminate it
- redistributing resources
- making the poor better off
- the poor are very badly off
- It’s important to note, though, that
- egalitarian
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Friday, May 25, 2018
Daily bread 05/25/2018
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Pulp Magazines - DreamreaderDreamreader
- Pulp magazines were cheap magazines filled with science fiction, horror, and adventure stories.
- wood pulp
- light entertainment.
- a very striking cover page
- a hero coming to save her.
- featured detective stories.
- young handsome heroes
- a pastime
- They spent it on paperbacks.
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Tipping Advice - DreamreaderDreamreader
- a tip
- no tipping
- it is considered insulting
- using cash
- where tipping happens
- check your bill very carefully
- share his money with her
- split the money with
- he kept his promise
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Famous Movie Quotes - DreamreaderDreamreader
- most recognizable
- were chosen
- that counts
- gin joints
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Cheap Airline Tickets - DreamreaderDreamreader
- is some advice
- the crack of dawn
- Fewer people
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Amy Edmondson: How to turn a group of strangers into a team | TED Talk
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- - Humility- Curiosity- Willingness to take risks
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A New Hunt for the DNA of the Loch Ness Monster
- A New Hunt for the DNA of the Loch Ness Monster
- Even if scientists never find Nessie, the hunt could tell scientists a lot about what does live in Loch Ness.
- set up camera traps
- the holy grail of
- multiple explorations of Loch Ness have been conducted over the years
- a single conclusive trace of
- the fabled beast
- a body of water
- it leaves behind traces of
- organic detritus
- sequence the DNA they find
- millions of years after the species supposedly went extinct
- finds no trace of
- the threat posed by invasive species
- After all, anything’s possible, right?
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Daily bread 05/23/2018
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How to Incorporate Screencasts into Your Online Training Course
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Autonomous vehicle helped locate ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’ off Colombia | Fox News
- Autonomous vehicle helped locate ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’ off Colombia
- sunk
- off the coast of
- considered the “holy grail of shipwrecks,”
- operated by
- holding the discovery under wraps
- out of respect for
- has been the subject of legal battles between
- called on Colombia not to commercially exploit the wreck
- exact location remains a state secret
- recognized expertise in
- distinctive dolphin engravings
- partially sediment-covered
- the resolution was good enough to
- the decorative carving on the cannons
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Daily bread 05/22/2018
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ESL Lesson Plan on Children - Breaking News English Lesson
- dwindling
- success
- Demographers
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Monday, May 21, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Daily bread 05/17/2018
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Council wants 'English first' policy on shop signs – what does it mean for multicultural Australia?
- Council wants ‘English first’ policy on shop signs – what does it mean for multicultural Australia?
- has significant implications for
- multicultural policy.
- direct or near direct
- signage
- must not exceed more than
- raises two important questions
- what is the status of
- has no policy designating English as an official language
- has surprisingly little to say about
- free to profess, practise and maintain
- linguistic, religious and ancestral heritage
- linguistic and cultural assets
- live up to
- a de facto policy of
- Mandating English signage
- has attracted the interest of
- muddied the waters
- miss the underlying issue of
- part of the social fabric of
- everyday life in the city.
- convey the cultural identity of
- the authenticity of
- make up most of
- is vital to
- is equivalent to
- “un-Australian”.
- it raises enduring questions about
- within an English-dominant framework
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Daily bread 05/16/2018
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World Happiness Report 2018 | World Happiness Report
- World Happiness Report 2018
- a landmark survey
- the state of
- ranks 156 countries by
- in addition to
- migration within and between countries
- pooled results
- are based on
- The overall rankings
- the top ten positions are held by
- swapping of places
- tend to have
- to support well-being
- life expectancy
- year-to-year changes
- are to be expected
- the biggest gainer
- The biggest loser
- deal primarily with
- the most striking finding
- illustrating a general pattern of convergence.
- a more balanced set of
- are thus explained by
- when account is taken of
- based on
- principally through the
- rural-urban migration
- the greatest mass migration in history.
- is found to depend on
- the greater importance that people there attach to
- emerging health problems that threaten happiness
- ends on a different tack,
- a focus on
- has been growing faster and further than in most other countries
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Alcohol, Tobacco Pose Greater Threat To Global Health Than Illicit Drugs: Study
- Alcohol, Tobacco Pose Greater Threat To Global Health Than Illicit Drugs: Study
- the greatest threat to
- human welfare?
- focused on
- related to
- measured by
- Impact on
- Based on
- the impact of
- the findings revealed
- the highest rates of
- an overdose
- put citizens at a heightened risk of developing
- the mortality rate
- was more limited
- the major limitations of
- not equally reliable
- challenges faced by
- insufficient or no data on
- more commonly used
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Saturday, May 12, 2018
Daily bread 05/12/2018
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Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk
- cultural fit
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DevOps or Agile: Which do software developers prefer? | ITWeb
- DevOps or Agile: Which do software developers prefer?
- Agile is by far the most popular software development methodology
- high-performing software development teams are more likely to have a DevOps culture.
- most popular software development methodology was Agile, used by 60% of respondents
- followed by DevOps (23%)
- DevOps and Agile were seen as being complementary
- the goal of DevOps is to change and improve the relationship between the development and IT operations business units by advocating better communication and collaboration between them.
- high-performing teams were more likely to have a strong DevOps culture
- better visibility and collaboration
- Only 65% of developers agreed.
- 81% agreeing that DevOps saves time in the development process
- organisations that had adopted DevOps were more likely to deploy on demand.
- for high-performing teams, the automation of the software development lifecycle was a top priority
- 41% of remote teams agreed that they had a well-established DevOps culture compared to 34% of in-office teams
- DevOps was ranked third among the most important technology investments for 2018 (after continuous integration, deployment and delivery; and automation and containers)
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You're never too old to become fluent in a foreign language
- You’re never too old to become fluent in a foreign language – and here’s the evidence
- a slew of recent headlines
- has recently taken the media by storm.
- A range of headlines
- trumpeted the depressing message
- to become fluent in a foreign language
- dramatically misrepresented
- flat-out wrong
- are interested in
- you can communicate with relative ease
- without it being a real strain on either the speaker or the listener
- despite the fact that
- Pretty much anyone can become fluent in pretty much any language at pretty much any age.
- in the long run
- nativelike, command of the vocabulary of another language
- such challenging structures as idioms or proverbs.
- The ‘critical window’
- The puzzling thing
- grammatical phenomena
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- Richard Dawkins wants to move to New Zealand to get away from Brexit 'madness'
- as a refuge from
- a slightly less dramatic way
- gone mad
- has also launched
- recruitment drives
- post-Brexit Brits
- briefly considered
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Daily bread 05/09/2018
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Get your free TOEIC 2018 mini-test - BusinessEnglishAllure.com
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The Fortnite Craze Might Be Here To Stay : NPR
- The Fortnite Craze Might Be Here To Stay
- music playing in the background
- televisions line the walls
- XBox gaming systems plugged into each one
- every screen is taken up by someone
- to play against one another
- holding tournaments every few weeks
- It just seems like everybody wants to
- Fortnite is a cross-platform game, played on computers, gaming consoles and smartphones.
- The game's premise is simple: Players sit in a flying bus that moves across a map.
- The player can drop down onto the map at any time and enter a battlefield.
- The player then has about 20 to 25 minutes to build fortresses, find supplies and kill other players until the last man is standing.
- has caused a major stir in
- transforming casual video game players into avid ones.
- is more like a friendly game of tag
- tongue-in-cheek
- It's cartoony
- it's much more accessible
- skins, which are like costumes, for their characters
- emotes, which are celebratory dance moves
- rocketed into popularity
- wide demographic
- a rarity
- it's pretty balanced
- breakout successes
- "canary in the coal mine"
- mass consumption of
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Daily bread 05/08/2018
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Colombia Should Think Twice Before Extraditing a Former FARC Commander | Human Rights Watch
- Colombia Should Think Twice Before Extraditing a Former FARC Commander
- spurred concerns
- The debate grew wider when
- he too could be eligible for extradition
- are handled by
- lenient “transitional justice” rules
- got used to the outlaw life
- can end up serving substantial sentences.
- a sense of déjà vu
- ran aground on
- a screeching halt
- many have yet to face justice
- provides inadequate guarantees of meaningful justice
- grave crimes
- no substitute for accountability
- should carefully consider whether
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Saturday, May 5, 2018
Daily bread 05/05/2018
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Alan Turing's Last Paper Inspires a Better Way to Desalinate Water
- Alan Turing's Last Paper Inspires a Better Way to Desalinate Water
- Alan Turing's Last Paper Inspires a Better Way to Desalinate Water
- The insights from Alan Turing's last published paper could offer a new solution to the problem of turning saltwater into fresh, potable water.
- cracking the German Enigma machine
- his namesake test
- being put to use
- addresses a strange principle of
- In certain rare conditions,
- spontaneously separate
- striped pattern
- precisely manipulate
- allow it to overcome
- it's not terribly difficult to
- turn saltwater into fresh water
- At the other end of the spectrum,
- to live somewhere on spectrum between
- it’ll be a while before
- still in the early stages of development
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Daily bread 05/02/2018
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IELTS Reading: gap-fill and keywords - ielts-simon.com
"IELTS Reading: gap-fill and keywords Here's part of an exercise from Cambridge IELTS book 12 (test 5, passage 2). The exercise is quite easy, but it contains some good 'keywords'. Collecting as a hobby Many collectors collect to develop their social life, attending meetings of a group of collectors and exchanging information on items. This is a variant on joining a bridge club or gym, and similarly brings them into contact with like-minded people. Another motive for collecting is the desire to find something special, or a particular example of a collected item, such as a rare early recording by a particular singer. Some may spend their whole lives in a hunt for this. Psychologically, this can give a purpose to a life that otherwise feels aimless. Complete each sentence below with ONE word from the passage. Collectors’ clubs provide opportunities to share ………. . Collectors’ clubs offer ………. with people who have similar interests. Collecting sometimes involves a life-long ………. for a special item. Searching for something particular may prevent people from feeling their life is completely ………. . Which 'keywords' in the questions and in the passage helped you to get the answers?"
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Cognitive scientists define critical period for learning language | MIT News
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Daily bread 05/01/2018
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Slow Down to Speed Up | TechWell
- came across
- in the context of
- to cut short a
- go through the procedures methodically
- rushing
- screwing anything up
- so as to be sure
- one by one
- mistakes can be fatal
- rushing can cause
- to do more, sooner, faster.
- rushing around
- increases your chances of being
- with potentially catastrophic consequences
- my boss’s boss often bemoaned,
- too serious to ignore
- a sloth
- the antidote for
- multitask
- no time for dawdling
- a need to rush
- an issue arises
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