Английский с Карин - носитель языка

22/10/2022

🤬 💬 To swear or not to swear? 😶 And in which language? Research shows that it is more cathartic to swear in your first language than in any other language.

Given that I’m a polite and respectable English teacher, I don’t swear much. 👩🏽‍🏫 However, I can speak several languages and a long time ago I noticed that swearing felt most powerful and offensive in English - my dominant language.

I recommend being very careful with swearing in a foreign language. We do not feel the weight and cultural nuances of swear words so much in a second language, so it can be easy to offend people and sound bad.

The linked article looks at the neurolinguistic and scientific aspects of swearing.

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✍🏽Topic vocabulary & vocabulary from the article:

🗣️ To swear (verb)
‘to use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry
* She fell over and swore loudly.
* I don't like to hear children swearing.
* He heard her swear under her breath.
* She was shouting, swearing, and acting in an aggressive manner towards the staff
swear at somebody/something * Why did you let him swear at you like that?’

Obscene words

🖕Obscene - ‘connected with s*x in a way that most people find offensive
* obscene gestures/language/books’

🤬 Rude (adjective)
‘having or showing a lack of respect for other people and their feelings synonym impolite
* a rude comment/remark
* He started swearing and using rude words.
* There’s no need to be rude!
* I find her rude and arrogant.’

😡 Offensive (adjective)
‘rude in a way that causes somebody to feel upset or annoyed because it shows a lack of respect
* offensive remarks
* The programme contains language which some viewers may find offensive.
* racially offensive language/comments
* offensive to somebody His comments were deeply offensive to a large number of single mothers.’

😡 To offend someone (verb)

Taboo words

😳Taboo (adjective)
‘considered so offensive or embarrassing that people must not mention it
* in the days when s*x was a taboo subject
* Any talk of the divorce is strictly taboo.’

Language proficiency

💪🏽 Proficiency (noun)
‘the ability to do something well because of training and practice
to develop proficiency
* a certificate of language proficiency
* proficiency in something/in doing something a high level of oral proficiency in English’

🤹🏽‍♂️ To be proficient (adjective)
‘able to do something well because of training and practice
* I'm a reasonably proficient driver.
* With practice, you should become proficient within six months.
proficient in (doing) something She's proficient in several languages.
proficient at (doing) something He's proficient at his job.’

🤯Catharsis (noun) - ‘the process of releasing strong feelings, for example through plays or other artistic activities, as a way of providing relief from anger, mental pain, etc.’

🤯Cathartic (adjective)

☁️ Nuance (noun)
‘a very slight difference in meaning, sound, colour or somebody’s feelings that is not usually very obvious
* He watched her face intently to catch every nuance of expression.
* Her singing has both warmth of sound and delicacy of nuance.
* You need to be able to convey the subtle nuances of meaning of each word.’

🧠 Nervous system
‘the system of all the nerves in the body that carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body.’

💗 Autonomic nervous system
‘the part of your nervous system that controls processes that are unconscious, for example the process of your heart beating.’

💬 Neurolinguistics (noun)
‘the study of the way the human brain processes language’

💬 Neurolinguistic (adjective)

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Swearing can raise our pain threshold.

21/10/2022

👩‍💻Lesson preparation can be very time consuming for teachers. It makes so much sense for colleagues to share teaching resources, and to create them together as a team.⌚

It is also excellent when the school, university or education department provides access to lesson materials that teachers can edit and adapt to meet the needs of their own students, if they wish. 📚

I’ve taught at places where there is this kind of collaboration and support with shared lesson materials, and those where there isn’t.

Access to good quality lesson resources makes a massive difference to a teacher’s workload and can potentially improve the standard of classes. Good teaching resources make lessons more interesting and support learning by holding students’ interest and helping them to understand and remember what they are learning.

🐨The linked article states that in Australia many teachers are spending an unnecessarily large amount of time creating lesson materials separately, rather than collaboratively. As a result, there is a new proposal to create a shared bank of lesson materials for teachers in Australia to access. 🇦🇺

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✍🏽Topic vocabulary & vocabulary from the article:

Lesson materials/ teaching materials/ instructional materials = the content or information in a course.

🌐 Teaching and learning resources = any resource which supports teaching and learning. For example: lesson presentations, lesson activities and homework tasks. Teaching and learning resources can also be original or adapted text books, novels, films, cartoons, multimedia or educational software. 🖥️

🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾To collaborate (verb) = to work together in order to acheive something

Collaboratively (adverb) - e.g.: 'they work collaboratively'

Collaboration (abstract noun)

To state (verb, formal) = to say/ write something

🏁 To start something from scratch = to start something from the beginning

⬆️To boost results = to improve results

👨‍🏫 An educator (noun, person) = a teacher, a person who educates others

To educate someone (verb) = to teach someone

💭 Education (abstract noun)

🤔 A think-tank (noun)💡- ‘a group of experts who are gathered together by an organization, especially by a government, to consider various problems and try and work out ways to solve them.’ collinsdictionary.com

The national curriculum - the course of study that most school students are meant to follow in a particular country.

A lottery 💵 - ‘a way of raising money for a government, charity, etc. by selling tickets that have different numbers on them that people have chosen. Numbers are then chosen by chance and the people who have those numbers on their tickets win prizes.’ Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries

It’s like a lottery = it’s a question/ matter of luck or chance


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All schools should have access to a bank of lesson plans under a proposal to reduce teacher workload and stop educators having to plan classes from scratch.

22/09/2022

🗻New Zealand is famous for its spectacular landscapes and geographical isolation. 🌅 What it is less known, is that it can also be a very socially isolating place for some people. 👩🏽

🌍I've lived in lots of countries and travelled extensively, and to be honest, I have never lived anywhere where I have found it as hard to make friends or feel connected to others, as in New Zealand. 🌏

🏡I think one of the many reasons for this is the design of the country’s new suburbs, and the country’s car culture, which make bumping into people in the street harder. 🚙

The author of the linked article gives his opinion on the topic of socialising in New Zealand. (By the way, people's circumstances and experiences vary, and I suspect some New Zealanders might be offended by this article.)

👫How open people are to making new connections is something that we are especially sensitive to if we are living in a foreign country, where we don’t have an existing network of old friends and acquaintances. 👫

How easy or difficult is it to meet new people and make friends where you live? Where have you been in the world where you have found people friendly, open and genuine? Have you been to New Zealand? If so, how did you find it connecting with others there? 🐦

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📒Topic vocabulary:

🙋‍♀️A Kiwi (noun, informal): a New Zealander, a person from New Zealand

A kiwi (noun): a flightless bird native to New Zealand, a hairy fruit 🥝

🧏A foreigner (noun): a person from another country

Foreign (adjective): in or from another country

🙋🏿‍♂️An acquaintance (noun): someone who you know who is not a close friend

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Lee Suckling asks why Kiwis in their 30s struggle so much to form new friendships.

21/09/2022

💃The fairytale dresses of French designer Sylvie Facon remind me of my love of books, libraries and learning. As much as I appreciate the wonders of digital media and the internet, the dresses and the old books that inspired them make me feel nostalgic. 📖

✒️ What do you think of Sylvie Facon's creations? Do you think they show a respect for books, or the opposite, since old books are ‘damaged’ and recycled to make the dresses? 📚

Note: the linked website is in French, one of my favourite languages! 🇫🇷

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✨Russian language translation of the post above/ Русскоязычный перевод поста, показанного выше:

💃Сказочные платья французского дизайнера Сильви Факон напоминают мне о моей любви к книгам, библиотекам и учебе. Как бы я ни ценила чудеса цифровых медиа и Интернета, платья и старые книги, которые их вдохновили, вызывают у меня ностальгию. 📖

✒️ Что вы думаете о творениях Сильви Факон? Как вы думаете, проявляют ли они уважение к книгам или наоборот, поскольку старые книги «повреждаются» и перерабатываются для пошива платьев? 📚

Примечание: связанный веб-сайт на французском языке, одном из моих любимых языков!

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Sylvie Facon réalise des robes hors du commun sur des sujets propres aux personnalités de ses clients, la robe livre en est l'exemple parfait.

18/09/2022

💕Empathy is such an important quality. Developing a healthy amount of empathy helps us to connect with others, and as a result can improve our relationships.

On a larger scale, communities where people are more empathetic and emotionally aware are safer, stronger, less isolating, and happier places to live.

It seems to me that it’s a good thing to help children and young adults develop empathy and emotional intelligence, both at school and at home. The article gives an introduction to how this is done in Denmark.

Are empathy and emotional awareness qualities that are taught at schools in your country?
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Topic vocabulary:

❤️Emotional intelligence: the ability to understand your emotions and those of other people and to behave appropriately in different situations.

❤️Empathy (uncountable noun): the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, etc.
✤ empathy (with somebody/something) the writer’s imaginative empathy with his subject
✤ empathy (for somebody/something) empathy for other people’s situations
✤ empathy (between A and B) The empathy between the two women was obvious.

❤️Empathetic (adjective): able to understand how somebody else feels because you can imagine what it is like to be that person
✤ an empathetic listener
✤ empathetic to/towards somebody/something
✤ His personal history makes him especially empathetic to workers' need for a fair wage.

🌼Mandatory (adjective): required by law

🌼Curriculum (noun) the subjects that are included in a course of study or taught in a school, college, etc.

✤ The school curriculum should be as broad as possible.
✤ on the curriculum (British English) Spanish is on the curriculum.
✤ in the curriculum (North American English) Spanish is in the curriculum.

💻Definitions from the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries online.

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25/08/2022

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25/08/2022

Good night 💤
Спокойной ночи 🥱

Sweet dreams 💫
Сладких снов 🍯

'Sleep tight, don't let the bugs bite.'

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23/08/2022

Technology, workplaces and societies are changing fast. Education and assessment systems need to be continuously redesigned and adapted, in order to enable people to thrive, contribute to positive change, and not be left behind.

Do you think the education and assessment systems where you live are fit for purpose? Why/ why not?

Background information on school qualifications in England:
GCSE exams are taken at around 16 years old, and A Levels are taken at around 18 years old. Universities offer students places largely based on predicted and real grades at A Level.

Vocabulary:
To scrap something = to get rid of something (informal) = to abolish something

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TBI recommends English schools focus on aspects such as creativity and critical thinking to ready pupils for jobs in digital world

22/08/2022

School uniforms are common in the UK. Personally, I wore a school uniform at both primary and secondary school.

One of the arguments in favour of school uniforms is that they reduce peer pressure among kids to wear different, fasionable and expensive clothes every day. It's also thought that they help give students a sense of group identity and perhaps encourage self-discipline.

However, one of the problems with them is that school uniforms can actually be quite expensive, especially if a school requires branded uniforms with a school logo on them.

The cost of school uniforms has become an even greater issue in the UK lately, due to increases in the cost of living. As a result, the government is introducing a new law for state schools in England to reduce the requirement for branded uniforms. The idea is to give students the option to wear cheaper, unbranded school uniforms, for example, the kind that can be bought at supermarkets.

The new policy makes sense to me. I think parents/ students sewing school logos and badges onto unbranded school uniforms could be part of the solution.

Are school uniforms common where you live? Are they expensive, and are they popular with parents and students?

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Schools now have to take unnecessary logos off uniforms, but so far not all parents are benefitting.

20/08/2022

As a British person, I like his southern US accent.

19/08/2022

👦🏼🧸 These are valuable beliefs to bring children up with. Beliefs that will benefit them throughout their lives: in their education, careers and relationships. 📚👩🏻‍🔧👨🏿‍💻♥️👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏾

Vocabulary:
To bring up a child/ to bring a child up (phrasal verb) = to raise a child, to care for a child and teach them beliefs, skills and how to behave

19/08/2022

This video is a great example of British humour. You'll find it especially funny if you're a James Bond fan or if you have tried online dating. 😆

USEFUL LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY FROM THE VIDEO

To be nuts about something (informal) = to be crazy about something (informal) = to really like something

To wow someone with something (informal) = to surprise someone with something

The rest is history (idiom) - ‘If you are telling someone about an event and say the rest is history, you mean that you do not need to tell them what happened next because everyone knows about it already.’ Collins Dictionary

Does it bother you? = Does it annoy/ irritate you?

A terraced house/ terrace house (UK) - ‘One of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.’ Collins Dictionary

A package deal = a package holiday

'A package holiday is a holiday that is organized by a company at a fixed price that includes the cost of travel, hotels, etc.' Collins Dictionary

To stare at someone = to look at someone for a long time, in a fixed way

We’re off camping (informal) = we’re going camping

To canoodle (informal, old fashioned) = to kiss and cuddle

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Daniel Craig = British actor famous for playing James Bond in the film series.

John Nettles = British actor and author born in 1943. Best known for playing in the TV series Bergerac.

Eurovision = The Eurovision Song Contest = an international competition for songwriting and performance