Hi, In my classes, I especially enjoy conversations about travel and culture and learning things about your countries. The story below is from Chapter 8 of my coming book, The Long Road Home. The story is true and takes place in my second year of teaching in the Czech Republic. Jitka became my first wife. "...The Chemopetrol managers I teach are upper intermediate or advanced. The latter spot the sexual innuendos in the short stories I take.” Jeff stared at me after looking round the room. “It’s not that there’s sex in the stories, but rather there are bits that if taken out of context could be sexual. This one’s not but take the sentence: I had a friend for dinner. Do you understand that I served him dinner or that I ate him?” Jitka gasped, “What?” “Yeah. English is hugely context based. Words don’t have a fixed meaning. Take one sentence out of a conversation and it could mean a number of things. I think Hannibal Lector uses that line in Silence of the Lambs.” The lesson today is when you read and see a new word, look it up in a dictionary, but take the meaning that most closely fits the context of the paragraph, not always the first meaning. Check out my podcasts. Two discuss different chapters of my book. I specialize in teaching teens and adults critical reading, creative and academic reading. Book a trial. Let's chat.

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Marhaba！Everyone！！ I have started to learn and study Arabic!!! Is there somebody studying Arabic??? Please be my Arabic study friends!!!

Could you please help me correcting this essay? There are two major approaches of learning in the world, and each one of them has its specific features. However, they both lead to the same goal which is providing students with suitable knowledge for them. First of all, the traditional view to teaching is still applied in most educational institutions in the world. This view supports the idea of making the student a listener and passive receiver of information. It keeps students away from discovering or making knowledge themselves. This view makes the student an absorber to information made by others. Nevertheless, there is another modernized view to teaching, which helps students in being involved in making knowledge and discovering things. To illustrate this, this way of education focus on practical things like research and laboratory works and scientific expeditions. It helps student discovering things by themselves rather than keeping them in a classroom and giving them the information passively. In my opinion, I consider that the second view to teaching is more accurate, because the experience teach students more than listening to the information. In addition, it increases self awareness and self-esteem of students, and makes them effective people in society. Therefore, their point of view to schooling change and they accepts teaching more with this educational way. To summarize, there are two educational views followed by schools in the world, the passive listening view, and information discovering view and each one of them helps students to get well educated with a difference in the way of providing them with information. The second view is the modern one and it becomes increasingly popular due to its effectiveness in making students knowledge lovers and more self confident.

What is the correct translation for "good luck" in Hindi? A) Shubhkaamnayein B) abhinandan C) Alvida

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After a long day at work, I love to ______ on the couch and watch my favorite TV show. A) relax B) work C) hurry

Which one is correct? 1. A speeding car crashed into my car. 2. A speeding car crashed into mine.

Could anyone help me with the following question? If we want to ask about the percentage and we use the word “per cent”, is “per cent” countable or uncountable? What should I use in a question: “how much” or “how many”? On the internet I found both options but I’m not sure which one is grammatically correct. Is the following sentence correct? How many per cent of the young population try to follow healthy lifestyle in your country?