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The last post about fish for this week, guys, relax :)
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Were you waiting for a new topic of the week?
Here you are! This week is dedicated to fish! Yep, to that strange sort of animals, indeed.
Enjoy :)
Some cool idioms and collocations are on the move.
Yet another spring joke. Are you ready to be tired of spring chores?
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A wonderful quote from Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy.
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The topic for this week is SPRING.
Yep, we know, that it is April already, yet we hope to share some brilliant spring collocations - as well as several longreads :)
It's Sunday, that is why it's not too late to share some fabulous April Fool's day jokes with you. This list is devoted to tricks that TEACHERS could play.
Enjoy :)
1. Switch classrooms for the day. When kids come in the door, it’s not their regular teacher they’ll see.
2. Kids in elementary schools have their names written on their tables/desks. Switch everybody’s last names around so they have their first name but some other kid’s last name.
3. A funny prank for little kids is to begin your lesson of the day with your mouth moving but no sound coming out. This REALLY freaks kids out.
4. April Fool’s day is near Easter and many classrooms dye eggs. Glue the eggs into the egg cartons and when kids try to pull them out…they won’t be able to. If you don’t hard boil the eggs, it’s even funnier.
5. When the first kid of the day calls out your name, tell the class, “that’s not my name children”. Make up a name for yourself and totally pretend like that’s been your name the entire year.
6. Glue a few pencils to the floor under your kid’s desks and then demand that they clean up their mess!
7. Re-arrange every kid’s desk or table in the room.
8. Announce that the fabulous field trip planned for today was cancelled because nobody brought in their permission slips on time.
9. Ask everyone to turn in their homework that was due TODAY and is worth 90% of their grade for this 9 weeks.
10. Take your best and brightest student aside and tell them they’re in danger of failing their grade for the year.
11. Tell your class that lunch is cancelled because the cafeteria ran out of food but everyone else at the school got to eat.
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12. Send several kids to the principals office for no reason. (Maybe warn the principal ahead of time.)
13. Tell your students that, because it’s a leap year, they have to stay in class 2 hours longer every day this month.
14. Assign the kids new seats and then re-assign again several times during the day.
15. Wear a Halloween costume and tell all the children they won’t get any candy this year because they didn’t dress up.
16. Call out ‘sick’ on Friday or Monday – Think your students want a longer weekend or to not have class on Monday? Have a fellow teacher come in, tell them you’re out sick but that you didn’t have time to find a substitute. Then have that teacher say something like ‘we trust you to be on your own for the rest of the day’ and then have them exit. See what happens. I wonder how long you can last watching them squirm and figure out what to do?
17. Tell your students you’re all going on a field trip to someplace fun at the end of the day – When it gets to be almost the end of the day, tell them that the ‘fun’ place is actually their homes! Zing!
18. Create an entirely new grading system – Tired of the ol’ A, B, and Cs (okay and sometimes Ds and Fs)? Then make up a completely arbitrary and confusing new grading system! For example, students who do well can get a ‘Frog’ and students who don’t do as well can get ‘Blue’ and others can be graded with a gold star. Something that totally confounds the human mind would be the best route to go here.
19. Tell your students the entire day’s class will be conducted via Twitter – Are you a tweacher? Why not just talk about teaching on Twitter and actually do all your teaching on the addictive social media tool? You can instruct students to follow a particular hashtag and then just start typing on your mobile phone in the front of class. Watch ‘em scramble and protest! (Not the best prank if there are not enough computers or other devices around, obviously.)
20. In the spirit of flipped classrooms, have one student chosen at random teach for the entire day – Or at least tell them that’s what they’re going to do. They obviously won’t have to but see how long you can go before the students runs out of things to say.
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This week we were not as active in Telegram, yet now we are ready to get back to work!
We wish you to remember that life should always have some room for good mood ;)
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We hope you enjoyed the "fish" topic. It looks like we have never discussed BODY here. Right time to change this situation!
Here you are.
Don't be a cold fish, keep calm and socialize!
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Throwback Thursday is a trend among social media sites such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook wherein users post or repost older photographs (often from their childhood) with the hashtag #ThrowbackThursday or #TBT.
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This post has already been published in January - let's see how your opinion has changed :)
Are you tired of idioms? Here you are - it's a phrasal verb!
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The same could be said about Russia, actually.
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There is a great question asked on Quora and answered by Vicente S. Velasco.
Why does not the year start with the beginning of Spring?
"The early Roman calendar used to start on March 1st, with only 10 months therein. That is why September was more properly the seventh month (Latin septem "seven") October the 8th month (octo "eight"), November the 9th (novem "nine") and December the 10th month (decem "ten"). January and February were not added until around 700 BCE by the Roman king Numa Pontilius. Soon after, the beginning of the civil year began in January because that was when two newly elected Roman consuls would begin their one-year tenure.
It was Julius Caesar who decreed January 1 as the first day of the year in 46 BCE and enforced it to remind the people of his authority and power.
However, this practice did not last after the fall of Rome. The early church frowned upon the celebration of the New Year as it was because of its pagan roots and in 567 CE January 1 was abolished by the Council of Tours as the first day of the year, and the New year was moved to different dates that were considered more appropriate: December 25, March 1, March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation or Easter(!).
It was only through the calendar reform instituted by Pope Gregory XIII that the New Year went back to January 1 in 1582, but its adoption in the West was hampered by the Reformation; as a result many Protestant countries did not adopt the reform immediately. For instance, the British (and America) did not adopt the calendar until 1752 and prior to that, they celebrated the New Year on March 25. Of course, Russia did not do the switch until after the Russian Revolution although the Russian Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar as their liturgical calendar."
Our designer didn't break a leg, yet we hope, that you will enjoy the idiom :)
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April idioms that are connected to jokes are here!
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A new sports idiom - now it is connected with winter sports.
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We have found a great video for you to watch. This one - https://youtu.be/8fxy6ZaMOq8 - will answer the following question:
AT what point in history would you not be able to understand the English language?