How is the rest of the world covering the UK election?
India:
December election? UK ponders early, Brexit-dominated vote
British MPs vote in favour of holding general elections on December 12 - Times of India
Japan:
U.K. 'Remainers' hope tactical voting can stop Brexit | The Japan Times
UK party leaders clash ahead of election | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Nigeria:
How to vote tactically in the 2019 UK general election - Pulse Nigeria
UK going to the polls on December 12 | P.M. News
Russia:
BoJo’s motto? If at first you don’t succeed...try, try and try again - MPs to vote on winter snap poll — RT UK News
UKIP Member: 'Corbyn Will Lose Seats in Any General Election That’s Called Any Time Soon' - Sputnik International
Australia:
Brexit: UK election to bring hope to Jeremy Corbyn of toppling Boris Johnson
Pound to Australian Dollar forecast: General Election could hurt the Pound - Pound Sterling Forecast
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Thursday, 31 October 2019
eslbase - teaching resources
A great place to find a teaching job - and to find teaching resources: for example:
TEFL resources
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Wednesday, 23 October 2019
brexit: "the majority of leave voters were middle class. most lived in the south of england."
Here's the latest from the Guardian:
Seven years ago, a group of Tory MPs published a book entitled Britannia Unchained that argued that Britain “rewards laziness”, that British workers were “the worst idlers in the world”, and that “too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work”. Businesses were deterred from hiring people, they claimed, because of employment laws that made them fear “taking a risk and hiring new staff”. The solution? Repealing those laws – or what should more accurately be described as rights. Three of the book’s authors are now in the cabinet: Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Liz Truss.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit dream is to shred workers’ rights and social protections | Owen Jones | Opinion | The Guardian
Here's more on the book:
Britannia Unchained - Wikipedia
Here's another book:
Rule Britannia | Biteback Publishing
(Mis)Rule Britannia: Brexit is the last gasp of empire | LSE BREXIT
With comment from the Guardian:
Who voted for Brexit:
Again and again, they have been characterised as “the left behind”: poor, neglected, Labour-inclined voters from the north of England. The reality that Brexit is essentially a rightwing project – to deregulate the British economy for the benefit of more hard-nosed, non-EU capitalism – has been largely obscured. Since 2016, a few dissenting academics, most prominently the Oxford University geographer Danny Dorling, have produced strong evidence that more Brexit voters were, in fact, prosperous Conservatives from southern England. But these interventions have hardly dented the conventional wisdom. From BBC vox pops to tabloid editorials to Labour shadow cabinet meetings, “left-behind” leavers still loom disproportionately large. Remainers have been unable to identify and promote a similarly marketable political cohort of their own.
The campaign to stop Brexit has never found the right words | Andy Beckett | Opinion | The Guardian
And more comment from its writer:
Danny Dorling News on Twitter: "More of the British working class did not vote at all, than voted to Leave. The majority of Leave voters were middle class. Most lived in the south of England. There is so much about Brexit that is not understood including simple statistics about the vote itself. All in this book… https://t.co/Mcm0OWb6Lx"
And it's also in the news:
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Seven years ago, a group of Tory MPs published a book entitled Britannia Unchained that argued that Britain “rewards laziness”, that British workers were “the worst idlers in the world”, and that “too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work”. Businesses were deterred from hiring people, they claimed, because of employment laws that made them fear “taking a risk and hiring new staff”. The solution? Repealing those laws – or what should more accurately be described as rights. Three of the book’s authors are now in the cabinet: Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Liz Truss.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit dream is to shred workers’ rights and social protections | Owen Jones | Opinion | The Guardian
Here's more on the book:
Britannia Unchained - Wikipedia
All five of the Britannia Unchained gang are now supporters of Boris
Johnson. They may be wincing at his scattergun spending pledges, but ...
Jul 7, 2019
But among such banal paraphernalia lies a copy of Britannia Unchained, a
free-market tract co-authored in 2012 by five recently-elected ...
Jul 24, 2019
Here's another book:
Rule Britannia | Biteback Publishing
(Mis)Rule Britannia: Brexit is the last gasp of empire | LSE BREXIT
With comment from the Guardian:
Who voted for Brexit:
Again and again, they have been characterised as “the left behind”: poor, neglected, Labour-inclined voters from the north of England. The reality that Brexit is essentially a rightwing project – to deregulate the British economy for the benefit of more hard-nosed, non-EU capitalism – has been largely obscured. Since 2016, a few dissenting academics, most prominently the Oxford University geographer Danny Dorling, have produced strong evidence that more Brexit voters were, in fact, prosperous Conservatives from southern England. But these interventions have hardly dented the conventional wisdom. From BBC vox pops to tabloid editorials to Labour shadow cabinet meetings, “left-behind” leavers still loom disproportionately large. Remainers have been unable to identify and promote a similarly marketable political cohort of their own.
The campaign to stop Brexit has never found the right words | Andy Beckett | Opinion | The Guardian
And more comment from its writer:
Danny Dorling News on Twitter: "More of the British working class did not vote at all, than voted to Leave. The majority of Leave voters were middle class. Most lived in the south of England. There is so much about Brexit that is not understood including simple statistics about the vote itself. All in this book… https://t.co/Mcm0OWb6Lx"
And it's also in the news:
And as we argued in a recent book,Rule Britannia: From Brexit to the end of
Empire , these echoes had a strong influence on why some of the ...
5 days ago
After all this time, these things are ingrained in the Brexit moment and
the ... By the time they were even aware of such things, the end of the
second ... as keen as them on the idea that Britannia could once again rule
the waves ... of camp, and the supposed glories of war and empire were
suddenly sent up?
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Monday, 21 October 2019
voice tube: videos to help language learning
In the latest edition of English Teaching Professional magazine:
Russell Stannard describes how he uses VoiceTube and its useful note-taking facility to help his students get more out of videos.
Technology | ETp
Here are a couple more reviews:
VoiceTube | AngelList
Review #90: VoiceTube – Mobile Learning @ EdUHK
VoiceTube - English Learning for iOS - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com
Here's the very easy-to-use app:
VoiceTube: Learn English through videos!
And here's Russell's website:
Home - Russell Stannard
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Russell Stannard describes how he uses VoiceTube and its useful note-taking facility to help his students get more out of videos.
Technology | ETp
Here are a couple more reviews:
VoiceTube | AngelList
Review #90: VoiceTube – Mobile Learning @ EdUHK
VoiceTube - English Learning for iOS - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com
Here's the very easy-to-use app:
VoiceTube: Learn English through videos!
And here's Russell's website:
Home - Russell Stannard
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Wednesday, 16 October 2019
what is culture?
How to define culture:
Jay Doubleyou: high culture > popular culture --- high register > low register
Jay Doubleyou: high vs popular culture
Jay Doubleyou: what is art?
There are cultural stereotypes:
Jay Doubleyou: very british problems...
Jay Doubleyou: polite requests and asking for permission
Jay Doubleyou: what is typically english... german... nigerian... brazilian?
Jay Doubleyou: british vs german humour
There's humour:
Jay Doubleyou: humour can save the world: a saudi, an indian and an iranian walk into a qatari bar...
Jay Doubleyou: what is a 'native speaker' of english? the issue of race...
Jay Doubleyou: european jokes about the british
Jay Doubleyou: brexit: and punctuation
Jay Doubleyou: a history of dissent and satire
Jay Doubleyou: what is british humour?
Jay Doubleyou: there is no such thing as 'national humour'
There's the mix of man-made stuff and not-man-made stuff:
Jay Doubleyou: art and nature
And there are all the cultural genres:
Jay Doubleyou: film noir
Jay Doubleyou: folk music
Jay Doubleyou: rituals
Jay Doubleyou: slow food: "pleasure, hedonism, enjoyment, tranquility, conviviality, richness"
Jay Doubleyou: shakespeare
See:
Jay Doubleyou: culture
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Jay Doubleyou: high culture > popular culture --- high register > low register
Jay Doubleyou: high vs popular culture
Jay Doubleyou: what is art?
There are cultural stereotypes:
Jay Doubleyou: very british problems...
Jay Doubleyou: polite requests and asking for permission
Jay Doubleyou: what is typically english... german... nigerian... brazilian?
Jay Doubleyou: british vs german humour
There's humour:
Jay Doubleyou: humour can save the world: a saudi, an indian and an iranian walk into a qatari bar...
Jay Doubleyou: what is a 'native speaker' of english? the issue of race...
Jay Doubleyou: european jokes about the british
Jay Doubleyou: brexit: and punctuation
Jay Doubleyou: a history of dissent and satire
Jay Doubleyou: what is british humour?
Jay Doubleyou: there is no such thing as 'national humour'
There's the mix of man-made stuff and not-man-made stuff:
Jay Doubleyou: art and nature
And there are all the cultural genres:
Jay Doubleyou: film noir
Jay Doubleyou: folk music
Jay Doubleyou: rituals
Jay Doubleyou: slow food: "pleasure, hedonism, enjoyment, tranquility, conviviality, richness"
Jay Doubleyou: shakespeare
See:
Jay Doubleyou: culture
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019
high culture > popular culture --- high register > low register
high culture > popular culture
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What are good examples of 'high' and 'popular' culture?Jay Doubleyou: high vs popular culture
Compare this:
Swan Lake – Dance of the cygnets (The Royal Ballet) - YouTube (better quality)
with this:
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake 3 - YouTube (film)
Matthew Bourne's Ballet Clips- "Swan Lake" - YouTube (better quality)
As seen here:
Classic vs Matthew Bourne ㅡ4 little swans & Black swan - YouTube
Or compare this:
Giselle trailer (The Royal Ballet) - YouTube
Giselle - Act II pas de deux (Natalia Osipova and Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet) - YouTube
with this:
Dada Masilo | Giselle | Extended Trailer - YouTube
REf17 Giselle by Dada Masilo - YouTube (with interview)
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And then there is this:
BBC Four - Michael Clark's to a simple, rock 'n' roll... song, Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
Is this 'high' or 'popular' culture?
West side story (rencontre Maria Tony) - YouTube
West Side Story - Tonight Quintet and Chorus (1961) HD - YouTube
Is this 'high' or 'popular' culture?
West side story (rencontre Maria Tony) - YouTube
West Side Story - Tonight Quintet and Chorus (1961) HD - YouTube
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high register > low register
And what about 'high' and 'low' register when it comes to 'culture':
S1E1.A Touch of Class - video Dailymotion
And how can you ask for a room?
different ways to ask for a room in a hotel in english phrases - Google Search
And what about this?
S2E1.Communication Problems - video Dailymotion
Do you know how to speak correctly?
U and non-U English - Wikipedia
Have a look here at something more on the subject:
Jay Doubleyou: register
For example: in business:
PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines.
It's also a question of intonation...
Jay Doubleyou: Search results for intonation
Finally, there's a programme which can set the right tone:
Grammarly: Free Writing Assistant
Closing the Distance | Grammarly - YouTube
How Does Grammarly Work? - YouTube
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And what about 'high' and 'low' register when it comes to 'culture':
S1E1.A Touch of Class - video Dailymotion
And how can you ask for a room?
different ways to ask for a room in a hotel in english phrases - Google Search
And what about this?
S2E1.Communication Problems - video Dailymotion
Do you know how to speak correctly?
U and non-U English - Wikipedia
Have a look here at something more on the subject:
Jay Doubleyou: register
For example: in business:
PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines.
It's also a question of intonation...
Jay Doubleyou: Search results for intonation
Finally, there's a programme which can set the right tone:
Grammarly: Free Writing Assistant
Closing the Distance | Grammarly - YouTube
How Does Grammarly Work? - YouTube
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