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Classroom Language For Teachers and Students of English

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The language spoken in the lessons is English. Here are some phrases about classroom language you should know, understand, or be able to use. Table of Contents Classroom Language for English Students Classroom Language For English Teachers Classroom Language: The beginning of the lesson Classroom Language: Simple instructions Classroom Language: The end of the lesson Classroom Language: Language of classroom management Classroom Language: The language of error correction Classroom Language: The language of spontaneous situations Classroom Language for English Students Can I come to your office? How should I pronounce “…”? How do you pronounce this word? Would you pronounce the word “…”? How do you spell “…”? What does UK stand for? Would you give us an example? How do you spell that? Could you explain a little bit more about that? What do you mean? What is the difference between “a” and “b”? I didn’t understand today’s lesson. I don’t understand the homework. Just a minute/second/sec

7 Common Habits of Unhappy People

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1. Aiming for perfection Does life has  to  be perfect before you are happy? Do you have to behave in a perfect way and get perfect results to be happy? Then happiness will not be easy to find. Setting the bar for  your  performance at an inhuman level usually leads to low self-esteem and feeling like you are not good enough even though you may have had a lot of good or excellent results. You and what you do is never enough good enough except maybe once in a while when feels like something goes just perfect. How  to overcome this habit: Three things that helped me to kick the perfectionism habit and become more relaxed: Go for good enough. Aiming for perfection usually winds up in a project or something else never being finished. So go for good enough instead. Don’t use it as an excuse to be lazy or to slack off. But simply realize that there is something called good enough and when you are there then you are finished with whatever you are doing. Have a deadline. I set deadlin