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Your Funny Jokes of the week

The Pope, Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts were in a three-way plane crash over the Pacific Ocean. They all died and went to heaven together. “Oh, this is terrible,” exclaims St. Peter, “I know you guys think we summoned you here, but this is just one of those coincidences that happen. Since we weren’t expecting you, your quarters just aren’t ready… We can’t take you in and we can’t send you back….” Then he got an idea. He picked up the phone, “Lucifer, this is Pete. Hey, I got these three guys up here. They’re ours, but we weren’t expecting them, and we gotta fix the place up for ‘em. I was hoping you could put them up for a while. It’ll only be a couple of days. What d’ya say?” Reluctantly, the Devil agreed. However, two days later, St. Peter got a call. “Pete, Lu. Hey, you gotta come get these three clowns. This Pope fellow is forgiving everybody, the Graham guy is saving everybody, and that Oral Roberts has raised enough money to buy air conditioning.” 

Teaching approaches: the grammar-translation method

By Tim Bowen

At the height of the Communicative Approach to language learning in the 1980s and early 1990s it became fashionable in some quarters to deride so-called "old-fashioned" methods and, in particular, something broadly labelled "Grammar Translation". There were numerous reasons for this but principally it was felt that translation itself was an academic exercise rather than one which would actually help learners to use language, and an overt focus on grammar was to learn about the target language rather than to learn it.......

The Funniest English Idioms

a worm’s eye view
Many have heard the expression a bird’s eye view, but have you ever heard of a worm’s eye view? If you have a worm’s eye view of something, you only understand or know a little bit about it - and, unfortunately, it is usually the worst or least important part!
Example: What does Peter Perfect know about prepositions? He only has a worm’s eye view of English grammar!

a party pooper
A party pooper is someone who (always) ruins the fun.
Example: Frieda said that she can’t come to our ❛80’s Rock Star❜ party. She has to stay home and wash her hair - what a party pooper!

everyone and his brother
The English expression everyone and his brother refers to a very large number of people.
Example: Everyone and his brother was at the stamp collectors’ convention last weekend. I had never seen so many people in my life!

The world is your oyster.
If the world is your oyster, you have the ability to do anything you want or set you mind to do.
Example: The young people of today have so many advantages. The world is their oyster.

The worm has turned.
Here is another ❛worm❜ idiom. The English idiom the worm has turned is used to say that someone who was always weak and did what he was told has now become strong and confident.
Example: It looks like Rinaldo isn’t listening to you anymore. The worm has turned.

to have ants in your pants
If you have ants in your pants, you are not able to sit still because you are excited or worried about something.
Example: The kids found it difficult to sit still and listen to their teacher reading ❛The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales❜ again. They had ants in their pants.

to knock your socks off
When someone or something knocks your socks off, he, she or it amazes or impresses you.
Example: Abrar’s version of the Canadian national anthem really knocked our socks off!

top banana
Similar to head honcho, big cheese or big enchilada, the term top banana refers to the leader of a group or organization.
Example: Our principal, Mr. Ted Tutor, is the top banana at our school.

رابطه زبان وتفکر

سوالي که در اينجا مطرح مي‌شود اينست که ما چگونه مي‌انديشيم و براي بيان انديشه‌هاي خود چگونه از زبان استفاده مي‌کنيم. به بيان ديگر، رابطه فرآيندهاي ذهني تفکر و فرآيندهاي ذهني زبان چگونه است؟ آيا بدون زبان نيز تفکر امکان دارد؟ از زماني که افلاطون گفت تفکرحرف زدن روح است با خودش، و تلويحاً گفت که اين هر دو يکي هستند، فلاسفه و روانشناسان درباره رابطه زبان و تفکر به جر و بحث پرداخته‌اند. يکي ازمشکلات دست و پا گيردراين ميان اين است که، با اينکه ما همه احساس مي‌کنيم که مي‌دانيم تفکر چيست و اين واژه به چه نوع فعاليت ذهني اطلاق مي‌شود، تعريف علمي آن، کار بسيار دشواريست. شايد تعريف تفکر همان‌قدر مشکل باشد که تعريف ذهن. در اکثر کتابهاي درسي روانشناسي امروز فصل يا مبحث خاصي به تفکر اختصاص داده نشده است و معمولاً درمبحث حل مسئله (problem solving) از آن سخن به ميان مي‌آيد. حل مسئله عبارتست از آرايش تازه‌اي از مفاهيم، تجارب و دانسته‌هاي شخص به طوري که سرانجام بتواند راه حلي براي مشکلي که پيش آمده است پيدا کند........

برای آموزش زبان دوم به کودک، 3 روش اصلی وجود دارد که اغلب موسسات و سیستم‌های آموزش از یکی از این 3 روش استفاده می‌کنند. به کارگیری هرکدام از این روش‌ها به سن کودک، سیستم تربیتی کودک و نگاه والدین به مسئله یادگیری زبان بستگي دارد. کودک در بعضی از این روش‌ها سریع‌تر زبان دیگری را یاد می‌گيرد و در بعضی از روش‌ها آزادی بیشتری برای انتخاب یادگیری دارد....