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What's on your mind?
What are you thinking about?
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Mind: brain; thinking
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Urgent
Traffic jam
Hot
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Work
Job
Career
Occupation
Task
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Outside
Inside
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Schools
Camps
Hotels
Restaurants
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Camp = school + outside
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Camp = summer school
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Camp = live in the forest.
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You can go camping in the forest, woods, jungle, outdoors, wilderness, desert, countryside.
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Camping = backpacking.
Backpack = balo
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Camps
5 years
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Children
Teens = youth
Young adults
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Camps have activities, lessons, games, trips, food, cabins
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Cabin = house + small in the forest or your hometown
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Counselor = teacher + parent
Campers = students + children
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Certificates may or may not be required when considering a candidate when human resources is hiring.
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It normally depends on the school or camp or place.
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If you want to be an independent counselor or doctor, you may be required to have more things like certifications and qualifications and credentials.
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Credit. Value. Ability. Experience. CV. Resume.
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Landscaper: gardener; cleaner; fixer; park, house, farm; land; outside; maintenance
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My dad does this.
Summer. Weekend.
Since I was about 9 years old.
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How much time do students get off for summer vacation?
They generally get 3 months off, that is June, July, and August.
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School generally stops during the first week of June and starts the first week of September.
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Spring
Summer
Fall. Autumn. Harvest
Winter
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They get about 2 weeks off for Christmas, the last 2 weeks of December.
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For spring, we get a week off.
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We also got some Fridays and Mondays off for holidays or other things.
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Some schools are only 5 days a week while others are 6.
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Educational system
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What did you do?
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It can be a problem.
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Spoon: small shovel
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1. Parents spoon feed them food.
2. Teachers spoon feed them education.
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1. People need to learn how to eat on their own.
2. People need to learn how to learn on their own.
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Helicopter Parents.
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Helicopters fly but are not airplanes. Helicopter looks like a dragon fly.
Helicopter looks like a bird, like a hummingbird.
Honey. Nectar.
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Helicopters have like big fans.
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Helicopter = airplane + fan
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Helicopter parents watch their children a lot or too much.
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They get their kids to do a lot of stuff or too much stuff.
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They get them to learn more, to work more, to study more, to join more classes, clubs, sports, activities.
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Busy schedule
No free time
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Small mistakes
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They are like always above their children.
They are watching their kids.
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They want their children to do what they did not do.
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They try to live their own dreams through their children.
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There was an increase in helicopter parents in the 1980's in the USA.
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Diversity = differences. Different.
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Different kinds of people & ideas & activities & other things.
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Diversity = variety
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Variety = different
Diversity = to be different
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Diversity in people comes from culture, religion, family
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Variety is more general.
Diversity is more specific.
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Counselor
Landscaper
Food prep / preparation
Cook assistants
Cook
Dishwashers wash dishes
Clerk / cashier
Cafeteria / cafe / kitchen/ dining hall or dining room
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At school, I would count the students and collect money as they came to eat in the dining hall or cafeteria.
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Baker in a bakery at school.
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Housekeeping
Laundry
Maintenance
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After school Assistant in a program for children to help them with homework as they waited for parents and people to take them home after school.
Counselor
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Working with children is one of the things I like to do the most in life as a counselor, teacher, coach, parent, pastor, educator, tutor.
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It is also challenging, hard, difficult.
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Outgoing. Sympathize. Empathize. Relate. Realize.
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One means you can understand a sad person because you were sad in your life too. This means you can relate.
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The other one means you can understand a sad person because you can imagine what it is like to be sad even if you were not sad.
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Empathy
Sympathy
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Empathy: relate from shared experiences, emotions, feelings.
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Sympathy: imagine their experiences, emotions, feelings.
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Men can empathize with fathers because men and fathers are both men. They share that one thing with each other.
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Men can sympathize with mothers and can try to understand how they feel but men are not women and cannot totally understand what it is like to be women because they're not women.
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Sympathy. Simulation.
Video games are simulations.
A soccer video game is a simulation or imitation or copy of a real soccer game.
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The Sims is a video game where you play and control characters or people and make them live in some kind of simulated life.
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Sim City
Simulated City Game
You design and make cities
You manage the city as it grows.
You take care of the city.
Fix. Repair. Solve problems.
You are the mayor of the city.
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Natural disasters
Tornado
Fire
Earthquake
Flood
UFO attack
Godzilla
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Mind Craft
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3-D art
Three dimensional (3D)
Draw. Design
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Sim City = Star Craft + just a simple city without a lot of war and fighting and aliens.
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War Craft
Aliens
Humans
Elves
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Survival
Conquest
Troy
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Brad Pitt
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Human / god (alien)
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Hercules = half man and half god or half alien or something.
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That means, he is not a normal human. That means, he is very strong. He is very powerful. He has a lot of power or strength.
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Web designer
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I want to beat the game = I want to complete the game by beating up and killing all the bad guys which is how you complete a game.
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Beat game = beat everybody in the game.
Talk quickly with shortcuts and abbreviations (smaller versions of the complete version of words).
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USA is an abbreviation for the United States of America.
USA is short for that.
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Full. Fuller. Fullest.
It is short for the fuller version of the words or phrases or subjects or titles or ideas.
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I was a web designer and we working on Mea Omnia.com.
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I can do some code.
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But code is not always required in building websites and other things too.
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Web Builders are web programs.
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Long ago, they did not have as many of these programs.
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I know some of this and have some experience with it during the last 20 years since about 1997 or so, since I was about 12 years old. Now it is 2017 and I am 32 years old.
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You don't always have to know code to build websites.
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First, because you can get some help from web builder programs.
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Second, you can also Google and search for code and help.
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I can apply skills from the video games to web designing programs.
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Templates
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Free
Premium
Customize
Edit
Options.
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Theme = template = overall design of the website
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Things on the website:
Widgets. Apps. Applications
Tools
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Learning web design is like learning a language like English.
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<Header>
</Header>
<Body>
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Learning English in school is boring and not fun and they forget it because they do not need it and they do not want it.
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It is better when they can have more projects where they have to make a video or do a presentation.
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Interaction
Conversation
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Memorable
Remember
Memory
Experience
Special
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Government schools have not updated their teaching methods yet.
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International schools features more of these new teaching and learning methods.
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Exactly
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Think in English
Talk in English
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Talk to parents at home in English
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Find a foreign English-speaking friend and talk and write to them a lot and often.
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Watch English videos and films and shows with subtitles (text) in English too.
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You're not ready for both if you cannot do and handle both.
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Try to do one if you cannot do the other. Try to do one if you cannot do both.
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Watch the video without subtitles if you cannot focus on listening and reading at the same time.
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Try to listen and read at the same time.
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Watch the videos again and again and focus on listening and also reading and also both if you can and as soon as you can.
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Write down new words.
Take notes to help you remember what you watch in videos.
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Ask yourself questions.
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Talk to people about what you watch.
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Start a video club.
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Learning by yourself can be lonely and it can also kill the teachers.
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It helps you if you have a lot of time.
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Students tend to be too tired to teach themselves. That is what teachers are for.
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There are different kinds of students.
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Students generally means younger people or people who are learning full-time as in most of the time instead of working.
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The other kind of student would be anybody who is learning at any time which means everybody.
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Definition
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2017-03-20 MONDAY 6 PM VINCENT ENGLISH CLASS
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