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Word in the News: EXTRADITION
Josef Essberger
This week the word EXTRADITION is in all the newspapers as the American government tries to get their hands on the world’s greatest journalist Julian Assange
Tomorrow is Another Year
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What will it bring?
‘Novaxx’ Djokovic Teaches Us IRONY
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Can’t make this up: ‘Peak irony’ in Novak Djokovic shot of the day
Staying Motivated! How Do You Achieve Your Goals and Stay Focused?
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Share strategies and advice on how to maintain motivation and concentration
Books OR Movies? Which Form of Storytelling Captivates You More?
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Compare and contrast your preferences between reading books and watching movies
How Important is Family in Your Culture?
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Do people place more emphasis on home or work?
What is Your Favourite Type of Music?
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What genre resonates with you the most?
How Do You Usually Spend Your Weekends?
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What do you do in your free time?
What Are Your Favourite Hobbies?
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What makes you happy outside of work?
Electric Car
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A simple cartoon
Mourning vs Morning
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Mourning is a time of grief; morning is a time of day
Standing Ovation
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They say that no dictionary has ever been able to define the difference between ‘Complete’ and ‘Finished’
Why is a 2021 Climate Change Conference Called COP26?
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How can COP stand for Climate Change Conference?
Hypocrisy Unmasked?
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How low can politicians go?
What is Science?
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Carl Sagan’s warning about democracy, science and technology
Eric Clapton – This Has Gotta Stop
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Legendary rocker Eric Clapton’s latest song following severe reactions to his first and second Covid-19 jabs – with lyrics
One by One
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Everything goes full circle sooner or later
Phrasal Verb: GET OUT
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How to use the phrasal verb GET OUT in the imperative
Who Are These Three and What Are They up To?
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What’s the backstory here?
Mortal, Immortal or Eternal?
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The dream of immortality haunts the barons of Big Tech today.
From Whitewash to Greenwash
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GREENWASHING is a fairly recent idea – deliberately making a company’s products and activities look “greener” than they really are. Classic public relations BS!
January 20, 2021 a Special Day for USA
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Why 20 January 2021 is a rare and special day in the USA
My New Year’s Resolution for 2021
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What have you resolved to do?
Discuss: Hard to Say “No”?
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Why can’t you say “N.O”?
The Metro
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The discovery of a body in the Paris Metro early one morning was not particularly unusual. That it was headless sent a frisson through the sixth arrondissement, but the incident went unnoticed outside Paris. Yet there was clearly something strange about the case. It was hardly as though the body had been decapitated to frustrate identification, […]
Mayday – International Distress Signal
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The meaning of Mayday in international communications and how it came to be
PANdemics and Other PANs
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PANdemic, PANorama, PAN-American and more
The Monkey’s Disgrace
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Human evolution from a monkey perspective
Get It?
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get [something] (verb): receive, contract (a disease); understand – and many more meanings
The Queen’s Coronavirus Broadcast: ‘We Will Meet Again’
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HM Queen Elizabeth II and wartime singer Vera Lynn
Stuck at Home?
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Here’s something you could do if you’re stuck at home, in a single room.
To Panic, or Not to Panic? That is the Question
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What do YOU think?^^
Farewell to Holland
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2020 should lay to rest the qualms of many English-speaking people over the exact name of that European country between Belgium and the North Sea—the one that’s famous for being low and flat (below sea-level in places) and for growing tulips. Is it Holland? Or Netherlands (or maybe “the Netherlands”)? We know they speak Dutch, […]
Santa Comes a Cropper
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Santa (proper noun): short for Santa Claus; another term for Father Christmas to come a cropper: (informal British idiom) fall heavily; suffer a disaster
Filler Phrases That Give You Time
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The fact of the matter is that sometimes you need time to think.
English to Remain Official EU Language
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EU diplomats have decided to keep English as an official and working EU language. So even if the home of English goes, the language of English will stay
A Light-Year is a Measure of Distance, Not Time
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Superb demo by NASA
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution 2019?
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What do you promise yourself this coming year?
Queen’s English
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How it’s spoken…
Should Facebook Control What Art You See?
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Should Zuckerbug censor your culture?
I Am Not a Number
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The Prisoner lets rip
Discuss: How Would You Give Away $1,000,000?
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You get lucky. What do you do?
Discuss: Where Would You Go?
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The world is your oyster
Discuss: Do You Believe in Ghosts? Would You Sleep in a Haunted House?
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👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
Discuss: Can You Give Me Some Money to Buy a Train Ticket—please?
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Can you spare a dime?
Non-Smoking Flight
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Superlistening – The BUWOG Affair
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Super squeaky-clean Europe
Nothing New in Fake News
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Fake news has been a weapon of war among other things for millennia.
Emancipated Marionette
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Picture by my talented Viennese cousin Univ. Prof. Dr. Peter Heilig, who writes: Marionette (from the French meaning little Mary): We all function sometimes like marionettes—under the control of a marionettist. Depicted: emancipated marionette—free from control, free from bondage, free from any influence—just free—on its own… marionette (noun): puppet controlled by strings function (verb): work, operate […]
Your Own Personal Staff. Which Will You Choose?
Josef Essberger
That’s the life!