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EDUSPEAK: Forget "compare and contrast"; schoolchildren now learn "text-to-text connections". They don't go to "home room" but rather "Achievement Time" or, in some schools, "Time to Care". The temporary classroom is now a "learning cottage" rather than a "trailer". Even the humble essay is gone, replaced by the "extended constructed response".
"If teachers want to talk in those terms among themselves, they're welcome to," says Vocabulary Review publisher Hartwell Fiske. "But introducing children to them is criminal, dehumanizing." Students agree. "It's like renaming a prison 'The Happy Fun Place'," complains a Maryland senior. "Tests should be called tests. 'Brief constructed response'; you just wonder why they don't say 'paragraph'." (Washington Post) ...It's nice that kids still get to learn about George Orwell.


Today I have something very special I want to share with you.
First, I want to introduce you to a good friend of mine. His name
is Steve G. Jones and he's a world renowned, super-educated
hypnotherapist.
You see, Steve doesn't claim to be a "know-it-all."
But the one thing HE DOES know better than 99.99% of the people on
the planet is how to use hypnosis in both everyday life and
therapeutically.
After all, that's just about the only thing Steve has done with his
life, professionally speaking, for the last 24 years!
And even after being a go-to hypnotist, for nearly a quarter of a
century, he absolutely loves it!
Why shouldn't he? Every day he help people awake the giant within...
- He helps men become confident and attract women
- He helps women to unlock their sexuality and drive men wild
- He helps businessmen to master the art of persuasion to close a
deal ... and, every day he learns something new.
You see, hypnosis has been working for Steve perfectly for over 24
years. He has successfully taught men and women to use hypnosis in
everyday life.
But when Steve asks his patients, his clients what is the single,
most powerful technique he has taught them, amazingly a large
percentage surprise him by saying - conversational, everyday
hypnosis.
That's why he has developed an amazing 18 module system to give you
almost-absolute control in everyday situations.
Imagine if you could induce hypnosis in anyone while speaking to
them... and it's not a rocket science.
However there are two limiting factors.
You can hypnotize one individual at a time (so forget about
creating a big harem of hot, hypnotized women calling you
responding to your TV ad). 🙂
An individual must have an IQ of at least 90. In other words, the
person is not extremely stupid (so forget hypnotizing your dog).
Other than that you must know:
"With great power comes great responsibility" - Spiderman's uncle
Steve will show you how to master everyday hypnosis... He'll even
give you word-by-word scripts so he makes sure you'll get it.
I asked Steve if I can let you know about his powerful system.
He agreed, but under one condition...
That you promise to me, you'll use it ethically. As hypnosis of
that degree in unethical hands could mean a disaster... And I don't
want to be held responsible for such thing.
It is like a weapon.. I am carefully selecting to who I am giving
it. Check out the website to see if you qualify.
In Steve's Ultimate Conversational Hypnosis System you'll
discover...
** How to use one little-known routine to make an outstanding,
charming first impression.
** How to close almost any deal for as long as there is even a
slightest interest in your offer (and quick-test to find that out
on Module 6)
** How to calm down aggressive people and demand their attention.
On Module 8.
** How to induce amnesia - Extremely powerful one - Module 9.
Or the nice-one, my clients specially like...
** How to start a conversation even with a total stranger and
having a great rapport from very beginning
Best of all, you can discover these and dozens of other proven and
powerful hypnosis techniques for very little money... as part of
this special marketing test available only to my subscribers!
So, if you want to get an edge in everyday communication, lead
other people towards your goals and you promise to do it
ethically... I urge you to find out more about Steve's
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below:

===> https://www.consultpivotal.com/Aconversational_hypnosis.htm

To Your Success,

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P.S. There's no risk. If you aren't 100% delighted with Steve's
techniques... if you don't realize their potential INSTANTLY, just
let him know within 60 days.
He'll promptly refund your money. And you can keep the entire System
with his compliments! That way, he takes all the risk -- and you
can't lose!
So what are you waiting for? To inspect the system risk-free for a
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Does language shape what we perceive, a position associated with the late Benjamin Lee Whorf, or are our perceptions pure sensory impressions, immune to the arbitrary ways that language carves up the world?

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The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English-language students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods. | Full Story

You're too kindby Richard Stengel

From the reviews

Stengel (a senior editor at Time magazine) ponders the meaning of flattery and illustrates that more than mere praise, flattery is praise with a motive, be it benign or grasping.

You're Too Kind is a witty, colorful, fast-paced trip through history.  It's meticulously researched and comprehensive. Stengel charts a droll and whimsical history, starting with the Egyptians ("Laugh after he laughs, and it will be very pleasing to his heart," recommends Vizier Ptahhotep), and concluding with handy hints on how to flatter without getting caught: "Never be candid when a person asks you to be candid." In between, he asks questions such as "What is circumcision, really, but a kind of divinely enforced flattery?" in an irreverent discourse around the covenant with the Israelites, and looks at everyone from troubadours to Dale Carnegie, Puritans to Hollywood D-girls.

It does bounce around, from the fascinating history of flattery to great tips about flattery to research concerning flattery.

Beware: After reading this book, you may look at the subject of strategic praise in a whole new light, and it may not be a flattering one, either. Enjoyable and informative.

 

The national scramble to learn a new language before the Olympics.
“Conquer English to Make China Stronger!” Li Yang’s cosmology ties the ability to speak English to personal strength, and personal strength to national power. Photograph by Ian Teh.

“Conquer English to Make China Stronger!” Li Yang’s cosmology ties the ability to speak English to personal strength, and personal strength to national power. Photograph by Ian Teh.

Accompanied by his photographer and his personal assistant, Li Yang stepped into a Beijing classroom and shouted, “Hello, everyone!” The students applauded. Li, the founder, head teacher, and editor-in-chief of Li Yang Crazy English, wore a dove-gray turtleneck and a black car coat. His hair was set off by a faint silver streak. It was January, and Day Five of China’s first official English-language intensive-training camp for volunteers to the 2008 Summer Olympics, and Li was making the rounds. The classes were part of a campaign that is more ambitious than anything previous Olympic host cities have attempted. China intends to teach itself as much English as possible by the time the guests arrive, and Li has been brought in by the Beijing Organizing Committee to make that happen. He is China’s Elvis of English, perhaps the world’s only language teacher known to bring students to tears of excitement. He has built an empire out of his country’s deepening devotion to a language it once derided as the tongue of barbarians and capitalists. His philosophy, captured by one of his many slogans, is flamboyantly patriotic: “Conquer English to Make China Stronger!”

ttp://newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/28/080428fa_fact_osnos

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