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• take over
• take sth in your stride
• take to
• take in
• take off

Теперь разберемся подробнее на примерах.

Take over
Take control or responsibility for something
Ex.:
Is the English language killing other languages and taking over the world?
To what extent are large chain stores taking over your high street?
That Indian restaurant has been taken over by new management.
A Korean company has taken over that old factory.

Take smth in stride
To cope calmly with things without making a fuss
Ex.:
Usually, I take change in my stride, but it really upset me this time.
Are you someone who hates change or do you usually take it in your stride?
It didn’t worry me at all, I took it all in my stride.

Take to
Like something or someone
Ex.:
Many British people didn’t take to the very spicy food introduced by Indian people.
Can you think of something which you took to immediately?
I didn’t take to online shopping at first, but now I love it.
I tired if for month but I didn’t really take to that new diet.

Take in
To understand what you read, hear or see
Ex.:
I found it hard to take in what you said about language.
Do you ind is easier to take in spoken or written information in another language?
I couldn’t take in everything he said, because my French isn’t good enough.
He wasn’t paying much attention so he didn’t take it all in.

Take off
To start to increase/improve/become more popular
Ex.:
A kind of ‘global English’ has taken off across the world.
Why do you think English has taken off as a kind of ‘lingua franca’?
My Spanish really took off when I spent three month living in Spain.
The use of electric cars has never really taken off in the US.

Чем больше погружаешься в западную методику преподавания, тем больше открытий. Вот, например, письмо. 📓🖋️
Каким оно бывает? Тут тебе и guided writing, и product writing, и process writing.
В чем же сходства и отличия?

✒️Guided writing –
Ученики пишут текст по предложенной учителем модели, плану. Даётся ориентир по используемой лексике.
A piece of writing that learners produce after the teacher has helped them to prepare for it by, for example, giving the learners a plan or model to follow, and ideas for the type of language to use.

✒️Product writing –
Анализируем и воспроизводим свою версию какого-либо текста, например рецензию на ресторан.
An approach to writing which involves analysing and then reproducing models of particular text types. For example, learners read a restaurant review, analyse the way it is written, then produce their own review.

✒️Process writing –
Письмо как процесс, состоящий из нескольких этапов: план, черновик, редактура, вычитка и пр.
An approach to writing, which thinks of writing as a process which includes different stages of writing such as planning, drafting, re-drafting, editing, proofreading.

Quizlet c чертами характера, которые отрабатывали на последней встрече Speaking Club в Кузьминском парке. 🕵🏻️‍♀️👩🏻‍🌾👨🏻‍🏭👱🏻‍♀️👩🏼‍🎨

Что такое Quizlet?
Супер крутой ресурс для прокачки vocabulary.
Слова можно разучивать в виде традиционных карточек, в виде теста (выбирать наилучшее определение), отрабатывать письменно (вводить определение с клавиатуры), устно (записывать на слух), провести себе тест, поиграть в подбор и гравитацию. Наборы слов можно делать самому или обратиться к своему тичеру, ресурс полностью кастомизирован.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

10 activities to learn new vocabulary on the every of 3 staging of acquiring new words.

These stages are:
Stage 1: Noticing and understanding new words
Stage 2: Recognizing new words
Stage 3: Producing vocabulary