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Word of the Month: Career
Shana Goodwin
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June 1, 2022
What does the word “career” mean? The word career has a cognate in Spanish: “carrera.” However, this word is mostly used (at least here in Paraguay) to refer to one’s chosen university field of studies rather than one’s professional career. It’s important to note that in English, the word does not refer to...
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Word of the Month: Free-for-all
Shana Goodwin
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May 1, 2022
While May’s “Word of the Month” isn’t really a word you might find yourself using a lot, it’s a great example of a compound word. Compound words can be confusing...
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Word of the Month: Majestic
Shana Goodwin
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April 1, 2022
What does the word “majestic” mean? Recently, some of our staff members went on a camping trip to Iguazú Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina. We arrived at Iguaçu National Park quite early in the day, and hopped on a tour bus for the scenic drive down to the waterfall. On the way, we saw a small capybara ...
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Word of the Month: Resource
Shana Goodwin
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March 1, 2022
As ESL teachers, we are constantly adding to our resource library, or our supply of books, games, useful websites, and other material we can use for classes. Of course, our most important resource is our teaching staff, or our human resources. We couldn’t exist without them!
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Word of the Month: Fresh (fresco)
Shana Goodwin
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February 8, 2022
When I sat down to write this post, I thought of the word “fresh” immediately: the weather has been so wonderfully refreshing and cool this week after several weeks of super hot and humid weather!
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Word of the Month: Habit (hábito)
Shana Goodwin
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January 1, 2022
Happy New Year! We’re expecting great things to happen in 2022, and we’re especially excited about all that our students will achieve this year. One word we talk a lot about at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year is “resolution.” What is a resolution? Basically, it’s the decision to stop a bad habit and replace it with a good one...
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Word of the Month: Christmas Vocab!
Shana Goodwin
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December 1, 2021
As I mentioned in a previous post, I love Christmas, so I couldn’t decide on just one word for December. As a bonus this month, enjoy learning (or refreshing your memory with) the following list of Christmas vocab words!
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Word of the Month: Patient
Shana Goodwin
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November 1, 2021
What does “patient” mean? Patient is a good word for me in November because I love Christmas and I love birthdays, and both my birthday and Christmas are in December. I always get impatient...
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Word of the Month: Heavy
Shana Goodwin
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October 1, 2021
What does heavy mean? In reality, the word heavy has more than twenty definitions! I only included the most commonly used definitions in this post. In Asuncion in October, the balmy spring weather turns into hot and humid summer, and the air feels really heavy...
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