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Hello everyone. A few years ago, I moved from England to New Zealand to coach football to children in Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand. I'd like to tell you about the differences between football in England and football in New Zealand. I grew up in London in England and spent many hours as a child playing football with my friends in the park. We used to play football after school and at the weekend, and often all day long in the school holidays. One of the first things I noticed when I moved to New Zealand was that very few children play football after school or at the weekends. Even on a sunny day in New Zealand, many of the parks will be completely empty! In cities in England, children will arrange to meet their friends for a game in the park, but in New Zealand the children only ever play football when it's organised for them by their parents or by their team coach. If you've ever played football, you will know that it takes many hours of practice to get skilful and make the ball do anything you want it to. Sometimes it can take lots and lots of mistakes before a child gets it right! In New Zealand, children don't spend a lot of time playing football on their own so they don't try new things and make mistakes. Instead they spend an hour or two a week being told what to do by a parent or a coach. This means they don't get to make their own mistakes and learn things for themselves. Imagine learning English and never being allowed to make a mistake? It would be very difficult, and not much fun either!

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Undoubtedly, you know what first aid is, but have you ever heard of emotional first aid? In this lesson, you will find out why it is crucial to care for mental health, how to recognise if someone is getting through life difficulties, and how to help them to manage their feelings and emotions to get back on track. Also, you will learn how to use a number of modal and non-modal verbs while speculating about getting over distressing situations.

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Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats approach is a simple way to gain objective perception of information in all areas. Putting on a hat of a certain color, a person plays a certain role that corresponds to it, looks at the problem from a certain point of view. There are six hats: white, yellow, red, black, green and blue. ‌‌

English is full of look-alike and sound-alike words that easily trip up even confident speakers and writers. This lesson breaks down two frequently confused pairs: disassemble vs. dissemble and envelop vs. envelope. By exploring their origin, exact definitions, and silent letter differences, you'll learn how a single letter or syllable completely changes a word from a physical action into a cover, or from a lie into taking something apart. Perfect for refining your writing accuracy and vocabulary precision.

Past Perfect – это одно из прошедших времен английского языка, указывающее на действие, которое УЖЕ завершилось до начала другого действия. Предлагаем Вам пройти несложный тест на знание правил образования времени Past Perfect. Желаем Вам удачи!