New Worldwide ESL Teaching Jobs as of January 16, 2018

Hey Aspiring Teachers!

Want to explore the world? Learn a new language? Make a ton of new friends? Boost your resume big time? Help people to learn English? Teaching is one of the best ways to accomplish all these goals in one fell swoop.

Here is where the jobs are. Just posted today...566 ESL teaching jobs in 36 countries around the globe. Those with a ‘v’ after the number indicate ‘volunteer’ positions. You will get housing, meals, medical but no salary. Travel may or may not be paid. All other positions shown should be salaried. Some will even pay your air travel (usually it is reimbursed once you complete your contract).

Austria 2, Belgium 1, Burma 2, Cambodia 3, Chile 6, China 200 +,  Czech Republic 10, Ecuador 2, France 3, Germany 10, Honduras 4v, Hong Kong 7, Hungary 1, Indonesia 8, Italy 60 +, Japan 20 +, Kazakhstan 1, Malaysia 6, Mexico 2, Mongolia 1, Poland 4, Portugal 3, Russian Federation 16, Saudi Arabia 20 +, Singapore 1, Slovakia 4, South Korea 20 +, Spain 100 +, Taiwan 6, Tanzania 1, Thailand 10, Turkey 5, Ukraine 1, United Arab Emirates 6, Vietnam 20 +.

What qualifications do you need?

1.       A degree in any discipline.

2.       Native English speaker are what parents prefer but some schools will hire you if you have a good command of the English language, understanding of grammar, and little or no accent.

3.       A TEFL Certificate. Our TEFL course will get you this in 4-6 weeks! Full tuition is only $300 USD.

4.       Enthusiasm and energy.

5.       Willing to accept other cultures and ways of life.

No degree but want to teach? We have contacts with major education groups in China with some jobs that do not require a degree. This is a great place to gain overseas experience and work on your degree by distance.

Prepare and send us a one-page résumé with your education, other courses or training taken, interests, additional languages spoken and anything else that may help you to become a teacher. Click our link to get started today!

Dr Robert W. Taylor

Dean of Studies

Sunbridge Institute of English

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Lapse, Elapse, Collapse, Relapse and Laps

This post lists and defines lapse and its family of related words that pertain to a passage of time or to falling.

The words discussed below all derive ultimately from the Latin verb labi, meaning “fall,” “sink,” and “slip,” in addition to other related actions, by way of lapsus, meaning “falling” or “slipping” (figuratively or literally) or “passage of time” (from the sense of “gliding”). 

Lapse, as a verb, originally pertained merely to that last sense, but it later applied as well to something becoming invalid or void and acquired the additional meanings of “commit a sin” or “fail to retain religious faith.” As a noun, lapse means “decline” or “fall,” or “interval,” “interruption,” or “termination,” or it may refer to a mistake due to forgetfulness or inattention, or to abandoning one’s faith.

The adjectival form is lapsed; the adjective labile once meant “prone to fail or fall,” but now it pertains to instability or propensity to change. (The adjective labial and other words pertaining to lips are unrelated.) Labefaction, meanwhile, is a rarely used word meaning “downfall” or “overthrow” in the sense of a weakening of civil order or moral principles.

When time goes by, it is said to elapse. That word was at one time also a noun, but lapse has superseded it.

In theology, several words with the root lapsarian pertain to various beliefs about the biblical account of the fall of humankind as told in the story of the Garden of Eden: postlapsarian (“after the fall”), prelapsarian (“before the fall”), sublapsarian (“under the fall,” which is also the translation of the synonym infralapsarian), and superlapsarian (“above the fall”).

The verb collapse (literally, “fall together”) means “fall” or “fall apart,” “break down” or “lose effectiveness or significance,” or “fold down” or “give way” and as a noun refers to any of these actions. Something that can be collapsed, generally limited to the sense of “fold down,” is collapsible, and that quality is called collapsibility.

When a body part falls or slips, it is said to prolapse (“fall forward”), and such an occurrence is a prolapse.  

A relapse (“fall again”), meanwhile, is an instance in which symptoms of a disease that had abated recur, and the word also serves as a verb.

Lava is an unexpected cognate; the word describing magma, or molten rock, after it has surfaced from underground (in its molten state or after it has cooled and hardened) stems from lapsus by way of Italian. The adjective lavalike refers to something resembling the molten state.

Lapidary, referring to cutting of gems and stones, is an unrelated word derived from lapis, the Latin word for “stone.”

Source: https://www.dailywritingtips.com

And allow me to add a couple more lapses you may have heard of...

Memory Lapse is when you know that you know something such as a person's name but just cannot think of it at the moment. Politicians are often known for having 'memory lapses'.

Time-lapse is a term usually used when talking about photography taken over a period of time such as to show how many lightning strikes there were overnight.

 

Oh, and don't confuse lapse with laps...the number of times a runner goes all the way around a running track, or a race car completes 'laps' around the racetrack or a swimmer goes from one end of a pool to the other.

Just to add to the confusion...

When you sit down, where your body bends is called your lap.  Here is a child sitting on Santa'a lap.

 ...and, of course, everyone knows what a laptop is. It is a computer that is designed to sit on top of your lap.

Boxes and Boxing

Is there any connection between the word for a usually square or rectangular container and the name of the contact sport called “the sweet science”? 

The pugilistic sense of box may be related to the botanical one and therefore to the general sense of an object in which something is situated or enclosed, but no direct relationship has been traced. However, this post explains the etymological origin of the word in both senses and provides some definitions and usage examples.

Box is ultimately from the word pyxos, the Greek name of the box tree, by way of the Latin term buxis. The wood of the box tree, also called boxwood, is used for making things—including, naturally, boxes. (The tree itself is used for hedges and topiary.) Now, however, a box can be made of virtually any material, and though most boxes consist of square or rectangular faces, they come in many shapes.

By extension, the word has come to refer to seating compartments for spectators at a sports or performing-arts event, receptacles for mail (though mailbox may refer to both physical and electronic correspondence, and “letter box” is used in British English), a manually drawn or electronically produced square or rectangular space, or the defined space in which a batter stands while at bat during a game of baseball.

(There is also a catcher’s box adjacent to the batter’s box, and the pitcher’s mound, from its origin as a boxed area, is still sometimes referred to as “the box.”)

Box is also a verb meaning “place in a box,” or "boxed in" * the act of enclosing something in a box is boxing, and boxy is an adjective meaning “resembling a box.” In addition, many terms incorporate box as the first or second element in an open or closed compound (for example, “box office” and hatbox). 

Boxing Day, a holiday in the United Kingdom and various countries (including Canada) that were part of the British Empire, is said to stem from the tradition of giving boxes containing money or presents to servants and tradespeople on the day after Christmas (or near the holiday). But in the United States, the holiday is not observed and is little known; boxing is in American English solely a reference to the sport in which fists are used to strike or defend oneself from an opponent. The term derives from the verb box, which means “beat, strike, or thrash with one’s hands or fists.” Box itself can be a noun in this sense, though it is rarely used as such.

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Idioms for Fabric and Other Materials

`That steak is as tough as shoe leather!`

Words for various materials used in clothing have been applied to various descriptive terms and idiomatic expressions, including those described below.

Cotton-picking is a euphemism to express anger or frustration. 

To cotton to something is to take a liking to it or to come to an understanding of it (the phrasing can also be “cotton on to”), and to cotton up to someone is to flatter. 

Meanwhile, to be in high or tall cotton is to be successful (from the notion of a cotton planter walking among large plants).

Dyed-in-the-wool is an adjective meaning “set in one’s ways,” from the practice of dying wool fibers before they are spun into thread so that the dye is more durable. 

To pull the wool over someone’s eyes (a reference to a wig made of wool) is to deceive them, 

To wrap them up in cotton wool is to be overprotective (with the connotation of swaddling someone as if they were a baby), and to live in cotton wool is to live a protected life. 

To woolgather, meanwhile, is to daydream; the idiom stems from the seemingly aimless act of collecting bits of wool on bushes and fences.

“All wool and a yard wide” and “all wool and no shoddy” both denote an honorable person or something of high quality. 

Various other expressions including wool, including “all cry and no wool” “great cry and little wool,” and “more cry than wool,” allude to much attention given to something of little significance.

“Go hell for leather” or “go hell-bent for leather” means “act quickly” or “act recklessly.” (The leather in question originally referred to a saddle, with the notion of riding a horse quickly or recklessly.)

 “Tough as (shoe) leather” refers figuratively to physical fortitude or literally to something resembling leather, as a cut of meat. 

Leathery may describe something akin to leather in appearance or texture, as to skin roughened by exposure to the elements, 

and someone who is leather lunged has a very loud or strong voice, while the phrase “as ever trod shoe leather” is a more colorful way of saying “as ever lived” or “as ever walked the earth” following a compliment (or denigrating remark) in order to intensify it.

Lacy describes something resembling lace, such as a dew-drenched spider web or a delicate coating. 

To lace is not only to thread or trim but also to add a color, flavor, or other quality to something or otherwise enhance it.

Silky describes fluid or smooth movement or texture, and “smooth as silk” describes something or someone delicate in demeanor or texture.

The expression “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” means that something refined cannot be produced from rough materials, 

while “silk-stocking district” connotes an affluent neighborhood, from the fact that at one time, only the wealthy could afford such items. 

To hit the silk, meanwhile, is to parachute from an airplane (an allusion to the material used for the parachute). 

Satiny also suggests smoothness.

Meanwhile, the smooth, plush texture of velvet, which is made of one of several fabrics, is suggested with the adjective velvety.

Source: Dailywritingtips.com/idioms-for-fabric-and-other-materials/