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How to introduce yourself in English

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  How to introduce yourself in English Question : What’s your name? Answers: My name is … My full name is........( first/ last name)  You can call me …/ They call me …/ Please call me …/ Everyone calls me … My nickname is … Self Introduction : Country Questions : Where are you from?/ Where do you come from? Where were you born? Answers: I’m from …/ I hail from …/ I come from …/ My hometown is …/ I’m originally from …  I’m …(Nationality/English) I was born in …(Country/England) Introduce Yourself: Address Question : Where do you live?/ What’s your address? Answers: I live in … / My address is … (city) I live on … (name) street. I live at … I spent most of my life in … I have lived in … for/ since … I grew up in … Self Introduction : Age Question : How old are you? Answers: I’m … years old. I’m … I’m over/ almost/ nearly … I am around your age. I’m in my early twenties/ late thirties. Introduce Yourself: Family Questions: How many people are there in your  family ? Who...

Children and the Internet: Learning, in the Times to Come

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  Children and the Internet: Learning, in the Times to Come Sugata Mitra Nov 22, 2020 25 min read Some time ago, I had posted an article entitled, "Children and the Internet: Learning in the times to come". This has now been updated, better edited, all references fixed and published as an invited article in the Journal of Learning for Development. Even if you had read it earlier, you might want to update your records with this one. You can read or download an open access pdf from here . Education in the Pre-pandemic World The education system came from the Military-Industry-Doctrine driven Age of Empires that we emerged from only in the mid-twentieth century. An age that required millions of identical people to do the jobs that machines do now. An age that required people to memorise what we can now access instantly from the Internet. An education system driven by examinations looking to see if children had been sufficiently ‘sanitised’ so that they know the same things and b...