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part of that activity. Let’s find out more information. 
The British Council provides resources for people 
learning English, and also teachers of English. Martin 
Peacock is the Director of Global English Product 
Development.
Richard: Martin, tell me about English as a global 
language.
Martin: OK, well many people talk about English 
as being a global language. And the reasons for that are 
the widespread use of English. It’s used in education, 
it’s used in science and technology and, importantly, 
English is also used in business.
Richard: Are there many global languages?
Martin: Well, no, not really. I mean there’s ‘the’ 
global language which is English in the sense that 
English is used in these many different contexts; 
there’s only one. There are other languages which are 
used very widely and spoken by many people in many 
different places: Cantonese, for example, a variant of 
Chinese, is spoken in many different places so it’s 
global in a geographic sense and it can be global in 
the numbers, but in terms of the use in different areas 
of education, science, research, English is the only 
global language.
Richard: Are there different types of English?
Martin: Well, yes, there are lots of different types. 
There’s different accents of English. I come from the 
North of England, where I have a particular accent. So 
within England itself, within the UK, there are many 
variations in English pronunciation and that extends 
globally, so you see English in America and used in
Australia, which is different in accent and also in 
usage as well.
Richard: And what about the impact of technology 
on a language?
Martin: In the past, new words were coined by 
people - it might have been in a speech or a newspaper 
article or in a book - they were written down and then 
other people adapted them and used them and that 
could be quite a slow process and new words might 
come into a language over a long period: 10, 20 years. 
So technology allows languages to evolve much more 
quickly.
Richard: So technology can change the language, 
but in what way does it help people to learn the 
language?
Martin: Well, it helps in many ways. In the past, 
students in locations in other countries didn’t have 
access to much genuine English; they may have a 
book or an odd newspaper, but what the internet 
allows them is to read and often to read and translate 
languages like English on a massive scale.
(Adapted fro m http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.
org/en/britain-great/english-great-part-2)
UNIT 2 LIFE LONG LEARNING
Learning Strategies
- In order to find out more information about 
learning strategies we are going to talk to Professor 
Brian Johnson who has made a number of valuable 
jobs at methodology. 
Mr. Brian, we are glad to 
meet you at our studio today.
- I am also happy to be here with you, thank you for 
your invitation.
- Mr. Brian, today we are going to discuss problems 
of learning strategies. As we know it is one of the 
most essential issues in modern teaching.
- Yes, you are right.
- Can you tell us what learning strategies are in 
general?
- Firstly, we should find out what strategy is. Strategy 
is a way of doing something; it is a person’s own 
decision to what way to go with this or that strategy; it 
can be at any field, at any job. Everyone has a strategy 
of living. Our deeds, actions, achievements even falls 
are controlled or just formulated by our life strategies 
as well!
- Mr. Brian, as our most listeners are the youth, 
mostly students of different specialties, they are eager
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to understand what learning strategies are? Why are 
they so important to find out?
- Learning strategy is a key to better studying, for 
achieving top results at any sphere, as it is a person’s 
approach to learning or using information. If learners 
are not aware of their learning strategies or do not use 
them at all they may face with a number of problems 
at studying, in future even at professional careers as 
well. Learning strategies assist us to solve problems or 
avoid them, lead to cooperative thinking.
- Oh, I did not expect that it is such a global issue 
for studying! As far as I know, there are a lot of types 
of learning strategies. Which of them are the most 
important ones?
- All of them are essential and somehow connected 
to each other. But here I would like to focus on some 
of them. Let’s speak about meta-cognitive one, they 
are general learning strategies. Reflecting upon 
your own thinking and learning is meta-cognitive 
thinking. They are considered to be one of the most 
effective for learners. Some types of it: organizing or 
planning strategy, students make a plan of what they 
need to do and organise their thoughts and activities 
in order to tackle a complex task step-by-step. This 
preparation helps them to cope with any task. Or let’s 
take monitoring strategy, where learners question 
whether an idea makes sense in order to check the 
clarity of their understanding or expression in the 
target language. Students are aware of how well a 
task is progressing and notice when comprehension 
breaks down. Personalizing strategy is also important 
to know, students relate information to their feelings, 
opinions or personal experiences in order to remember 
and understand it better. They may associate it with 
someone or something in their personal lives.
- I came across another type of learning strategy 
while preparing for the programme: task-based 
learning strategies. What specific features do they 
have?
- The «Task-Based Learning Strategies» focus on 
how students can use their own resources to learn 
most effectively. By focusing students’ attention on 
their resources, we emphasize their ability to take 
responsibility for their own learning. There are four 
different subgroups of them: strategies that use what 
you know, strategies that use your imagination, 
strategies that use your organizational skills, strategies 
that use a variety of resources. They are responsible 
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Effective Study Habits
I: interviewer, P- psychology
Welcome to our TV Show. Today’s our guest is 
famous psychologist Feruza Akbarova and today we 
are going to have a hot topic “Do you teach your kids 
HOW to learn?”.
LGood morning Mrs.Feruza. Welcome to our 
show!
P: Thank you. Good morning.
I: Mrs. Umarova can you give us some pieces of 
advice how to improve our kids good study habits.
P:-Yes first thing is get organised. Seriously, teach 
your kids how to organise their binders, bags, etc. 
Also, if you have older kids, give them the skills to 
keep an assignment planner. Get them in the habit of 
writing their tasks down. And next thing is following 
a routine. Make a hard-fast homework time in your 
child’s schedule. Little ones particularly benefit from 
predictability. There’s less resistance when the time 
is already built into day. Besides that getting creative 
is also very helpful. Getting creative isn’t just for the 
little ones. Older children can find what habits are 
effective for them individually by trying out several 
techniques: flash cards, rewriting notes, making up 
songs, making a game out of studying.
I: And I think the place where you are studying is 
also important?
P: Yes, of course. You should determine a set place 
for kids to study. It helps them get into the mindset. 
Maybe it is a desk in their room, your family office, 
or the dining room table? Make sure their location 
is stocked with supplies. My kids never really liked 
studying in their rooms, so I made them a little tote 
with pens, pencils, markers, scissors, etc. We pulled 
it out during homework and then stashed it out of 
sight until the next day. Encouraging your kids to 
talk to their teachers is also effective. In a world of 
email and instant communication, it is important to 
teach your kids how to email their teacher and ask 
for clarification. Some kids are too embarrassed to 
raise their hand in class if they get behind, show them 
other ways to communicate if that is the case. And 
don’t forget to teach healthy lifestyle habits for test 
days. Encourage kids to go to sleep on time and eat a 
healthy breakfast on test days. As they get older, the
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tests come with higher stakes, so healthy habits will 
really play into their success. And please, encourage 
them to learn their learning style. When they bring 
home an assignment or test with a great grade, ask 
them what they think helped them the most. A pattern 
may start to emerge. You can also encourage them 
note-taking. Note-taking is a learned skill. Either the 
teacher suggests it or he/she doesn’t. Encourage your 
child to do it anyway. Show them how. And don’t 
forget that older kids have a lot of pressures. Studying 
from start to finish is too much. Encourage them to 
take breaks. Depending on the kid, maybe a 10 minute 
break every 30-50 minutes will help re-center them. 
For some people, the prospects of a two hour study 
session seems so overwhelming, they don’t want to 
begin. Teach them how to recognize their time limits.
I:O.K. Mrs.Feruza, thank you very much for 
your useful advices. We hope our parents got useful 
information from today’s show. Thank you for being 
with us.
P:Thank you.
I:Dear parents do you teach your kids HOW to 
learn? If so, how do you do it? If you want to share 
with your experience leave your comments on our 
website www.mtrk.uz. at psychology corner.
Succeeeding In LLL
If you not developed the habit of reading each 
day, attending seminars and courses regularly and 
listening to audio programs in your car as you move 
around, somewhere, someone else is doing this. And 
in t, that person will be in the raise, and you will lose.
For good news ,if an average person who develops 
the lifelong learning, will eventually run circles around 
genius, then who goes and watches television each 
night. This is perhaps no habit of a more guaranteed 
your success in life and a habit of continuous personal 
and professional improvement. The pay off in improve 
results in your field will be tremendous. For the best 
pay off, award is that you become more optimistic and 
positive. You will have more energy you’ll be more 
creative you’ll be happier person as you continue 
to grow and grow towards realization of your four 
potential.
The habit of continuous learning enables average 
people to become top performers in their field. It
enables people to go from rags to riches, it enables 
people to rise from poverty and frustration to affluence 
and success. Continuous learning opens every door 
for you; it increases your intelligence and creativity 
and puts you on to the fast track in your career.
CL like nature is neutral, anyone can use it to 
accomplish extraordinary things in your life, its one 
of the best habits you can ever develop and the pay off 
from CL will last you all the days of your life. You 
know, you can actually earn up to eight college degree 
each year. How? By reading for 30 to 60 minutes each 
day you will be walking your way towards becoming 
one of the knowledgeable people in your field.
Let me break this down for your thought, you have 
it clearly, if you read for 30 -60 minutes each day, 
preferable in the morning before you start off, this 
will add up to about one book per week. The average 
American reads less than one book per year. If you 
read one book per week this will add up to about 50 
books each year. As it happens to earn a PhD from a 
major university requires the reading and synthases 
individual dissertation of about 30-50 books. If you 
would read one book per week, 50 books per year 
you’d get equivalent of a practical PhD in your field 
each year. If you continuing reading this this level, 50 
books per year, you will have read 500 books in next 
ten years. And if you read 500 books in your field in 
the world where the average person reads less then 
one book per year, do you think that this might give 
you an age? You bet!
The fact is, you would quickly become one of 
the most knowledgeable, most export,and highest 
paid person in your field. If you simply to develop 
the habit of reading each morningin your field for 
30-60 minutes. I have never met anyone, anywhere 
throughout the world who has not transformed their 
life in their career by the habit of daily reading.
You must also discipline yourself to leave the 
television or radio off, to put the newspaper aside, 
perhaps to arise a little earlier in the morning, so you 
can invest in your mind. This investment in yourself, 
who give you one of a highest pay off in terms of 
results, awards and satisfaction that you will ever 
enjoy from anything that you do.