Akmal Akbarov - Online English Club

Employees & Management

In medium and large companies, understanding the organizational structure is essential. In today's Business English vocabulary lesson, we explore key terms related to corporate hierarchy and management.

Read the text above, learn the words and complete the quiz.

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#BusinessEnglish

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Good morning, everyone! It's high time to use more positive language when speaking with friends and colleagues, no?☺️😉

#fancyenglish

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🇺🇿 Agar siz orzu qila olsangiz, uni amalga oshira olasiz.

🇷🇺 Если вы можете мечтать об этом, вы можете это сделать.

#SmartQuotes

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In Pursuit of Change: The Struggle to Transform Traditional Education

This happened at the beginning of a new academic year, 2024-2025. My daughter came home from school and started talking about how one of her subject teachers arranged the classroom layout in a П style where the students could sit facing each other. You know, most of us like such a layout as it creates a nice space for the teacher to walk in, reach out to every student (easily), and put them in pairs when initiating discussions.

This simple tweak in how the same chairs and tables are traditionally arranged can dramatically transform the classroom. It shifts a highly teacher-centered setup, where the teacher is ‘a sage on the stage,’ into a student-centered environment that fosters collaboration between students and their teacher.

Hearing this, I was happy. It was, perhaps, only one teacher in the entire school who did that. I thought, well, one step at a time, Akmal, one step at a time. I hoped if she continued this way, perhaps slowly her other colleagues would follow her practice, and gradually the entire school of teachers would adopt working with their students using student-centered teaching methods.

Just the next day when my daughter came home ...
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Interviewer: How much amount of milk does your cow produce?

Farmer: Which one, black one or white one?

Interviewer: Black one.

Farmer: 2 litres per day.

Interviewer: And the white one?

Farmer: 2 litres per day.

Interviewer: Where do they sleep?

Farmer: The Black one or the white one?

Interviewer: The black one.

Farmer: In the "cowshed"

Interviewer: And the White one?

Farmer: In the "cowshed" also.

Interviewer: Your cows look healthy... What do you feed them with?

Farmer: Which one..black one or white one?

Interviewer: Black one.

Farmer: With grass

Interviewer: And the white one?

Farmer: With grass too.

Interviewer: (Annoyed😡) but why do you keep on asking if black one or white one when answers are just the same???

Farmer: Because the black one is mine.

Interviewer: And the white one?

Farmer: It's also mine. 😂👍

#FunnyEnglish

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Titans who Changed the World: The Man who Unveiled the Secrets of the Cosmos

CNN has published an interesting article. Here is short introduction:👇

Al-Farghani, a prominent 9th-century Uzbek scientist, made pivotal contributions to Islam’s Golden Age of knowledge. Excelling in astronomy, mathematics, and geography, he secured his place in both the history of science and Islamic civilization.

Read the full article here.

TikTok is staying in the US, and its administration is personally thanking President Trump. Take a look at the statement, and later I will share the translation of some of the interesting words and phrases found there.

#EnglishinNews

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Why Staying Foolish Is the Smartest Thing You Can Do

How to understand Steve Jobs’s words: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish”? By this I believe he meant to say that a person should always be hungry for new knowledge. They should always be hungry to learn and discover new things around themselves. This is how personal, academic, and professional development takes place.

But what about staying foolish? Now this might be a bit hard and tricky to understand, but after years of teaching and learning, one thing I understood.

If you want to learn anything new, humility is perhaps the number-one character trait you must have or develop.

What is humility? Let me check the Cambridge dictionary for the proper definition:

The feeling or attitude that you have no special importance that makes you better than others; lack of pride.

So, this is the definition I got. Why I am trying to define the word ‘humility,’ you might wonder. I believe a sense of humility and modesty comes from feeling oneself ‘foolish’ at times, especially when learning new things.

Like Steve Jobs said, when you stay foolish, I believe you start acting with humility and have the “The feeling or attitude that you have no special importance that makes you better than others.”.

Once you have this kind of feeling, you will start learning much better. This is true especially if you are an adult learner who has achieved a lot in his/her life, meaning academic, personal, and professional achievements.

For example, let’s say you are aged between 40 and 60. Chances are that you are happily married, have successful kids, are employed at a reputable company or organization, and are financially stable as well.

All of these usually make the person feel proud and, at times, too proud and even arrogant. As a result, learning new things become extremely hard for them.

That’s why staying and feeling oneself foolish (of course, foolish in positive context) while learning new things is very important.

Simple and modest people are usually highly teachable and they tend to accept constrictive criticism from their teachers (usually younger teachers) much easier. This, in return, boosts their chances of learning effectively.

That’s why, “stay hungry, stay foolish,” and learn effectively well.

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