{"id":20869,"date":"2014-06-05T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=20869"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:06:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:06:25","slug":"whats-going-on-in-english-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/06\/05\/whats-going-on-in-english-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on in English right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there hasn&#8217;t been much English going on this week &#8211; except the Grade 7 Dystopia magazine project &#8211; as the rest of the grades had exams. It wouldn&#8217;t be particularly interested to talk about tests and scores &#8211; other than the fact that such tests are very useful opportunities for providing useful feedback to students and give them a clear pathway for improvement &#8211; \u00a0so I&#8217;ll focus on something else. As part of Grade 11&#8217;s IB Diploma English course we examine the origins of words, known as etymology. Here is an interesting article linked to their study on the many &#8216;borrowed&#8217; words in the English language:<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-26014925\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/<wbr \/>magazine-26014925<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/06\/whats-going-on-in-english-right-now\/screen-shot-2014-06-04-at-20-39-51\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20870\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20870 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-04-at-20.39.51.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-04 at 20.39.51\" width=\"1992\" height=\"692\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-04-at-20.39.51.png 1992w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-04-at-20.39.51-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-04-at-20.39.51-1024x355.png 1024w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-04-at-20.39.51-600x208.png 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1992px) 100vw, 1992px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1992px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1992\/692;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there hasn&#8217;t been much English going on this week &#8211; except the Grade 7 Dystopia magazine project &#8211; as the rest of the grades had exams. It wouldn&#8217;t be particularly interested to talk about tests and scores &#8211; other than the fact that such tests are very useful opportunities for providing useful feedback to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":20870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}