Episode 6/Teach Me How to Fish - Idioms
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Fortunately, most of you know the story that revolves around this great theme: give me one fish to feed me for a day, yet teach me how to fish to feed me for life.
This message is clear enough to understand. When you feel hungry, and someone gives you a fish, he helps you only for a very short period of time since you will get hungry again, and you will inevitably get back again to him to get another fish for another day. In other words, you will die reliant on him, and you will be such a weak, submissive, and gullible person because you will live your whole living at that person's mercy. On the flip side, the real help is when someone shows you how to catch the rod, how to throw the line, how to reel it in when it catches something, and how to keep trying until you fill up all of your buckets with many kinds of fish till death.
Absolutely, we can apply this great theme to learning and teaching process... Unfortunately, a lot of students learn at schools, colleges , and universities because of a score they wanna get or a target they wanna hit to forget most of the information they study after awhile. You know what the irony is??? When you learn just because you like the idea of learning you will automatically get the score you wanna get and you will be able to remember most of the information you study for a long period since you get these pieces of information with love and passion that whose power last since your ultimate intention is to enrich your knowledge, and you know that your entire life lies in learning and augmenting your knowledge regularly.
The bitter truth is that many teachers force their students to be like robots when they teach them how to memorize and stuff their minds with much information without showing them the right way of using such information or applying them effectively to their daily lives.
What good is stuffing my mind with a lot of information and then I forget them all? I need someone who can show me the way. The one who helps me know how to analyze, understand, explain, relate, create, and above all how to think critically to depend on myself and let my creative side shine through when I get out of school or university.
Teaching me randomly equals giving me only one fish ; teaching me meaningfully inspires me and sparks a flash into my brain that will illuminate my path permanently, and that equals teaching me how to fish to feed me for life. As a result, I am doing my best to give you the useful tips that help you build your backbone of your learning process. These tips will inevitably help you understand the best and the most effective ways to improving your skills particularly the speaking skill. Then and only then, you will be self-reliant, and you don't need your teachers or professors anymore as they will have accomplished their mission successfully and given you the nutrition that will feed your brain in all spheres of your life.
In this episode_ episode 6_ we show you one of the most common ways that work very efficiently when it comes to speaking skill. To look like natives, to speak fluently, to express your thoughts eloquently, and voice out your words naturally, you should MEMORIZE AS MANY IDIOMS AS POSSIBLE. First of all, you should know that the idiom is a couple of words that have a special meaning as a group rather than as individual words. There are many idioms in English such as "when pigs fly" , "take the bull by its horns" , "hit the nail on the head" , "sleep on it" , "smell a rat", " get the cat out the bag", " make a mountain out of molehill", etc...And each one of these idioms has a special meaning. Surely, we cannot put together all of these idioms in one episode, so we have showed you three hit_idioms with their special meanings in order to inspire you to presume yourself to find other idioms and discover their meanings using the 5 mile strategy that we have studied together previously.
Hit the hay/sack, hit the books, and hit the road are common idioms used by native speakers. "Hit the hay" is used when you go to bed, "hit the books" is used when you want to study hard for quizzes or exams, and "hit the road" is used when you want to leave or go on a journey. Remember to use these idioms regularly to stick them in your mind and go then to other idioms to put them into practice until you feel that you have a gigantic reservoir of idioms. Consequently, using these idioms regularly helps you be spontaneous and speak effortlessly , naturally, and automatically.
In closing, you have no excuses to make now since you have the map that will guide you to reach your destination of fluency.
Until I see again, I wish you all kinds of happiness, inner peace, and phenomenal success.
Have a nice weekend! 💐💐💐💐
Mr. Osama Muqbil