關於 ask a favour ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

籌備許久，
等待許久，
總算快要完成了
現在，只欠東風。

最後的卡關點，
是因為我犯了抉擇困難，
所以第二本寫真書封面，
能不能就交給你們決定？

也請號召朋友一起投票，
如果你所選擇的照片獲選為封面，
即有機會獲得「特製版」寫真書，
書中可能會有我的神祕小驚喜喔！

After long prepared
After long awaited
Finally it’s almost done
BUT still lacking only one tiny crucial item

I have decidophobia
Can I ask your favour to decide which photo to use as the cover for my second photos book?

Please invite your friends to vote together
If your choice has been selected as the cover
You will stand a chance to get the “special edition” of the photos book
You will probably get a little surprise in the book too

This activity will start from today till 24-Jul (Saturday) 6 pm
The winners will be announced on 25-Jul (Sunday) 9 pm via live

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活動時間：即日起至2021/7/24(六) 18:00 止
得獎名單：將於2021/7/25(日) 21:00直播公布

活動辦法：
① 進入Google表單選擇你最喜愛的封面照片，表單連結請見置頂留言。
② 分享本貼文設定在個人塗鴉牆「公開」。
③ 並在內文中tag兩位朋友。
④ 完成以上步驟，即獲得抽獎資格。

表單連結：https://forms.gle/o8tNZmUX2L7niQAYA

注意事項：
① 本獎品寄送僅限台灣本島
② 將會有小幫手主動聯繫得獎者，確認相關寄送資訊，並於寫真出版後完成寄送。

#謝佳見寫真書
#MarVelouslifestyle
#MarVelousfashion
#Melvinsia

- Hôm nay chúng ta cùng luyện 1 bài đọc và xem những từ vựng hay trong bài đó nha.

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN'S PLAY

Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes, she's creating an enchanting world. Although she isn't aware of it, this fantasy is helping her take her first steps towards her capacity for creativity and so it will have important repercussions in her adult life.

wicked (adj): độc ác;
gallant (adj): dũng cảm
enchanting (adj): mê hoặc;
repercussion (n): kết quả

Minutes later, Alice has abandoned the kingdom in favour of playing schools with her younger brother. When she bosses him around as his 'teacher', she's practising how to regulate her emotions through pretence. Later on, when they tire of this and settle down with a board game, she's learning about the need to follow rules and take turns with a partner.

abandon (v): bỏ rơi
regulate (v): điều chỉnh

'Play in all its rich variety is one of the highest achievements of the human species,' says Dr David Whitebread from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. 'It underpins how we develop as intellectual, problem-solving adults and is
crucial to our success as a highly adaptable species.'

achievement (n): thành quả
intellectual (n): người trí thức

Recognising the importance of play is not new: over two millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Plato extolled its virtues as a means of developing skills for adult life, and ideas about play-based learning have been developing since the 19th century.
But we live in changing times, and Whitebread is mindful of a worldwide decline in play, pointing out that over half the people in the world now live in cities. 'The opportunities for free play, which I experienced almost every day of my childhood, are becoming increasingly scarce,' he says. Outdoor play is curtailed by perceptions of risk to do with traffic, as well as parents' increased wish to protect their children from being the victims of crime, and by the emphasis on 'earlier is better' which is leading to greater competition in academic learning and schools.
International bodies like the United Nations and the European Union have begun to develop policies concerned with children's right to play, and to consider implications for leisure facilities and educational programmes. But what they often lack is the evidence to base policies on.

mindful (adj): quan tâm
scarce (adj): ít
perception (n): quan điểm
implication (n): ngụ ý

'The type of play we are interested in is child-initiated, spontaneous and unpredictable - but, as soon as you ask a five-year-old "to play", then you as the researcher have intervened,' explains Dr Sara Baker. 'And we want to know what the long-term impact of play is. It's a real challenge.' Dr Jenny Gibson agrees, pointing out that although some of the steps in the puzzle of how and why play is important have been looked at, there is very little data on the impact it has on the child's later life.
Now, thanks to the university's new Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), Whitebread, Baker, Gibson and a team of researchers hope to provide evidence on the role played by play in how a child develops.
'A strong possibility is that play supports the early development of children's self-control,' explains Baker. 'This is our ability to develop awareness of our own thinking processes - it influences how effectively we go about undertaking challenging activities.'

spontaneous (adj): bất ngờ
unpredictable (adj): không thể đoán được
impact (n): ảnh hưởng possibility (n): khả năng
self-control (n): tự kiểm soát

In a study carried out by Baker with toddlers and young pre-schoolers, she found that children with greater self-control solved problems more quickly when exploring an unfamiliar set-up requiring scientific reasoning. 'This sort of evidence makes us think that giving children the chance to play will make them more successful problem-solvers in the long run.'
If playful experiences do facilitate this aspect of development, say the researchers, it could be extremely significant for educational practices, because the ability to self-regulate has been shown to be a key predictor of academic performance.
Gibson adds: 'Playful behaviour is also an important indicator of healthy social and emotional development. In my previous research, I investigated how observing children at play can�give us important clues about their well-being and can even be useful in the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.'

toddler (n): trẻ mới biết đi
pre-schooler (n): trẻ nhỏ tuổi
unfamiliar (adj): không quen thuộc facilitate (n): tạo điều kiện cho
diagnosis (n): chẩn đoán
autism (n): tự kỷ

Bài đọc trích từ Cambridge IELTS 14, ai chưa có bộ Cam này không?

⛔ LUYỆN READING NÀO ⛔

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN'S PLAY

Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes, she's creating an enchanting world. Although she isn't aware of it, this fantasy is helping her take her first steps towards her capacity for creativity and so it will have important repercussions in her adult life.
Minutes later, Alice has abandoned the kingdom in favour of playing schools with her younger brother. When she bosses him around as his 'teacher', she's practising how to regulate her emotions through pretence. Later on, when they tire of this and settle down with a board game, she's learning about the need to follow rules and take turns with a partner.

'Play in all its rich variety is one of the highest achievements of the human species,' says Dr David Whitebread from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. 'It underpins how we develop as intellectual, problem-solving adults and is crucial to our success as a highly adaptable species.'
Recognising the importance of play is not new: over two millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Plato extolled its virtues as a means of developing skills for adult life, and ideas about play-based learning have been developing since the 19th century.

But we live in changing times, and Whitebread is mindful of a worldwide decline in play, pointing out that over half the people in the world now live in cities. 'The opportunities for free play, which I experienced almost every day of my childhood, are becoming increasingly scarce,' he says. Outdoor play is curtailed by perceptions of risk to do with traffic, as well as parents' increased wish to protect their children from being the victims of crime, and by the emphasis on 'earlier is better' which is leading to greater competition in academic learning and schools.

International bodies like the United Nations and the European Union have begun to develop policies concerned with children's right to play, and to consider implications for leisure facilities and educational programmes. But what they often lack is the evidence to base policies on.

'The type of play we are interested in is child-initiated, spontaneous and unpredictable- but, as soon as you ask a five-year-old "to play", then you as the researcher have intervened,' explains Dr Sara Baker. 'And we want to know what the long-term impact of play is. It's a real challenge.'

Dr Jenny Gibson agrees, pointing out that although some of the steps in the puzzle of how and why play is important have been looked at, there is very little data on the impact it has on the child's later life.

Now, thanks to the university's new Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), Whitebread, Baker, Gibson and a team of researchers hope to provide evidence on the role played by play in how a child develops.

'A strong possibility is that play supports the early development of children's self-control,' explains Baker. 'This is our ability to develop awareness of our own thinking processes - it influences how effectively we go about undertaking challenging activities.'

In a study carried out by Baker with toddlers and young pre-schoolers, she found that children with greater self-control solved problems more quickly when exploring an unfamiliar set-up requiring scientific reasoning. 'This sort of evidence makes us think that giving children the chance to play will make them more successful problem-solvers in the long run.'

If playful experiences do facilitate this aspect of development, say the researchers, it could be extremely significant for educational practices, because the ability to self-regulate has been shown to be a key predictor of academic performance.

Gibson adds: 'Playful behaviour is also an important indicator of healthy social and emotional development. In my previous research, I investigated how observing children at play can�give us important clues about their well-being and can even be useful in the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.'

Whitebread's recent research has involved developing a play-based approach to supporting children's writing. 'Many primary school children find writing difficult, but we showed in a previous study that a playful stimulus was far more effective than an instructional one.' Children wrote longer and better-structured stories when they first played with dolls representing characters in the story. In the latest study, children first created their story with Lego*, with similar results. 'Many teachers commented that they had always previously had children saying they didn't know what to write about. With the Lego building, however, not a single child said this through the whole year of the project.'

Whitebread, who directs PEDAL, trained as a primary school teacher in the early 1970s, when, as he describes, 'the teaching of young children was largely a quiet backwater, untroubled by any serious intellectual debate or controversy.' Now, the landscape is very different, with hotly debated topics such as school starting age.

'Somehow the importance of play has been lost in recent decades. It's regarded as something trivial, or even as something negative that contrasts with "work". Let's not lose sight of its benefits, and the fundamental contributions it makes to human achievements in the arts, sciences and technology. Let's make sure children have a rich diet of play experiences.'

⛔ CÂU HỎI:

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

1. Children with good self-control are known to be likely to do well at school later on.
2. The way a child plays may provide information about possible medical problems.
3. Playing with dolls was found to benefit girls’ writing more than boys’ writing.
4. Children had problems thinking up ideas when they first created the story with Lego.
5. People nowadays regard children’s play as less significant than they did in the past.

(Trích Cam 14)

⛔ HIGHLIGHT TỪ VỰNG

Possibility (n): Khả năng
Self-control (n): Tự kiểm soát
Toddler (n): Trẻ mới biết đi
Pre-schooler (n): Trẻ nhỏ tuổi
Unfamiliar (adj): Không quen thuộc
Facilitate (v): Tạo điều kiện cho
Diagnosis (n): Chẩn đoán
Autism (n): Tự kỷ
Approach (n): Phương pháp
Stimulus (n): Sự kích thích
Serious (adj): Nghiêm túc
Debate (v): Tranh luận
Trivial (adj): Tầm thường
Fundamental (adj): Cơ bản
Contribution (n): Sự đóng góp

Các bạn làm đề nhé, cô chia sẻ đáp án dưới cmt nha!

Just to let you guys know Sarah and Jamie are doing well
Jamie just eats and sleeps, eats and sleeps❤️
Sarah just eats and sleeps, eats and sleeps???

We know during this year we've not left the house much
You might think that content creation is lacking in variety
But in fact we've thought of so much to film
Teaching English, teaching French, teaching all sorts of ridiculousness
We could in fact teach you how to clean your air-conditioner

Something we can't teach is how to cut your hair
We know staying home is very important so you really have to weigh up your options when you ask your wife to cut your hair...
Is she really doing you a favour?
Will you be able to leave the house after she's done?
Can you stand the look of your hair each morning when you wake up?
Having thought about all of the above, the decision should be quite clear
Definitely DON'T let her touch your hair???

It's just a bit of fun
Hope you enjoyed watching Sarah ruin Jason's haircut???
Have a lovely weekend❤️
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00:00 Start
00:45 Tools
01:38 Show Time
02:43 How To
05:06 No Good!
06:38 Botch Up
06:75 Stop Stop Stop
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For my English speaking friends :

"I've been part time teaching english playgroups and I needed to find a sub for my next class. So I asked a favour of my most qualified and experienced friend to help and the centre says no, sorry she can't sub. Why? You may ask... BECAUSE she's Asian! WHAT?! Dear HK Chinese parents, what is this racism? Just because a teacher looks Asian doesn't mean they can't teach english and just because I'm pale as a vampire doesn't mean I'm good at english. Would you prefer a teacher of Asian descent to teach you math, just because Asian's are told to be good at numbers?

God bless your kids for growing up under your supervision and guidance."


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Today’s Vlog:
I’m getting INDUCED!
What cramps feel like,
Butt in the fridge,
Bracelet design progress,
Dental floss confession!

Sorry about the lack of vlogs lately guys. Honestly, I’ve been so miserable dealing with the PEP rashes & hives that I don’t think you guys need to hear me whine and cry lol. Slowly but surely, I am getting better. I’m going to spend the next week catching up on as much rest and work as possible for the birth induction.

I have a HUGE favour to ask you guys. Please pray for us. A safe delivery is a successful delivery for us. It will mean more than you can ever imagine to us. I can’t believe we’re only a week away from meeting our Peanut (who isn’t a peanut anymore).


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