Kuwait 1-2 Uzbekistan

 

Kuwait 1-2 Uzbekistan

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:58

Doha: Uzbekistan took a step closer to the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011™ with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Kuwait at Al Gharafa Stadium on Wednesday.

Makism Shatskikh’s deflected free-kick gave Vadim Abramov’s side the lead just before the break but Kuwait hit back soon after the restart through a Bader Al Mutawa penalty.

However, a fine long-range strike from Server Djeparov in the 65th minute secured the win to move Uzbekistan onto six points in Group A and on the cusp of a place in the last eight.

The Kuwaitis provided Uzbekistan with an early indication that they would not be in for an easy game as they created the first chance after just five minutes.

A fine ball from midfield sent Yaqoub Al Taher free down the right and the defender reached the byline before cutting the ball back into the area for Walied Ali, but the midfielder drove his shot wide.

Uzbekistan’s first chance of the game came soon after when Sanjar Tursunov sent a high cross into the area for Odil Ahmedov – scorer of the stunning first goal at the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011 last Friday – but the Pakhtakor man headed over from close range.

However, the opening goal arrived four minutes before the break when Uzbekistan were awarded a free-kick just outside the area, and Shatskikh stepped up to drive an effort that struck team-mate Azizbek Haydarov and deflected into the back of the net with keeper Nawaf Al Khaldi stranded.

Kuwait regrouped at half time and emerged for the second period clearly determined to snatch a quick equaliser as substitute Hamad Nayef headed just over with his first touch since coming onto the pitch.

But Nayef was to make a more telling contribution in the 49th minute when he brought down just inside the penalty box by Anzur Ismailov and the referee had no hesitation in pointing to the spot. Al Mutawa then confidently stepped up to send the penalty to the left of keeper Ignatiy Nesterov.

Action swung from one end of the pitch to the other after that with both sides eager to get their noses in front, but it was Uzbekistan who reclaimed the lead in the 65th minute through an unstoppable effort from Djeparov.

The FC Seoul forward first played the ball out to Jasur Khasanov, who quickly returned a pass to Djeparov and the 2008 AFC Player of the Year swept a fine left-footed strike beyond a static Al Khaldi.

Kuwait pressed in the closing stages and came twice close through Ahmad Ajab and Yousef Naser but they were unable to find a late equaliser.

 

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Our deepest Fear        

Our Deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.it is our light ,not our darkness that most frightens us.we ask our selves who I am to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented ,fabulous?                                             

Actually, who are you not to be?you are child of God.you are playing small does not serve the world.                                                               

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us.                                                                   

Its not just in some of us.                                                                     

Its in every one. As we let our own light shine we unconsciously

Give other people permission to do the same.as we are liberated

From our own fear our presence automatically liberates others.

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Enrique Iglesias Biography

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975), better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish pop music singer-songwriter. Iglesias started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa. This helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Hispanic or Latino market in the United States, and the biggest seller of Spanish language albums for a number of years. Before the turn of the millennium, he made a crossover into the mainstream English language market, signing a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music Group for an unprecedented US$48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums. In 2010, he parted with Interscope and signed with another Universal Music Group label, Universal Republic.

Iglesias has had five Billboard Hot 100 top five singles including two #1s, and holds the record for producing 22 number 1 Spanish-language singles on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. Up until the release of his latest album, Euphoria, in 2010, he had sold over 55 million albums in both English and Spanish.^[1] He has also had eight #1 songs on Billboard's Dance charts, more than any other single male artist

Early life

Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain,^[2] the third and youngest child of singer Julio Iglesias and socialite and magazine journalist Isabel Preysler. His mother is a Filipino of partial Spanish/Basque descent,^[3] and his father is of Galician Spanish and Jewish ancestry.^[4][5] His parents divorced in 1988, and the following year Julio moved to Miami, Florida, in the U.S. to continue with his musical career.

In 1985, Enrique Iglesias' grandfather, Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga was kidnapped by the terrorist group ETA. For their safety, Enrique and his brother Julio Iglesias Jr. were sent to live with their father in Miami.^[6] He also lived in Belgrade, Serbia, for one year with his mother, who worked as a journalist.^[7] As his father's career kept him on the road, the young Iglesias was raised by the family nanny. He attended Gulliver Preparatory School^[8] and went on to study business at the University of Miami.^[9]

Iglesias did not want his father to know about his plans for a musical career and did not want his famous surname to help advance his career. He borrowed money from his family nanny and he recorded a demo cassette tape which consisted of a Spanish song and two English songs. Approaching his father's former publicist, Fernan Martinez, the two promoted the songs under the stage name 'Enrique Martinez' with the backstory of being an unknown singer from Guatemala. Iglesias was signed by a record label called Fonovisa. After dropping out of college, he went to Toronto to record his first album.^[10

Personal life

Iglesias started dating Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova in late 2001 (she appeared in his video, "Escape"), and rumors that the couple had secretly married circulated in 2003 and again in 2005. Kournikova herself has consistently refused to directly confirm or deny the status of her personal relationships. But in May 2007, Iglesias was (mistakenly, as he would clarify later) quoted in the New York Sun that he had no intention of marrying Kournikova and settling down because they had split up. The singer would later deny these rumors of "divorce" or simply separation. In June 2008, Iglesias told the Daily Star that he had married Kournikova the previous year and that they are currently separated.^[25] Enrique has stated in interviews after that it was simply a joke,^[26] and they are still very much together. In an interview with Graham Norton in 2010, Kournikova confirmed that she and Iglesias have been together for over eight years but have no plans to marry in the near future.

Discography

Main article: Enrique Iglesias discography

Spanish Studio albums

• Enrique Iglesias (1995)
• Vivir (1997)
• Cosas del Amor (1998)
• Quizás (2002)

English studio albums

• Enrique (1999)
• Escape (2001)
• 7 (2003)
• Insomniac (2007)

Bilingual studio albums

• Euphoria (2010)

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using the Board

Using the board

Submitted by TE Editor on 17 March, 2010 - 14:12

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Do you have a blackboard, a whiteboard or an IWB? Whatever type of board you have in your classroom it is important to be organised and to put yourself in your students' shoes for a moment. What do they see when they look at your board? In this article we will consider ways of getting the best use out of your board and perhaps give suggestions for exploiting your board in a different way.

• Board basics

• Organising your board

• What we can do with the board
  • Displaying
  • Playing games
  • Using visuals

• Final tips

Board basics

• Your students should have a clear, uninterrupted view of the board. Be careful that you don't block learners sitting at the sides of the room. When you write something on the board move away quickly so that students can see what you have written.

• Especially with classes of Young Learners you need to develop the ability to write on the board with eyes in the back of your head. Don't turn your back on the class for too long. Good teachers have the ability to write on the board while still keeping a sharp eye on their students!

• Write clearly on the board and make sure that you have written words/text big enough for everyone to see from the back of the class. With chalk and blackboard make sure that you wash the board often so that the writing stays clear. With a whiteboard make sure that the pen you are using is in a colour that everyone can read - black or blue are best.

• Practise writing in straight lines across the board, particularly if you have students who are not used to Roman script. In some languages letters may look slightly different or handwriting styles may be different. Point out the differences to your students and make sure they can read clearly what you have written.

• Check what you write as you write. Many students have visual memories so we must be careful about accuracy of spelling and grammar, especially if we intend students to copy it down in their notebooks to learn.

• Check with your students that they are ready for you to clean the board. If you are waiting for some students to finish copying or doing an exercise don't leave the others twiddling their thumbs. Ask them to make a personalised example or start the warm-up for the next exercise orally.

 

Organising your board
If your board is messy and untidy then what your students write in their notebooks will be messy too.

• It is a good idea to divide your board into sections. Have one part for use during the lesson which can be cleaned off and re-used. Use another part for important information which can stay there for the whole lesson. For example, you could write up a list of the basic aims/activities for the lesson so that your students know what is coming. Tick items off as they are achieved during the class. At the end you can review the lesson aims for students to evaluate what they have learnt.

• For older learners you could write up other important information - key grammar points or vocabulary needed for the lesson, or test dates etc. With Very Young Learners it is better to write this kind of information at the top of the board. Leave the lower part empty for you and the students to write on. Remember they probably won't be able to reach the top half of the board.

 

What we can do with the board
We can use the board in many ways in the classroom, not just for writing up new vocabulary. You can use your board for giving instructions, reinforcing oral instructions. For example, just writing up the page number and the exercise on the board in a large class saves a lot of repetition! When doing group work or project work use the board to organise your class - write up a list of who is doing what in each group.

• You can write up messages, exercises, short texts or items for correction from oral activities. Coloured chalks or pens are very useful for writing up dialogue parts.

• Use your board to provide records of new words, structures, how a word is used. Or brainstorm new vocabulary with the class in a spidergram. With more advanced classes you can provide a record of a class discussion, or give help with planning for writing e.g. for exam tasks.

 

Displaying
You can use the large surface of your board to display all sorts of items - posters, pictures and flashcards. Use large pictures for class oral work but have students come out to the board to point to or talk about various items. Magazine pictures can be used for a variety of oral activities. Flashcards can be used for many games apart from simple matching activities.

• Try to encourage students to come out to the board to choose, select, order or describe pictures. All of these will make your classroom more interactive and avoid too much teacher talking time.

• You can display other items such as authentic materials - e.g. maps, adverts, photos, as well as learners' own work. Remember that you don't have to stick to the board.

• You could display items around the room, particularly if they are not large enough for the whole class to see at the front. Ask your students to move around and look at the materials.

 

Playing games
We can play many different games using just the board. Teachers need a repertoire of board games as warmers, fillers or lesson-ending activities which require no preparation.

• Apart from the traditional games of hangman, and noughts and crosses (answering questions for O or X) you can play many others.

• ‘Pictogram' can be played with all levels (Draw a picture and guess the word). With younger learners spelling races are very popular.

• Word games are an excellent way of settling classes and revising vocabulary. Use anagrams or jumbled sentences or for Very Young Learners words with missing vowels.

 

Using visuals
You don't have to be a genius at drawing to use pictures and drawings with your students. In fact, the worse the drawings are .. the more fun! Try to master basic stick men and faces with expressions, especially if your students are young learners.

• Drawing pictures is an essential skill for explaining texts and stories to our students. Practise story-telling with basic pictures on the board. Remember you can ask your students out to the board to draw too - this is a fun activity at whatever level. You can create picture stories with your students and use these for further oral or written work.

• Other visuals which are useful to draw are large-scale pictures such as maps, a plan of a town, a plan of a house/school/new building etc. These could be used with stick on cut outs to provide a wealth of language practice.

 

Final tips
Try to make your board as interactive as possible.

• Ask students to come out to draw, write, present or even work. You could allow one group to work at the board when doing a group task.

• Use your board as support for your voice - to give instructions, examples and feedback.

• You can use board activities as an aid to discipline - settle a noisy class for example by giving a quick copying exercise or word game. Write a child's name up on the board if they are talking too much instead of just telling them off.

• Your board is an organisational tool too. Use it as a memory store for things to do or keep you on track with a lesson. Remember the more organised you are on your board, the more organised your students will be too.

 

Sue Clarke, Teacher and teacher trainer, British Council, Coimbra, Portugal

China 0-2 Qatar

China 0-2 Qatar

Thursday, 13 January 2011 01:30

Doha: Yusef Ahmed struck twice – including an early contender for goal of the tournament – as Qatar kept their AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011™ hopes alive with a crucial 2-0 victory over China on Wednesday.

Ahmed broke the deadlock in the Group A clash with an exquisite piece of skill after 27 minute at Khalifa Stadium before adding his and Qatar's second in first-half stoppage time to reignite the hosts' hopes of reaching the last eight.

It was China who had the first chance of the night after only six minutes when Deng Zhouxiang met Rong Hao's cross from the left but his header was comfortably gathered by goalkeeper Qasem Burhan.

Ahmed then tried his luck with a shot from outside the area four minutes later before Sebastian Soria fired wide of the left upright as Qatar looked to make an early breakthrough.

China stepped up the pressure in response and Gao Lin tested Burhan in the 17th minute while Zhao Peng headed wide eight minutes later.

Ahmed was off target shortly afterwards before opening the scoring in spectacular fashion when the striker cushioned a long ball over the top with his thigh before rifling a volley into the top corner all in one movement, leaving China keeper Zeng Cheng a helpless spectator.

Qatar threatened to double their advantage in the 31st minute when Soria drove into space but shot wide before Yu Hai's effort from inside the box was saved by Burhan at the other end three minutes later.

The hosts did conjure the all-important second goal in first-half stoppage time and it was again Ahmed who was on target when, after collecting the ball with his back to goal, he turned and fired a shot from the edge of the area between Du Wei's legs and beyond Zeng's outstretched hand to establish a useful cushion at the interval.

The second-half began in more low-key fashion and China had to wait until the 61st minute to threaten the Qatar goal only for Yang Xu's shot to fly wide of the right post.

Qatar could have added a third four minutes later but Soria could not hit the target before two-goal hero Ahmed was replaced by Jarallah Al Marri to a standing ovation from the home crowd.

Deng Zhouxiang forced Burhan to tip a free-kick over the bar in the 69th minute but although China pressed for a route back into the game in the dying stages, they were unable to breach the home defence and Qatar closed out a vital victory.

UAE 0-0 DPR Korea

Katanec content despite UAE profligacy

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:18

Doha: UAE boss Srecko Katanec was delighted with his side's display in the goalless draw with DPR Korea but was left to rue the lack of a clinical edge after seeing a string of chances to win the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011™ Cup Group D encounter at Qatar Sports Club Stadium go begging.

Hong Yong-jo hit the bar with a sixth-minute penalty but that was as close as the North Koreans got to threatening Majed Naser's goal as UAE largely dominated the remainder of the game and only a combination of poor finishing and good goalkeeping from Ri Myong-guk kept the score-line blank.

“I'm very satisfied with our performance and how we played because my team showed character and nice skill,” said Katanec (pictured).

“Unfortunately, we created a lot of chances but we didn't score. This is the problem. With other things I'm very, very satisfied and I hope my team will play like this for the next two games.

“We have had this problem in this area for a long time. I don't know what to expect here but our strikers in the league they don't play, they don't have too much practice, but I cannot change that.

“But I will be satisfied if we play like this again, this is most important. I see here that we have quality so we will score, God willing, in the next game.

“But I also have to say if they scored the penalty then maybe the game is completely different. But after the missed penalty my team took the game in their hands we were the boss on the field.”

Star striking duo Ismaeil Matar and 19-year-old Ahmed Khalil both wasted chances and the latter was replaced with 13 minutes to go by Saeed Al Khatiri, while Matar bowed out shortly before the final whistle.

However, Katanec defended his decision not to make attacking substitutions earlier in the piece.

“We played well and I didn't see the need to change the players on the field,” he added.

“Around 15 minutes from the end I decided to make a change and maybe we would get more luck but that's it, I don't want to change a team that plays well just for the sake of it.

“For the next game, we will see how we are after tomorrow (Wednesday). We have three strikers with us so I will try to find the best solution but I must say that Ahmed (Khalil), he played a very solid game, he did his job, he also fought in defence so there is nothing to criticise.

“For his age, he showed a great performance.”