AND THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED SATES IS...
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And the best flip book is...
Writing a story, As Told By Disney Characters!
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LEARN MORE ABOUT DISNEY WORLD! WHICH DISNEY CHARACTER ARE YOU?
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HOW TO DRAW A DISNEY PRINCESS? Prepare your pencils and follow the instructions!
Here's a very interesting video about Victorian London!
NEW POOR LAW poster, 1834
After words with Rubin Carter...
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The Cotton Club (movie), 1984
“Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly."
By Langston Hughes,
The Collected Poems
Forest Whitaker a Witness to History in ‘The Butler’ (ABC News).
Hey! Have a look at this!
"'What is the use of a book', thought Alice,'without pictures or conversations?'"
Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865. Chapter 1.
10 tips for reading in a foreign language
1. Make yourself comfortable. You can read in your bedroom or in another room, a room in which you feel good.
2. But don’t distract yourself. For example, turn off your television or computer. Think about what you’re reading.
3. Be patient and take your time.
4. Sure you won’t understand everything. Concentrate on what you understand. Keep reading, even if you don’t understand what you are reading! You can always come back to it and piece it all together once you do understand.
5. Don’t translate. To be good at English, you have to be able to think in it. Of course, if you don’t understand a key word, you can use your dictionary.
6. Take notes. Write down your impressions and your analysis. You can also write down questions if you don’t understand an extract.
7. Share your impressions and ideas with your classmates and your teacher.
8. Read it again. You will understand it better than you did the first time.
9. If you don’t challenge yourself at all, you won’t get anywhere.
10. Enjoy! Even if it is a hard task for you, think about what you like about reading this book/text.
Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other, catching each other's
eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.
All about us is noise. All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.
Someone is stitching up a hem, darning
a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.
Someone is trying to make music somewhere,
with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum,
with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky.
A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin. [..]
Delivered at President Obama's inaugural.
"With hope. Good morning". Maya Angelou's Poem "On the Pulse of Morning", President Clinton's inauguration, 1993.
PRAISE SONG FOR THE DAY by Elizabeth Alexander
Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other, catching each other's
eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.
All about us is noise. All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.
Someone is stitching up a hem, darning
a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.
Someone is trying to make music somewhere,
with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum,
with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky.
A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin. [..]
Delivered at President Obama's inaugural.
"With hope. Good morning". Maya Angelou's Poem "On the Pulse of Morning", President Clinton's inauguration, 1993.
