Patricia Minelli wrote:
Hi Levi,
I loved the dictionary you mentioned in your e-mail.
Bests,
Patricia Minelli
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Sometimes I wonder...
Where do they get the seeds to plant seedless watermelons?
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?
Why do they have ear piercing while you wait? Is there some shop where you can drop them off and pick them up later?
Why do we always want to grow up when we're young and be younger when we're old?
Why do some displays of "I love you only" Valentine cards sell them in multi-packs?
Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
What sees a blind man when he's dreaming?
Adam and Eve were the first people on earth.... Did they have belly buttons?
A nice box of chocolates provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?
Are unripened oranges called greens?
A wise old owl sat on an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
(Edward H. Richards)
Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?
Can it be a mistake that "desserts" gives "stressed" spelled backwards?
Could your eyes be called an academy, because there are pupils there?
Crime doesn't pay. . .does that mean that my job is a crime?
Did Noah include termites on the ark?
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected?
Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell?
Do fish get thirsty?
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
Do penguins have knees?
Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the Special Olympics?
Do you love me because I am beautiful or I am I beautiful because you love me?
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
How do you dial a pushbutton phone?
How do you get off a non-stop flight?
How can one TV station have the "exclusive" accurate weather? Did they "storm" in and scoop the others?
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How could I have been doing 70 miles an hour when I've only been driving for 10 minutes?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
How is it that a building burns up as it burns down?
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
If a brown cow eats green grass why is it's milk white?
If a giraffe had a sore throat, how many lozenges would it need to make it better?
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
If a man with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, would it be considered a hostage situation?
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? (S. J. Lec)
If a person told you they were a pathological liar, should you believe them?
If a turtle does not have a shell on, is he homeless or naked?
If a vegetarian is someone who eats vegetables, what does that make a humanitarian?
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If beef comes from a cow and ham from a pig, why do they put beef in hamburgers?
If corn oil comes from corn....where does baby oil come from? (Richard Lederer)
If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
If helium existed in a solid form, and you ate it would you get heavier or lighter?
If it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
If love is blind, is lingerie considered Braille?
If nothing sticks to Teflon how do they stick Teflon to the pan?
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress? (Richard Lederer)
If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
If stores claim to be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, why do they have locks on the doors?
If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
If the cops arrest a mime do they tell him that he has the right to remain silent?
If there's so much laborsaving machinery, why don't I have more free time?
If the universe is expanding, why can't I find a parking space?
If the world is spinning so quickly why don't we all get dizzy?
Where do they get the seeds to plant seedless watermelons?
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why do we bake cookies and cook bacon?
Why do they have ear piercing while you wait? Is there some shop where you can drop them off and pick them up later?
Why do we always want to grow up when we're young and be younger when we're old?
Why do some displays of "I love you only" Valentine cards sell them in multi-packs?
Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
What sees a blind man when he's dreaming?
Adam and Eve were the first people on earth.... Did they have belly buttons?
A nice box of chocolates provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?
Are unripened oranges called greens?
A wise old owl sat on an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
(Edward H. Richards)
Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?
Can it be a mistake that "desserts" gives "stressed" spelled backwards?
Could your eyes be called an academy, because there are pupils there?
Crime doesn't pay. . .does that mean that my job is a crime?
Did Noah include termites on the ark?
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected?
Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell?
Do fish get thirsty?
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
Do penguins have knees?
Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the Special Olympics?
Do you love me because I am beautiful or I am I beautiful because you love me?
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
How do you dial a pushbutton phone?
How do you get off a non-stop flight?
How can one TV station have the "exclusive" accurate weather? Did they "storm" in and scoop the others?
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How could I have been doing 70 miles an hour when I've only been driving for 10 minutes?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
How is it that a building burns up as it burns down?
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
If a brown cow eats green grass why is it's milk white?
If a giraffe had a sore throat, how many lozenges would it need to make it better?
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
If a man with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, would it be considered a hostage situation?
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? (S. J. Lec)
If a person told you they were a pathological liar, should you believe them?
If a turtle does not have a shell on, is he homeless or naked?
If a vegetarian is someone who eats vegetables, what does that make a humanitarian?
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If beef comes from a cow and ham from a pig, why do they put beef in hamburgers?
If corn oil comes from corn....where does baby oil come from? (Richard Lederer)
If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
If helium existed in a solid form, and you ate it would you get heavier or lighter?
If it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
If love is blind, is lingerie considered Braille?
If nothing sticks to Teflon how do they stick Teflon to the pan?
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress? (Richard Lederer)
If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
If stores claim to be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, why do they have locks on the doors?
If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
If the cops arrest a mime do they tell him that he has the right to remain silent?
If there's so much laborsaving machinery, why don't I have more free time?
If the universe is expanding, why can't I find a parking space?
If the world is spinning so quickly why don't we all get dizzy?
Monday, August 28, 2006
Dicionário de Expressões Idiomáticas Inglês-Português
Tea with me that I book your face.
Chá comigo que eu livro sua cara.
Wrote, didn't read, the stick ate.
Escreveu, não leu, o pau comeu.
She is full of nine o'clock.
Ela é cheia de nove horas.
I need to take water out of my knee.
Preciso tirar água do joelho.
Hot saw hot see.
Quente viu quente vê.
I am more I.
Eu sou mais eu.
Do not come that it does not have...
Não vem que não tem...
To release the hen.
Soltar a franga.
Between, my well!
Entre, meu bem!
I am completely bald of knowing it.
Tô careca de saber.
To kill the snake and show the stick.
Matar a cobra e mostrar o pau.
Can you please break my branch?
Você pode quebrar meu galho?
The wood is eating.
O pau tá comendo.
Uh! I burned my movie!
Oh! Queimei meu filme!
I'm with you and I don't open.
Estou contigo e não abro.
I will wash the mare!
Vou lavar a égua!
You travelled on the mayonaise...
Você viajou na maionese...
I have to peel this pineapple.
Tenho que descascar esse abacaxi.
Who advises friend is.
Quem avisa amigo é.
Do you think this is the house of mother Joanne?
Tá pensando que isso é a casa da mãe Joana?
Go catch little coconuts!
Vai catar coquinho!
You are by out.
Você está por fora.
You are very face of wood!
Você é muito cara de pau!
If you run the beast catches, if you stay the beast eats.
Se correr o bicho pega, se ficar o bicho come.
Oops, it gave zebra!
Opa, deu zebra!
They are trying to cover the sun with the sieve.
Eles estão tentando cobrir o sol com a peneira.
Don't fill my bag!
Não encha meu saco.
It already was...
Já era...
Before afternoon than never.
Antes tarde do que nunca.
Go to dry up ice!
Vai enxugar gelo!
Go comb monkeys!
Vai pentear macaco!
Do you want a good-good?
Você quer um bombom?
The cow went to the swamp...
A vaca foi pro brejo...
Tea with me that I book your face.
Chá comigo que eu livro sua cara.
Wrote, didn't read, the stick ate.
Escreveu, não leu, o pau comeu.
She is full of nine o'clock.
Ela é cheia de nove horas.
I need to take water out of my knee.
Preciso tirar água do joelho.
Hot saw hot see.
Quente viu quente vê.
I am more I.
Eu sou mais eu.
Do not come that it does not have...
Não vem que não tem...
To release the hen.
Soltar a franga.
Between, my well!
Entre, meu bem!
I am completely bald of knowing it.
Tô careca de saber.
To kill the snake and show the stick.
Matar a cobra e mostrar o pau.
Can you please break my branch?
Você pode quebrar meu galho?
The wood is eating.
O pau tá comendo.
Uh! I burned my movie!
Oh! Queimei meu filme!
I'm with you and I don't open.
Estou contigo e não abro.
I will wash the mare!
Vou lavar a égua!
You travelled on the mayonaise...
Você viajou na maionese...
I have to peel this pineapple.
Tenho que descascar esse abacaxi.
Who advises friend is.
Quem avisa amigo é.
Do you think this is the house of mother Joanne?
Tá pensando que isso é a casa da mãe Joana?
Go catch little coconuts!
Vai catar coquinho!
You are by out.
Você está por fora.
You are very face of wood!
Você é muito cara de pau!
If you run the beast catches, if you stay the beast eats.
Se correr o bicho pega, se ficar o bicho come.
Oops, it gave zebra!
Opa, deu zebra!
They are trying to cover the sun with the sieve.
Eles estão tentando cobrir o sol com a peneira.
Don't fill my bag!
Não encha meu saco.
It already was...
Já era...
Before afternoon than never.
Antes tarde do que nunca.
Go to dry up ice!
Vai enxugar gelo!
Go comb monkeys!
Vai pentear macaco!
Do you want a good-good?
Você quer um bombom?
The cow went to the swamp...
A vaca foi pro brejo...
Friday, August 25, 2006
The Cells
I truly hope that I will never need to own a cell phone. I hate them. With a passion. I don't like hearing their ringing, I don't like hearing people talk on them as they walk down the street and I hate seeing someone answer a cell phone through an earpiece, it looks like they are having a conversation with themself. Many people can own a cell phone and not get carried away with it. I applaud those people. But for those who can't, I feel a twinge of pity for.
The cell phone explosion in the United States began shortly before I left for Japan. College students started to get them and I remember thinking how ridiculous it was. Why would he/she need to be in such constant communication with everyone? I would hear them on the phone at work having some inane conversation with a friend and I remember thinking there was just something wrong with that. I didn't discover what it was until I had been in Japan for a year.
The Japanese have something of a "hive" mentality. The Japanese people, culturally, cannot exist as individuals. They need constant contact with and reassurance from other people. At high school graduations, sometimes graduates are asked to tell their assembled graduates, underclassmen and parents what they would most like out of life in five, ten, or fifteen years. Far and away, the most popular response is "I would like to have a lot of friends". The student is then madly applauded.
They spend almost no time at all by themselves. They are only by themselves when they are in transit to somewhere. And whenever I was on the train, subway, or bus, if I saw a person who was not with someone or asleep, they were talking on or typing something into their cell phone. A connection to the social and business world. A lifeline to community. Objectively, a good thing. But, in the end, the cell phone is, for most people, an object to assist in an escape from individuality. People don't have to mull their own thoughts over if they are in constant contact with another. When I came back to America two years ago, I saw disturbing parallels.
I must admit that the cell phone is a fairly useful item. I have often wished for one while waiting for a friend at a restaurant and am wondering if I'm in the right place. Or if my sister's car broke down on the road, I would want her to have one. But these useful, iimportant conversations are not what I hear when I hear people on their cell phones.
Despite the usefulness of the cell phone, I feel secure in making the generalization that most people who buy cell phones sacrifice a part of their individuality. I hear many people say that if they are bored they just punch a number on their cell and they're suddenly engrossed in a conversation with a friend. When a person is not content with themselves or cannot be left to their own devices for any significant length of time, that person loses a bit of himself to the need for socialization. A cell phone owner is not alone, not independent, like they used to be... the possession of a cell phone changes that.
I do not believe that the United States will ever adopt a "hive mind" mentality. At least, not as the Japanese have. Human beings are social creatures. This, I accept. But one thing that makes humans unique is that we have an innate desire to be our own person, to be an individual. To be a healthy individual, a person needs a certain amount of time by themselves. I don't see that happening anymore. What I do see happening 15 years from now, though, is American high school graduates wanting, more than anything, to have a lot of friends in the future.
Source: http://www.farstrider.net/DeepThoughts/Cells.htm
I truly hope that I will never need to own a cell phone. I hate them. With a passion. I don't like hearing their ringing, I don't like hearing people talk on them as they walk down the street and I hate seeing someone answer a cell phone through an earpiece, it looks like they are having a conversation with themself. Many people can own a cell phone and not get carried away with it. I applaud those people. But for those who can't, I feel a twinge of pity for.
The cell phone explosion in the United States began shortly before I left for Japan. College students started to get them and I remember thinking how ridiculous it was. Why would he/she need to be in such constant communication with everyone? I would hear them on the phone at work having some inane conversation with a friend and I remember thinking there was just something wrong with that. I didn't discover what it was until I had been in Japan for a year.
The Japanese have something of a "hive" mentality. The Japanese people, culturally, cannot exist as individuals. They need constant contact with and reassurance from other people. At high school graduations, sometimes graduates are asked to tell their assembled graduates, underclassmen and parents what they would most like out of life in five, ten, or fifteen years. Far and away, the most popular response is "I would like to have a lot of friends". The student is then madly applauded.
They spend almost no time at all by themselves. They are only by themselves when they are in transit to somewhere. And whenever I was on the train, subway, or bus, if I saw a person who was not with someone or asleep, they were talking on or typing something into their cell phone. A connection to the social and business world. A lifeline to community. Objectively, a good thing. But, in the end, the cell phone is, for most people, an object to assist in an escape from individuality. People don't have to mull their own thoughts over if they are in constant contact with another. When I came back to America two years ago, I saw disturbing parallels.
I must admit that the cell phone is a fairly useful item. I have often wished for one while waiting for a friend at a restaurant and am wondering if I'm in the right place. Or if my sister's car broke down on the road, I would want her to have one. But these useful, iimportant conversations are not what I hear when I hear people on their cell phones.
Despite the usefulness of the cell phone, I feel secure in making the generalization that most people who buy cell phones sacrifice a part of their individuality. I hear many people say that if they are bored they just punch a number on their cell and they're suddenly engrossed in a conversation with a friend. When a person is not content with themselves or cannot be left to their own devices for any significant length of time, that person loses a bit of himself to the need for socialization. A cell phone owner is not alone, not independent, like they used to be... the possession of a cell phone changes that.
I do not believe that the United States will ever adopt a "hive mind" mentality. At least, not as the Japanese have. Human beings are social creatures. This, I accept. But one thing that makes humans unique is that we have an innate desire to be our own person, to be an individual. To be a healthy individual, a person needs a certain amount of time by themselves. I don't see that happening anymore. What I do see happening 15 years from now, though, is American high school graduates wanting, more than anything, to have a lot of friends in the future.
Source: http://www.farstrider.net/DeepThoughts/Cells.htm
Carlos wrote:
Hello people!
I have seen many Blogs that were created and I fund interesting links about English language, literature, songs, movies,and so on, and many other personal thoughts and ideas that riched the Blogs.
Some of those Blogs like Levi's [...] I really enjoyed them. [...]
Good luck for everybody,
Carlos.
Hello people!
I have seen many Blogs that were created and I fund interesting links about English language, literature, songs, movies,and so on, and many other personal thoughts and ideas that riched the Blogs.
Some of those Blogs like Levi's [...] I really enjoyed them. [...]
Good luck for everybody,
Carlos.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Mariana Costa wrote:
Ahahaha!!!
Hy Levi! You ok?
Look, I really have to congratulate you for your blog!!! I love it!!!
You are so funny with the deep thoughts and your profile!!!
I haven't surfed the links you provided, but I will soon... I bet they're really nice!
Seriously, you are very funny! I just missed a picture of yours... If you wanna take a look at my blog:
http://moonlightepiphany13.blogspot.com
Make yourself @ home!!!
Cheers, and congratulations again!
Mariana Costa
Ahahaha!!!
Hy Levi! You ok?
Look, I really have to congratulate you for your blog!!! I love it!!!
You are so funny with the deep thoughts and your profile!!!
I haven't surfed the links you provided, but I will soon... I bet they're really nice!
Seriously, you are very funny! I just missed a picture of yours... If you wanna take a look at my blog:
http://moonlightepiphany13.blogspot.com
Make yourself @ home!!!
Cheers, and congratulations again!
Mariana Costa
More Deep Thoughts
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Speed gets you nowhere if you are on the wrong way.
Chicken is the only animal we eat before it is borne and after it is dead.
Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess.
Be nice to your children. They are the ones who choose your old folk's home.
If you look like your photo in your passport - you surely need a vacation!
Make love not war. Unless you want to do both. If so - get married!
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be in the cell next to you saying,"Damn, that was fun!"
Why does sour cream have an expiry date?
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out.
Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
I believe you should live each day as if it were your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry. Because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of his life?
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Speed gets you nowhere if you are on the wrong way.
Chicken is the only animal we eat before it is borne and after it is dead.
Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess.
Be nice to your children. They are the ones who choose your old folk's home.
If you look like your photo in your passport - you surely need a vacation!
Make love not war. Unless you want to do both. If so - get married!
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be in the cell next to you saying,"Damn, that was fun!"
Why does sour cream have an expiry date?
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out.
Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
I believe you should live each day as if it were your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry. Because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of his life?
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Put some fun in your life!
Deep Thoughts
If nobody is perfect, and I'm a nobody, am I perfect?
Why are they called apartments if they are joined together?
An archaeologist is a best husband a woman can get.
As older she grows, the more interested he isin her.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
If moths are attracted to bright lights, how come they sleep during the day?
I love being married. It’s so great to find that special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Anyone who thinks he is too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito.
I wear my wife’s glasses because she wants me to see things her way.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs louder.
Deep Thoughts
If nobody is perfect, and I'm a nobody, am I perfect?
Why are they called apartments if they are joined together?
An archaeologist is a best husband a woman can get.
As older she grows, the more interested he isin her.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
If moths are attracted to bright lights, how come they sleep during the day?
I love being married. It’s so great to find that special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Anyone who thinks he is too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito.
I wear my wife’s glasses because she wants me to see things her way.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs louder.
Hi everyone!
Here you are! Some virtual addresses on English language resources for teachers as well as students. I hope they can be useful to you!!!
Levi F. Araújo
‘Resources for Writers’ at Indiana State University
http://isu.indstate.edu/writing/writers.html
Comment: Teachers who conduct classes in a room without computers may find this site very useful, for they can print out the exercises and use them in class as a test or review materials.
Olof Ekedahl’s ‘English Language Quizzes’
http://www.englund.lu.se/quiz/qizzes.html
Comment: Ekedahl offers seven quizzes “on grammatical and lexical patterns in English,” each containing 30 questions. The quizzes are all interactive. An interesting feature of the quizzes is that they can recognize several alternatives as the correct answer.
Jane Straus’ ‘The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation’
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr2_gram.html
Comment: The Blue Book is quite cryptic and is deal for those who want grammar information in a nutshell. All the exercises and tests are noninteractive. Since the author of the book currently markets a printed version of the Blue Book, she does not allow “reprinting without express permission”.
The New York Times ‘Learning Network’
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
Comment: As a site hosted by a preeminent newspaper, the Learning Network is not only rich in resources but also professional in quality and free from nuisances like pop-up ads and blinking banners. There are so many archives of news stories, lesson plans, and “special packages” that learners and teachers will find the site a reliable source of reading materials.
BBC World Service ‘Words in the News’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/words/index.htm
Comment: This is a news-related section of the larger “Learning Englisgh” site hosted by BBC World Service. The opening page shows two or three “extracts” (short news reports or interviews), each preceded by a spear icon. If you click on the icon, you can listen to the extract as you read it on the page. Difficult words in each extract appear in bold type, and immediately below the extract, these words are defined in simple English. Since each extract is only about 100-words long and about 10 percent of these words have annotations, learners may find it relatively easy to read.
Angela Ackley’s ‘Using Newspapers in the Classroom’
http://www.knownet.net/users/ackley/news.html
Comment: Ackley’s ‘Using Newspapers in the Classroom’ is a 780-word collection of practical ideas designed for “fifth and sixth grade educators” in the United States. After giving six reasons to convince teachers why they should use newspapers in their classroom, Ackley presents her innovative and interesting suggestions. As an experienced elementary school teacher, Ackley comes up with extremely simple effective means of educating learners.
Here you are! Some virtual addresses on English language resources for teachers as well as students. I hope they can be useful to you!!!
Levi F. Araújo
‘Resources for Writers’ at Indiana State University
http://isu.indstate.edu/writing/writers.html
Comment: Teachers who conduct classes in a room without computers may find this site very useful, for they can print out the exercises and use them in class as a test or review materials.
Olof Ekedahl’s ‘English Language Quizzes’
http://www.englund.lu.se/quiz/qizzes.html
Comment: Ekedahl offers seven quizzes “on grammatical and lexical patterns in English,” each containing 30 questions. The quizzes are all interactive. An interesting feature of the quizzes is that they can recognize several alternatives as the correct answer.
Jane Straus’ ‘The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation’
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr2_gram.html
Comment: The Blue Book is quite cryptic and is deal for those who want grammar information in a nutshell. All the exercises and tests are noninteractive. Since the author of the book currently markets a printed version of the Blue Book, she does not allow “reprinting without express permission”.
The New York Times ‘Learning Network’
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
Comment: As a site hosted by a preeminent newspaper, the Learning Network is not only rich in resources but also professional in quality and free from nuisances like pop-up ads and blinking banners. There are so many archives of news stories, lesson plans, and “special packages” that learners and teachers will find the site a reliable source of reading materials.
BBC World Service ‘Words in the News’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/words/index.htm
Comment: This is a news-related section of the larger “Learning Englisgh” site hosted by BBC World Service. The opening page shows two or three “extracts” (short news reports or interviews), each preceded by a spear icon. If you click on the icon, you can listen to the extract as you read it on the page. Difficult words in each extract appear in bold type, and immediately below the extract, these words are defined in simple English. Since each extract is only about 100-words long and about 10 percent of these words have annotations, learners may find it relatively easy to read.
Angela Ackley’s ‘Using Newspapers in the Classroom’
http://www.knownet.net/users/ackley/news.html
Comment: Ackley’s ‘Using Newspapers in the Classroom’ is a 780-word collection of practical ideas designed for “fifth and sixth grade educators” in the United States. After giving six reasons to convince teachers why they should use newspapers in their classroom, Ackley presents her innovative and interesting suggestions. As an experienced elementary school teacher, Ackley comes up with extremely simple effective means of educating learners.
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