Don't be obstinate...

TiengAnhVui.ComTranscript of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. This radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 04-01-1995.American: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision."Canadian: "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision."American: "This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course."Canadian: "No, I say again, you divert YOUR course."American: "THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE...

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Lost Interview:Kurt Cobain on Teenage Angst, Sexuality & Finding Salvation in Punk Music

Bài phỏng vấn  Kurt Cobain được ghi lại dạng Video vui bời “Blank and Blank” .Chủ đề xoay quanh suy nghĩ của Cobain về phụ nữ, bình đẳng giới và punk music. Về Kurt Cobain: Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician and artist, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of ... read more Kurt Cobain Courtney Love documentary movie...

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Will and Going To

  Future can be expressed in English in several ways but to express the Simple Future there are three main forms: present continuous, be going to and will. Although the present continuous and be going to or be going to and will can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express very different meanings. Will “Will“ to express a voluntary action. “Will” often suggests that a speaker will do something voluntarily. A voluntary action is one the speaker offers to do for someone else. Often, we use “will” to respond to someone else’s complaint or request for help. We also use “will” when we request that someone help us or volunteer to do something for us. Similarly, we use “will not” or “won’t” when we refuse to voluntarily do...

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một số từ hay bị nhầm lẫn trong dịch tiếng Anh

Trong tiếng anh cần phân biệt một số từ tương tự nhau nhưng được sử dụng khác nhau tùy theo ngữ cảnh. Một số ví dụ sau giúp các bạn phân biệt các từ dể gây nhầm lẫn trong tiếng Anh. 1. INDUSTRIAL/INDUSTRIOUSIndustrial nói về đồ vật, nơi chốn, quy trình,.. nghĩa là thuộc công nghiệp.Industrious nói về người, còn đôi khi về động vật nghĩa là cần cù, siêng năng.2. PEACEABLE/PEACEFULPeaceable là yêu hòa bình (chỉ thái độ, con người)Peaceful là thanh bình, yên bình (dùng để chỉ nơi chốn, bản nhạc, đất nước…)3. PACKET/PARCEL/PACKAGE/PACKPacket chỉ gói hàng nhỏ, thường được gói bằng máyVí dụ: 1 gói mỳ tômParcel là gói cỡ trung bình, có thể được gửi qua đường bưu điệnPackage là kiện hàng lớn, gói hàng lớnVí dụ: khi ta gửi 3 chiếc áo ấm cho 1 người bạn, ta gói thành “parcel”, nhưng khi gửi 2 chiếc,...

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Do you ever have to do the washing up?

TiengAnhVui.Com Michael Rosen is a British children's novelist, poet and ambassador for English. createSummaryAndThumb("summary7280190936935731941...

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Gangnam Style Parody - Whitby Gothic Style

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Bất cứ ai cũng muốn mình có thể nói được tiếng Anh lưu loát như tiếng mẹ đẻ nhưng có một sự thật mà bạn phải chấp nhận là dù bạn có giỏi tiếng anh đến mấy thì nó cũng chỉ là ngôn ngữ thứ hai của bạn mà thôi.Để nói được tiếng Anh lưu loát là một quá trình dài và đòi hỏi sự rèn luyện thường xuyên. Dưới đây là một vài quy tắc giúp bạn có thể luyện nói tiếng anh một cách lưu loát.1. Đừng để ý quá nhiều đến ngữ phápQuy tắc này nghe có vẻ lạ đối với nhiều người. Đa số chúng ta khi học một ngôn ngữ thứ hai đều chú trọng đến ngữ pháp của nó nhiều hơn. Tuy nhiên, ngữ pháp chỉ giúp bạn vượt qua các kì thi viết ở trường.Nếu bạn muốn nói tiếng Anh lưu loát thì hãy cố gắng bỏ qua những cấu trúc ngữ pháp phức tạp. Nếu bạn cứ mải suy nghĩ phải nói làm sao...

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Children Story : A Baby and a Sock

Listen (Windows Media Player)Luyện nghe với truyện vui tiếng Anh "A Baby and a Sock" . Script:The mother gave her baby a red apple. The baby tried to eat the apple. His mouth was too small. And he didn't have any teeth. His brother took the apple. His brother ate the apple. The baby cried. His brother gave the baby a blue ball to play with. The baby smiled. His brother took the ball from the baby. He rolled the ball on the floor. The brown and white dog picked up the ball. The dog chewed on the ball. The baby cried again. His brother picked up the cat. He put the cat on the bed with the baby. The baby pulled the cat's tail. The cat jumped off the bed. The dog chased the cat. The baby cried again. His brother let the baby hold a sock....

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Joke: 38 tips to improve your writing (a joke)

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.3. Employ the vernacular.4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.5. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.6. Remember to never split an infinitive.7. Contractions aren't necessary.8. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.9. One should never generalize.10. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."11. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.12. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.13. Be more or less specific.14. Understatement is always best.15. One-word sentences? Eliminate.16. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.17. The passive...

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Song: Give it to me baby

Song"Give It to Me Baby" is the title of a 1981 song by American R&B / funk singer Rick James. Taken from his album Street Songs, the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at No. 40 in July 1981. The song proved to be even more successful with R&B and dance club audiences. It spent five weeks at No. 1 on the R&B chart, and together with two other tracks from Street Songs, "Super Freak" and "Ghetto Life", topped the American dance chart for three weeks in the summer of 1981. LyricsWhen I came home last night You wouldn't make love to me You went fast asleep You wouldn't even talk to meYou say I'm so crazy Coming home intoxicated I say just want to love you, I just wanna love you, baby Guess that's...

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Audio:The English We Speak: After

Join Li and Finn for a drink in the bar and learn a new way to ask someone what they want.ListenscriptYang Li: Hi, and welcome to The English We Speak, with me Yang Li. I'm in a very crowded bar, trying to get served.Barman:(Shouting) Who's next please?Drinkers: Me, me, me...Barman: OK you...Drinker: I'd like a gin and tonic please...Barman: That'll be £3.60. OK...Yang Li: Oh, I think I'm next...Barman: Hi, are you next?Yang Li: Yes, yes, it's me now...Barman: What are you after?Yang Li: What am I after? No, it's my turn now, thank you...Barman: OK, I know that. What are you after?Yang Li: I'm after... eh? I'm after... the person before me?Barman: ...

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Váy đầm phụ nữ

Học các từ mô tả quần áo tiếng Anh qua hình : Skirts (1 of 3): clothing going downwards from the waist. Straight skirt: skirt which has a straight cut. A-line skirt: skirt widening downwards. Box pleated skirt: skirt widening downwards and provided with pleats. Fly skirt: skirt with an opening. Sheath: fitted skirt. Fix bos pleat skirt: fabric part folded up so that the edges of the foldings meet and form a hollow. 8 panel skirt: skirt provided with 8 panels of fabric. 4 panel skirt: skirt provided with 4 panels of fabric. 6 panel skirt: skirt provided with 6 panels of fabric. Fall skirt: skirt provided with a hunging piece....

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Views on marriage by children...

HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.- Alan, age 10No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with.- Kristen, age 10WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.- Camille, age 10No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.- Freddie, age 6 (very wise for his age)HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids.-...

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weather idioms

Người Anh rất thích sử dụng các thành ngữ liên quan đến thời tiết , luyện tập các thành nghữ bên dưới dể làm phong phú vốn từ vựng của bạn:As right as rain - Feeling fine and healthy.Take a rain check - Ask to rearrange a meeting.Come rain or shine - no matter what the weather/situation.On cloud nine - extremely happy.Rain on my parade - if someone rains on your parade, they ruin your pleasure or plans.Throw caution to the wind - forget all your commitments and do something crazy.Steal my thunder - if someone steals your thunder, they take the attention away from you.Download và nghe Audio liên quan:Listen : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20130729-1200a....

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Meet the Robinson Best Scenes

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Dr. Good - Human Body Vocabulary - Parental Advisory

TiengAnhVui.ComMy favourite bits?"Who wants pills?""It's strange to think that when I love someone, I'm really just loving a bag full of stuff." //<!--google_ad_client = "pub-4812195208277841";/* Blog Footer Feeder */google_ad_slot = "1926643800";google_ad_width = 728;google_ad_height = 15;//-->// Đăng ký: Hoc tieng ...

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Reading: ”X-ray Art”

Tia X quang ( X-ray ) không chỉ ứng dụng trong chẩn đoán y khoa mà còn có thể dùng để tạo ra tác phẩm nghệ thuật , thời trang hay trang trí . 1. Read the text Podiatrist Dr. Paula Fontaine is preparing her next x-ray shoot… and it’s not of a foot or a leg. Today she is photographing a turtle shell that her business partner Joseph Moisan will turn into a work of art. Together they own “radiant art studios” that sells fine art prints, jewelry and home goods made from prints from the x-ray machine in Dr. Fontaine’s office in Westminster, Massachusetts. - It’s a collection of images based on both organic and inorganic subject matter. We take pictures of all sorts of things like light bulbs, feet, shells. And we create art using a process called...

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Audio Book : The 43 Antarean Dynasties

Read by Steven Burley and Gregg TaylorDownload Book  ( save on right click )  The 43 Antarean Dynasties"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" is a science fiction short story published in 1997 by Mike Resnick. It won the 1998 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.The story itself can be considered as a science fictional spin on the study of postcolonialism.summaryA man, a woman, and a child emerge from the Temple of the Honored Sun. The woman holds a camera to her eye, capturing the same image from a dozen unimaginative angles. The child, his lip sparsely covered with hair that is supposed to imply maturity, never sees beyond the game he is playing on his pocket computer. The man looks around to make sure no one is watching him, grinds out a smokeless cigar beneath his heel, and then increases his...

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VOA: Ethnic Violence Shakes China's West

Multimedia Ethnic Violence Shakes China's West Listen Download PDF: Ethnic Violence Shakes China's West Welcome again to As It Is, your daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Today, we hear about ethnic conflict in western China, deep in the Asian continent. Then, we take a cultural turn. We learn about the many Chinatowns in the United States. Chinese immigrants have lived and worked in America since the 1800s. As we will hear, Chinatowns can be population centers of people of Chinese ancestry, or they may be tourism centers. Today, many cities have Welcome again to As It Is, your daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Today, we hear about ethnic conflict in western China, deep in...

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Let us help you to try o:)

Một bảng quảng cáo “vui” , đố các bạn là dịch vụ gì? ...

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Mickey Mouse In Vietnam: The Lost Anti-War Animation from 1968

Disney’s most iconic character, Mickey Mouse, did appear in an animated underground film created by two critics of the war, Lee Savage and the celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser.Produced in 1968 for The Angry Arts Festival, the one minute animation shows Mickey getting lured into fighting in Viet Nam, and then, rather immediately, getting shot in the head. The anti-war commentary gets made brutally and economically. Sometimes less is more.In a recent interview with Buzzfeed, Glaser recalls: “[O]bviously Mickey Mouse is a symbol of innocence, and of America, and of success, and of idealism — and to have him killed, as a solider is such a contradiction of your expectations. And when you’re dealing with communication, when you contradict expectations, you get a result.”...

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Naming the baby

TiengAnhVui.ComA pregnant woman is in a car accident and goes into a coma.After nearly six months, she wakes up to find that she is no longer pregnant.Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.The doctor replies, "Don't worry, you had twins! We had to do a C-section, but you had a boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother was here and he named them for you."The woman says, "Oh no, not my brother! He's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?""Denise," the doctor replies.Happy, she says, "Well, that's not a bad name!" So a bit more optimistically she asks the doctor, "And what's the boy's name?"Quietly, the doctor replies, "Denephew."//<!--google_ad_client = "pub-4812195208277841";/*...

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Do you suffer from G.O.D complex?

TiengAnhVui.Com"Every time a modifier dangles, a communicator gets his wings."A look at the symptoms of the scourge of professional communicators. (I do try to correct people gently.) //<!--google_ad_client = "pub-4812195208277841";/* Blog Footer Feeder */google_ad_slot = "1926643800";google_ad_width = 728;google_ad_height = 15;//-->// Đăng ký: Hoc tieng ...

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James Q. Wilson Changes Policing in America

James Quinn Wilson  là một học giả  và là nhà chính trị xã hội . Lý thuyết về “the broken windows “ có ảnh hưởng lớn đến nhiều thay đổi trong hệ thống trị an Hoa Kỳ.Nghe Audio : ListenFrom Wikipedia:James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. A Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, he was a co-author of the 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory.SCRIPT:Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Today, we are talking about political and social scientist James Q. Wilson. Wilson was interested...

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Is "Data" Singular or Plural?

The data are correct or The data is correct? Answered from Charles Carson, managing editor of the journal American Speech The question seems easy enough: is data singular or plural? Unfortunately, the answer is that both usages are standard.We could explain why grocery store signs should read 10 items or fewer instead of 10 items or less. Count nouns are used for objects that can be counted; that is, they're distinct objects that can be numbered. For example, in my refrigerator there are eggs, apples, and lemons. These are all count nouns. Count nouns can be singular or plural, and when you use them as the subject of a sentence, the verb must correctly reflect that number, as inThe last apple IS on the bottom shelf or The eggs ARE fresh.Mass nouns, on the other hand, are used for things...

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The labor market impact of mobility restrictions | Research

Learning by Reading .This paper provides new evidence on the labor market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects, the analysis exploits the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labor market conditions and uses a measure of conflict intensity to control for the likely spurious correlation between local unrest, labor market conditions, and the placement of barriers.The study finds that these barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages, and days worked per month. The barriers had a positive impact on the number of hours per working day. These effects are driven mainly by checkpoints while other barriers, such as roadblocks and earth...

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Today’s class :regular past tense verbs

Xem Video của Sarah về cách dùng động từ quy tắc thì quá khứ nhé....

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Reading News: Clegg pledges new regulation to tackle lobbying

Đọc Báo Tiếng Anh  | Nguồn : Daily Telegraph Sau vụ bê bối gần đây của Quốc hội Anh , Phó thủ tướng Anh Nick Clegg thông báo Vận động hành lang sẽ được kiểm soát và các cử tri sẽ có nhiều quyền hơn để bãi nhiệm các nghị sĩ … The Daily Telegraph reports Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will announce lobbyists will be regulated and voters will get the power to sack their MPs after the latest sleaze scandal to hit Parliament. VOCABULARY: Sleaze : You use sleaze to describe activities that you consider immoral, dishonest, or not respectable, especially in politics, business, journalism, or entertainment. • The latest, depressing sleaze revelations are only going to increase public cynicism about politics and parliament. ...

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Denise Herzing: Liệu chúng ta có thể nói chuyện với cá heo?

Có cách nào tốt hơn để nghiên cứu một con vật hơn trong môi trường sống tự nhiên của nó? Từ năm 1985, Denise Herzing đã dành thời gian mỗi mùa hè để quan sát cá heo sống hoang dã ở Bahamas trên biển Đại Tây Dương . Công việc cho phép Herzing để hiểu rõ hơn về cấu trúc xã hội, hành vi, giao tiếp của cá heo hiệu quả hơn là trong môi trường sống giới hạn của một bể cá hoặc cơ sở nghiên cứu.Rõ ràng cá heo , với trí thông minh cao có thể giao tiếp với nhau , nhưng liệu có thể và bằng cách nào con người có thể hiểu ngôn ngữ và giao tiếp với chúng là một câu hỏi thú vị . Denise chia sẻ và thảo luận về khả năng đó trong Video tại TED. Denise Herzing: Dolphin researcherDenise Herzing has spent almost three decades researching and communicating with...

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Today’s class | Compound words

A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word. Example “newspaper” from “news” and “paper” is compound word .Learn lesson from Sarah in the video below about compound words....

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Nghe Tonya Pinkins hát "My Funny Valentine"

"My Funny Valentine" là bài hát dòng nhạc Jazz được trình diễn lần đầu tiên vào năm 1937 bởi Mitzi Green. Sau khi thu âm bởi Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, and Miles Davis, bài hát trở nên phổ biến và có mặt ở hơn 1300 albums của hơn 600 nghệ sỹ .LyricsSongwriters: BRADLEY, ROBERT/NEHRA, MICHAEL/NEHRA, ANDREW/FOWLKES, JEFF / DIAZ, TIMWriter(s): rodgers/hartMy funny valentineSweet comic valentineYou make me smile with my heartYour looks are laughableUnphotographableYet you're my favourite work of artIs your figure less than greekIs your mouth a little weakWhen you open it to speakAre you smart? But don't change a hair for meNot if you care for meStay little valentine stayEach day is valentines dayIs your figure less than greekIs your mouth a little weakWhen you open it to speakAre you smart?...

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