Song: Be not afraid

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

- Henry James

Hope this song helps you lighten your day!



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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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Meet the Robinson Best Scenes

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Sent to me by Aladdin, but valid to anyone trying to do anything (including learning English).







Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anh

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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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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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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 researcher

Denise Herzing has spent almost three decades researching and communicating with wild dolphins in their natural setting and on their own terms. The book "Dolphin Diaries" tells her remarkable story.

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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 .

Lyrics

Songwriters: 

BRADLEY, ROBERT/NEHRA, MICHAEL/NEHRA, ANDREW/FOWLKES, JEFF / DIAZ, TIM

Writer(s): rodgers/hart

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you're my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But don't you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day

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Sir Edmund Hillary , the first climbers to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest.

5/29, 1953, nhà thám hiểm người New Zealand cùng người dẫn đường Tenzing Norgay  trở thành những người đầu tiên chinh phục đỉnh Everest .Xem Video về câu chuyện chinh phục này .

Vocabulary:

ascent [-nt] n. 

a movement upward

lên cao

summit ['sʌmɪt] n.

the top point of a mountain or hill

đỉnh

nonchalantly adv.

in an unconcerned manner  ( thờ ơ )

conquering ['kɑŋkərɪŋ /'kɒŋ-]

overcome by conquest ( chinh phục )

 

SCRIPT

Sixty years ago today, New Zealand explorer Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. This feat may not seem so significant now, when upwards of 150 people may reach the top of the 29,000-foot mountain on the best climbing day. In fact the summit has become so overcrowded that officials are even debating installing a ladder for descents (to the horror of serious mountaineers). But in 1953, Hillary and Norgay’s ascent was a pretty big deal, you might say.

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Video | Kangaroo vs Dog

Only in Australia can you see a dog vs. kangaroo wrestling match…

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Xem người Hy Lạp và La Mã cổ đại làm thế nào tạo ra tiền đồng , bình sứ và thủy tinh

 

Text:

Tạo ra bình sứ

Sometimes the old ways work best. That assumption, or at least the assumption that the most centuries-tested techniques can still produce interesting results, underpins many of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Launchpad videos. The series, designed to give visitors context for the artifacts they see there, reveals the process behind the product, and some new products may come out of some very old processes indeed. In the case of the video at the top, we see the creation of an ancient Greek vase — or, rather, a new vase, created as the ancient Greeks did — from the clay purification to the kneading to the shaping to the illustration to the firing.

 

Thổi thủy tinh

Just above, you can watch the ancient “free-blown technique” of glassmaking in action. Invented around 40 B.C., glass-blowing gave the glassmakers of the day a faster, cheaper, more controllable way to work, which enabled them to produce for a larger market than ever before. If you’d like to learn more about the method it displaced, the Art Institute also has a video demonstrating the older “core-formed” glassmaking technique. Pottery and glassware have an appealing practicality, and first-rate artisans of those forms could no doubt make a good deal of money, but how did the money itself come into being? The Launchpad video on coin production in Ancient Greece, below, sheds light on minting in antiquity. Serious artistically inclined numismatists will, of course, want to follow it up with its companion piece on coin production in the Roman world.

 

Sản xuất tiền đồng

 

Vocabulary:

underpins  :  support from beneath

knead [nɪːd] verb

  manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes ( sự khuấy trộn )

pottery ['pɑtərɪ /'pɒt-]  noun

.ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln

numismatist [nuː'mɪzmətɪst /nju-] noun

a collector and student of money (and coins in particular)

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The world’s smallest movie

 

Well, the movie (remember in the US they say movie, in the UK it’s film) we will talk about today is so small, no human being would be able to see it.

 

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It’s the smallest movie ever made. To make it visible to the human eye, the movie had to be magnified 100 million times by its creators at IBM.

“A Boy and his Atom” is a story about a character named Atom and his adventures with a new atom friend. The movie features thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action. Using IBM’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope, the researchers controlled a super-sharp needle along a copper surface to attract the atoms into position for each frame of video.

And while the movie is tiny, IBM says it will hopefully make GIANT strides in educating the public about atoms and the importance of nanoscale research.

 

Vocabulary

 

Magnified - to make (something) greater.

Character - a person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show.

Precisely - very accurate and exact.

Frames - one of the pictures in the series of pictures that make up a film.

Needle - a small, very thin object that is used in sewing and that has a sharp point at one end and a hole for thread.

Copper - a reddish-brown metal that allows heat and electricity to pass through it easily.

Strides - a change or improvement that brings someone closer to a goal.

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Rockettes

Good day to you all, chào mọi người
Hôm nay chúng ta xem màn trình diễn múa đặc sắc của các nghệ sỹ múa  Rockette và học các từ liên quan đến nghệ thuật nhé.

Vocabulary

 

Flexed - to bend (a body part).

Audition - a short performance to show the talents of someone (such as an actor or a musician) who is being considered for a role in a play, a position in an orchestra, etc.
Vying - to compete with others in an attempt to get or win something.
Coveted - to want (something that you do not have) very much.
Prospective - likely to be or become something specified in the future.
Tap - a kind of dance in which you wear special shoes with metal plates on the heels and toes and make tapping sounds with your feet.
Preliminary - coming before the main part of something.

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Hundreds of dancers flexed their muscles.. and put their best foot forward, for a chance to dance with the famed Rockettes of the Radio City Music Hall in New York. For most of them, the open audition is a step closer to a life-long dream. Danni Hevern traveled all the way from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- It would mean that everything I’ve worked for since I was a little girl would be worth it, you know to happen.
Hevern is among 500 dancers vying for the few coveted spots to perform in this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular – one of New York’s most beloved holiday attractions since 1935. Linda Haberman, the Director and Choreographer of the show explained what she was looking for in a prospective Rockette.
- It’s an extremely demanding job. They have to be proficient in tap, jazz, ballet. There is a height requirement. But what I’m looking for right now basic technique. If you can’t get through the combination I just did, there’s no way you are going to be able to do the show. So that was sort of a very preliminary combination.
Just a few of these dancers will be invited back to kick their dance routines into a higher gear as the audition process will continue through the rest of the week.

Video

Bài dự thi múa

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Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul | Ted

Xin chào !

Hôm nay chúng ta xem nghệ sĩ Violon Ji Hae Park của Hàn Quốc biểu diễn và thuyết trình ở Ted.

 

Ji-Hae Park spreads the joy of classical to music to those who might not otherwise hear it -- and in the process shows that you can rock out on the violin.

 

 

 

 

Ji-Hae Park was on the fast track to violin stardom when she ... paused. Why was it simply her goal to be the best violin player in the world? Was there more to music than that? And thus she began to think differently about how to "play" her life. Now -- along with playing prestigious concert halls, winning prizes and making a new album for Decca called Baroque in Rock -- she makes time to play in hospitals, churches, prisons, anywhere she feels she can reach people with music. Her friendly, entertaining rearrangements of classical music invite new listeners in.

She was named The Respected Korean 2010 for her leadership and influence on the national development. She is playing on the Petrus Guarnerius 1735, Venedig on loan from the German Foundation (Deutsche-Stiftung- Musikleben) since 2003.

"Watching the radiant violin prodigy, one would never guess that at one time she had battled depression and found solace in her music. "

Các bạn có thể thăm web chính thức của JI

Website: Jihaepark.com

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Video: it's cheese rolling time again!

An army veteran from Colorado takes the top prize in the main event at the annual downhill cheese-rolling races in the rural English county of Gloucestershire. Tara Cleary reports.

TRANSCRIPT
REPORTER: Plunging down a steep hill at breakneck speed, chasing a fake foam cheese. The centuries-old race is dangerous. This year one contestant reportedly broke a leg. Big cheese for the day was U.S. army veteran, Kenny Rackers, who arrived three days early to practice.
KENNY RACKERS: "I came over three or four thousand miles just for this race. I put it on my bucket list and today it was to win and that's what I did."
REPORTER: Rackers, who first saw the cheese-rolling race on TV, paid tribute to fellow soldiers on America's Memorial Day.
KENNY RACKERS: "We're remembering all the soldiers that gave the ultimate sacrifice so I want to thank all the soldiers past and present for their service."
REPORTER: And the runner-up didn't seem too cheesed-off about losing.

 

WORDPLAY
1. If you describe something as cheesy, you mean that it is not very good or original, and without style, in a way that is embarrassing but amusing. • That's the cheesiest chat-up line I've ever heard.
2. A big cheese is an important and powerful person, especially in an organization.
3. If someone is cheesed off, they are annoyed or bored. • He's cheesed off with his job.

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Video : Toy Story from Australia network

Nghe “Câu chuyện đồ chơi” bài học Anh văn từ Australia Network

 

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Transcript

We'll look at the expression 'by far', the phrasal verb 'move on', and a common irregular past tense.

We love it I think Yeah Something we have a passion for both of us, both collecting and meeting collectors and promoting the hobby as a hobby. We're the biggest toy show in the southern hemisphere by far. We usually get around 24oo people over the two days. There's 328 tables today. Each year I always vow like a month earlier "that's it, this is the last one" I've just, it's too much. As soon as when I walked into the hall by "Ah, this is great! This is super." There's always items you hope to see. You're looking for that ultimate one that you haven't got or the ones you don't have but you don't always think you'll find it but you hope you do.

It's the biggest toy show in the Southern hemisphere 'by far'. 'By far' means by a long way or to a large degree. It's much bigger than any other toy show in the southern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere is Australia, New Zealand, some parts of Africa and South America, and Antarctica. It sounds more impressive than just saying the biggest in Australia.
And what are people looking for at the biggest toy show in the southern hemisphere?

As kids you rip it open, you play with it. To find something mint in the box still attached very rare. And that's why the price - $600, but , there's people with that sort of money to spend and it just keeps going up every year.

Something mint in the box. Here, mint means in perfect condition. The collectors want a toy that has not been taken out of the box and played with. Or they want something that completes a collection:

So there's probably a hundred or 200 figures that I'm just still looking for. I saw 'em here last year and I missed 'em, I said to the guy "I'll think about it, I'll come back" and when I came back they were gone. So , found 'em this year, which was good.

Notice that he uses the future tense form of 'come':

I said to the guy "I'll think about it, I'll come back"

And then the irregular past tense, came:

and when I came back they were gone.

Now listen for 'move on':

I got a first one given to me from my Auntie and it started from there. We used to just go to markets and fairs and stuff and it grew into this obsession and I've got more under the desk and it's just ponies everywhere. Just the enjoyment that it brought me I just want people to sot of have the same. Yeah, I just decided to move on.

She's decided to 'move on'. She is now interested in other things.
Why has she moved on?

I've got real horses and they're more important to me now. I'm not fussed. I'm happy to let them go.

She's 'moved on' to real horses. And she's 'not fussed' about selling the toy horses - this means she's not upset about it.
So we've seen that came is the past tense of come, that mint can mean 'in perfect condition' and that by far means by a large amount.
We'll finish with the expression 'thrill of the hunt' which means the excitement of searching for something you really want:

Collecting is very addictive. So you never stop. It's the thrill of the hunt knowing that you're looking for something that you'd like to find and then suddenly finding it and then the pride of ownership of that item that you have spent a lot of time looking for, wanting to find and finding it.

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Michael Jackson [ Video ]

Jim Stroud, who works for English Cafe, has sent us an e-mail about an English language teaching video that he has recently made. The video is about the death of the pop artist Michael Jackson. You can watch it on the screen below. I like the way that Jim puts text on the screen as he is speaking to explain words and phrases that you might not understand.

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