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.

Read more »

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

Read more »

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.

Xem thêm các bài viết về Lịch sử :

Read more »

TEWS: Haven't slept a wink: 3 June 13

Zzzz... Neil had a crying child in his room and Feifei had a mosquito in hers. That's why neither of them has slept a wink.

Listen : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20130603-1200a.mp3

Read more »

Why Libya's revolution didn't work -- and what might

Bạn biết gì về Libya và tình hình chính trị sau chế độ độc tài của Gaddafi. Bài thuyết trình của Langhi , nhà sáng lập tổ chức “Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace “ về những gì cần cho sự phát triển của Libya .

What Libya needs now, Langhi suggests, is collaboration, not competition; compassion, not rage.

Video

In Libya, Zahra' Langhi was part of the "days of rage" movement that helped topple the dictator Gaddafi. But -- then what? In their first elections, Libyans tried an innovative slate of candidates, the "zipper ballot," that ensured equal representation from men and women of both sides. Yet the same gridlocked politics of dominance and exclusion won out. What Libya needs now, Langhi suggests, is collaboration, not competition; compassion, not rage.

 

 

http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2012X/None/ZahraLanghi_2012X-light.mp4

 

About Zahra' Langhi

Zahra' Langhi is the cofounder of Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP), a movement advocating for women’s socio-political empowerment and peace-building.

Quotes by Zahra' Langhi

• “Mercy instead of revenge, collaboration instead of competition, inclusion instead of exclusion — these are the ideals that a war-torn Libya needs desperately.”
• “Peace has an alchemy: … the intertwining, the alternation, between the feminine and masculine perspectives.”

Read more »