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July 28, 2009
Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com
Al Gore’s documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth" is helping to make Americans more aware of the challenges they and the rest of the world face in the very near future, as carbon dioxide levels rise at a staggering pace. While discussions of greenhouse gases, global warming, and the Kyoto Protocol…
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Everyone has a stack of old magazines lying around the house somewhere, and whether you’re walking past a newsstand in the mall or sitting in the dentist’s office, you’re going to be tempted to pick up a magazine and flip through the pages. Magazines are everywhere, but what are they exactly? On one…
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July 25, 2009
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1. To acknowledge kindness, courage, worthy efforts and personal bests. 2. To offer help, assistance, encouragement; particularly to encourage those who have reached for the stars and just failed to reach them……..this time! 3. To say ‘I love you’………..in the way which is appropriate. 4. Whe…
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1) When you forget the song in your heart, a friend is someone who sings it back to you. (Helen Steiner) 2) A friend’s support is unconditional: when the going gets tough a friend is right there beside you. 3) A friend has seen you at your worst and loves you even so. 4) A friend is someone with who…
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1. How many relationships can you fully nurture in your life? The closest friendships seem to last forever with no need of nurture. Years elapse & on reunion they drop away instantaneously. Other friendships must be fed & watered. For many of us the number of relationships we can sustain is finite, …
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1. When words are about to be spoken in anger and might be regretted. 2. When it has been said before and is not worth repeating. 3. To justify one’s behaviour, of which one is not proud, by citing someone else’s. 4. To avoid inflicting unconstructive criticism. 5. When silence resonates and words a…
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July 21, 2009
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There are different temperature scales. The temperature scale of International System of Units is Kelvin, but it is used mostly in laboratories, not in real life. In Europe, the most used temperature scale is Celsius, it can be calculated by subtracting 273 from the Kelvin temperature. Celsius was m…
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July 19, 2009
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America started using postage stamps as early as 1775 along with the British. The postage stamps were mainly used for correspondence that were to travel more than 300 miles and weighed more than half ounce. The mails that weighed less than half an ounce were to use something called the prepaid stamp…
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July 17, 2009
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1. Develop an interest in people and become other oriented. 2. Know what people need and then try to meet those needs. 3. Ask about their family and be genuinely interested in their answer. 4. Find people doing something right and praise them generously. 5. Believe in the collective wisdom of the gr…
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Want to know some creative conversation topics? These are good topics or questions to have in reserve if conversation starts to lag on a date or in any other situation. You have heard the advice that you should talk about the other person, and not just yourself. "Ask questions that the other person …
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