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St Patrick’s Day is now celebrated throughout the world, not just in Ireland, with the largest parade taking place in New York City. St. Patrick's Day around the world Photos from around the world celebrating Ireland's National Holiday, St. Patrick's Day.  saint patrick day's worksheet wordsearch irish-american history

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In Writing for a Purpose you can find information and exercises on the following language areas:   Adjectives: personal feelings about a topic Collecting data Defining terms Describing location, structure, procedure Discourse markers (linking devices) Evaluating positions Explaining cause, effect and significance Expressions for arguing, evaluating and reaching conclusions General nouns (for referring back) Giving reasons for choices or decisions Linking expressions Making claims and reaching conclusions Making recommendations Measuring and calculating Nominalised verbs Phrasal verbs Planning choices Quantities Reporting verbs Reporting verbs Reporting what is known or believed Talking about levels of challenge Talking about methods Talking about results Talking about roles Talking about willingness and ability Talking about worry and anxiety       The exercises in Writing for a Purpose develop the following skills and language areas:   Arguing and making clai...

You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond Fear vocabulary Vocabulary of fear We can talk about things that frighten us by using these words: scare, fright, terrify  and  fear . To be scared/frightened/terrified of + noun Alice  is scared of  heights. He 's frightened of  spiders. They 're terrified of  exams. Passive form: Heights  scare  Alice. Dogs  terrify  me. Loud noises always  frighten  him. To get a fright She  gets a fright  every time she hears a dog bark. I  got  such  a fright  when I saw the mouse. To have/have got a fear of + noun I 've a  real  fear of  speaking in public. He 's got a fear of  horses. Phobias The word ' phobia ' comes from the Greek for 'fear'. In English we can make words with the ' phobia ' at the end to describe types of fears. These  phobias  a...

                Creative Ways to Say Yes                    1. yes 2. yeah 3. OK 4. okey-dokey 5. by all means 6. affirmative 7. aye aye 8. roger 9. 10-4 10. uh-huh 11. righto 12. very well 13. yup 14. yuppers 15. right on 16. ja 17. surely 18. amen 19. fo’ shizzle 20. totally 21. sure More creative ways to say yes

You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

"The  Stolen Child ", a poem  published in 1889  by the Irish poet  William Butler Yeats , is based on an Irish legend. read the poem here The Stolen Child WHERE dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than ...

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH TEENS LINK TO GRAMMAR VIDEO ON CONDITIONALS

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April 23 marks Shakespeare's 450th birthday (that's a lot of candles).  We will be celebrating soon the Bard. Here are some lesser known facts about England's national poet.

Mylo Xyloto  /ˈmaɪloʊ ˈzaɪlətoʊ/  And  worksheet here    

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Don Quixote   of La Mancha PART ONE: THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA   (1605) CHAPTER I Which treats of the character and pursuits of the famous gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun. He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad f...