Sung to: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
Do you know parts of my plant, parts of plant?
Do you know parts of my plant, parts of plant?
Kinds of plant that grow and grow and grow
Do you know parts of my plant, parts of plant?
The roots hold the plant in place, plant in place.
The roots hold the plant in place, plant in place.
The roots store food and water too.
The roots hold the plant in place, plant in place.
The stem moves water up the plant, up the plant.
The stem moves water up the plant, up the plant.
The stem brings water to the leaves.
The stem moves water up the plant, up the plant.
The leaves soak up the sun, soak up the sun.
The leaves soak up the sun, soak up the sun.
The sun helps the plant to grow and grow and grow.
The leaves soak up the sun, soak up the sun.
The ower grows into...
Friday, March 30, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Elephants, Dog and Mice
I have never known a dog and an elephant make friends.
Elephants will eventually become accus tomed to certain dogs in camps, and dogs
learn not to bark at them and always to keep out of reach of the slash of a
trunk or the kick of a leg. The hatred of elephants for dogs cannot easily be
explained. It is possible that they are afraid of dogs biting their trunks,
though I do not think such a thing ever happened. It has occurred to me that it
might be an instinctive dread of hydrophobia, which is the dread of everyone
who keeps a dog in camp, Burman and European Assistant alike.
Nevertheless practically every European Assistant keeps a
dog and I have almost always had one myself. The elephants hate them and one is
always losing one's dog, owing to leopard, tiger, bear and snakes. The
tragedies of lost dogs are...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Live Chicken for Dinner?
A landowner from Seoul went to visit his farmer in the countryside
and was treated to a grand dinner of boiled chicken.
In the course of the meal,
the farmer's youngest son ran in, shouting, "There it is! He's eating the
dead chicken.' The landowner thought that he had been served a long-dead
chicken. So he put down his chopsticks and told the servant to clear the table,
politely saying,
"This is enough for
me. My stomach can't take any more food.'
Just then, the boy started eating the chicken's legs greedily,
saying at the same time, "Oh, this is really delicious.'
"Why are you eating the dead chicken?' asked the surprised landowner.
"Who eats live chickens?' replied the boy.
Taken from English Bestseller 12, 2...
It Could Be Worse
I
entered the hotel manager's office and sat down. I had just lost £50 and I felt
very upset. "I left the money in my room,' I said, "and it's not there
now.' The manager was sympathetic, but he could do nothing. ‘Everyone's losing
money these days,' he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was
interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelope on his
desk. It contained £50. "I found this outside this gentleman's room,' she
said. "Well,' I said to the manager, "there is still some honesty in
this world!'
Taken from Practice and
Progress, 1...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
English is considered Preparing the Children Today for Tomorrow
Parents
strive to have their children academically competitive. Their goal is to send
their children to good schools as well as to choose extracurricular activities
that improve their children's skills and abilities.
Children learn what is important through their
school year. The question then becomes what should parents consider in choosing
the best education for their children? When should the process begin?
The answer is, from the time of birth, how
ever, the schools become part of the process, when children begin preschools
and kinder garten. This is when parents pick a school that parallel their
educational beliefs. A joint effort between parents, students, and the schools
is established. Success will be based on how well the "team" works.
Parents need to look for a school that will be a "second...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Paris
Paris
is the capital city of France. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the
world. It is also one of the world's most crowded cities. Lovely gardens and
parks are found throughout Paris.
At
night, many palaces and statues are lit up. For this reason, Paris is often
called the City of Light.
Every year, millions of people visit Paris. The most popular place to visit is
the Eiffel Tower. This huge structure has become the symbol of Paris. The
Louvre, one of the world's largest art museums, draws many visitors. The Cathedral
of...
Sunday, March 18, 2012
The Wolf and the Dog
Once
there was a wolf who was nearly dead with hunger. He was very thin, so that the
outline of his bones could be seen clearly beneath his thinning coat of hair.
With hardly enough energy to walk, the wolf had little hope of finding food. As
he lay beneath a large tree, a dog out for a walk noticed him. Seeing how thin
and hungry looking the wolf was, the dog felt sorry for him and said, "You
are in terrible shape! You look as if you haven't eaten for many days."
"You're
right," said the wolf. "I haven't eaten because you and your friends
are doing such a good job of guarding the sheep. Now I am so weak that I have
little hope of finding food. I think I will surely die."
Then
why not join us? Asked the dog. "I work regularly and I eat regularly. You
could do the same. I will arrange it. You can help me and the...
The Legend of Beowulf
Once
upon a time, there was a horrible monster called Grendel. He was half-man and
half-monster. He lived in Denmark. One day, he went to the King's castle. The
king and his men tried to kill the monster but their swords were useless. A
knight called Beowulf heard about the problem and went to Denmark to help the
king.
That
night, Beowulf and his men took off their armour and put away their swords and
went to sleep. The monster came into the castle and killed a knight. Beowulf
woke up and fought the monster-he pulled off an arm! Grendel went back to his
home in a lake and died. Grendel's mother was very angry and the next night she
went to the castle and killed a knight.
In
the morning, Beowulf went to the lake. He killed Grendel's mother with a
special sword. When he came back, the king was very happy and he gave...
The Cleverest Student
Evi,
who is the cleverest student in the class, doesn't go to school anymore. She
has to stop studying because she cannot pay school fee.
Budi,
her classmate, came to see her at home.
"Why
don't you go to school again?" asked Budi. "Our teachers asked me
where you were," continued Budi.
"I
am sorry. Now I have to stay at home because my father has stopped working at
factory," told Evi.
"I
am sorry to hear that. I think it is not a serious problem," said Budi.
"Oh,
not to me. What do you think if I stop studying," asked Evi.
"No
. . . it is not a good solution. Tomorrow you and I meet our headmaster to tell
about this. Are you with me?" asked Budi. At school they meet the
headmaster in his office. The headmaster is surprised to see the two students
in his office.
"What's...
Making an Omelette
This is the way an omelette should be made.
It is important that the fryingpan should be propor tionate to the number of
eggs; in other words, to the size of the omelette. The fryingpan must be made
of iron, not of aluminium, tin or enamel. And here I feel I must stress a point
essential to what might be called the background of omelette-making, namely
that the frying-pan must never be washed with water but rubbed, when hot, with
salt and tissue paper, as this is the only way to prevent sticking.
For
three portions, we take...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Fortune Teller
In
the great city of Taipei, there lived a man called Lin and his wife. They had
no children. Because of this, they were very unhappy. One day, they found a
baby boy outside their door. He was wrapped in a blanket and crying. They took
the baby into their house and called him Sau Ling. They loved him very much.
When Sau Ling was a young man, a
fortune-teller came to the house. "You must send your son away," he said.
"One day he will become a thief and cause you a lot of trouble."
Mr
and Mrs Lin were very sad to hear this. They believed what the fortune-teller
said. They gave Sau Ling some clothes and money and sent him away.
Several
years later, Sau Ling was having a meal in an inn several miles from Taipei. He
put his bag on the floor near his table. After finishing his meal, he picked up
his bag. "That's...
A Story about Red
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"Rosaura!
Rosaura!"
If
you were tall enough, you might have seen a little splash of red in the tall grass.
And if you had looked closer you might have seen a small girl wearing a red
ribbon.
Rosaura
was hiding from her mother and father. It was her favourite game. She crouched
quietly, listening to the faint sound of her mother's voice. All Rosaura could
see were the swaying green stalks of the corn. They rustled above her head
where the sky stretched clear and blue. Suddenly, a bright yellow butterfly
darted by. Rosaura jumped up to chase the butterfly, forgetting all about her
hiding game.
"Rosaura!
There you are," called her mother. "It's time for lunch."
It
was dark and cool in the...
Shadow Puppet Show: Durna's Trap
The
story started with Durna who was teaching the art of archery to the children of
Hastina Kingdom at the palace's yard. From far away, a young man watched the
practice. He was Ekalaya, the crown prince of Parang Gelung Kingdom.
Ekalaya
wanted to study with Durna but was rejected, since the man promised only to
teach children of Pandawa and Kurawa. Still Ekalaya was neither angry nor
revengeful. His strong will to study from Durna influenced him go to the forest
and create a statue of Durna as a symbol of Durna's presence. With this statue
as his ima ginative teacher, Ekalaya learned how to shoot arrows by himself.
The result was astonishing; Ekalaya turned very skillfull in shooting arrows
just like Arjuna, Durna's favourite student.
Ekalaya
finally encountered Arjuna, who was hunting in the forest. Arjuna was...
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is a famous area of
waterfalls. It is one of the most beautiful natural wonders of North America.
It is on the Niagara River, about halfway between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
The Niagara River forms part of the border between Canada and the United
States.
At Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
is on one side of the river, and the U.S. state of New York is on the other
side. Niagara Falls really has two waterfalls. The Horseshoe Falls are in Canada,
and the American Falls are in the United States.
The Niagara River...
Pueblo Bonito
One thousand years ago, in the desert
of the Chaco Canyon, the Anasazi people built nine multi-storey buildings
called ‘Great Houses'. They used stone for the walls and wood for the floors,
doors and roofs. They transported more than 200,000 trees from forests almost
80 kilometres away. How did they move the trees? We don't know.
In some buildings there are huge circular
rooms called ‘kivas'—the biggest one is under ground and it is about 16 metres
wide. Why did the Anasazi build circular rooms? We don't know. Perhaps they
used...
Great Zimbabwe
In 1871 Karl Mauch, a German,
discovered a huge stonewalls in Zimbabwe, Africa. The walls covered 25 hectares
around what is now called ‘Great Zimbabwe'. Great Zimbabwe is the most
impressive Iron Age site in Africa. On top of a hill, there is a large castle
and under neath this is the ‘Great Enclosure'. The Great Enclosure has enormous
walls – sometimes 11 metres high and 1.2 metres thick. Inside the Great Enclosure
there are many huts, passages and rooms and a mysterious 9-metre-high stone
tower that has no stairs, no windows,...
Easter Island
Easter Island is in the South
Pacific, 3,700 kilometres from the coast of Chile. On the island, there are 600
large statues. We don't know who built them but they were probably constructed
between 1150 and 1500. We don't really know why they are there. The Norwegian
explorer, Thor Heyerdahl, believed that they were built by people from South
America. To prove this, he made a simple raft and sailed there, all the way
from Peru.
Archaeologists think that the
statues represent dead tribal leaders. We don't know why the statues left...
Friday, March 16, 2012
Three Foolish Sons
There
was a rich man who had three sons. They lived in a large house in the town of Keelung
in northern Taiwan.
One day, he said to his sons, "You are no
longer children. You must do something to earn your own living. When I die, I
am not going to leave you very much money. I started with nothing and made a
fortune by working hard. You must do the same. Now, here is two hundred dollars
for each of you. You can use it to start your own
business."
The
three sons went off separately. The eldest son met a hunter. He thought that
hunting would be fine so he bought a gun from him for two hundred dollars. The
second son met a basketmaker. He bought a set of tools from him so that he
could make baskets. The third son met a doctor who told him that he had a
medicine which could cure all diseases. He bought it from him...
Blind Listening
A
stupid man was sent by his father to sell salt. He first went to a mining area
but nobody there wanted his salt. When he returned home, his father told him
that if he had helped the miners to dig, they would have bought his salt.
The
man next went to a house where a wedding was taking place. There he dug a huge
hole. This made the people angry and they chased him away. When he returned
home, his father told him that if he had beaten a drum and danced instead, the
people there would have bought salt from him.
Then, he went to a village where there
happened to be a fire. Rushing to the place, he started drumming and dancing,
only to be thrown out by the people. His father told him that he should have
poured water on the fire instead, if he wanted to sell salt there.
In the next place he went to, a couple...
r.a Kartini
Every April 21 people in indonesi commemorate the kartini day. it is beautiful day
for the woman because we celebrate the birth of great lady ra. kartini.
everyone knows who kartini is. she is our national heroine and a great lady
with the bright idea.
kartini
was born in 1879 april 21 in mayong jepara. her father was rmaa. sosroningrat
wedana (assistant of head of regency) in mayong. her mother, ma ngasirah was a
girl from teluk awur village in jepara asthe daughter of a noble family, she
felt luck because she got more than the ordinary people got. she got better
education than other children.
In
november 12 1903 she married adipati djoyodiningrat, the head of rembang
regency. according to javanese tradition kartini had to follow her husband. then
she moved to rembang. in september 13 1904 she gave...
The Fox and the Crow
A
crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the eye
and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit," said the
fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and sight."
The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else, that praising
the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make him drop the cheese
and sing. But this is not what happened to this particular crow in this
particular case.
"They say you are sly and they say you
are crazy," said the crow, having carefully removed the cheese from his
beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be nearsighted as well.
Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright vest, and they are a
dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique.
"I am sure you are," said the fox,
who was...
The Tiger Who Would Be King
One
morning the tiger woke up in the jungle and told his mate that he was king of
beasts.
"Leo, the lion, is king of beasts,"
she said.
"We need a change," said the tiger.
"The creatures are crying for a change."
The tigress listened but she could hear no
crying, except that of her cubs.
"I'll be king of beasts by the time the
moon rises," said the tiger. "It will be a yellow moon with black
stripes, in my honour."
"Oh
sure," said the tigress as she went to look after her young, one of whom,
a male, very like his father, had got an imaginary thorn in his paw.
The tiger prowled through the jungle till he
came to the lion's den. "Come out," he roared," and greet the
king of beasts! The king is dead, long live the king!"
Inside the den, the lioness woke her mate.
"The king is...
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