Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study) Geography and history - for ESL students. History : The USA. Buffalo Bill "In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York city.
It was one of the most elaborate shows on earth: there were cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters including the famed Annie Oakley, hundreds of horses, buffalo, elk and donkeys, and more than two hundred cast members, all moving about in a sweeping western landscape of mountains and plains. Soon after the show's stunning success in New York, it would go on to dazzle crowds in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona, cementing the legend of the Wild West in the minds of people around the globe. Behind the extravaganza was one man -- a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero, whose meteoric rise to fame was made possible only by his genius, and his hucksterism.
French trains 'hit by sabotage' France's high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a "concerted campaign of sabotage", the SNCF state-owned rail operator has said.
It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge delays to TGV services already hit by a transport union strike in its eighth day. President Nicolas Sarkozy said culprits would be severely punished. Union leaders also condemned the attacks. The sabotage came as three-way talks opened in a bid to end the strike. Managers from SNCF and the Paris metro operator RATP were meeting unions and government representatives to try to reach a compromise on reforms to transport workers' pensions. The government has vowed not to back down on its core proposals. Fires In a statement, the SNCF said there had been "several acts" occurring "at the same time" on lines running north, west, east and south-east out of Paris. Gillie's Coney Island Restaurant Inc.
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The order is as follows: billion, million, thousand, hundred. Notice that hundred, thousand, etc. is NOT followed by an s. Two hundred NOT two hundreds NOTE: British English takes 'and' between 'hundred and ...' English Language Centre Study Zone: Welcome! About the Study Zone The Study Zone is for students of the English Language Centre (ELC) at the University of Victoria. ELC teachers create the English language lessons and practice exercises. Courses of classroom and online resources for teachers - Living English. Oxford English For Careers. US science cuts pay for war – and we all suffer - opinion - 26 July 2011. Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the horrendous cost of pursuing the "war on terror" may give his followers cause for celebration WHEN Osama bin Laden was killed earlier this year, many commentators saw it as a turning point in the war on terror.
However, a host of measures suggest that bin Laden's goal - to strike a long-lasting blow to the system of government of the US and to the health and well-being of its citizens - may have been achieved. Last month, the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, released a report entitled "Costs of War", which estimates the cumulative cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to be up to $4 trillion. What has this vast amount of money achieved? Both Iraq and Afghanistan continue to rank low in political freedom, warlords continue to control much of Afghanistan, and gender and ethnic segregation in Iraq are now worse than they were before 2001. The Parts of Speech. Welcome to HyperGrammar electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre.
This course covers approximately the same ground as our English department's ENG 1320 Grammar course. The content of HyperGrammar is the result of the collaborative work of the four instructors who were teaching the course in Fall 1993: Heather MacFadyen, David Megginson, Frances Peck, and Dorothy Turner. Second Language Teaching Methods - CAL Resource Guide Online. Introduction Language teaching came into its own as a profession in the last century.
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