Introduction - KidsOut World Stories is a growing collection of traditional and new stories representing the 21 most commonly spoken languages by children across the UK. These stories can be read, listened to and downloaded in English and their original language. Thanks to the wonderful support of writers, storytellers, translators, broadcasters and actors we are adding new stories, recordings and translations to the collection every week. Benefits Our commitment is to support language skills and encourage cultural awareness whilst also aiming to inspire children to both discuss their responses and get creative. Teachers This website is designed for easy use in the classroom, both in whole class settings and to support guided reading. Families As parents you are your child's most influential teacher.
Goodreads | Recent Updates Quotes from the Gel 2011 game, "Restore" At Gel 2011 last week we played a game I designed for the conference, called Restore, which divided attendees into teams and challenged them to restore a quote from snippets shown on their badges. Several Gel attendees have asked for the quotes. Here they are: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman Indian proverb: Empathy is not just about stepping into another's shoes. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. - Warren Buffett Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. - Grace Hopper For us, there is only the trying.
Listen to English around the World. Click on any of the flags below to hear accents from some of the main English-speaking countries. Hear more English accents. One of the best ways of improving your English is to listen to radio news and discussion in English on your computer. Listen to the Bible in MP3 format Listen to film soundclips Mental Heuristics Page A heuristic is a "rule-of-thumb", advice that helps an AI program or human think and act more efficiently by directing thinking in an useful direction. Some of these heuristics are age-old wisdom, bordering on cliche, but most are actually helpful. If you want something done, do it yourself Comment: Obviously true, and doing it is usually very good for your self esteem. Never procrastinate anything you can do right now Comment: Very powerful. When you have several things you could be doing and don't know which to do: Just do any one of them! Comments: If you cannot decide between two or more possibilities, then there is a good chance that the differences don't matter. Always assume that you will succeed Comments: If you don't expect to succeed in an endeavor, then you will not do your best and will not notice possible solutions, while if you feel that you will eventually succeed you will concentrate all your power at the problem. If you can't find a solution, change the rules.
Excellent Quotes from various sources--mostly freethought "Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization. And its operation is always subject to test in experience... "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire." "In the degree in which life is uneasy and troubled, fancy is stirred to frame pictures of a contrary state of things. "It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. "Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action--an emancipation from chance and fatality. -- Albert Einstein "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.
Listening Here you will find good exercises to improve your listening skills. Quotatio : 50,000+ Quotes and Quotations Socialising 4: Active listening Perhaps the most important skill connected with socialising is to ‘shut up and listen’. In practice, it can be very difficult to resist the temptation to turn every conversation into a conversation about what we consider the most interesting thing in the world, i.e. ourselves. The most skilful active listeners include nurses, social workers, psychotherapists and counsellors, so this lesson focuses especially on the techniques studied and used by these professionals. Topic: Socialising and active listening Level: Intermediate (B2) and above Aims: To raise awareness of the importance of active listening skills, and some situations where they are especially important.To teach some language and techniques for active listening, including effective use of body language.To provide practice and feedback of the situation of actively listening to a friend or colleague talking about a difficult experience. Plan components Lesson plan: download Worksheets: download Copyright - please read
Z Quotes Brian Cady: Those before us brilliantly used energy and technology to eliminate labor, with industrialism, when our world was full of energy resources and almost empty of workers. But now the world is filling with pollution, full of us seven billion workers, and emptying of resources. We can all do better by shifting from being productive in Read more… Brian Cady: Energy or Jobs? "…The basic nature of the painful transition involves a necessary shift from economies based on maximizing labor productivity (and thereby continually increasing the capital and energy intensity of their industrial production), which heretofore has been based on non-renewable energy, to economies that must now conserve capital, energy and materials and more fully employ their human Read more… Ariosto Salomon: We should not be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. Sarah Owens: All concerned should put down the smelling salts, stick the fainting couch back in the closet and deal with reality.
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