London Short Fiction: Mud Man Continuing our series of short fiction set in, or influenced by London. This week’s story by Melaina Barnes is the winner of our competition with the British Academy’s Literature Week to find a new modern fairy tale for London. To explore the Literature Week programme — running 11-17 May — and register for events visit the British Academy’s website. Out he comes, dredged from the canal. The narrow-boat girls pat him, tend him, talk to him. –Mate. Clive has a fitful night with dreams of icy water and miring weeds. The next day, his wife leaves early. Clive takes a sip of tea. Clive wakes from a doze and tells himself he’s been dreaming. Clive lies fully dressed on top of the bed and watches TV. His wife chops onions. Clive’s wife arranges for him to see a counsellor. Londonist is proud to be media partner to the British Academy’s Literature Week. Copyright, Melaina Barnes, image by Ekaterina Nosenko in the Londonist Flickr pool. Fairy tales The Fingernail Fairy: Do you believe in her?
Building Brain Literacy in Elementary Students Practice Makes Perfect For many students, the brain isn't a hot topic of conversation. This is especially true for younger students who are still trying to understand the world around them, and are still far from developing physiological self-awareness of the very thing that gives them that self-awareness. But helping students develop "brain literacy" doesn't have to be a matter of dry science pumped full of confusing jargon. Understanding the brain can be empowering for students as they recognize their ability to strengthen it each time they use it. To reduce anxiety about new "stuff" in the classroom -- whether related to Common Core State Standards, struggles with reading, or something else entirely -- you can find opportunities to emphasize students' ability to literally build the brains they want. Much of this kind of thinking starts with an awareness of the brain itself, and how it functions. Helping Students Understand Their Brains Building Student "Brain Literacy"
5 Fun Activities For the Monday Morning Mar March 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment 1. Divide the class into two. Explain the rules. Call 2 students from each team to the board. Set 2 minutes and tell them to write the words that come to their mind. Some categories: Things in a fridge Things you can buy from a supermarket Expensive items Things you can find in a living room. Adjectives that describe personality. 2. Prepare a handout with newly learned structures or some quotes on the topic you’d like to discuss in the class. Make grammatically incorrect sentences changing the place of two words in the sentence and ask students to correct them. 3. Draw a circle and write some letters with which students form words. 4. On slips of papers, write sentences or ask students to write sentences. Put the students in pairs. Give each pair 4 slips of papers, preferably the same 4 sentences and tell them to write a dialogue and insert the sentences they have on the slips of papers into their dialogues. 5.
Synonyms & Antonyms:Knowledge Synonyms & Antonyms : Knowledge Knowledge ( Noun ) This site in general and this page in particular will certainly help the visitors to increase their power of vocabulary in an exhaustive way. Knowledge of London is must to roam around the city. Synonyms: Perception Science Wisdom Intuition Comprehension Cognition Information Lore Light Intelligence Contextual Examples: A good driver must have a good perception of distance. Systematic knowledge acquired after experiments is called science. I question the wisdom of giving a child so much money. My intuition ought to be correct. The teacher had no comprehension of the boy’s problems at home. A copy of this report is enclosed for your information. The judge gave no cognition to the verbal plea of the prosecution without through evidence. The lore of Naga tribes includes many fascinating stories about their habits. The home minister could not throw any light on the issue. Mohan shows great intelligence though he is still very young. Antonyms: Ignorance Unfamiliarity
Culture - Where do fairy tales come from? Imagine the history of fairy tales as a map: unfurl this imaginary terrain in your mind’s eye, and you will first see two prominent landmarks, Charles Perrault’s Tales of Olden Times (1697) and a little nearer in the foreground, the Grimm Brothers’ Children’s and Household Tales (1812–57). These collections dominate their surroundings so imposingly that they make it hard to pick out other features near or far. Gradually, however, as your eyes adjust to the dazzle, several more features of the scene begin to grow in definition and give you better bearings: along a whole web of routes from points further east, The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights form deep aquifers of story running through the entire expanse, and emerging here and there in waterfalls and powerful rivers spreading through wide floodplains. Harbours and market-places and pilgrimage sites – Venice, Naples, Genoa, Sicily, in Italy alone – begin to emerge as significant centres of talkative storytelling populations.
List Of Windows Services That Can Be Safely Disabled Windows Services are executable programs that run constantly in the background and perform specific functions on their own. Users with administrator privileges can choose a default startup behavior for these services. For instance, they can be set to start at system boot, paused and restarted whenever required, or simply disabled. While some services come with the operating system by default, at times different third party software also add their own services. How To Disable Windows System Services Before you start or stop a service, it is important to know its function so that stopping it does not disrupt any important Windows feature or task. You can easily access the Services dialog box from the start menu to view and control all services. In order to start or stop a service or choose its startup type, open the Services dialog box by searching for ‘services’ in the Start Menu search field. It will open the list of local services installed on your system. Safe-To-Disable Services
Top Facebook Pages for English Language Teachers Facebook can be an excellent resource for teachers of the English language! Did you know there are Facebook pages solely dedicated to English teachers? Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses In this article, we list and review some of our favorite Facebook pages for English Teachers. Please note that you must be logged in to your own Facebook account to view these pages. One tip before we start: Don't just "like" these pages! Okay! Click on each page name for a link and review about the page. 1. Teaching English - British Council is just one of the fabulous pages offered by the British Council to accompany their website Teaching English. Teaching English - British Council regularly posts about resources and classroom skills, ELT events, and the British culture. Here are a few other Facebook pages for English teachers operated by the British Council: (Return to top) 2. Grammarly is a great tool for any educator! (Return to top) 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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