Test Your Ear | IDEA International Dialects of English Archive For all you dialecticians, actors, linguists, and just plain language enthusiasts, let’s see if you can identify the home country (or, for the United States, Canada, and China, the state/province) of the following subjects from their accent or dialect. Take a listen, make your best guess, and then click the link under each audio clip to be taken to the sample you just heard. On that sample page, you will be able to read the biography of the subject, hear the person’s unscripted speech, and read the transcription. Audio Player Click here for the answer Audio Player Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer Click here for the answer
Should you pay $250K to go to college? By Jason Calacanis On April 8, 2013 I was talking with my brother recently about higher education. We both struggled our way through school, barely able to afford our approximate $40,000 in tuition and expenses over the four years (he at a state school, me at Fordham University). Now his son has been accepted to a bunch of amazing schools, and we discussed a $250,000 four-year bill. Yep, 20 years after we graduated, the same set of schools cost six times as much. Which leads to the question parents are faced with today: Is college worth the money? The answer? In my estimation, college is worth it if you have a ton of money and don’t care about ROI, or if you can pay less than $50,000-$75,000 and get a job with starting pay of $50,000 or more (generally technical, trade or finance work). Why would anyone spend $250,000 to prepare for a job market in which the average salary for graduates who get a job and work in their specific field is — wait for it — $44,000. Ouch! Wrong. A new hope 1. 2.
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East L.A. murals come to life in school plays Monterey Continuation High School students Christopher Lizarraras,… (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles…) In East Los Angeles, murals are as common and overlooked as clouds in the sky, but both take shape and significance when looked at through a different lens. A group of students from Monterey Continuation High School learned this lesson recently by writing and performing one-act plays about the wall art in their neighborhood and the muralists who put them there. About…Productions oversees the Young Theaterworks program at the school and encourages students to communicate through the arts. "We're realizing there's a living history that the students don't know about," said Rose Portillo, associate director of About…Productions. Students gathered information during a brief but intense interview with the muralists and, with the help of mentors, wrote the plays based on each of the artists and their work. Those who wrote the plays admitted being unaware of the murals' symbolism.
The 20 Strangest Sentences In The English Language This is why English is the coolest and craziest language at the same time. This fun sentence takes on seven different meanings depending on which word is emphasized: [I] never said she stole my money. - Someone else said it. I [never] said she stole my money. - I didn't say it. I never [said] she stole my money. - I only implied it. I never said [she] stole my money. - I said someone did, not necessarily her. While it may look like someone copied “had” and pressed the paste button a few too many times, this is actually an example of what happens when the past perfect tense gets used back-to-back. The fun thing about this sentence is that “complex,” “houses,” and “married” can all serve as different parts of speech. You don’t really appreciate little words like “who,” “which,” or “that” until you come across a sentence like this one. Ending a word with “ing” can make it a noun, verb, or adjective, depending on how you use it. Ah, the magic of phrasal verbs.
Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern There are two other TED-Ed lessons related to this topic: How languages evolve and How did English evolve? (a lesson that fills in some of the details that we omit here due to the fact that the focus of this lesson was further in the past). There is still a great deal of debate about Indo-European, most importantly about the location of the homeland. To learn more about the distribution of languages across the world, see LL-map or The Ethnologue. About Productions: Young Theaterworks Young Theaterworks “About…Productions’ Young Theaterworks comes and challenges students – challenges them to write, to speak, to look inside themselves. Young Theaterworks offers unrelenting professionalism, dedication and belief in the potential of youth to do more, reach higher, succeed. Regular high school administrators and teachers could learn from Young Theaterwork’s dedication and fire for what they do.” – Howard Gillingham, Principal, Pueblo de Los Angeles Continuation High School About…Productions’ YOUNG THEATERWORKS offers innovative programming that introduces youth to the importance of writing and the power of communication through artistic expression, facilitated dialogue and live performance. We believe that real change is made possible by working with a small group of youth over an extended period of time with a genuinely committed artistic staff. YOUNG THEATERWORKS consists of:
IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings The EFL SMARTblog: Merry Christmas Mr Bean Teacher's note; The activities in the worksheet at the bottom of this post are based on the full episode available on DVD or on y cannot be embedded here). This post contains some exercises based on the embeddable youtube clips. DVD availablehere Mr Bean celebrates the traditional British Christmas: the baubles, the crackers, the nativity scene, the carols, the presents, the turkey and the mistletoe... they are all here. You are going to discuss Christmaswatch the Christmas Mr Bean episode and do some activitiesfind Christmas words in a word search exercise write the story in the past tensefind out more about the typical British Christmas and some of the Christmas things in the video. Discuss Do you celebrate Christmas? Watch clip 1 Answer the questions in the interactive exercise after you watch Did Mr Bean have any Christmas decorations? Now do exercise 1 (the answers to questions 9 and 10 are in the next clip) Watch clip 2 2) Who says it? ___“Cup of tea?”
EdTracker: EdSource’s guide to education legislation Last year California state legislators passed the Local Control Funding Formula, transforming how schools are funded. They ended the state’s existing system of standardized testing and created a roadmap for introducing new assessments of student performance. And they approved significant funding for implementing the new Common Core standards. While collectively the raft of education bills introduced this year do not approach that level of magnitude, they do address a range of important issues: universal kindergarten for 4-year-olds, school discipline, teacher dismissal, and bachelor’s degrees at the community college level, to name a few. EdSource will focus on a number of key bills through our EdTracker, reporting their status as they go through the legislative process. Our list will likely expand in coming weeks. Assembly bills AB 364 – Child care oversight AB 420 – Student discipline AB 1444 – Mandatory kindergarten AB 1866 – Student attendance AB 2235 – School construction bonds
When is Thanksgiving? How Adaptive Learning Technology Can Help Transform U.S. STEM Education This article was co-written by Dr. Nishikant Sonwalkar and Ben Owens Many of today’s classrooms look very much like they did 100 years ago: rows of desks, students passively listening to lecture-based instruction, and a one-size-fits all method of instruction. These classrooms look nothing like the real world’s fast-moving, tech-savvy global workplaces, and until we make the insides of our schools look more like the outside, the U.S. will continue to graduate students who are ill-prepared for college and careers. Just take a look at the numbers: According to the National Math + Science Initiative, only 36% of 2013 high school seniors graduated with the knowledge and skills they needed to succeed in college science courses. Ben Owens and his Physics Students How to Bring Learning Innovations Into Every Classroom Educators and administrators must be willing to find methods that are a better match to the real world. Here are a few key ways to do just that: 1. 2. 3. 1. Figure 1 2. 3. Figure 2 Dr.