0430WarmUp

How's your keyboarding skills?

Try out @

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

http://www.typingweb.com/

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0429WarmUp

Strapped into the one-man flyer and crusing the net, I found these interesting sites:

How's your grammar? Can you identify any part of speech?

You can if you check out this website:

http://vsac.cele.nottingham.ac.uk/~ccztk/mfl/pos_standalone_general.php

Can you identify your African countries?

Check this out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/interactive/2008/sep/03/map-africa

How about reducing the population of Earth to 100 people? Check it out @
http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm

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dmac

0428WarmUp

What do you plan to do with your life? How much is it going to cost you to just live, you know, have an apartment, buy a car? These are two of the most important questions you may have to answer for yourself.

Check out this website to see if your career choice will afford you an appropriate lifestyle.

http://masscis.intocareers.org/realitycheck/frmRealityCheck_intro.aspx

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dmac

0427WarmUp

Are you a good reader?

Test your reading skills @

http://e-learningforkids.org/Courses/EN/L0601/index.html

http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/games/index.htm

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/i-spy/games/time

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/stardust/level1/gamepc/

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=WordMatch

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dmac

0426WarmUp

Welcome back from vacation!

Guess whose birthday it was yesterday? JLO, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga?

Yesterday was the 20 year anniversary of the Hubble telescope.

What is the Hubble telescope?

Check it out @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

Take a look at these sites about the Hubble:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/25/hubble.telescope/?hpt=T2

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1897016,00.html?xid=rss-photoessays

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/hubble_servicing/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30484915/displaymode/1247/

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-05-06-hubble-graphic_N.htm

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_science/hubble/index.html?SITE=TXHOU&SECTION=VIDEO

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1984100,00.html?xid=rss-photoessays&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Fphotoessays+%28TIME%3A+Top+Photoessays%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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dmac

0416WarmUp

Ka Boom! What just blew it's icecap off like a cork? he volcano in Iceland.

Check it out @

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/icelands_disruptive_volcano.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/04/15/126025789/volcano?ft=1&f=97635953

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1982157,00.html?xid=rss-photoessays&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Fphotoessays+%28TIME%3A+Top+Photoessays%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2010/apr/15/volcano-airport-disruption-iceland

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/15/world/main6399745.shtml

Find out what volcanos are all about @

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/

http://science.howstuffworks.com/volcano.htm

http://www.ussartf.org/volcanoes.htm

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dmac

0415WarmUp

The hardest part of learning a new language is understanding idioms.

What's an idiom?

Look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom.

Check out these sites:

http://www.in2english.com.cn/working/archive.php?cid=10021028

http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/ri/expressions/dessins_en.php

http://vocabulary.co.il/

http://grafx.dli.com/games/slangolator/slangolator.swf

http://grafx.dli.com/games/bizidiom/theBizidiom.swf

http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Chinese_Zodiac/Chinese_Zodiac_English.html

http://www.english-portal.com/games/walk/walk.htm

http://www.idiomconnection.com/

http://www.autoenglish.org/jungle.html#Essential_

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