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Dan Brown and his publisher Random House have been sensationally accused of sending a rival author to an early grave.
Michael Baigent was left destitute after losing the case he brought against Random House for copyright infringement in 2006. Writer Graham Hancock says the protracted legal battle "cost Michael Baigent his life" – the 65-year-old author died earlier this month of a brain haemorrhage. Baigent was the co-author of a 1982 non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which investigated the same conspiracy theories upon which Brown's later novel, The Da Vinci Code, is based. With Richard Leigh, Baigent's book explored the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had had a child together. Brown's novel made him one of the richest writers in the world, but Leigh died soon after the case finished, and Baigent sold his home in Bath to pay the £3m legal fees.
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When Fiona Millar ruled herself out of the race to succeed Glenda Jackson as Labour candidate for Camden, some wondered if it could be because of negative associations of her husband, Alastair Campbell. Now the husband of Sally Gimson, who is running for the seat, has sought to make clear he will have no influence over his wife.
Writing to the Camden New Journal, Andrew Gimson, a high- profile Tory journalist, says: "You suggest people might think it a drawback for Sally Gimson to be married to me. So I would like to reassure any of your readers … that although I have Tory tendencies I have been unable, in the last 21 years, to change a single one of Sally's political opinions." Sounds like a healthy marriage!
Much intrigue has surrounded the mass exodus of staff from Granta, the literary mag owned by Swedish billionaire Sigrid Rausing. Several editors suddenly left last month without explanation. Now, Rausing has sought to quell speculation about an uncertain future, and says she will be taking over day-to-day running of the business.
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Adding to Pakistan's Misery, Million-Plus Heroin Addicts
By BARRY BEARAK
Published: April 19, 2000
KARACHI, Pakistan— Raees Khan sleeps most nights on a pillow of dust. His home is a median strip along the busy Liaquadabad Road, across from a mosque. A little before dawn a loudspeaker announces the first call to prayer, a reminder to the holy that before Allah all men are naught.
This noisy summons fails to awaken Mr. Khan. Though a Muslim, he does not pray five times a day. Other rituals command him: emptying a tiny bag of heroin into a plastic bottle cap, adding water and heating it on a small flame, drawing the hypnotic broth into a syringe, hunting for a plump vein and feeding into it the fluid warmth.
After a decade of addiction, locating the vein is the hardest part. Most of those conduits have long ago collapsed. One recent morning, Mr. Khan, 30, and a helpmate searched his arms, hands, feet and groin before settling on a faint line in his right biceps.
The shot was transporting. His head lowered sideways as if he were laying it on a platter.
But a few moments later he was up again and grumbling dissatisfaction. He scavenged in his pocket for another bag of the brown powder, and this time he inhaled it.
''I am flying now,'' he said, though this was merely the view from within. Actually, he was staggering toward the street, just another Karachi dope fiend on open display.
Pakistan, which does not lead the world in much, is most likely No. 1 when it comes to heroin addicts. Reliable country-by-country numbers have not been compiled, with social science a low priority in the third world and addicts hard to poll anyway. But the United Nations estimates that 1.5 million heroin addicts live in this nation of 150 million, the unfortunate result of geography, geopolitics, corruption and poverty.
''I think we can be quite definite that Pakistan has the largest heroin population,'' said Bernard Frahi, who heads the United Nations drug program office for South and West Asia. ''And whatever the total is, it seems to be getting quite a bit worse.''
Karachi itself, a city notorious for lawlessness, political killings and gargantuan slums, has 600,000 heroin addicts, according to the nation's anti-narcotics officials. And while that total seems exaggerated -- for it would mean that about 1 in 15 adult males is hooked -- the city is replete with the dope-addled in each section of its troubled sprawl.
Addicts are everywhere and nowhere, easy to overlook from a car but impossible to miss on foot. They are huddled on the sidewalk, under the bridge, behind the truck, against the fence, along the prime begging space beside the shrine.
''Heroin is written in my fate,'' said Mohammad Aslam, 40, who had a needle in his arm and a prayer cap on his head. ''No one can change the decree of fate.''
Their days fill with the customary gamut of degradation: the craving, the begging, the scheming. Mr. Aslam has been shunned by his wife -- or perhaps it is the other way around. He sleeps near the city's main drainage ditch, just a few feet from raw sewage.
With the veins in their extremities withered, addicts often tug down their pants, injecting near the groin. Jan Sher, 29, does this. He is a theatrical man who lives beneath the girders of a walkway. Dirt is on him like plaster and there are crescents of sweat under his arms, but he handles a syringe so deftly that it may as well be an extra finger.
''This is Karachi,'' he said, letting the needle linger, drawing blood in, letting it out. ''You can drop your pants in a police station and shoot up, and no one would care.''
A dose of heroin, known as a token, costs about $1 -- about a tenth of what it would cost in Brooklyn. The quality is bad, with barbiturates often mixed in. But with the price so cheap, a three-bag habit is affordable to anyone whose hands can beg small change or steal an item off a shelf.
A syringe, heroin's most efficient conveyance, sells for 10 cents. Addicts reuse them until the point becomes painfully blunt. They know the sermons about hepatitis and H.I.V., but many still share needles, playing the odds in a kind of microbiological roulette.
The more favored practice, though, is referred to as panni, or what in America is called chasing the dragon. The heroin is spread on a strip of tin foil and heated from below. The addicts, who are overwhelmingly male, inhale the fumes through a straw, sniffing at the curl of smoke like an excited hound following a scent.
An entire colony of panni sniffers has settled into the concrete hollows beneath the Sohrab Bridge, along the main highway. Dogs roam all over, and while the attraction for them may be in the ample rubbish, addicts insist that the animals themselves are hooked.
At the steps around Aurangzeb Park, in the oldest part of the city, a hundred or so addicts gather each evening. From a distance they appear to be in prayer, kneeling over candles or matchsticks, entering a trance in the delicate sadness of nightfall.
Mixed among the bedraggled are a few addicts who have clean clothes and barbered hair. They work at jobs and go home to families. While their normal lives have yet to be entirely forfeited, they seem without illusions about the eventual surrender.
''There are more of us every day,'' Faeez Hussain said a little boastfully, ''and people from good families, too. You'll find university graduates among us.''


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|Reviews for Falling For the First Time
| Ninufa chapter 34 . 1/31/2011
| SymphonicSpiral chapter 7 . 11/1/2010
funny thing is,I was watching the exact episode while reading the chapter XD great story,i love the pairing
| Cancerous Galaxy chapter 2 . 8/20/2010
XD Poor Jack. I remember that scene. I was laughing so hard! Then... *winces* I'm a GIRL and I couldn't help but flinch when that happened to him. Jack's so abused, ain't he?
| Cancerous Galaxy chapter 1 . 8/20/2010
... I'ma have to use some of those little short comments on my friend. XD And you're not short. ... You're fun sized.
| pink-chief chapter 34 . 10/29/2009
hwa! XD that was good! keep going! XD best story eva!
| DarkAngel010 chapter 34 . 8/20/2009
| akinos chapter 34 . 12/16/2008
So Long!...What the time you up the chapter 35?..Oh, I really want to read it..Can you post the chapter 35? I hope you not lost Fic...Well..hurry finish this fic anh the others fic..anh then..Would you want to see your fic in Vietnamese? ..I mean the Webside of Vietnamese..eg: ...I hope you Ok for me..
Happy new year and "giáng sinh vui vẻ"..!
| Momoshiro Hikari chapter 3 . 11/29/2008
this was realy good i love Falling for the first time. You totally rigt that Ginta and Alviss belong to eathother /sorry for my bad english).. SON GOKU-SAMA DAISUKI. Yohko shere him with me i allso want to be som goku-samas girlfriend :D...
| ForeverShallNatureThrive chapter 5 . 7/14/2008
This is a very interesting story... very well written... but stories about gay people creep me out sometimes... and... Ginta isn't supposed to have version 4 until the battle with Kannochi. Or at least people aren't supposed to know about it until then. I think.
| felinerx chapter 2 . 6/23/2008
Me: *squeals* ZOMG ALVISS! *runs into the room you're in and glomps Alviss*
Alviss: -_-'
Me: T_T *crushes Alviss in a hug*
Alviss fans: ZOMG YOU'RE KILLING HIM!
| felinerx chapter 1 . 6/23/2008
D FYI, Saiyuki rules!
Prince of Tennis is better though...or MAR...or Naruto...or...ARG I CAN'T CHOOSE!
I can't imagine Alviss in a relationship with anyone, let alone Ginta!
P.S. I like Phantom *gasp*
| Corisu chapter 34 . 6/11/2008
Damnit, just notice my mistake. Visit video.
and search for MÄR eps that are chinese sub. if u understand chinese
of japenese then ur okay.
| Corisu chapter 34 . 4/26/2008
Watch MÄR on by searching on video.
But its chinese sub so thats a bit of your problems.
| Corisu chapter 34 . 4/26/2008
Dude! Update NOW! Good story so update now!(If you want to watch MÄR episodes just go to only problem is its in chinese) Ialso like your other story about Pit and Sleeping something so update both of them please!
| Aluv95 chapter 24 . 2/20/2008
i was wondering if alviss and ginta does have sex why would alviss be uke i mean he is older than ginta?
I was thinking maybe he should be the seme since hes taller and older and oher stuffs if u know what a mean.
Anyways that was a GREAT chapter even when alviss was gonna
adnit his feelings to ginta but jack ruined it! :(


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How to Use Easy English NEWS In your ESL Classroom Contents Regular features 2 Overview of Easy English NEWS 3 Meeting standards 3 How to prepare 4 How to work with high beginners 4 How to work with intermediate students 5 How to work with advanced students 6 How to use the quizzes at four ability levels 6 How to work withthe regular features 7 How to write for This Is Your Page 9 How to work with the Activity Sheets 15-24 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 1 Regular Features in Easy English NEWS • Current news or civics article • Life in the U.S.A. (survival skills and information) • Events and holidays for the month • This Is your page (true stories from readers) • Ask Elizabeth (grammar, usage, culture, or advice in answer to readers' questions) • Ask a Speech Coach: pronunciation tips and listening/speaking practice • America the Beautiful /Places to Go, Things to See (geography, national parks, national wonders, cities, and other places of interest) • Heroes and History (important events and people in U.S. history) • Idiom corner (explanations and practice with American idioms) • Funny Stuff (jokes and riddles) • Comic Strip (occasional) • Crossword Puzzle • Let's Talk About It (Discussion starters; writing prompts) • Word Help (glossary of the difficult words in this month's articles, with the meanings defined in Easy English) A monthly Teacher's Guide accompanies each delivery in a separate 4-page section. It contains background information for the month's main articles and suggestions for procedures, questions, and expansion activities, as well as three Reproducible Quizzes . Elizabeth Claire is the creator, author and publisher of Easy English NEWS. She has taught ESL for 35 years, has authored 22 ESL text books, and is now your support in the classroom. Please let us know how we're doing, what's missing, what you would like in future issues, how students respond, and any mistakes we may have made. The best way to contact us is by email through our website: www.easyenglishnews.com or firstname.lastname@example.com You can write to us at Easy English NEWS P.O. Box 2596 Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 Fax us at 201-791-1901 or call us at 888-296-1090 2 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Overview NEWS allows teachers to meet all standards that are generated from the needs of adult and young adult immigrants in high beginner Easy English NEWS is designed for adult through advanced classes in the following areas: and young adult ESL students in their second • vocabulary building year in the United States and beyond. • reading You can use Easy English NEWS in any adult education or high school classroom for • listening students of English as a Second Language or in classes for native-English speaking students • writing (basic skills classes) who would benefit from adult content in a plain English presentation. • speaking The purpose is to maximize growth in • cultural integration reading, comprehension, and vocabulary in a useful format, by providing vital information • content reading in social studies, civics needed by immigrants to survive (and thrive) in their new environment. and In addition, Easy English NEWS contains • citizenship preparation. features to assist culture sharing, discussion, In addition, it stimulates higher-order problem solving, writing topics, pronunciation, thinking skills such as researching and and retention of facts as well as the English to organizing information; evaluating and express themselves. comparing ideas, as well as applying knowledge It's our intention to make your job in the they have acquired. classroom easier, more rewarding for both you and your students, and more relevant to their lives and society. How to prepare Pre-read Easy English NEWS to select the This HOW TO booklet will provide generral ideas articles you will use with your students based to work with the various features in the newspaper on their needs, interests, age, English levels, and and to work with various English abilities of stu- your goals for the class. Look over the dents. You can use these suggestions with any issue. following suggestions to get started. Read the In addition, when you subscribe to Easy English monthly Teacher's Guide for specific ideas with NEWS, you'll get a 4-page supplement each month the articles you choose. with specific teaching suggestions and background There are no "wrong" ways to use Easy information for the month's major articles. English NEWS, and you can use different techniques each month. Experiment with any of Meeting standards the following suggestions to get started. Follow your students' lead as well as your own plans. Each state has its own way of describing its standards. Used effectively, Easy English 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 3 How to work with beginners After each paragraph check for comprehension and build vocabulary. Ask "yes/no" questions and questions that can • When you first introduce Easy English be answered in one word or a short phrase NEWS, build up familiarity with the (who/what/where/when). Ask questions in vocabulary that students will need to talk which you supply the answer, so they don't about the newspaper: What's this? It's a have to recall it, merely recognize it: Is the newspaper. What's the title of the capital of the United States New York City newspaper? What month is this or Washington, D.C.? newspaper for? What's this? It's a • Read the article aloud again, sentence by photograph. (picture). What's this? It's an sentence. Have the entire class read each article. It's a headline. What is the sentence after you. (Break longer sentences headline for this article? How many into phrases or breath groups). Call on pages are in the newspaper? What is the individuals to repeat a sentence after you. headline for pages 2 and 3? What is the Then have volunteers read a paragraph title for page 4? 5? 6? 7? 8? What do aloud. Help with pronunciation. Finally, you see on page 9? A crossword puzzle, have students work in pairs to read an and so forth. Teach additional words as article to each other, alternating needed, such as: top of the page, bottom paragraphs. of the page, turn the page, beginning, middle and end of the article, continued • Word Help may be difficult for many on page, caption, author, and all the other beginning students. Allow them to use a terms that will allow you to speak about bilingual dictionary instead, if needed. any newspaper in English. (Teach them to look at all the definitions their dictionary may give, and choose the one that fits the article.) • Choose very short articles, particularly • Have students copy the article, or a ones with illustrations that help key paragraph or key words from the communicate the context. This is your paragraph. Later, give listening/writing page and America the Beautiful as well as practice as you dictate a few of the words the holiday articles are good ones to start or sentences. with. Page one articles are more complex, and generally much longer. • Create a "cloze" exercise for students: Type in a paragraph from a story they have • Prior to reading an article, create a focus just read. Eliminate every 8th word, for reading. Ask students questions such leaving a blank in its place. Dictate the as What do you see in this picture? paragraph to the students for them to write What's happening? What's the title of this in the missing word. Alternatively, have story? students search to find the missing words • Write several key new words on the board and write them in. and elicit or explain the meanings. • Let students correct each other's writings • Read the article to the students, one by comparing their sentences with the text paragraph at a time as students follow in the newspaper. along. Use additional pictures, maps, real • Find a useful sentence structure in the objects, gestures, and actions to get the article that students need more familiarity meanings across. with. Teach the grammar underlying the 4 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 structure, and provide additional practice answer to a question. Write their answers with the structure. Use "pattern practice" on the board next to the appropriate or drill similar sentences if it seems useful. questions. • Connect the article with the students' • With papers open, read the article as experience. Have students express their students follow along in the text. opinions, tell about similar experiences, or • Check for comprehension after each share information from their own culture. paragraph. Ask "WH" questions and other • Evaluate students' understanding and fact-finding questions. retention with the quizzes done at the • Next, have students take turns reading easiest level. Reproduce the Self- out loud. Help by modeling Evaluation on page 15 to help you pronunciation or intonation when understand students' level of necessary. Finally, let students read the comprehension. article to each other in pairs, alternating paragraphs. • On a subsequent day, review the part of the How to work with intermediate article you completed with the class students earlier, and continue with the next part of the article. • Before reading an article, find out what • Use the questions in Let's Talk About It on the students already know about the page 11 of Easy English NEWS for topic. Have students share the discussion. Add additional questions to experiences they have had with the topic. encourage students to express their Ask questions about how this topic is opinions, describe their own experiences in handled or dealt with in their native the matter, or tell about the situation in countries. their native countries. • Decide how much of the article you will • Use any of the writing activities listed in cover in one session. Some of the longer "high beginner" tips. articles may take two or three sessions. • With papers open, have students write the • Write the boldfaced words in the article answers to questions you dictate. (or section of the article you plan to cover) on the board. Pronounce the words for the • With papers closed, have students write the students, and have them practice saying article in their own words. them. • Have students write opinions, comparisons, • Elicit the meanings of the words, if or culture sharing based on the article or possible. If not, explain the words, and use the class discussion about the article. the words in sample sentences. • Write several fact questions (that will be answered in the article) on the board. Tell Working with Advanced Students the students to listen for the answers as you read the article to them (with their Advanced students will not have the need for papers closed). Have students raise their slower paced, assisted reading of Easy English hands to stop you when they hear the NEWS. Their focus may be on the content that is new to them, new concepts, and occasional 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 5 new words. With an advanced group, there can How to Use the Quizzes be extensive oral work on finding facts, giving summaries, expressing opinions, sharing There are three reproducible quizzes included cultures. in each month's Teacher's Guide. There are various ways you can tailor these to students of • Ask preview questions to create interest different abilities. In general, the quizzes and focus for the article you choose to require that students have read the major read: "What do you think this article is articles of the newspaper. This might leave out about?" "What do you already know the beginning students who will focus on about this?" Provide time for class shorter, easier articles. You might want to select discussion prior to reading the article. only those questions that can be answered from • Read the article in any way suitable to the readings that students have actually done. the levels of your class; ask volunteers to read aloud one paragraph each; read at Quiz I is a multiple choice quiz. It usually home for homework; read aloud in pairs. focuses on the top front page story and one other main story. • Discuss any new information that has come out in the article, any surprises, Quiz II is a modified True-False quiz, and things they learned, or differences of focuses on holidays and one or two other opinion. articles. Students have to decide if a statement • Have students tell how the treatment of is true or false. If it is false, they must write a this topic is the same as or different from word to replace the underlined word in order to customs in their home countries. make the statement true. • Have students tell how the information Quiz III is a vocabulary matching quiz, which affects their own lives. Ask questions that draws vocabulary items from any of the articles generate thoughtful responses: If this in the newspaper. happened to someone you know...What would happen if...? What do you think The quizzes can be given at four different could be done to prevent (fix) this? levels of difficulty. You can use a quiz as a pre- • Encourage students to express their test before reading Easy English NEWS, if you opinions about the articles. like. Then give the same test as a post test. Or, you can test students with the same quiz at a • Provide class time for silent reading. Let higher level of difficulty on a subsequent day. students explore the paper, and read the articles, in the order they choose. • Level 1 (most basic): You may give the • Have students present a class "TV quiz orally to the entire class as a practice NEWS Broadcast." Have students work for doing the test later in a written form. with a partner or small group. Assign Or, students work in groups. They read each group an article to report on, or let questions aloud, help each other the groups choose. understand, and may search for answers in • Ask students what else they would like to the newspaper. Students help each member know about the article. Bring in of the group to practice answering the additional information on the topic and questions. invite students to do further research and • Level 2: Students work in groups and help bring in any materials they want to share. each other, but are working from memory, 6 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 having read the newspaper previously. regular English/English or English/native • Level 3: Students work alone, may have a language dictionary. dictionary, and may search for answers in Point out that, as in a regular dictionary, the the newspaper. word is listed in its basic form. That is, • Level 4: Students work alone completing singular, if it is a noun, and the base form if it the quiz, with no aid. is a verb or adjective. The part of speech is Correcting the students' quiz papers: given (we write it out in full rather than merely an abbreviation), and the definition. Some • You have various options: Students correct words with non-phonetic pronunciations will their own papers, each others' papers, or a have the pronunciation given. class monitor corrects their quizzes. In any case, you should learn how each of the Activity: After completing the newspaper, students scored, so they are ultimately have a quiz show, with a "show host" reading reporting to you. the definitions from Word Help at random, and teams competing for points by giving the correct • Optional: Explain the four testing levels to word being defined. (You can mark the words in your class. Have the class vote on the level the list that you feel are the most important for of difficulty they would like. In a multi- review.) level class let individual students choose their own quiz level. • As an additional challenge, have groups of Top Story students select articles, and prepare quizzes on that article for the class. These Page One will usually have two articles. The can be multiple choice, fill-in-the blank, first article will feature an aspect of U.S. government, True/False, matching questions or open an issue in democracy, or a current news story of ended questions. importance to immigrants or to all Americans. Bring in additional news articles on the topic, books, pictures, DVDs, videos, and photos. How to work with the regular Have students find the locale of the story on a world map and U.S. map. Pace the reading, features in Easy English NEWS based on your students' abilities. An intermediate class might spend two to three class sessions on one major article, while an Boldfaced words advanced class can cover it in a single session. Point out to students that words in dark type, It may prove too challenging for high beginners, with asterisks* (stars) after them can be found so you might just use the photo as a point of with definitions in WORD HELP on page 12. teaching vocabulary. Add background information where needed. Let students know that words may have many meanings, but WORD HELP gives only the Record a TV news broadcast or documentary meaning used in this issue of Easy English on the topic and show it to the class after they NEWS. This saves students' time and avoids the have read the article. Or ask students to read or confusion of having to choose among many watch TV in their native language and bring meanings of a word that they would find in a more information on the topic to share in the class. 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 7 NOTE: We do our research from a variety of Elicit from students any days that are special to sources, but most of it is necessarily second them in the current month—school events, hand. We do not have any reporters in holidays in their home countries, their own Washington, D.C., the Middle East, or anywhere birthdays and anniversaries, etc. Have students else, for that matter. We subscribe to weekly write these events and the month's holidays on and monthly news magazines, check Internet the correct dates on the calendar. news, and watch both network and public broadcasting news. We check our facts with Before reading about a holiday, ask students almanacs, the Census Bureau, government and how that holiday is celebrated in their home other public sources as well as news services countries (or if that holiday exists). After and our own experts. We attempt to provide reading about a holiday in the U.S. add your several sides to controversial stories and allow own experiences to it, or have guests come in to teachers and students to sort out their own talk about the holiday in their family. Holiday opinions. Completed articles are run past six customs in the U.S. vary from family to family, well-educated teachers and editors each month and even from city to city, and generation to before going to press. generation. Point out that some holidays are celebrated only by Christians, Jews, Muslims, While we make all possible efforts to avoid (Christmas, Easter, Rosh Hashana, Passover, bias, misinformation, and error, pressures of Ramadan, etc.,) and other holidays are monthly deadlines and time limits are always celebrated by the general population (Labor after us. If you notice any bias, misinformation, Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, New Year's or errors, please explain them to your class. Let Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial us know our shortcomings; that's how we learn, Day, and Independence Day). too. Having a whole month to celebrate a particular ethnic or racial or gender group may Life in the U.S.A. (Survival skills) be an unusual concept for people who come from a one-culture society. After reading about The bottom of Page One is usually a Hispanic American Heritage, American Indian "survival topic" which helps to understand History month, Black History Month, or American ways of doing things. Many of these Women's History Month, have students invent a "Life in the U.S.A." features appear in a series month, week, or day to celebrate the heritage of of several articles over several months. a group of people. Alternatively, they can invent However, each article is self-contained and does a holiday. Have them brainstorm activities to do not rely on previous or future articles. during the celebration of their own heritage or holiday. Follow up on any ideas that are pertinent to your students' needs and interests. Plan a class Ask what other holidays are celebrated that trip, go shopping, or invite a guest expert to month in their cultures. speak to your class. Bring in more illustrations, plus real items to handle and discuss. Generate For homework, have students ask Americans math activities where appropriate. in their school or community how they usually celebrate an upcoming holiday, or what their plans are this year to celebrate it. Have students Events in (this month) report what they learn to the class. A blank calendar is provided on this page. 8 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Act out any aspect of a holiday that would avoid disappointment, make sure students add enjoyment or English learning for your understand that. Send stories by Email class. For example, dressing for Halloween, (preferred), fax, or mail. You can mail several wearing green for St. Patrick's Day, decorating students' stories to us in one envelope but we eggs at Easter time, having a grab bag at read each story individually, and handle it Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwaanza; lighting individually, so each story must have the Hanukkah or Kwaanza candles, singing holiday author's name and address written on it. We'd songs, playing a holiday game, preparing and like to know the native country too, please. We eating special foods, making valentines, don't have the staff to acknowledge mailed or memorizing a poem, and so forth. Be aware of faxed submissions unless we publish them, various politically correct do's and don't's so which could take up to 18 months. We will you do not offend any individual or groups of acknowledge the receipt of Emailed students, or transgress your school's policies. submissions. Stories we publish must: This Is Your Page • be original work by a reader of Easy English NEWS. This page is written by readers of Easy English NEWS. Your students can relate to the • be of interest to our readers. ideas from their own experience. These stories are often easy enough for beginners. • be 100-300 words in length. After reading a story, ask comprehension • not be similar to a story we have questions: Who, What, Where, When, and Yes/ published before. No questions for beginners. Follow these by getting students involved: Has this ever • reflect the writer's best effort. happened to you? What would you do if this We will cut, rearrange, and correct writers' happened to you? grammar, without altering the intention of the What can you learn from this? Which is your writer, so that stories are understandable to our favorite story? Why? readers and fit the space. Have students work in small groups to create Best bets: True, first-person stories that tell of and act out very short skits based on the stories. one incident, with details, of a problem with Encourage students to write and illustrate English, culture shock, getting a job, fear, stories about their own experiences that might misunderstanding, embarrassment, danger, visit be of interest to other readers. Make a class to a national landmark, trouble with agencies, newspaper, and distribute it to students, police, etc., that our immigrant readers can teachers, and others in your school. relate to or learn from. We don't publish: stories that have no How to write for Easy English NEWS relevance to immigrants' experiences here; stories written for some other purpose that don't Readers may send their best work to Easy fit our guidelines; students' poetry, opinion, or English NEWS. We pay $15 for every story we college entrance essays, opinion essays, etc. publish, but we cannot publish them all, so to 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 9 We don't have a need for stories that cover Activity: "Ask an Expert" Ask students if two or three years: "I came to the U.S. and they are experts in any field, or would like to be didn't speak English. It was terrible. Now I an expert. (Some fields of expertise for young speak English and have many friends." These people might be might be "playing soccer;" stories are wonderful, and we have published "cooking eggs;" "getting lost;" "training a many of them. We are now looking for details dog;" "driving or repairing a car" ; "getting that make each story different from the others. good grades;" "shopping for a car; vegetables, meat, jeans, bargains, etc.;" "doing homework;" Please explain to students that we receive "studying for a spelling test;" "cleaning a hundreds of stories per year. We can't publish house;" "making a pie;" and so on.) them all. It is not a reflection on their story that we don't choose it. The "expert" tells the topic, and the other students prepare questions to ask the "Expert." Sometimes a story gets separated from the The Expert has (60) seconds to make up address of the writer, or the writer has moved answers. They are allowed to "fake it" when since sending in a story. So if a student sees his they don't know the answer. or her story in the paper, and has not received a check for $15 from us, please have him or her Email, write, or call us (888-296-1090) with Ask a Speech Coach: Gene Zerna their story name, and their own name and address. Gene Zerna is the author and producer of Master Spoken English, a 5-DVD program in accent modification. He has prepared actors for Ask Elizabeth the stage, as well as ESL students for public speaking. This occasional column focuses on Elizabeth Claire has a Masters Degree in common problems new speakers have with Teaching English as a Second Language, plus English sounds and intonation. expertise in a variety of fields such as human relations, communication, American culture and This is for classroom practice to help students history, nutrition, small business startups, gain confidence in their pronunciation and grammar, manners, shopping, scams, and much voice. If the element being coached is relevant more. And what she doesn't know, she'll find to your students, use the practice words and out–except legal and medical advice. Topics on sentences for several minutes a day and repeat this page vary in response to readers' questions. daily over a period of several weeks in order to Send in questions by Email. The most relevant effectively train lips, tongue, and vocal muscles questions for our readers will be printed with in the production of new sounds. answers. Procedure: Read the reader's question aloud America the Beautiful to the class. Before reading Elizabeth's answer, have students take time to give their own There is not much text on this page. Much of answers. Then have students read Elizabeth's the information can be absorbed through photos, answer. Have students compare solutions to the maps and charts. Readers will learn facts about problem, and talk about similar problems they the land, waters, farms, industries, natural or friends might have. wonders, national parks and tourist attractions in the country. 10 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Bring in additional visuals and information Bring in additional visuals, videos, DVDs about the topic that would be of interest to your posters etc. to enhance the experience of the students. Ask students to bring in related photos history. Have students find out more about the or pictures of their native countries. Relate the hero at the library or on the Internet. Create a article to your own area—Ask questions such as time line to show where the event fits in with How many miles away is (the East Coast)? other important events in history. How is this place similar to where we live? How is it different? How is it similar to a Discuss how the event or hero's place in your home country? Do you want to accomplishments may have affected their lives. go there some day? What would you want to see? Graphs, Charts, and Maps Use the maps to help students locate their We include graph, chart, or a map each month own state and the features being illustrated. to help readers gain complex data through Wall charts will work better for instruction if visual means without a lot of written language. you have access to them. Use charts to practice Point out any key supplied, and have students reading of large numbers, and making understand that a number in a graph or chart comparisons. may represent a number of thousands or Extension activity: Have the class plan an millions. imaginary trip to one of the locations in the Ask specific questions that students can article. Suggest ways to research this: Search answer directly from the map, chart or graph. the Internet for the location and the sights to Then ask questions that involve comparing and see; search each Internet site for more analyzing: Which x is the most____? Which is information. Using Travelocity or Expedia.com the least ___ ? How many x's are ____? What find out the best air routes, connecting flights, is ____ next to ? and fares to that place. Check prices at a variety of hotels at the place. Calculate costs of getting Ask questions where students have to bring in there with a friend, or with the family. Plan a prior knowledge or conjecture: Why do you week's activities at the location. think x has the most y? Heroes and History Idiom Corner This page features either events and heroes Explain that an idiom is a group of words "every American school child knows," or that has a special meaning. The pictures American heroes who were immigrants. illustrate what the words alone make you think, but the meaning of the idiom is entirely Find out what your students already know different. Have students read the definitions and about the topic. Have them tell about any sample sentences to get an understanding of the similar events or heroes in their native idioms. Call out definitions at random, and countries. have students tell you the idiom. Ask students to Choose a reading technique appropriate to create additional sentences (orally) using the your students' ability and interest level, then idioms. Correct any sentences so students can ask comprehension questions, opinion questions, fine-tune their sense of when and how to use the and culture-sharing questions. idioms. 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 11 Have the students write the correct idioms in stereotypes, and expectations that contribute to the practice sentences. Point out that they may the point of the joke. need to change verb tenses or pronoun forms. Have students draw a picture to illustrate the Have students practice telling the joke, using true meaning of an idiom, not the one it seems proper intonation, and timing. Ask them to tell to mean. the joke to several people, and then to report reactions to the class. Have them interview the Encourage students to listen for idioms in the person they told the joke to, and ask questions speech of people around them, or in movies, such as: Do you think this joke is funny? Why news reports, etc. Have them keep a list in a or why not? Have you heard this joke before? notebook. Encourage students to use idioms in situations where the idioms are appropriate. Have students tell jokes from their own Caution them that idioms must have "all their culture. If necessary, have them explain why parts" to sound right in English. Have them people think the joke is funny. Additional help share similar idioms from their own language. with American humor can be found in What's So Funny? An Introduction to American Humor by Elizabeth Claire (Delta Systems). Funny Stuff People generally laugh when some tension is Movie and video review (occasional) released. People from different cultures do not experience the same tensions, so the same things In this column, we give a plot summary of a are not funny. For that reason, humor is usually movie we think ESL students would enjoy. If the last thing a person understands in a new you have any suggestions for these (recent or language. For example, married people in many classic), please pass them on to us. You can use cultures may easily relate to mother-in-law snippets of these DVDs or videos in your jokes, but unmarried people don't think they are classroom, but the benefit to the student will be as funny (nor do mothers-in-law). Renters may to borrow or own a movie that they can play laugh at landlord jokes, but people who have repeatedly at home. lived in government-owned apartments won't have the same sense of resentment. Demonstrate the value of focusing on a short scene, maybe 3 to 5 minutes, and replaying it Choosing jokes for Easy English NEWS is until they have "slowed down" the flood of not easy, as the joke has to be short; not a play language. Using movies with closed captions is on words; politically correct, that is, not make valuable. We will review movies that have been fun of any ethnic group, race, gender, older popular in the U.S., with worthwhile values, people, males, females, poor people, body dramatic action story lines that are easy to infirmity or condition such as baldness or follow, and that avoid violence, nudity, sex, obesity, and must be clean, and not make crime, and off color language. Heavy British drunkenness or addiction a laughing matter. The accents or difficult dialects would not work for joke must pass our laugh test. This doesn't our students. guarantee it will pass the students' laugh test, as humor often doesn't translate. Crossword Puzzle If your students don't get the joke, first make Our crossword puzzle is "handmade" and sure they understand each word. Explain any designed to be ESL-friendly. Most of the words 12 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 are useful, high-frequency words known to peeking at the answers too soon. Sometimes we second-year students. just can't avoid using a low-frequency word which ESL students probably don't know. You Important note: A crossword puzzle is not a can supply the answers to definitions of these test, and should not be assigned as one. It's words at the outset, if the cross definitions supposed to be a fun challenge, but if your won't help them. students aren't ready for it, you'll need to help a bit. If your students have never done a crossword puzzle before, show them how. Either Let's Talk About It draw a piece of the grid on the blackboard or create an overhead transparency of the There are three types of questions in this crossword grid to show how a puzzle is worked section. The first type helps students focus on out. Work through an entire puzzle with the gathering important facts from each article. The class. Suggest they use capital letters, and second asks students to express their opinions. pencils, not pens! The third type gives students a chance to share native culture with the group. Answers to the Show students how the letters down will help fact questions can be verified in the articles. them with words across, and vice versa. Show Opinion and sharing questions have no set them that they can skip the definitions they answers. don't know, and move on to the next ones. Later, they come back, and with some words American education develops students who filled in, they will have letter clues to help can form opinions, express opinions and give them. Looking at the answer too soon defeats reasons for their opinions with confidence when the purpose, but checking answers when they interacting with people who hold different have exhausted all possibilities makes sense for opinions. This may be unheard of in some learners. students' home cultures where teachers are considered "the fountain of knowledge" and Teach terms that are often used in crossword whose opinions are considered the only valid clues, such as opposite, initials, abbreviation, ones. Students who have never expressed short form; same as 14 across; past form; opinions before need help in valuing their point plural of . of view. Help students learn to support their opinions by offering other facts they know, and Have students work on the puzzle their personal experience. Talk about the individually or with a partner. Give them a time common saying, "Everyone is entitled to his (or period to share and compare answers (15-20+ her) own opinion." minutes). After that, put two groups together, and let them share answers. Then let students Use the culture-sharing questions to develop check their words against the answers on page an international atmosphere in your class, and 11. an appreciation for other cultures. Point out that esaying, "It seems to me..." before giving an Expand on vocabulary, if needed, with sample opinion is polite, allowing others to have it sentences. Most people doing puzzles for fun seem otherwise to them. check the answers at some point. This isn't cheating, it's learning. You can encourage Some of the questions may lend themselves to students to work on all the clues they can get on debate. Help students express their own ideas their own, first, and take pride in resisting clearly and listen to others' opinions with an open mind. Encourage them to switch roles and 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 13 argue for an opinion opposite the one they article. Have students talk about what they have. That will help them to see things from know about the topic and what they want to others' view points. know. Have them fill in the top part of the paper. Later, after reading the article, have Select a few of the questions for students to students write what they learned and still want answer in writing. Have them work in small to learn. groups to read each others' answers, and help each other correct and edit their writings. Have Facts and Opinions This may be used with students turn in their best writing for you to one article or with the entire paper. Have grade and save in a portfolio. students write down facts they learned that they or others have an opinion about. Fact: 20 people want to be elected president. Opinion: x is the How to Work with the Activity Pages best candidate. Pages 15 to 24 of this HOW TO booklet may Problems and solutions be photocopied for your class. This activity will be useful for certain articles Self Evaluation: After you have completed such as those on Earth Day, pollution, water the month's issue of Easy English NEWS, have shortages, climate change, smoking deaths, etc. students evaluate their own participation and progress. You can collect these for student Time Line For articles such as Heroes and portfolios and get a better insight into your History, or Women's (or African American, etc.) students' progress and interests than merely History Month, have students get a sense of the through the quizzes. order in which things happened. Compare: This Venn Diagram allows Then and Now is similar, but compares comparisons of many sorts. For example the todays culture, laws, customs with those of a title may be "Holidays in April". The left circle particular time in the past. can be "only in the United States" and the right circle can be "only in my home country." The For and Against use this with articles about overlapping part in the middle would be the some national debate. Have students formulate a holidays that are in both countries. Or it may be proposed action and then brainstorm the reasons "Who can vote?" "Republicans and Democrats' for it and against it. They don't have to come to Ideas for government." a conclusion, just to see the complexity that lies in many issues. Who, what, where, when, how, and why? This is usually appropriate for the Heroes and Encourage students to write "news stories" History article, or sometimes the front page about people and events in their own schools, news story. Students search for the details and workplaces, or neighborhoods. Photocopy their write them in. stories, and print them in a student newspaper. People, places, events, and dates: This is more of a self evaluation and personal opinion page. Which were important to the student? Before reading/after readingDistribute these pages to the class before reading a major 14 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Name____________________________________ Date _____________________________ Easy English NEWS Self-Evaluation 1. The articles I liked the most were this month 6. Some new words that are important to me were: are: _____________________________________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ _____________________________________________ ___________________ ___________________ _____________________________________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ 2. Some interesting or useful things I learned this month were: 7. My effort in reading Easy English NEWS _____________________________________________ this month is: _____________________________________________ A B C D F _____________________________________________ 8. I understood about ___% of the newspaper _____________________________________________ this month. (circle the number) _____________________________________________ 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 95% 100% 3. After reading Easy English NEWS this month, I want to know more about: _____________________________________________ 9. Ways I can improve my English this month: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ 4. An article i did not like was 10. Other comments ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ because ________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 15 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ Compare B A B C A: Only in ___________________________ B: In both ____________________ and _____________________ C: Only in _______________ 16 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ Who, What, Where, When, How, Why? Story Title _________________________________________________________ 1. Who or what is the story about? 2. What happened? 3. Where did it happen? 4. When did it happen? 5. How did it happen? 6. Why did it happen? 7. Does it affect you? How? Why? 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 17 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ People, Places, Events, and Dates People Places Events Dates 18 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ Title of story_______________________________________________________ Before Reading 1. What I know about this topic: 2. What I want to know about it: After Reading 3. What I learned: 4. What I still want to know 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 19 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ Facts and Opinions Story ___________________________________________________ Fact Opinion Fact Opinion Fact Opinion Fact Opinion Fact Opinion 20 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ Problems and Solutions Story ______________________________ Problem _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Solutions _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 21 Name _________________________________Date _________________________________ Time Line Story: ________________________ What happened first? What happened next? And then? And then? And then? What happened last? What do you think will happen in the future? 22 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ Then and Now Topic ____________________________________________________ Then (__________) Now (200__) 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008 23 Name _________________________________ Date _________________________________ For and Against Story ____________________________________________________ Topic ________________________________________________________________________ For Against 24 8 Elizabeth Claire, 2008
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