William Shakespeare born - Apr 23, 1564 According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn. Shakespeare’s date of death is conclusively known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years before. Although few plays have been performed or analyzed as extensively as the 38 plays ascribed to William Shakespeare, there are few surviving details about the playwright’s life. He probably attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read classical literature. The first reference to Shakespeare as a London playwright came in 1592, when a fellow dramatist, Robert Greene, wrote derogatorily of him on his deathbed. Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1616.
ELLLO Views #931 Middle School Dai: So Miss Naomi from...where is it you are from? Naomi: Wales. Dai: Wales, OK, and how old are you now? Naomi: I’m eleven. Dai: Eleven. Naomi: Junior school. Dai: Junior school. Naomi: Six. Dai: Oh, grade six, OK. Naomi: We study Art and Maths and Science and English and Geography and History and RE. Dai: RE? Naomi: Religious education. Dai: Oh, OK. Naomi: About quarter to nine and it starts at five past. Dai: The first class is at five past. Naomi: Yeah. Dai: And then do you get a break? Naomi: We get a break at half past ten and then lunch at twelve o’clock. Dai: Oh twelve o’clock, for how long? Naomi: For an hour. Dai: Oh an hour? Naomi: Yeah, they have that and you can bring sandwiches. Dai: You can bring your own sandwiches instead? Dai: OK. Naomi: I normally bring sandwiches. Dai: OK. Naomi: They’re OK but I don’t really like them as much as sandwiches. Dai: And what kind of food do they serve up in the canteen? Naomi: They serve roast dinners and... Dai: Roast dinners? Dai: OK. Naomi: No.
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Oxford - Who Killed Marilyn Spencer? - Guy Weston 12 songs to practice the pronunciation of -ED endings - Luiz Otávio Barros As you know, the “-ed” endings of regular past tense verbs can be pronounced in three different ways: /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/, which is the one most students tend to overuse. Click here for an overview of the rules. Over the years, I have found that /t/ and /d/ are easier to notice and to produce if the verb comes immediately before a word beginning with a vowel sound: liked it – /laɪktɪt/dreamed of – /driːmdəv/ To help students get their tongues around the two sounds, I usually ask them to move /t/ and /d/ to the front of the vowel sound. This makes it obvious that there’s no room for /ɪ/: liked it – /laɪk tɪt/dreamed of – /driːm dəv/ Out of all the ideas and techniques I’ve used in class, this has probably been the most effective. So I decided to put together a 7-minute video containing 12 song excerpts you can use to help your students notice how /t/ and /d/ are linked to the vowel sounds that follow. By the way, if the video is out of synch, go back to the beginning and / or refresh the page.
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Making the right choices: ‘Lean On Me’ Every word in the song “Lean On Me” by Bill Withers has been written into a grid with some distractors. Starting in the upper left corner, students complete the lyrics choosing one of the words available right next to the last word in any direction and using each square only once. To guide them through the process, the writing worksheet provides students with a few words in each line, including the first ones, which are also capitalised in the grid for easier reference. You may want to model and play the first two lines of the song so that the students can understand the procedure. Students will be practising a number of skills as they make their choices. Before listening to the song and checking the lyrics, students are asked to write down and share what they think the last line of the song is, adding an extra purpose to the listening task. Lean on me.pdf Kim Henrie from Canada has sent her ideas on how to use this activity and a few changes she made. Mystery Song_Lean On Me.doc