New Names 新名称 The internet is often described as the World Wide Web but how truly global is it when millions of users have no choice but to use a Latin-based alphabet to name websites and email addresses? All of that is set to change following...
Tree climbing: Part 2 NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dan: Hello and welcome to this weeks 6 Minute English. Im Dan Walker Smith and today, for the second part of our tree climbing programme（节目,计划）, Im joined by Kate....
DISABLED? NOT ME! I know people are trying help, but I wish they wouldnt treat me as if I were a child. Zhong Xiaowen is sixteen and a middle school student in Northern China. She is one of the best students in her class and she won an award for youn...
THE BISON ON THE PLAINS OF AMERICA The first settlers on the plains of America were Native Americans. They arrived more than. 30,000 years ago by crossing a land bridge from Asia to America. The Native Americans lived by gathering roots, nuts and wil...
Ever since the Civil War, the South has struggled to find ways to deal with its troubled past. The history of the South is one of suffering: the suffering of the Native Americans who were killed or driven off their land by European settlers; the pain...
00:-1.001.From which countries have the people of New Zealand come? [00:-2.00]Polynesia/Oceania and Europe,mainly Britain. [00:-3.00]2.What parts of Maori life are mentioned in the text? [00:-4.00]Kindergartens,customs,way of life,the marae, [00:-5.0...
[00:-1.00]1.Have you read any of the Harry Potter books or watched the films? [00:-2.00]2.Harry Potter has magical powers. [00:-3.00]Do you know of any other heroes who have strange powers? [00:-4.00]3.Do you like to watch magic tricks? [00:-5.00]Hav...
[00:06.69]ON READIGN [00:08.72]On the subject of reading, [00:11.08]Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, [00:15.44]wrote these words: Some books are to be tasted, [00:19.88]others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed...
[00:05.30]Reading LIFE IN THE FUTURE [00:10.27]What life will be like in the future is difficult to predict. [00:15.33]It is,however,possible to use models to make forecasts about future developments. [00:23.20]One way to catch a glimpse of the futur...
W: You look so excited. Whats on your mind? M: I am thinking about my Chrisman present. W: What are you going to have? M: A huge toy plane. My mother promised to give it to me if I behave myself before Christmas. Dialogue 2. M: Anna, whats troubling...
