Wednesday, February 10, 2016

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Oranges

Everybody loves oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections, so it is easy to eat them. Some oranges do not have any seeds. Some have a thick skin, and some have a thin skin.


The orange trees is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green leaves. The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree has flowers and fruit at the same time.

There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the ones today. The orange tree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges grow there today. The Chinese started to raise orange trees around 4400 years ago. Chinese art has lovely old pictures of oranges and orange trees.

Farmers on other parts of Asia and the Middle East learned to raise oranges from the Chinese. Then they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the New World (North and South America). They took them to Florida first. Oranges are a very important crop in Florida today.
In English, orange means both a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for the color.






Music and Behavior

Where did you go yesterday? Did you hear music at any of those places? There is a good chance that you did. Today most stores and restaurants play music. You might even hear music in an office or on a farm.


Scientists believe that music affects the way people behave. According to some scientists, the sound of western classical music (Mozart and Bach) makes people feel richer. When a restaurant plays classical music, people spend more money on food and drinks. When the restaurant plays modern music, people spend less money. With no background music, people spend even less.

Scientists also believe that loud, fast music makes people eat faster. People actually chew their food faster. Some restaurants play fast music during their busy busy hours. This gets people to eat faster and leave quickly. Restaurants can make more money this way. Some scientists think that music makes you think and learn better. They say that music helps students to be more alert. It is true that people learn better when they are relaxed. And listening to music can help you relax.



The next time you hear music somewhere, be careful. It might change the way you behave. 

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Monday, February 8, 2016


The Date Palm


The date palm is a wonderful tree. People eat dates. They feed them to their animals. They use the leaves and the wood to build houses. They use the wood to build boats. They make baskets from the leaves. They burn the other parts of the tree to cook their food.

The date palm came from the Middle East. Seven thousand years ago, people in Syria and Egypt ate dates. They made pictures of date palms on their stone buildings. Today date palms grow in the Middle East, parts of Asia and Africa, southern Europe, and other warm parts of the world.

There are more than 2700 kinds of palm trees. Most of them cannot grow in the Middle East because it is too dry. The date palm grows there very well.

Hundreds of years ago, people in southern Europe and some Arab countries made picture of palm trees and palm flowers on some of their buildings. Today we can see these pictures in art museums. People think that the palm tree is beautiful. People thought the same thing a long time ago.

Rice


People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America eat it everyday of their lives. Some people eat almost nothing but rice.
Rice is a kind of  grass. There are more than 7000 kinds of rice. Farmers grow rice in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia.


No one really knows where rice came from. Some scientists think that it started to grow in two places. They think that one kind of rice grew in southern Asia thousands of years ago. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5000 years ago. Another kind probably grew in West Africa. Other scientists think that rice came from India, an Indian travelers took it to other parts of the world.


There are two main ways to grow rice. Upland rice grows in dry soil. Most rice grows in wet soil. People in many countries do all of the work of growing rice by hand. This is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago. In some countries, people now use machines on their rice farms. The farmers all use fertilizer. Some insects are enemies of rice. Farmers poison them.


People use every part of the rice plant. They make animal feed and rice oil from it. They also make baskets, brooms, rugs, sandals, and roofs for their houses. 

They burn dry rice plants in fires for cooking. 

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1. Plants life in the Taklimakan desert




·         Accumulate- to gradually increase over time

·         Adapt- to change to fit a situation or environment

·         Determine- to decide

·         Dilute- to make weaker by mixing with water

·         Diverse- varied, of many kinds

·         Evaporation- the change from liquid to gas, loss of water to the air

·         Extreme- very severe or difficult

·         Fringe- the edge of something

·         Mechanism- behavior to deal with difficult situations

·         Minimize- to reduce to the least possible amount

·         Moisture- wetness or water

·         Occupy- to be in a place, exist in

·         Prolific- producing a lot of something

·         Resilient- tough, able to endure difficult conditions

·         Sparse- small in numbers or amount

·         Stressor- something that causes great difficulties

·         Swing- a sudden or big change

·         Thrive- to grow well

·         Transitional- relating to change from one type to another

·         Violent- strong, sudden and destructive


2. Peripheral vision in Sports



·         Anticipate- to expect, be ready or something to happen

·         Athlete- a person who plays sports

·         Blur- something not seen clearly

·         Boundary- an edge of, border

·         Complicate- to cause to be more difficult

·         Coordinate- to organize, make work together

·         Demonstrate- to show, model

·         Detect- to notice, become aware of

·         Distracting- taking attention away from something

·         Focus- to center attention on one object concentrate

·         Indiscernibly- in a way that is impossible to see or notice

·         Indistinct- unclear

·         Maneuver- a movement

·         Performance- how well a person or machine does something

·         Peripheral- at the edge

·         Range- area,

·         Scan- to look over

·         Tolerate- to accept, allow

·         Unconsciously- without thinking, automatically


·         Vision- the ability to see, sight 

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Saturday, February 6, 2016


Why do we yawn?

Bears yawn. Camels yawn. Most mammals yawn. Why do we yawn? No one really knows the answer. We do know that everyone yawns in the same way. First you open your mouth slowly. Your mouth stays open for about five seconds. Then you quickly close mouth.


We also know that yawning is contagious, or catching. When you see someone yawn, you yawn, too. Many people say that they yawn because they are bored or tired. This might be true. However, we know that people also yawn when they are excited or nervous. Olympic runners, for example, often yawn before a race. Why is that?




Some scientists believe that yawning makes you more alert. When you yawn, you breath more deeply. You also stretch the muscles in your face and neck. Maybe this makes you feel more alert. Scientists don’t spend much time studying yawing. That is probably because yawning doesn’t hurt. It is just something we do.





Why do people laugh?

Do people laugh everyday? Most people do. Scientists say that people laugh about 17 times a day. That is a lot of laughter.


In India, there are hundreds of laughter clubs. The people in these clubs get together every morning. First they stretch their hands above their heads. Then they pretend to laugh. Soon everyone is laughing naturally. People say they feel good after laughing together.


Scientists believe that laughter is good for you. Why? For one thing, laughter is good exercise. When you laugh, you exercise many muscles in your body. Scientists say that one hundred laughs equals ten minutes of running. When you laugh, you also breathe deeply. This helps you relax. That’s good for you, too.



Why do we laugh? That is a hard question to answer. We know that people laugh more often in a group. They don’t laugh very often when they are alone. Many scientists believe that we use laughter to connect to other people. Laughter helps us feel part of a group.

In English, people say that laughter is the best medicine. Some think that laughter helps sick people get well.
 Do you think so, too? 

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Friday, February 5, 2016

Jokes







1. You are too late!

On the bus a man discovered a pickpocket’s hand thrust into his pocket.
“Sorry” he asked to the pickpocket, “you are too late. My wife did it before you.”


2.

The Chemical Formula for water




Teacher: What the chemical formula for water is?
Emerson: H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O!!
Teacher: What are you talking about?
Emerson: Yesterday you said its H to O!


3.

Not too bad






“Did you sell any of your paintings at the art show?”
“No, but I am encouraged,” he replied. “Somebody stole one.”



4. How many people do you have, please?


An American stepped into a gun shop, “Give me the most powerful shotgun.”
“How many bullets do you need?”
The American walked to a telephone booth, “Hello. Is that the bank? How many people do you have, please?”


5. Revenge




Old farmer Jack was dying. The family was standing around his bed. With a low voice he said to his wife, “When I’m dead I want you to marry farmer Wagner”
Wife, “No, I can’t marry anyone after you.”
Jack, “But I want you to”
Wife, “But why?”

Jack, “Wagner once cheated me in a horse deal!”

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Useful words for IELTS test



1.The Natural world



§  Aquatic-living in the water

§  Array-a large number, a collection

§  Defense- protection

§  Deforestation- the removal of all trees from a large area

§  Environment- the natural world

§  Erosion- loss of soil from action of water or wind

§  Extend- to reach past, get bigger

§  Fell- to cut down

§  Habitat- the natural area where a plant or animal lives

§  Impact- a strong effect

§  Inhibit- to prevent, slow down

§  Intercept- to catch

§  Logging- the cutting down of trees commercial purposes

§  Myriad- many, numerous

§  Nutrient- food

§  Pollution- damage to air, water

§  Stabilize- to keep from changing, maintain

§  Terrestrial- living on the land

§  Vanish- to disappear

§  Vegetation- plants





2. Bird migration

§  Aspect- a part or feature

§  Breed- to reproduce

§  Diurnal- active during the day

§  Endure- to live under difficult conditions

§  Evolve- to develop gradually

§  Fascinate- to interest greatly

§  Feat- difficult act or achievement

§  Fuel- to provide energy

§  Hemisphere- one half of the Earth also one half of a sphere

§  Imperative- a priority, an urgent need

§  Inhabit- to live in

§  Migration- movement from one place to another

§  Navigation- finding the way from one place to another

§  Nocturnal- active at night

§  Observer- a person who watches something

§  Obscure- to make difficult to see

§  Optimal- best, most favorable

§  Species- type, a basic groups in biological classification

§  Stray- to leave the correct route


§  Windswept- unprotected from wind   

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