A Heartwarming Video

A Place in China Where the Women Lead

Here's an interesting story I heard this morning on NPR's Morning Edition:  http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/26/501012446/the-place-in-china-where-the-women-lead

You can listen to it and read it too.

An interesting story about the Chinese Telephone Exchange

Click on the link below for an interesting story about the history of the Chinese in San Francisco.

http://hoodline.com/2016/11/history-of-the-chinese-telephone-exchange?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=stories&utm_source=Hoodline+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=2a80da5ae9-daily-digest-11-24-2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e61dc2951f-2a80da5ae9-249816169

Happy Thanksgiving!

I've always felt that Thanksgiving is the best holiday because it is a holiday for ALL people regardless of their religion, their citizenship status, their color, nationality, sexual orientation, etc., etc.  It is a day that we can all use to say:

THANK YOU

for all the good things in our lives: love, health, shelter, food.

And I'd like to say:

 THANK YOU 

to all my wonderful students.

 

 

If you want to practice vocabulary from the past week or so, click here.

If you want to see a few fun videos showing different kind of accents, click on the links below.

Thanksgiving

Here are some great videos about Thanksgiving:

http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-thanksgiving

Post Election Shock

Many people in the US -- more than half of those that voted -- are in shock that Hillary Clinton has lost, especially since she won the popular vote (she is still ahead as of today).  Here were some of the idioms that came to mind as I reeled from the shock  (felt extremely surprised and upset).

my jaw dropped

I was struck dumb

I was stopped dead in my tracks

you could knock me down with a feather

it's a bombshell

If you are interested in practicing some non-election vocabulary from the last week, click here.

A Little More on Crime

Click here for more crime vocabulary.