A Walk Down Market Street

This short movie is from 1906, just four days before San Francisco's big earthquake and fire.  None of the buildings were standing after the quake -- except the Ferry Building which you can see at the end of the street.

There is a camera on the front of a streetcar.  Look at how crazy everyone is!  Bikes, cars, horses, streetcars, people are all going in front of each other.  It was crazy!

Great Listening Practice...

... to wonderful stories.  Go to https://storycorps.org/.  You can listen, read transcripts and watch wonderful animation of some of the stories. And, if you want to tell your own story, you can go to

San Francisco Public Library
6th Floor
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Booth Hours
Thursday: 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Schedule times and dates may vary and are subject to change. This includes major holidays.

 

StoryCorps is also offered around the US.  You can find out where at: https://storycorps.org/programs/.

 

 

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