Two Songs For The Weekend

TRAIN an American pop rock band.
"HEY, SOUL SISTER "
 Watch the video and then go to MULTIMEDIA ENGLISH to read the lyrics and sing along






SADE is a British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
"IS IT A CRIME"

• Watch the video and we´ll talk about the feelings.

• Now,the song again with  thge lyrics

No Trace Of Malaysian Airliner

Pre-Listening Vocabulary

• false alarm: something that turns out to be untrue or unrelated
• debris: parts or materials that are left or found after an accident
• distress: anxiety; major concern or worry
• emerge: to become known after some time, or to come into view
• hijacking: the illegal takeover of a vehicle by force
• rule out: to exclude; to state that something is definitely not the cause

Now listen, answer the questions and fill in the gaps.

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Malaysian Airlines MH370: live - Telegraph

Events in Ukraine

Three Short Videos and a Timeline for Understanding Current Events in Ukraine

 The ongoing situation in Ukraine is a complicated topic for middle school and high school students in current events courses. The following short videos do a nice job of providing an overview of the key points in understanding the current situation. For a text-based overview of the situation, take a look at this timeline from the BBC.

 Keith Hughes offers a good overview

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John Green, in his typical fast-paced style with a dose of snark, offers an overview in the video below.
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The BBC provides a 60 second overview of Crimea and its significance in the current situation.

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Prefixes and Suffixes

PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES

• Grammar about.com. Common Prefixes in English

Prefix	Meaning	Example
a-, an-	without	amoral
ante-	before	antecedent
anti-	against	anticlimax
auto-	self	autopilot
circum-	around	circumvent
co-	with	copilot
com-, con-	with	companion, contact
contra-	against	contradict
de-	off, away from	devalue
dis-	not	disappear
en-	put into	enclose
ex-	out of, former	extract, ex-president
extra-	beyond, more than	extracurricular
hetero-	different	heterosexual
homo-	same	homonym
hyper-	over, more	hyperactive
il-, im-, in-, ir-	not, without	illegal, immoral, inconsiderate, irresponsible
in-	into	insert
inter-	between	intersect
intra-	between	intravenous
macro-	large	macroeconomics
micro-	small	microscope
mono-	one	monocle
non-	not, without	nonentity
omni-	all, every	omniscient
post-	after	postmortem
pre-, pro-	before, forward	precede, project
sub-	under	submarine
syn-	same time	synchronize
trans-	across	transmit
tri-	three	tricycle
un-	not	unfinished
uni-	one	unicorn

• E Learn English Language. Negative Prefixes 
• English Club.com 
• Teacher Scholastic.com
• English Exercises.Word Formation
• Watch a video .

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Fighting Crime

Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime .

Anne Milgram

When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their decisions were actually making the public safer. And so began her ongoing, inspirational quest to bring data analytics and statistical analysis to the US criminal justice system. 

Literature Comprehension

LITERATURE COMPREHENSION

 Select a novel to read and then test your knowledge

 

• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat
• Gullivers Travels by Jonathon Swift
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Alexander Conan Doyle
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• White Fang by Jack London