Go beyond ordinary ways of thinking and doing: Each day in our lives is a lesson. I want to benefit from everything I’m doing now through hard work, study,enjoying my life and my family. Each day is a new day where you can add new things. When this day is gone, it never will be back; each day […]
Assignment: Interpret the six ways a person can “think like an artist”… 1. “Look at things more closely than most people.” Artists have the capacity to see things without eyes. They see things in the deepening of their being and understand the realityof life in different aspects. They don’t see things, they feel things. They don’t need knowledge to see […]
Dr. Eileen Santiago being honored here by the Port Chester Arts Council, her school district, the state and national government at National Arts in the School Day in Port Chester, New York, April 13, 2011. Although she tells people she is “a non-artist who needs to be surrounded by the arts,” Dr. Santiago, the dynamic principal of Edison School in Port Chester, New […]
Michiyo’s e-mail started off… “Last time I was in your class, soon after the quake occurred, I couldn’t imagine that catastrophic situation. Yes, I thought more and more victims would be found, but the reality is far beyond my imagination.” Michiyo was writing to her classmates to tell them she was all right, that she would […]
His declaration is amazing. His vision is so simple, clear and fair. I think his ideas are all correct. If a leader like him had governed a country. people might live peacefully with hope. Or I wonder were there controversies about his idea in those days like nowadays? I have two feelings. One is admiration for […]
Cyrus the Great (585-529 B.C.) was the first to define and declare what we call “human rights” today. The declaration was recorded on a clay cuneiform which was unearthed in the late 19th century. These modern English words communicate clearly: I declare that I will respect the tradition, customs, and religion of the nations of my empire and never let any of […]
This is Cyrus the Great. My students and I would never have known about this unique leader if it hadn’t been for my ESL student Navid. Navid is from Iran; she has been in our class since last year. She is passionately interested in education and wants to teach us about her native land as much as she […]
Valentine’s Day Journal Assignment: Write about LOVE !!! Use one of the following lines from a popular love-song as your title: All you need is love Money can’t buy you love Our love is here to stay The love of my life The most important ingredient in our happiness is love; it is the essence […]
<a href=”http://www.artofenglish.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/snowdom2.jpg”><img class=”size-large wp-image-345 alignnone” title=”snowdom” src=”http://www.artofenglish.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/snowdom2.jpg?w=1024″ alt=”” width=”368″ height=”208″ /></a> <strong><em>”Nature has no bad weather, every kind of weather is beautiful.” </em></strong>These are words from a famous Russian song. I agree with these words. I like all kinds of weather, rain, snow, sunny days. Only one thing I don’t like – to be too […]
Isn’t it beautiful??? This week my adult ESL students had a variety of answers. What I like about snow is to see it in a picture only. What I don’t like about snow is a big list: first it is dangerous for everybody; so many accidents. There is no place to park and if you […]