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United States Tightens the Noose on the Ivory Trade

The U.S. announces important new rules to restrict the domestic trade in ivory.

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The new ivory rules ban the commercial import of African elephant ivory.

New restrictions on the ivory trade designed to create «a near complete ban» on the commercial sale of African elephant ivory in the U.S. were announced Tuesday by the Obama Administration.

Elephants and rhinos have taken center stage in global coverage of illegal wildlife trafficking, and the ivory restrictions are a cornerstone of the administration’s new plan. (Read » Blood Ivory» in National Geographic magazine.)

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Culture Reading Song Vocabulary

Learn, sing and have fun!

UNCHAIN MY HEART

by Joe Cocker

Unchain my heart.
Baby, let me be,
‘Cause you don’t care.
Please, set me free.

Unchain my heart,
Baby, let me go.
Unchain my heart,
‘Cause you don’t love me no more.

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Learning Reading

50 Years Later, Beatles Steal Another Show

11beatles-3-superJumboCBS’s «Grammy Salute» Belongs to McCartney and Starr.

If there’s one thing pop learned in the last 50 years, it’s that Beatles songs never wear out their welcome. The Beatles’ original recordings have retained not only their musical brilliance but also the nearly universal good will that the band generated in its time, as well as the accumulated nostalgia that makes baby boomers conflate its music with all the pleasures of their youth.

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Learning Vocabulary

IDIOM OF THE DAY

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All Bark And No Bite 

When someone is threatening and/or aggressive but not willing to engage in a fight.

Perro ladrador, poco mordedor.

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Culture Grammar Learning Reading Vocabulary

Hugh Turvey: Inside the Life of an X-Ray Artist

Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery. I first worked with him for an assignment in the magazine and have to come to rely on his expertise when it comes to seeing the unseen. I spoke with him about his work and recent photo published in the February issue of National Geographic magazine.

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X-ray of a goldfish in a bowl.

I am an experimentalist and I think in images. Since I started working with x-ray in the late 1990’s, I am constantly amazed with how little I know.” —Hugh Turvey

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Culture Learning

QUOTE OF THE DAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

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«Hell is empty and all the devils are here».
William Shakespeare

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Comprehension Culture Learning News Reading Vocabulary

Fantasy Hollywood: restaging classic films with black models

When two Senegalese photographers messed with some very familiar screen moments, they were taken aback by the racial dimension to the response.

Black Hollywood Breakfast                  Breakfast at Onomo’s, 2013. Photograph: Antoine Tempé

Back in the 80s, my classmates and I piled into Mbabane’s local cinema to watch Top Gun. We’d turn to each other, channeling our best version of Val Kilmer to spout “You can be my wing man anytime” – followed by intense laughter. Who doesn’t have a favourite line, an iconic moment from film lodged in our minds?

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Exercises Grammar Vocabulary

Say or tell?

VOCABULARY
Fill in the blanks with say or tell .Don’t forget to check the tense.

1. Laura  her friends that she was going to have a party on Saturday.2. The teacher  the class to open the books.

3. Bob and Carol  they had already had dinner.

4. My friends  me to have a good time on my holiday.

5. My father  I was doing very well at school.

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Photo

Unlocking Secrets of the Grand Canyon’s Age.

Rocks from the iconic gorge provide the clues.

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Sunrise over Mount Hayden in the Grand Canyon.

 

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Comprehension Culture Learning Reading

How to eat curry!

This month, How to Eat fancies a curry. Eat-in or takeaway? Dishes to share or your own main course? Washed down with beer or wine? And does anyone ever have room for dessert?
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Loosen your belt, Britain! How to Eat – the blog seeking to establish an informal code of conduct for Britain’s favourite dishes – is back, and this month (with apologies to my Word of Mouth colleague Sejal Sukhadwala), we’re having a curry.

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Learning Vocabulary

IDIOMS WITH ANIMALS: FISH

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  • like a fish out of water = strange, different to the rest
  • like a fish in muddy/troubled waters = in confused subjects
  • a big fish (in a little pond) = an important person (in a small comunity or a restricted situation)
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Recipe: Shortbread

Try making these easy, buttery biscuits as homemade Christmas presents, with chocolate chips worked into the dough.

 

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