Monday, 25 November 2013
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Nov 20 Universal Children's Day
A summary of the rights of child:
http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf
Right of a family
Freedom from discrimination
Education
More videos: Unicef web page or UNICEF YourTube channel
Monday, 18 November 2013
Negative Prefixes: un-, im-, in-, il-, and ir-, and dis-
A negative prefix is a
prefix which carries a negative meaning 'not' , 'opposite of'.
Common negative prefixes
in English are un-, im-, in-, il- ,
and ir-, and dis-. Some of these prefixes are only attached to a noun or an
adjective while some are only attached to a verb. It is not possible to predict
whether the negative prefix un-, in-, or dis- is used with a particular word.
The correct form must be learned.
1. The negative prefix
un-
Undamaged (Adj.) Not damaged or not
spoiled Undesirable (Adj.) Not wanted Unemployment (N.) No work, job
It is important to
distinguish the negative prefix un- 'not' from the prefix un- 'do the reverse
of' which is normally attached to a verb. The resulting word remains a verb.
Undo (V.) To cancel the effect of
something Undress (V.) To remove one's clothes
2. The negative prefixes
in-, im-, il- ,
ir-
il + l illegal (Adj.) Against the law, not legal
im + b imbalanced (N.) Not balance im + p impossible (Adj.) Not possible
im + m immeasurable (Adj.) No able to be measured
ir + r irregular (Adj.) Not regular
in + other consonants incomplete (Adj.) Not complete
It is also important to
distinguish the meaning of the prefix im- or in- 'not' from those carrying the
meaning 'in, into' which forms a verb.
im + p import (V.) To bring goods from a
foreign country
in + other consonants incorporate (V) To make something part of
the whole
3. The negative prefix
dis- 'not, opposite of, away'
This prefix is normally
attached to a verb, an adjective or a noun. The resulting words can be a verb,
an adjective or a noun.
disappear (V.) become no longer visible
discard (V.) throw something away
Author Doris Lessing dies aged 94
The
novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the
workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, died in
London on Sunday at the age of 94, her publisher HarperCollins said.
The
British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie hailed the "warmth, sharp mind and
ferocity" of a writer who continually reinvented herself to challenge
conventions, but defied the feminists and leftists who would have claimed her
for their cause.
Lessing
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so, but
characteristically refused to offer the expected gushing response on hearing
the news, observing drily: "One can get more excited than one gets, you
know."
Born in
what was then Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in
Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
When she
moved to Britain at 30, escaping the scene of an unhappy childhood and two
failed marriages, she had in her suitcase the manuscript of a novel that broke
new ground with its depiction of an inter-racial relationship in her
white-ruled homeland. "The Grass Is Singing" was an immediate
bestseller in Britain, Europe and America.
Her early
stories and novellas set in Africa, published during the 1950s and early 1960s,
decried the dispossession of black Africans by white colonials and exposed the
sterility of white culture in southern Africa - work that made her a
"prohibited alien" in Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.
Lessing
wrote that, for her, Africa was "not a place to visit unless one chooses
to be an exile ever afterwards from an inexplicable majestic silence lying just
over the border of memory or of thought".
But it
was her 1962 novel "The Golden Notebook" that brought her
international fame with its experimental style and format, and linked her
firmly to the feminist cause.
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Saturday, 16 November 2013
16th November is International Day for Tolerance
Timely tolerance: A webquest
"Imagine" is a song written and performed by
English rock musician John Lennon. It is the opening track on his album
Imagine, released in 1971. The
song's refrain may have been partly inspired by Yoko Ono's poetry in reaction
to her childhood in Japan
during World War II.
Following Lennon's death in 1980, the single re-entered theUK
chart and was number one for four weeks in January 1981. Since its release, "Imagine" has been
included in a broad array of most-influential and greatest-songs-of-all-time
lists.
Following Lennon's death in 1980, the single re-entered the
Imagine by John Lennon
Imagine there's no _____________
It's ________ if you ________
No hell __________ us
________ us only _______
Imagine all the people
_____________ for today…
Imagine _____________ no ____________
It isn't ________ to do
Nothing to ______or ___________
And no _______________________
Imagine _______ the people
Living life _____________ …
You may say I'm a _____________
But I'm not the ___________
I hope someday ______________ us
And the world will be ___________
Imagine no ________________
I ___________ if you can
No need for _________or _________
A ________________ of man
Imagine all the _________________
____________ all the world…
You _____________ I'm ___________________
But _______________ the only one
I hope ___________ you'll __________ us
And the ____________________ as one…
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Friday, 8 November 2013
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