English beginner

Sports
Read the following dialogue. What do you think close game and tied mean? Try to guess without looking at the definitions below.

Anna: Where were you last night?

David: I went to a baseball game.

Anna: Was it a good game?

David: Very exciting. It was a close game. The score was tied for a long time, but at the last moment, a player hit a home run and won the game.

Anna: That does sound like a good game! Who won?

David: Unfortunately, the other team won.

VOCABULARY:

close game: both teams have almost the same number of points
tied: both teams have the same points
home run: a player hits the baseball very far and safely scores a point
score: the number of points in a game





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Festivals
People go to festivals to _____. A person who attends a festival is a ______. If you go to a festival, you must be in a ______ mood. Contests, prizes, games, costumes, and foods are part of the ______events and activities.

Were you able to guess the words to complete the blanks?
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Answer:
People go to festivals to feast . A person who attends a festival is a festival goer . If you go to a festival, you must be in a festive mood . Contest, prizes, games, costumes, and foods are part of the festival events and activities.
Do festivals put you in the festive mood? Think about these questions and come up with your own answers.
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Criticism
FORMS OF THE WORD CRITICISM
1. Which of the words below is a noun and refers to a person?
2. Which of the words below is an adjective?
3. Which of the words below is a noun?
4. Which of the words can be a verb or a noun?
It is difficult to hear this critique .
The reviewer critiqued the restaurant.
He is critical of me.
Criticism can help a person improve.
Answers: 1) reviewer 2) critical 3) criticism 4) critique
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Festivals
"Lights, action, camera!" These three words fill the hearts and minds of many future film makers and producers all over the world. Where can they make their dreams come true? At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah held in the United States. The Blair Witch Project debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999.

Antonyms
An antonym gives the opposite meaning of a word. What is the opposite of the verb fill and the adjective full ?
Answer: empty.
Do festivals put you in the festive mood? Think about these questions and come up with your own answers.
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The Right Tools Can Help You Find The Right Job
Figuring out which job or career is right for you can be an enormous challenge. Ideally, a job should fit your interests, leverage your skills, and offer the opportunity for professional advancement and development. This may be easier said than done however, especially since there could be several job possibilities that meet these criteria. You may be interested in pursuing a career in sales, but also have a keen interest human resources, or teaching.
Whether you have some sense of what you want to do, or have absolutely no idea what job or career is right for you, a self assessment test may help you narrow in on the right focus. Following is a list of websites offering personality and career-related assessment tests that may help you figure out which jobs to pursue, and which ones to rule out. You may learn for example that you are outgoing and proactive, and therefore a job in sales could leverage these strengths. While no test will tell you exactly what you should do for a living, you could gain some valuable insight into yourself and the type of job you are best suited for. Good luck!
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Personality assessment test
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):
www.humanmetrics.com

Keirsey Sorter:
www.keirsey.com and www.advisorteam.com

Enneagram:
www.enneagraminstitute.com
Career-related personality assessments
The MAPP Test (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential}: Assessment.com.
Dr. John C. Holland''s Self-Directed Search (SDS) test:
www.self-directed-search.com.
Spencer Stuart:
www.spencerstuart.com.
These tests may not provide all of the answers, however contemplating your skills, strengths, interests and personality can help you choose a more rewarding career path and realize more of your true potential.
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Travel
Read this story about my friend. Then answer the questions.
My friend traveled to Nepal. She traveled in Nepal for six months. She loved the people, the lifestyle, and the mountains. She came back to Canada and sold everything. Soon, she will travel back to Nepal and open a teahouse in a mountain village. There is no electricity or phones in her village. I want to visit her. It will take three days to walk to her mountain village.

VOCABULARY
lifestyle: how people live every day
teahouse: a restaurant selling tea
village: a very small town
electricity: power for lights, televisions, and so on.
READING COMPREHENSION
1. How long was my friend in Nepal?
2. What did she love about Nepal?
3. What did she do in Canada?
4. What will she do in Nepal?
5. Describe my friend''s village.
ANSWERS
1. six months
2. the people, the lifestyle, and the mountains,
3. She sold everything.
4. She will open a teahouse.
5. It takes three days to walk to the village. It has no electricity or phones.
Question for the week: What places should a tourist visit in your country? Why? Come up with answers for yourself.
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Praise
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR...
In an earlier lesson, we reviewed the situations when it is right to congratulate people. In this lesson, we will review how to congratulate people.
The best way to express your good feeling is to say:
Congratulations on your _______!
Some events that can complete the sentence are:
1. engagement
2. graduation
3. marriage
4. new baby
job promotion (getting a better, higher-paying job)
When do you congratulate people? When was the last time someone congratulated you?
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Music
Sam: Our children''s school is using a new program that combines music and math.
George: Music and math? They seem like opposites.
Sam: Not at all! Music has lots of math, like fractions, in it. For 45 minutes, twice a week, my kids have piano lessons.
George: Has it made a difference? Sam: Their math marks improved. And they can play the piano!!
Choose a word from the dialogue to replace the word in parentheses:
1. We have a new teacher. He teaches the music (course).
2. She (mixes) blue and yellow paint to make green.
3. You only ate (one-third) of your dinner!
ANSWERS: 1. program 2. combines 3. a fraction
Do you believe there is a connection between music and math?
Question of the Week: How important is music in your life? Come and share your opinions with us at the Advanced Voice and Text Chats!
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