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| Rider | Date: Dushanba, 19-Yan-2009, 00:21 | Message # 1 |
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OK, hello, I'm going to talk a little about American Cities. I'm going to talk about five American cities that are very famous to Americans and their nicknames and a little history about each of them.
New York
OK, the first city, probably the most well-known city in America, is New York, and in America we call New York "The Big Apple" and it's probably the biggest city in the United States and it's very diverse. It has a very multi-cultural population. People from all over the world come and live in New York and we say that New York is "the city that never sleeps" because there is always something going on.
Boston
Not too far from New York is Boston. Boston is probably the most historical city in the United States. It has a lot of famous landmarks that date back to the country's birthplace, 200 years ago when the country was founded. Also, Boston is called "Beantown". It's nickname is Beantown and Boston is know for being a college town. It has many university campuses within the city.
Chicago
OK, next up is Chicago. Chicago is called "the windy city". It's called the windy city because naturally it gets a lot of wind. It is located on Lake Michigan and it gets pretty cold in the winter. It's a very cold city. Chicago is know for it's blue-collar make up, meaning that most, or many of the people in the city are very tough and rugged, and we say "blue-collar" meaning they're really hard working people.
New Orleans
OK, next, another famous American city is New Orleans. Now New Orleans is called "The Big Easy" and New Orleans is famous for Jazz music and Cajun culture. It's probably the home of Jazz. I'm not sure about this, but Jazz is very well-known in New Orleans and there's many places where you can go and listen to Jazz music and unfortunately New Orleans recently had a terrible hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, so the city is currently being rebuilt, but I'm sure the big easy will be back and ready to go in no time.
Los Angeles
OK, the last city I'm going to talk about is Los Angeles, and we call Los Angeles "The City of Angels" because its name in Spanish means "The Angels" and Los Angeles is probably most famous for Hollywood and, for people overseas maybe, Disneyland, but Los Angeles is also is know for being very status oriented and, but people are very laid-back and easy-going as well, so Los Angeles has a really big mix of types of people that live within it, and of course, Los Angeles is known for its warm weather.
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| DURDON | Date: Shanba, 20-Avg-2011, 17:51 | Message # 2 |
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The Mountain Lion
OK, I'm going to talk about my favorite animal. Now this is an animal I've never seen in person, which is good, but I think it's a very beautiful animal and one that I've very interested in, and that is the mountain lion. Now the mountain lion lives in the Western Hemisphere and it can be found in both North America and South America.
As a matter of fact, the mountain lion has the largerst range of any animal in the Western Hemisphere. It lives as far north as Alaska and as far south as Chile and Argentina.
Now the name mountain lion is a little misleading because it's not an actual lion, even tough it looks pretty similar to the female lion of Africa. Actually, the mountain lion is closer to just the ordinary cat. As a matter of fact, the mountain lion does not roar. It only purrs, just like a cat does.
Now these days, fortunately, there's a lot of mountain lions. The population is growing. There is now 30,000 in the Western United States alone, and just in the State of California, there's between 4 and 6,000 mountain lions. NOw the mountain lion has sort of a sandy-brown color, and it has black tips on it's ears and tail, and it is an amazing athlete.
It can run up to 50 kilometers per hour and can jump 6 meters from a standing position forward, and it also has a very high verticle leap. Now males can get quite big. They can be as long as two and half meters, from head to tail, and can weigh up to 70 kilograms.
Usually they live about 10 years in the wild, and if the lion is in captivity, like in a zoo, they can live up to 25 years. Now the mountain lion is a ferocious hunter. It lives mainly on deer, which is it's main diet, what it likes to eat, and it can kill and carry something seven times it's weight.
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| DURDON | Date: Shanba, 20-Avg-2011, 17:58 | Message # 3 |
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Best Movies Ever
Best Comedy
My favorite comedy has to be Kingpin. Kingpin is a great story. It's about a guy that wants to win money in a bowling tournament and he finds a very religious man who can bowl very well and so he enters him into the bowling tournament to win money and the story also has a beautiful woman and they drive across the country. It's a fantastic story. I laughed so hard when I saw the movie. I recommend it to anybody.
Best Drama
One of my favorite dramas is a movie called Sling Blade and it's about a mentally handicapped man and his life. He is out of prison. He was in prison for murder, for a long time before and the story talks about his life and his relationship with the boy. It's really good because the movie has everything. It has suspense and drama. It has humor and also it's a little scary so it's a great movie and I could see it again and again.
Best Action Movie
OK, the best action movie I've ever seen has to be Raider's of the Lost Arc. My mom took me to see this movie when I was very young, about twelve, and I was just amazed. It was the coolest movie ever. After we finished, I was so excited, I asked my mom if we could see it again, and we couldn't see it again that time, but she did take me again to see it and I ended up seeing Raider's of the Lost Arc maybe four or five times. It has everthing. It has a love story, great action, great suspense. It's one of the best movies ever.
Best Science Fiction
OK, the best science fiction movie is still probably the original Star Wars. Many men my age saw this movie when we were young boys, and we were just blown away by the special effects in the story. Also my mother took me to see this movie as well and I remember driving home at night, looking up at the stars and thinking, "Wow, there's people out there that's just like Star wars" so I think this movie was very influential for many, many people.
Best Documentary
OK, the best documentary I've ever seen is Hoop Dreams. Hoop Dreams is a real story, a documentary about two basketball players over a four year period I think. And, it's just like a movie. It has drama and it has a great story line, and the people in the documentary, particularly the two basketball players, are fantastic. The story is mainly about, or the documantary mainly is about one player, basketball player who goes to a poor inner city school in Chicago, and one basketball player who goes to a rich school in the suburbs and the pressures they face to perform for their team.
Favorite Movie Of All Time
OK, my favorite movie of all time is Wall Street. This is just a fantastic movie. It's about business and power and greed and ambition and what people will do to succeed in life. I think this says a lot about people all around the world and how people crave power and how power can corrupt, and in the movie, Michael Douglas plays Gordon Gecko and I think he is the best villian of all time or the best bad character of all time. Even though he was the bad guy in the movie, I think every body loved Gordon Gecko.
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| DURDON | Date: Shanba, 20-Avg-2011, 18:05 | Message # 4 |
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Odd Jobs
OK, I'm gonna talk about jobs.
My First Job
My first job actually was working at a restaurant. I was a dish washer. I was fifteen years old and, actually, I thought the job was pretty cool. All I had to do was wash dishes. I worked alone in the back of the kitchen and the restaurant was not too busy. It was an Italian restaurant. It was pretty easy and I had a big machine to help clean the dishes and I think I made like two dollars an hour. I made no money but the job was pretty easy. I think I had that job for one year and I liked it.
My Current Job
Well, right now I am an English teacher. I've been an English teacher now for thirteen years on and off. I started teaching when I was twenty-three and now I am thirty-six, and I first started teaching in Thailand, and I taught there for awhile and then I went back to America and I taught in San Francisco. Then I stopped teaching for awhile and then I moved to Japan and I've been teaching in Japan for six years. I really like teaching English. It's a fun job. I like being with students and I probably will be in teaching for the rest of my life.
My Future Job
Well, like I said before, I think I will be in teaching forever but now I really enjoy computers and I enjoy materials development so I think in the future I will try to make multi-media and books and materials for students, so I will still be involved in education, but I would like to start my own business and do something outside of teaching as well.
My Best Job
Well, the easiest job I ever had, and the funnest job, was being a bartender. I was a bartender for two years. I took a two-year break from being an English teacher and I was a bartender and it was a lot of fun. I did not have to be at work until five. I got to go home at midnight or one, and I was paid to just sit and talk with people and give people drinks, and watch sports on TV and eat good food. I worked at a Thai restaurant and the staff was really nice, so I really enjoyed being a bartender. The only thing I didn't like about being a bartender was dealing with drunk people. I didn't like having to deal with drunk people, but besides that, it was a good job.
The Worst Job
OK, the worst job I've ever had was I used to be a painter. I painted houses and 1), I was not very good at it, and 2) it was pretty hard work. Every day you have to smell the paint, and the paint smells really bad, and you get paint all over your clothes and you have to climb really tall latters and paint really tall buildings and it's dangerous, and sometimes it's cold outside, so I did not like painting at all.
My Dream Job
OK, if I could have any job in the world, I would be a professional baseball player. I would play for the New York Yankees. I would want to be a position player, though. Like, I would want to play in the outfield. I would not want to be a pitcher because a pitcher only pitches every five days, so he has to sit and watch a lot of games. So, if I was a baseball player I would want to play every day. I think the best thing about being a baseball player, would be you get to travel a lot, go to lots of different cities, and you have the fun of competition and playing a sport you love. Actually, you would make a lot of money, but the money would not be very important to me.
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| DURDON | Date: Yakshanba, 11-Sen-2011, 13:03 | Message # 5 |
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Аудиокнига сказки братьев Гримм "Волк и семеро козлят", озвученная на английском языке с переводом на русский...
There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.
Жила-была старая коза, и было у нее семь козляток, и она их любила, как всякая мать своих деток любит.
One day she wanted to go into the forest and fetch some food. So she called all seven to her and said: 'Dear children, I have to go into the forest, be on your guard against the wolf; if he comes in, he will devour you all—skin, hair, and everything. The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet.'
Однажды пришлось ей в лес собираться за кормом, и вот она созвала всех своих козляток и сказала: «Милые детки, надо мне в лесу побывать, так вы без меня берегитесь волка! Ведь он, если сюда попадет, съест вас всех и со шкурой, и с шерстью. Этот злодей часто прикидывается, будто он и не волк, но вы его сейчас узнаете по грубому голосу и по его черным лапам».
The kids said: 'Dear mother, we will take good care of ourselves; you may go away without any anxiety.' Then the old one bleated, and went on her way with an easy mind.
Козлятки отвечали: «Милая матушка, уж мы поостережемся, и вы можете идти, о нас не тревожась». Тогда старая коза заблеяла и преспокойно тронулась в путь.
It was not long before someone knocked at the house-door and called: 'Open the door, dear children; your mother is here, and has brought something back with her for each of you.'
Немного прошло времени после ее ухода, как уж кто-то постучался в дверь их домика и крикнул: «Отомкнитеся, милые детушки, ваша мать пришла и каждому из вас по гостинцу принесла».
But the little kids knew that it was the wolf, by the rough voice. 'We will not open the door,' cried they, 'you are not our mother. She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough; you are the wolf!'
Но козляточки по грубому голосу поняли, что это пришел к ним волк, и крикнули ему: «Не отомкнемся мы, ты не наша мать! У той голосок тонкий, ласковый, а у тебя голос грубый! Ты – волк!»
Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.
Тогда волк сбегал к лавочнику, купил у него большой кусок мела, съел его – и голос стал у него тоненький.
Then he came back, knocked at the door of the house, and called: 'Open the door, dear children, your mother is here and has brought something back with her for each of you.'
Вернулся опять к той же двери, постучал в нее и крикнул: «Отомкнитеся, милые детки, ваша мать пришла, всем вам по гостинцу принесла».
But the wolf had laid his black paws against the window, and the children saw them and cried: 'We will not open the door, our mother has not black feet like you: you are the wolf!'
Но он оперся своими черными лапами о подоконник, дети это увидали и закричали: «Не отомкнемся, у нашей матери не черные лапы, как у тебя! Ты – волк!»
Then the wolf ran to a baker and said: 'I have hurt my feet, rub some dough over them for me.' And when the baker had rubbed his feet over, he ran to the miller and said: 'Strew some white meal over my feet for me.'
Тогда волк побежал к пекарю и сказал: «Я себе повредил ногу, вымажь мне ее тестом». И когда пекарь исполнил его желание, волк побежал к мельнику и сказал: «Осыпь мне лапы белой мучкой».
The miller thought to himself: 'The wolf wants to deceive someone,' and refused; but the wolf said: 'If you will not do it, I will devour you.'
Мельник подумал: «Верно, волк затеял какую-то плутню», – и стал было отговариваться, но волк сказал: «Если ты этого не сделать, то я тебя съем».
Then the miller was afraid, and made his paws white for him. Truly, this is the way of mankind.
Тогда мельник струхнул и выбелил ему лапу мучицей. Таковы-то бывают люди!
So now the wretch went for the third time to the house-door, knocked at it and said: 'Open the door for me, children, your dear little mother has come home, and has brought every one of you something back from the forest with her.' The little kids cried:
Вот и пошел злодей в третий раз к той же двери, постучался и сказал: «Отомкнитеся, детушки, ваша милая матушка воротилася и каждому из вас принесла по гостинчику из леса».
'First show us your paws that we may know if you are our dear little mother.'
Козляточки закричали: «Сначала покажи нам, какая у тебя лапа, чтобы мы могли знать, точно ли ты наша милая матушка!»
Then he put his paws in through the window and when the kids saw that they were white, they believed that all he said was true, and opened the door.
Тогда показал он им лапу в окошко, и когда они увидели, что она белая, то поверили его речам и отомкнули дверь. А вошел-то – волк!
But who should come in but the wolf! They were terrified and wanted to hide themselves. One sprang under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the sixth under the washing-bowl, and the seventh into the clock-case. But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat. The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find.
Козляточки перепугались – прятаться пометались. Один прыгнул под стол, другой забился в постель, третий залез в печку, четвертый убежал на кухню, пятый спрятался в шкаф, шестой – под корыто, седьмой – в футляр для часовых гирь. Однако же волк всех их разыскал и очень с ними не чинился: одного за другим заглотнул он своею пастью, и только младшего никак не мог найти в часовом футляре.
When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.
Накушавшись досыта, он преспокойно убрался из дома, растянулся на большом лугу под деревом и начал засыпать.
Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest. Ah! what a sight she saw there! The house-door stood wide open. The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.
Вскоре после того вернулась старая коза из лесу домой. Ах, что она там увидела! Домовая дверь открыта настежь: стулья, скамейки опрокинуты, корыто в щепы разбито, одеяло и подушки из постели повыбросаны.
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| DURDON | Date: Yakshanba, 11-Sen-2011, 13:10 | Message # 6 |
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She sought her children, but they were nowhere to be found. She called them one after another by name, but no one answered.
Стала она искать своих деток, но нигде их найти не могла. Стала она их перекликать по именам, но никто не откликался.
At last, when she came to the youngest, a soft voice cried: 'Dear mother, I am in the clock-case.'
Наконец, когда она дошла до младшего, тоненький голосок прокричал ей: «Милая матушка, я забился в часовой футляр».
She took the kid out, and it told her that the wolf had come and had eaten all the others. Then you may imagine how she wept over her poor children.
Она тотчас добыла оттуда свое дитя и услышала рассказ о том, как приходил волк и сожрал всех остальных козляток. Можете себе представить, как она оплакивала своих бедных детушек!
At length in her grief she went out, and the youngest kid ran with her. When they came to the meadow, there lay the wolf by the tree and snored so loud that the branches shook. She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.
Наконец старая коза в великой печали своей пошла из дому, и младший козленочек побежал за ней следом. Чуть только они вышли на луг, коза увидала, что волк лежит врастяжку у дерева и так храпит, что над ним ветви от его храпа колышутся. Коза обошла и осмотрела его со всех сторон, и увидела, что в его раздутом брюхе что-то шевелится.
'Ah, heavens,' she said, 'is it possible that my poor children whom he has swallowed down for his supper, can be still alive?'
«Ах, Господи, – подумала она, – уж не мои ли это бедные детки? Он ими поужинал, а они, видно, живехоньки».
Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster's stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.
Тогда она отправила козленочка домой за ножницами, иголкой и ниткой. Затем она взрезала чудовищу утробу и чуть только взрезала – один козленочек уж высунул оттуда головенку; а как стала резать дальше, то все шестеро козлят выпрыгнули один за другим из волчьей утробы, и все были живехоньки и целехоньки, потому что чудовище в своей алчности глотало их целиком.
What rejoicing there was! They embraced their dear mother, and jumped like a tailor at his wedding.
То-то была радость! И стали они ласкаться к своей матушке, и приплясывать около нее, словно портной на свадьбе.
The mother, however, said: 'Now go and look for some big stones, and we will fill the wicked beast's stomach with them while he is still asleep.'
А старая коза сказала: «Теперь ступайте, соберите мне побольше булыжников, мы их навалим этому проклятому зверине в утробу, пока он спит».
Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred.
Семеро козляточек поспешно натаскали булыжников и набили их в утробу волка, сколько влезло. А старая коза еще того скорее зашила ему разрез, так что он ничего не приметил и даже не пошевельнулся.
When the wolf at length had had his fill of sleep, he got on his legs, and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well to drink. But when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled. Then cried he:
Когда же наконец волк выспался, он поднялся на ноги, и так как каменный груз возбуждал у него в желудке сильную жажду, то вздумал он пробраться к ключу и напиться. Но чуть только переступил он несколько шагов, камни стали у него в брюхе постукивать друг о друга и позвякивать один о другой. Тогда он воскликнул:
'What rumbles and tumbles - Что там рокочет, что там грохочет,
Against my poor bones? - Что оттянуло утробу мне?
I thought 'twas six kids, - Думал я, это шесть козлят,
But it feels like big stones.' - Слышу теперь – там камни гремят!
And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably.
И когда он пришел к ключу и наклонился к воде, собираясь пить, тяжелые камни его перетянули, он упал в воду и погиб злою смертью.
When the seven kids saw that, they came running to the spot and cried aloud: 'The wolf is dead! The wolf is dead!' and danced for joy round about the well with their mother.
А семеро козляточек, увидав это, прибежали к матери с криком: «Волк издох! Волк утопился!» И вместе с матерью радостно заплясали около ключа
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| DURDON | Date: Dushanba, 20-Fev-2012, 15:26 | Message # 7 |
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Status: | Marion talks about how she keeps her class in order.
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Todd: So, Marion, how are you classes? Marion: My classes are quite good at the moment. I'm enjoying them. I work in a junior high school and high school together, so my students range from twelve years old right up to eighteen. Todd: What do you teach your students? Marion: It teach them English. Todd: Really. Marion: Yeah, so communication basically. Todd: OK, so are they good students? You got nice kids? Marion: I have a mixuture so, but mainly they're quite good children. They're mostly very nice, but there are always going to be a few who are a bit naughty. Todd: So what do the naughty students do to be naughty? Marion: Well, in my class naughty students don't pay attention when I speak sometimes, or they talk to their friend next to them when they should be listening or writing or doing something else. I don't mind if they talk to each other about what we're doing but if they are talking about what was on TV last night so something like that I don't like it, unless they do it in English. If they can that's fine. Todd: Well, what do you do if your students are bad, are naughty? How do you discipline them? Marion: I hit them....No, I don't. Todd: You do not. Marion: I'm joking, I'm joking. Well, I have quite small classes, so it's quite easy. I'll just either call their name or walk down to their seat and if everybody is working on something, I'll talk to them about their work and see what they're doing, if they have any problems, that kind of thing and then if it gets worse, then sometimes they have to stand up, or if they are really, really naughty, and don't do any work, they'll have to come back and see me after school, and finish their work, then. Todd: So are you a strict teacher or a friendly teacher? Marion: I'm more of a friendly teacher, but with a couple of classes, I've become a strict teacher because I have to be, but mostly a friendly teacher I think. Todd: Who are easier to teach, the junior high students or the high school students? Marion: Probably the junior high because their more enthusiastic about English. They get quite excited about coming to our classes, and like I said they are small classes so it's easier and better for them to because they have more chance to speak and to use English.
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