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High School Student Sings Popular Beatles Song in M'ikmaq

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High School Student Sings Popular Beatles Song in M'ikmaq

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The teenage girl who recorded a cover of Blackbird by The Beatles entirely in Mi'kmaq says she hopes to one day release a full album in her people's language.

"Those lyrics kind of make me feel more hopeful, more inspired to, like, learn my language more than I already know, and to show non-Mi'kmaq people the beauty of the song in our language," Emma Stevens, 16, of Eskasoni , N.S., told As It Happens host Carol Off.

"I know it's just, like, a little cover, but in our language, it's really beautiful and it just makes a big impact."

Listeners are definitely feeling that impact.

The cover has been viewed more than 30,000 on YouTube since it was uploaded last week by Allison Bernard Memorial High School to mark the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages.

After it aired on CBC Radio's As It Happens Tuesday evening, dozens of listeners wrote in to express how deeply moved they were by Stevens' haunting voice and the beauty of the Mi'kmaq lyrics.

"I'm glad that it gave them kind of a new view on music," Stevens said of the reception. "Our language is such a beautiful thing and not a lot of people hear it."

Translating the lyrics

The cover was produced by the school's music teacher Carter Chiasson using translated lyrics from Mi'kmaq language teacher Katani Julian and her father.

The translation process was a struggle, Julian said, because not all of the words have direct correlations in Mi'kmaq.

"We have to translate the concepts, and not the words specifically," she said.

"So I had to look into a poetic message - the reading between the lines of Paul McCartney's lyrics here - and learn, you know, what he was talking about, what kind of feelings that he was trying to convey."

There was plenty there to sink her teeth into, she said, noting that lyrics like "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" really resonate with Indigenous experiences in Canada.

"The song is just like the type of gentle advice that we get from our elders when we feel defeated and when we feel down," she said.

While researching the song, she learned that it has frequently been associated with the U.S. civil rights movement.

"We have something in common with the civil rights movement because, to some extent, our people have been oppressed in this country, you know, by the Indian Act and, you know, by the federal government and, you know, the whole residential school thing and attempts at assimilation," Julian said.

"It spoke to me personally like that. So it really strikes a chord in my heart as well, this song."

'A loss for words'

Julian frequently turned to her father, Albert (Golydada ) Julian, to translate the lyrics - but she never told him what it was for.

She says she'll never forget the moment she revealed the video to him.

"He's usually not at a loss for words very often, but he was absolutely quiet," she said. "He's a tough guy, but he had tears in the corners of his eyes and he loved it so much."

This wasn't Stevens' first attempt at performing in Mi'kmaq, and she says it won't be her last.

In 2018, she sang My Unama'ki (My Cape Breton), an ode to her homeland sung partially in Mi'kmaq, which she wrote and performed in collaboration with her fellow students at staff at Allison Bernard Memorial High School.

Asked if she would ever release a full album in Mi'kmaq, Stevens didn't hesitate to reply.

"Definitely," she said. "I would love to do that, but I think it would be better if it was all my own music."
Written by Sheena Goodyear. Interview with Emma Stevens and Katani Julian produced by Sarah Jackson and Mary-Catherine McIntosh.

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Meet the N.S. teenager who sang Blackbird by The Beatles entirely in Mi'kmaq | CBC Radio

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What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

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Ten Thousand Villages
Try to take notes with this video.

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Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity 

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Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

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Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation.

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Use these poems to practice fluency, rhythm and sentence stress. While you are at it, have some FUN!

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Shel Silverstein Poems with Valuable Life Lessons

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Shel Silverstein poems are for everyone. He’s is one of the more popular children’s book authors, with valuable lessons for adults too.

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13 Life Lessons from Shel Silverstein Poems

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Where I'm From - a poem by Ella Lyon George

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Where I'm From - a poem by Ella Lyon George

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This is a catchy song that will help you practice similes.

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This resource from University of California talks about a number of issues that are impacting the environment. Thanks to Vincent Wang for recommending this resource.

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Conservation scientist and UCLA visiting researcher Dr. M. Sanjayan explores the surprising ways we can change how we think and act about climate change. Cli...

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How Some Online Shopping Habits are Bad for the Environment

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How Some Online Shopping Habits are Bad for the Environment

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How some online shopping habits are terrible for the environment

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What can be a convenient click away could drastically expand the carbon footprint of an online sale.

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BBC - Standard Grade Bitesize English - Autobiographies and travel writing : Revision

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A BBC Bitesize secondary school revision resource for Standard Grade English about autobiographies and travel writing: personal writing, first person, descriptive, imaginative language

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See our lists below of 20 things you can say to another person to communicate that you respect them.

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Alysha Brilla's inspiration for her new album 'Human'

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Indo-Tanzanian-Canadian musician Alysha Brilla shares how her roots led to the inspirations behind her new album 'Human'.

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Spoken Word Poet - There is something inside that made you keep going

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"To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful | Shane Koyczan

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We all know, in theory, that we ought to use less plastic. We've all been distressed by the sight of Blue Planet II's hawksbill turtle entangled in a plastic sack, and felt chastened as we've totted up our weekly tally of disposable coffee cups. But still, UK annual plastic waste is now close to 5m tonnes, including enough single-use plastic to fill 1,000 Royal Albert Halls; the government's planned elimination of "avoidable" plastic waste by 2042 seems a quite dazzling task. It was reported this week that scientists at the University of Portsmouth have accidentally developed a plastic-eating mutant enzyme, and while we wait to see if that will save us all, for one individual the realisation of just how much plastic we use has become an intensely personal matter.

One early evening in mid-2016, Daniel Webb, 36, took a run along the coast near his home in Margate. "It was one of those evenings where the current had brought in lots of debris," he recalls, because as Webb looked down at the beach from his route along the promenade he noticed a mass of seaweed, tangled with many pieces of plastic. "Old toys, probably 20 years old, bottles that must have been from overseas because they had all kinds of different languages on them, bread tags, which I don't think had been used for years ..." he says. "It was very nostalgic, almost archaeological. And it made me think, as a mid-30s guy, is any of my plastic out there? Had I once dropped a toy in a stream near Wolverhampton, where I'm from, and now it was out in the sea?"

Webb decided that he would start a project to keep all the plastic he used in the course of an entire year. He would not modify his plastic consumption in that time (although he had already given up buying bottled water), and each item would be carefully washed and stored in his spare room.

Webb is a fan of a project - prior to this he ran six half-marathons in six days - but he had little notion of what he would do with his personal plastic mountain until last summer, when he had the idea to make it into an exhibition. Earlier this month, Webb's 12-month haul became part of the Mural-by-the-Sea project, displayed on a billboard at Margate's Dreamland funfair, rechristened Everyday Plastic and documented by the photographer Ollie Harrop.

"Three days before the billboard went up, we started weighing and sorting and counting it all," Webb says. "There were 4,490 pieces in the collection. If you take me as an average person and multiply it by the UK population it means we throw away 293bn plastic items a year." But he is cautious about speaking in such terms. "As soon as you talk billions, it all becomes quite abstract," he explains. "It's like people talk about climate change, and you can't get your head around it. But plastic is tangible, and if you take it back to individual items it starts to resonate."

Of those 4,490 individual items, 60% was food packaging - largely salad and vegetable wrappers and bread bags. Ninety-three per cent was single-use plastic, and just eight items - mostly coffee lids - were made out of biodegradable material.

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'People say: wow, you really like Hula Hoops.' Photograph: Ollie Harrop 2018/Everyday Plastic

"I suppose it is a snapshot of a year in my life," Webb says. "People look at the billboard and say, 'Wow, you really like Hula Hoops, don't you?' Or they say how beautiful it looks, with all the different colours." But it was looking at all the different-coloured items as he sifted through the plastic pile that proved the greatest revelation for Webb. "My reaction when I sorted it all into categories was quite visceral," he says. "You get a really clear picture of what you're consuming and you figure out that all of this stuff was just designed for you to buy it. That black plastic of meat packaging is to hide the colour of the blood, or the brown plastic of mushroom packaging makes the mushrooms look earthy." He laughs. "I work in marketing, and I never thought I'd say this, but we really are being sold stuff we do not need. There is an epidemic of overproduction and overconsumption."

Webb has been a Margate resident for two years, and as he made his regular visit to his local Aldi, he became increasingly aware that it was "practically impossible to go to a supermarket and come away without any plastic packaging ... an aubergine comes in a plastic bag, onions come in a plastic net. And many of these things are made to be obsolete - something like a plastic bag is designed to be used for maybe just 15 minutes. People carry their shopping home in it and then they chuck it away. And it outlives all of them."

Kerbside recycling is limited in Thanet, so prior to his Everyday Plastic project Webb diligently saved up all his bottles and paper and plastic and tins to take to the local recycling centre himself. "But when I took it to the tip, I said: 'Excuse me, where's the plastic recycling?'" he remembers. "And they said: 'Mate, just stick it in the household waste.'"

Recycling, he says, is not the answer - after all, in Webb's collection, just 56 items were made from recycled material. "And that highlights the limits of it," he says. "Recycling is absolutely vital, and we need to invest more in recycling facilities and infrastructure. But really, we need to find ways of using less."

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'Just changing one thing is really important.' Photograph: Ollie Harrop 2018/Everyday Plastic

"Supermarkets are lobbied hard by the packaging industry," Webb says, talking of how he recently visited a shop in Brighton that prides itself on being plastic-free - an achievement that is, of course, laudable. But he also noted that 100g of bran flakes in the shop cost 55p - meaning an average-sized box would add up to more than £4. "We need subsidies for people doing this kind of thing," he says.

The billboard is one element of what Webb hopes will become a bigger project. "I want to take it into schools, and I want to do an exhibition, and I'm working with Friends of the Earth and Surfers Against Sewage to take it to festivals this summer," he says. He will also be publishing a report into the findings of his project at the end of May.

"I'm just one of millions of everyday people who have woken up to what they're consuming," he says. "And the aim is to speak to the awareness-laggers, making people realise that changing your whole lifestyle is difficult, but just changing one thing is still really important. I didn't buy a water bottle last year and I might have used 300 - if everyone did that it would be saving a lot of plastic from going into the sea."
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I kept all my plastic for a year - the 4,490 items forced me to rethink

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Daniel Webb accrued a mountain of plastic - including many packets of Hula Hoops - and made it into a mural, now on display at Dreamland in Margate. We are overproducing and overconsuming, he says, and recycling is not the answer

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Plastic-Free Aisle in Amsterdam Grocery Store is the World's First

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A supermarket in Amsterdam has become the first in the world to offer an entire aisle of groceries in plastic-free packaging.

The plastic-free aisle at Ekoplaza offers 700 grocery staples - including meat, produce, dairy and snacks - packaged in glass, metal, cardboard or compostable biomaterials.

The Dutch chain plans to roll out plastic-free aisles to all 74 of its stores by year's end. It has vowed not to pass the additional costs of the packaging on to consumers.

"Today is a very exciting day for us," Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet, told As It Happens host Carol Off.

Sutherland's campaign group worked with the supermarket to make the transition.

"Somebody has stepped up to the plate and said: 'We are going to be first. We are going show the world what a plastic-free aisle can look like.'"

Of the 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic humans made since 1950, 6.3 billion tonnes have already become waste, according to a 2017 study published in Science Advances.

Only nine per cent of that waste has been recycled. The rest accumulates in oceans and landfills, where it can take up to 400 years to degrade.

That's why Sutherland says businesses can't afford to wait for the law to catch up when it comes to plastic-free shopping.

A Plastic Planet is pushing other grocery chains to follow in Ekoplaza's footsteps.

"Legislation takes too long," Sutherland said. "We now know what we are doing to the planet. We can never unknow that. So we have to take action today."

But it's not just about the environmentalism, she said. It's also about consumer choice.

"Why can you buy dairy-free and gluten-free and fat-free and all of those things, but you can't buy plastic-free?" she said.

"The public really wants to have this choice now."

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Amsterdam supermarket opens world's 1st plastic-free aisle

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A supermarket in Amsterdam has become the first in the world to offer an entire aisle of groceries in plastic-free packaging. The plastic-free aisle at Ekoplaza offers 700 grocery staples - including meat, produce, dairy and snacks - packaged in glass, metal, cardboard or compostable biomaterials.

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What if you could trade a paperclip for a house? | Kyle MacDonald | TEDxVienna

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Where do Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson

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Where do Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson

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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

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How To Come Up With Good Ideas | Mark Rober | TEDxYouth@ColumbiaSC

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He started a wearable technology company called Digital Dudz that combined smartphones playing a video with clothing. Mark left NASA to grow the business for 2 years and after selling Digital Dudz to a company in the UK, he has recently decided to return to his Engineering roots.

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A short film on inspiration

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A short film about the mysteries of inspiration.

Featuring thoughts on the subject by:
David Lynch
Robert Krulwich
Chuck Close
Tracy Clayton & Heben Nigatu
Ray Barbee
Lulu Miller
Susan Orlean
and a couple of kids named Mason and Ursula

Presented by www.transom.org
With funding from The National Endowment for the Arts
For more about this video, visit:
http://transom.org/2017/where-do-ideas-come-from/

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Where New Ideas Come From - by Jay Shetty

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A listing of recent the Stats of Life episodes.

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CNN News - This is a great, FREE listening and reading website

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Learn English for free with CNN. Today's news becomes today's English lessons.

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Start learning for FREE by reading CNN articles. Read as many as you want and come back every day for new lessons at https://en.news.

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John McWhorter: 4 reasons to learn a new language

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English is fast becoming the world's universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue.

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1. Global Trends - practicing note-taking with numbers
2. What is a Global Citizen?
3. Global Issues - Ted Talks

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See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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Dollar Street - See how the rest of the world lives

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Dollar Street - See how the rest of the world lives

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CBC is Canada's national broadcaster.  There are lots of interesting things to listen to and watch on this site.  Try some of the following:
As it Happens has transcripts of many of their radio interviews.
Someone Knows Something is an unsolved mysteries podcast.
CBC News has all of the days top stories.

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CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster

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Canada's home for News, Entertainment, Sports, Music and much more

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ESL Library Podcasts  provides a weekly podcast for you to listen to  usually based on current events or stories related to living in Canada.

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Share this week's podcast with your English learners, and try our ready-made Discovery lesson about Olympia.

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Culips is a podcast site - although you can listen to some of their podcasts on Youtube as well.  You can listen to and learn everyday conversation about everyday topics...getting gas, going to the gym, etc

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Even native English speakers sometimes feel anxious when having to say no to a request or an invitation. In fact, there are tons of self-help articles giving tips about how to refine this interpersonal skill! Andrew and Suzanne teach you how to say no in this Real Talk episode!

Expressions you'll learn in this episode:

To turn [someone] down

To fall through

It's just not gonna happen

To get shut down by [someone]

To not be into [something or someone]

I wish I could help, but I can't

To do [someone] a solid

A double shift

From the get-go

I'm not able to do that, sorry

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Culips - English for everyday use! - Learn to speak English like a native speaker!

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Even native English speakers sometimes feel anxious when having to say no to a request or an invitation. In fact, there are tons of self-help articles giving tips about how to refine this interpersonal skill! Andrew and Suzanne teach you how to say no in this Real Talk episode!

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Breaking News English - a great resource for human interest and current events stories. You can practice vocab, listening and reading on this site.

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Breaking News English - Easier News Lessons

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Breaking News English Lessons - 3,369 FREE Easy News English lesson plans. EFL/ESL graded news lessons, news in 7 levels, current events.

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Lyrics Training - this site has exercises to help you practice your listening and vocabulary while learning popular English songs.

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LyricsTraining is the new way to learn English and other languages through music and the lyrics of your favourite songs

Improve and practise your listening skills with the best music videos. Fill in the gaps to the lyrics as you listen and sing Karaoke to your favourites

Thousands of teachers, all over the world, are already using LyricsTraining to teach languages and motivate their students through this unique immersion process

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Learn Languages with Music Videos, Lyrics and Karaoke!

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Enjoy learning languages for free playing with the music videos and filling in the lyrics of your favorite songs: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and more.

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We are very happy to have you join us!  Check out this video for 20 things that are important to say to those around you.
Do you have a few expressions you would like to add?

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Kid President's 20 Things We Should Say More Often

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THIS is My Best ADVICE for Anyone Looking to Get RICH! | Mark Zuckerberg | Top 10 Rules

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A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit | Judson Brewer | TED

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Unit 4 - Global Issues

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Unit 4 - Global Issues

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Coffee - practice your notetaking and speaking skills for numbers by listening to and speaking thess links:

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Coffee - practice your notetaking and speaking skills for numbers by listening to and speaking thess links:

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1.  Canadian Coffee Drinking Study - Info graphic

2. Canadian Coffee Fact Sheet 2015

3.  Coffee by the Numbers (notetaking practice)

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED

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Reed Learning Animated Learning Models | De Bono's Six Thinking Hats

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This is an example of our new animated learning models. You can license these videos from Reed Learning to explain key models and content to your team. Contact us on 0800 170 7777 for more details.

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Maxine Hong Kingston - Sample autobiography, p 27

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Maxine Hong Kingston - Sample autobiography, p 27

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Listen to this sample autobiography. Think about the Q5 U1 unit question - How does language affect who we are?

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Try this quiz! What colour is your hat?

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Take this quiz to find out which of Edward De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats best describes you...

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Unit 1 - How Does Language Affect Who We Are?

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Unit 1 - How Does Language Affect Who We Are?

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1. Vocab Unit 1 Listening 1
2. Listening with a timeline: Justin Trudeau  "bio"
3.  Brain Test - Which side of the brain do you use most?
4.  Video: The Ultimate Brain Test
5.  Resource: Left Side or Right Side - What are your skills?
6. Listening with a timeline:  Helen Keller Bio
7. Listening with a timeline: Stephen Hawking Bio
8. Listening with a timeline: Terry Fox Story
9.  Time Indicators for timelines and autobiographies

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Here is another video to help you understand the six thinking hats.

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1. Halloween Listening and Quiz
2.  Valentine's Day - What is the ideal Valentine's Day?
3. Canada's Sports and Activities:  Get Started!

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1. Here is a famous song sung by a Famous Canadian, Stompin' Tom.  Many people know this song - The Hockey Song....it will help you learn a bit of hockey vocabulary ;)

2. Here is a version for the rockers in the group ;)

3.  Here is the song with the lyrics.

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Unit 2 - Where can work, education, and fun overlap?

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Unit 2 - Where can work, education, and fun overlap?

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1. Arctic Expedition
2. White House Science Fair
3. Work-Life Balance: Baby Boomers vs. Millennials