1. Helen Keller was born in a small town called Tuscumbia, Alabama, on
an estate called Ivy Green . She was born on 27 July, 1880, and her
parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller. At first she
could talk and see but on February 1882 when Helen was 19 months
old she became extremely ill and lost her ability to hear and see.
(Due to a protruding(väljaulatuv) left eye, she was usually
photographed in profile .) Both her eyes were replaced in adulthood
with glass replicas.
2. Learning was tough for Helen. Because of her deafness and
blindness, no one could get through to her, and she could not
communicate with others . Basic rules and lessons made no sense to
her, and she was called a "wild child ." Then, in 1886 , her mom heard
about the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston from Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone . Kate wrote to the head of
the Perkins School to ask for a teacher for Helen and they sent their
star student , Anne Sullivan . The day she arrived — March 3, 1887—
Helen's life changed.
3. Anne Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866, in Agawam,
Massachusetts. Her family had very little money and could not take
care of her. When she was 10 years old she was sent to live in a
home for poor people. Anne also had very poor vision . At the age of
14, she was sent to the Perkins School for the Blind to receive
training to be a teacher for children who were blind.
4. Anne had to figure out a way to make Helen understand words and
their meaning. She began to teach Helen letters , by signing them
into her palm . Then just one month later, everything clicked. Anne
held Helen's hand under a pump while signing W-A-T-E-R into her
palm. Helen's whole face lit up. The word came to life. That day, she
learned 30 words.
5. Quickly, she learned words and then sentences . Soon she was able
to communicate by signing the manual alphabet. But Helen wasn't
satisfied with signing alone. She wanted to learn to write. In addition
to learning to write in braille , Helen placed a ruler on the page as a
guide and drew very square block letters.
6. In 1888, Helen left home for the first time. She and Anne attended
the Perkins School for the Blind as a guest of the director , Michael
Anagnos. Helen became an overnight celebrity . However, her
friendship with Anagnos suffered when she was accused of
plagiarism[plaigarisam]. Helen had written a story entitled "The Frost
King" for Anagnos's birthday. It was a lot like a story Helen had heard
once , long before , and perhaps she remembered parts of it without
realizing it. Some people said Helen's writing was just too good for
someone who couldn't see or hear nature with her own eyes and
ears .
7. But Helen had spent most of her childhood outside ! Anne had taught
Helen many things outside of the classroom . She taught her to
touch , smell, and experience nature. She wanted Helen to be
curious, ask questions , and to discover the world around her. And,
for the rest of her life, Helen loved to smell and touch flowers, to feel
the wind on her face...she was curious about everything!
Anne Frank Anne Frank has been hiding with her family and Peters family at the top of the house where Mr Frank had his office. The entrance to their secret hiding plae was hidden by a moving bookshelf. They had been living there for a whla and Anne tries to write he diarie as much as she can. One day, when she wakes up, she goes to the attic to get the stale air out of her lungs. And went to her favourite spot on the floor. Peter joined her and two of them watched out the blue skye, the bare chestnut tree glistening with dew, the seagulls glinting with silver as they swooped through the air and they were so moved and entranced that they couldn´t speak.
1 Do you have to be so ____________________ all the time? Don't you find anything funny? 2 I'm not ____________________ of dogs, even very big ones. 3 Sue felt very ____________________ of herself when she won the first prize in the competition. 4 `I am not ____________________ of Sue I am glad she won the first prize', said Mary. 5 Debbie is ____________________ to tall dark men, but Helen likes men with blond hair. 6 She was crying because she felt very ____________________ about the bad news. 7 Tony is very ____________________ of himself and wants to apologize. 8 I used to be very shy but now I feel more ____________________ with strangers. 9 Does your face go red when you feel ____________________? 10 Liz is not very ____________________. She never says `Hello'.
a) Our teachers used to punish us by making us stay behind after school. b) If you…….twenty-seven by nine, the answer is three. c) Try to……. the most important rules. d) It is difficult to …….attention in a noisy classroom. e) Pauline tried her best to …….the end of year examinations. f) Your work is the same as Harry's. Did you……. his work? g) Your mind is wandering! You must …….more! h) Helen decided to……. all her work at the end of every week. i) It's a good idea to……. important parts of the book in red. j) The teacher saw Jerry trying to …….in the exam. Task 3. Match the words in the box with a suitable definition (a-j). Use each word once only. classmate examiner learner principal pupil coach graduate lecturer professor tutor
I read a book called The Spare Room. It is written by Helen Garner who is an Australian writer and journalist. She was born on 7th November in Geelong and now lives in Victoria. This novel has won several awards and that's one of the reasons I chose to read it. The Spare Room talks about a 64-year woman Helen who lives in Melbourne, Australia. One day, her friend Nicola who lives in Sydney calls and asks if she could stay with her for three weeks. The reason she calls is that she is a cancer patient who needs to be taken care of. As they have been friends for a long time, Helen gave her consent and welcomed Nicola in her home. In Melbourne Helen also has a treatment in an institution called the Theodore. Chemo
In the room Jane was screaming and so scared that she fainted. When she waked up, Mrs. Reed decided to send Jane to the Lowood School, Jane was also happy to leave. When Jane arrived to the school she found out that her life was better in her aunt house than in that school. The school’s headmaster was Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man, who treated the students really bad. In school Jane found a friend named Helen Burns who was also at same age as Jane. In the winter Helen got sic and died. The epidemic also resulted in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. Jane spent eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. After teaching for two years, Jane accepted to be a governess at a manor called Thornfield, where she thought a French girl named Adele. The housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax did the housekeeping and
Color-- -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- Text Size-- 10-- 11-- 12-- 13-- 14-- 15-- 16-- 17-- 18-- 19-- 20-- 21-- 22-- 23-- 24 TWILIGHT By Stephenie Meyer Contents PREFACE 1. FIRST SIGHT 2. OPEN BOOK 3. PHENOMENON 4. INVITATIONS 5. BLOOD TYPE 6. SCARY STORIES 7. NIGHTMARE 8. PORT ANGELES 9. THEORY 10. INTERROGATIONS 11. COMPLICATIONS 12. BALANCING 13. CONFESSIONS 14. MIND OVER MATTER 15. THE CULLENS 16. CARLISLE 17. THE GAME 18. THE HUNT 19. GOODBYES 20. IMPATIENCE 21. PHONE CALL 22. HIDE-AND-SEEK 23. THE ANGEL 24. AN IMPASSE EPILOGUE: AN OCCASION twilight STEPHENIE MEYER LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY New York Boston Text copyright © 2005 by Stephenie Meyer All rights reserved. Little, Brown and Company Time Warner Book Group 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Visit our Web site at www.lb-teens.com First Edition: September 2005 The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intende
Chapter1: An unknown woman was found lying in the street and brought into the workhouse. She delivered a sickly child who had trouble breathing. The woman, without a word of who she was, died and left her new born boy, Oliver, to the drunken nurse that stood by. Chapter2: The State gave Oliver to Mrs. Mann who housed a number of orphaned children. Mrs. Mann took a large portion of the money given to her by the authorities for each child's food so Oliver grew up small and malnourished. On his ninth birthday, the town beadle, Mr. Bumble, came to collect Oliver and take him to the board for an interview. They told him he was to live with other wards of the state to become educated and learn a trade. Oliver did not mind this, but soon after he arrived, the state decided to implement a plan that would save money by feeding the people very little. After a time on this diet, the boys at the table chose Oliver to go ask the head cook for more gruel. Oliver did this, and was taken away. A flye
The world’s digital edition to that of the original. After weeks of toil he most precise replica A L I C E ’S created an exact replica of the original! The book was added to VolumeOne’s print-on- of the world’s Adventures in Wonderland demand offering. While a PDF version is offered on various most famous portals of the Net, BookVirtual
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