First up today on CNN student news. JJ's restaurant, Kansas City Missouri, closed early on Tuesday. People there smelled a strong gas odor, about an hour later, this is what JJ's looked like. An explosion ripped the roof off, the whole place burst in

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(二)月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Virginia Berninger, an educational psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. RS: A study she and her colleagues did found that children in f

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Barbara Pierce Bush was the US First Lady in the early 1990s, when her husband was the countrys 41st president. She also later become the mother of a president when one of her six children George W. Bush was elected in 2000. I had trouble when I was

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(四月)

Learning to Read in Safaliba Helps Ghanaian Kids Learn English 学习用Safaliba语言读书有助于加纳孩子学英语 Ghanas official national language is English. But for most citizens English is also a second language. Until recently, children

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An American grandmother thought she was moving to Africa in order to homeschool her daughter's five children. As it turns out, Viola Vaughan is helping thousands of Senegalese girls with their school work, in a place where girls can often be left be

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In Africa, New Technologies Help Teach Women to Read 在非洲,新技术帮助教女人阅读 More Africans are communicating via text, social media and email. In Senegal, literacy experts are using the new technologies to motivate and teach women

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1. illiteration /əˌlɪtəˈreɪʃn/ -- repetition of the same letter or consonant at the begining of consecutive words Note the illiteration in the line Sing a song of sixpence. 注意Sing a song of sixpence.这行中的头韵。 2. literacy /ˈli

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图片1 liter n. 公升 例句:The bottle holds a liter of beer. 这个瓶子装一升啤酒。 litter n. 垃圾 例句:Paul was fined for littering on the sidewalks. 保罗因在人行道上乱扔杂物而被罚款。 literal adj. 文字的,照字

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头韵 alliteration 选集 anthology 反义词 antonym 指南 brochure 字幕 caption 条款 clause 编写 compile 学术论文 dissertation 制定 formulate 灵感 inspiration 读写能力 literacy 幅度 margin 边缘的 marginal 改装 modify 个人

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Improving Quality of Life for Rural Nigerians Over the past five years, the Feed the Future Nigeria livelihoods project has helped pull some of the most vulnerable families in Nigeria out of poverty. This U.S. government foreign assistance program ha

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Liberia Education Program Targets Illiterate Women 利比里亚针对文盲妇女的教育项目 From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 A United Nations agency estimates that 516 mill

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Women in Afghanistan Gain More Rights 阿富汗女性赢得更多权利 Hello and welcome to As It Is. I'm Jonathan Evans in Washington. 欢迎收听美国之音英语学习 As It Is 节目。我是乔纳森埃文斯(Jonathan Evans)在华盛顿为您

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Each year in late April or early May, more than 50,000 volunteers in Southern California help out at hundreds of non-profit organizations, from schools to community centers, at an annual event called Big Sunday. They paint, clean and garden to help l

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, a new call to parents and others today about the need for routine reading to the youngest of children, and its potential effect on literacy, language and well-being. Jeff is back with that. WOMAN: Where's the duck? JEFFREY BRO

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The National Party held their annual conference this weekend in Wellington. This was an important conference because it was their last one before the elections in November. The National Party had not said very much about their policies before this we

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One in four American adults cannot read or write well enough to function on the job and in everyday life Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 04 May 2010 Volunteer tutors at the Nashville Adult Literacy Council work individually with adult learners. One in

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By Aunshuman Apte Rockville, Maryland 07 August 2007 Many children struggle with reading aloud in class. To help them improve and build confidence, an innovative program uses dogs to create a casual way to help students with special learning needs ex

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Last week there was a lot of talk by teachers, parents and MPs about bringing in national standards in primary schools. A national standard is a list of things that children must be able to do each year. Maybe the standard for year 1 is to be able to

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Each year, the OECD tests half a million 15-year old students in 70 countries in reading, mathematics and science. The results for 2009 were published this month. They showed students in Korea and Finland had the highest scores for reading literacy.

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Are you a bookworm? Is your head permanently stuck in a book? If so, that's a good thing. There are many benefits to reading. Getting into a good novel improves our literacy. But who or what encourages us to pick up a book and start reading? Of cours

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