Lesson24 On Employment for the Younger and the Older A study of the results of this survey suggests that older workers are likely to make better employees than younger ones. This conclusion is based partly on a comparison of the views of these two gr...
Lesson23 Night School Each weekday evening, a reverse rush hour takes place in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. While the average New Yorker is trudging home from their job, a few thousand others are piling into the three modern buildings that house th...
Lesson22 Bounty of Love My mother had a habit of keeping my letters, binding them carefully in neat bundles with green tape, but this was her own secret. She never told me she was doing it. In 1957, when she knew she was dying, I was in hospital in O...
Lesson21 Blues and Jazz People from Europe and America brought Africans to America as slaves before and during the nineteenth century. These Africans brought their music with them. After the American Civil War (18611865), the African-American people...
Lesson20 Sleep Scientists suggest that today, most adults get up to two hours' less sleep than they need. As a result those lacking in sleep are forgetful, tired, less productive and grumpy. Sleep is the time when our bodies and minds are rested and...
Lesson19 The Dead Sea Throughout history people all over the world have gone to special places where mineral-rich hot springs flow from beneath the earth@s surface. Countries with much volcanic activity such as Japan have many such hot springs and ha...
Lesson18 Humorous Stories Story 1 Everyone jumped to pick the phone up when it rang. My brother was calling to announce the birth of his first child. My parents and I rushed to the hospital and met Nathan outside the maternity ward. You've got to see...
Lesson17 Speaking Two, But Thinking in One My own experience makes me think it only self-deception if any believes that he has two mother-tongues. He may think that he is equally master of each, yet it is invariable the case that he actually thinks i...
Lesson16 Learning English We thought we knew the English language, having even translated a whole book from English into Russian, when we were in Siberia. I learnt English in prison from a self-instructor, but had never heard a single live English wo...
Lesson15 Exercise for Ever! In our pursuit of good health and shapeliness, most of us think immediately of dieting. If only we could eat less, we think, we'd soon be slim, happy and life would be problem-free. It's true that dieting is one answer, th...
