[00:00.00]Lesson 10 The People of the United States [00:26.71](Adapted from This is America) [00:31.30]For over 200 years,visitors to the United States have been trying to explain [00:39.29]what makes Americans different from the people of other cou...
[00:00.00]Lesson 9 Fortune and the beggar [00:06.91] One day a beggar was walking along from house to house. [00:12.22]He carried an old bag in his hand, [00:16.42]and was asking at every door for a few cents to buy something to eat. [00:22.51]While...
[00:00.00]Lesson 8 On being crazy (AFter W.E.B. Du Bois) [00:29.11] It was one o'clock and I was hungry. [00:33.19]I found a place,seated myself,and reached for the menu. [00:38.98]The man sitting at the other side of the table rose. [00:43.46] Sir,...
[00:00.00]Lesson 7 A high school student speaks (After Randal Williams) [00:30.79]I went through four years of high school in Alabama, [00:36.77]and became active in clubs and sports. [00:41.26]I made a lot of friends and became a regular boy. [00:4...
[00:00.00]Lesson 5 The Little Man [00:26.40] I once Knew a little man. [00:30.38]He grew every day twenty-four hours older [00:35.69]without becoming any taller or larger. [00:40.68]This made him unhappy. [00:44.16]For he wished very much to be tall...
Lesson 5 Text The Little Man I once knew a little man. He grew every day twenty-four hours older without becoming any taller or larger. This made him unhappy. For he wished very much to be tall and large like other men. He could not bear people say,...
The Fun They Had Margie kept her diary almost every day. One day she wrote, 17 may,2155 and then this sentence: Today Tommy found a real book. It was a very old book. Its pages were yellow. Margie suddenly remembered that her grandfather once said t...
At a Railway Station Once, a long time ago, I went to a railway station. I planned to take the ninth train to New York and go on a journey with a friend. Many people were on the platform and they were pushing onto the long passenger train. It was al...
Good Manners We say that a person has good manners if he or she is polite, kind and helpful to others. Every one likes a person with good manners. But no one likes a person with bad or careless manners. yes, you say , but what are good manners ?how...
Is Learning English Easy or Not There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world .But only a few of them are very important .English is one of these .Many ,many people use it ,not only in England and the U.S.A. but also in the other parts of t...
