AMERICAN STORIES - Short Story: 'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry FAITH LAPIDUS: Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Our story today is called One Thousand Dollars. It was written by O. Henry. Here is Steve Ember with the...
AMERICAN STORIES - Short Story: The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien (Part 2) Now, the Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Our story is called The Diamond Lens. It was written by Fitz-James O'Brien. Today we will hear the second and...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is Emily Kissner, a schoolteacher in Pennsylvania and author of a book called Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Retelling. EMILY KISSNER: When you summarize, you need to first choose what's impor...
Grammar Girl here. I get a lot of questions about things that are too short to make up a whole podcast, so today I'm going to answer a few of those short questions. So here's our first listener question. Dreamed Versus Dreamt Hi Grammar Girl. D. Chap...
Grammar Girl here. I get a lot of questions about things that are too short to make up a whole podcast, so today I'm going to answer a few of those short questions. So here's our first listener question. Dreamed Versus Dreamt Hi Grammar Girl. D. Chap...
Although I had never met him, I knew that my grandfather had been five feet, six inches tall, while my stately grandmother stood five feet, eleven inches. As a teen-ager leafing through old photographs with Grandma, I finally realized how unusual the...
Eddie drove over to see Betty. When he got to her apartment at about 3:15 p.m., he saw that her car wasn't in the carport. So he wrote a note: Hi, Betty. I love you and I miss you. Love, Eddie. He was about to tape the note onto her front door when h...
Margaret was a small girl. She was a little girl. All her friends were taller than her. She was shorter than all her friends. She wanted to be tall. Her mom told her not to worry. One day Margaret would be tall. One day she would be taller than her f...
The plane was waiting to take off. The plane was in line on the runway. One plane was ahead of it. Many planes were behind it. Everyone wanted to get up into the air. Everyone was tired of sitting on the ground. Planes are for flying, not sitting. Pl...
英语作文 Direction: For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic VACATION,LONG OR SHORT?.In some universities,there are three short vacations each school year,while in other two longer vacations seperate the two semes...
