Don't Mess with Texas! Dame la Basura!

Reading for understanding AND fun.

Listen to my "trashy" Texas playlist while you read this Smithsonian article to practice reading for understanding AND reading for enjoyment.
Read titles and captions under photos first.  Read each saying on the "Don't mess with Texas" trash cans at the Texas capitol building in Austin, TX .
Compose your own vocabulary list, starting with
- Seemingly - seems like; 
- Myriad - many
- Lone Star state 1848 - Remember the Alamo
Explore more vocabulary and songs about and from Texas. 

The present perfect is a time span that includes now.

Source from NOAA

You can try thinking of the birds as discrete points of time and the waves as on-going aspects of a time span.


This video has the answers to these fill-ins. Thanks to Rachel's channel  (Archived ) and Voscreen.

- Scene 1: A: He's your uncle? B: Him? Uh-uh. I've ______________ seen him before. - Scene 2: ______________ never been sick before. - Scene 3: Hello darkness, my old friend. I've ______________ to talk with you again. - Scene 4: l've ______________ changes for you, Shrek. Think about that.

Anne of Green Gables Crowd-sourced Annotation Project

I’ve added line numbers for easier reference. Feel free to comment on words that you would like to work on further.

빨간 머리 앤 Akage no An 赤毛のアン (Red-headed Anne)


image from https://10mag.com/directory/event/events/seoul/my-name-is-anne-of-green-gables-exhibition-sungdong-gu-seoul/


Anne of Green Gables by Author: L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery)


33 paragraphs - Gutenberg has the copyright exemption for the USA here.

CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised (scroll up for the Table of Contents)



    1. MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down

    2. into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and

    3. traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the

Teacher's Choice list - How to find free on-line courses and series

Software tools and Government-sponsored and non-profit training 

Source from VA.GOV



English for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) 
MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses - https://www.mooc.org/


STATE DEPARTMENT 

COURSERA

National Institutes of Health

U.S. Department of Education
https://www.usalearns.org/  in cooperation with the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) and the Project IDEAL Support Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Video channel https://www.youtube.com/@USALearnsEnglish

 

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