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25 Ways To Use Social Media For Your Next Event

EFL / ESL English Lesson Plans & Podcast for studying Current Events and News.

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Does French still matter? If so, why? This roundtable discussion is a response to recent concerns about the status of the study of French and other foreign languages and cultures in U.S. higher and secondary education at a time of increasing globalization. Five leading voices in different fields bring a variety of perspectives to bear in a lively discussion about why French matters today. *Adam Gopnik, writer and essayist for The New Yorker magazine*Charles Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development*Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association and Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages, University at Buffalo, SUNY (on leave)*Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University*Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy in the U.S.This event is fully sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation.

On May 14, 2012 a 15-second video presented in American Sign Language will appear on the CBS Super Screen at Times Square, where more than 300,000 pedestrians traffic daily. This is possibly the first video placement by a Deaf-run agency at Times Square, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. This public service announcement is produced by Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services and underwritten by Convo Communications. ADWAS wants to thank Convo for making this momentous event possible!

Site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar).

The Berlin internationally Literature festival is appealing for A worldwide reading OF Mahmoud Darwish ’ s poetry on 5 October 2008. The of activities accompanying this event acres designed emergency only tons honour the poet ’ s body OF work but thus his commitment tons promoting peaceful and fair coexistence between Arabs and Israeli. This appeal is directed RK cultural institution, radio station, schools, universities, theatres and all other Darwish enthusiasts the world more over.

A reaction essay is an essay that is written in response to something else. The initial topic that the writer is responding to could be anything from a speech that was heard to another essay to the latest breaking news event.

Every newspaper in the EU in it's native language. Awesome for World Languages and current events. Google Translator works well too.

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