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2006-10-19T02:56:00.000-07:00

Karen People

Who are the Karen?The Karen _________________ the largest of the ethnic minority groups living in the mountain ranges of eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand. There _________________ over six million Karen _________________ Burma, and over 400,000 _________________ Thailand, most of whom are divided_________________ two subgroups - the Skaw (or Pgaganyaw) and the Pwo (or Plong). Karen-speaking people _________________ spread over a large area, mainly _________________ the Burma frontier _________________ Thailand. Everywhere the Karen live interspersed among various other ethnic categories, so that we find pockets _________________exclusive Karen villages among for instance Mon, Shan and Lawa. Only within _________________ Union of Burma we find large areas where _________________ majority of the population are Karen, i.e. in the Kawthuley and Kay ah states. >> history

2006-10-19T02:40:00.000-07:00

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Vocabulary/Lists/

2006-10-19T02:25:00.001-07:00

Some multi level exercises:

http://eslprograms.vcc.ca/ESLWEB/ESL_Sites/CALL_ONLINE_CENTRE/GramMultiLevel/Gerunds___Infinitives/gerunds___infinitives.html

2006-10-19T02:25:00.000-07:00

Here are some good English exercises:

http://eslprograms.vcc.ca/ESLWEB/ESL_Sites/CALL_ONLINE_CENTRE/GramMultiLevel/Gerunds___Infinitives/gerunds___infinitives.html

2006-10-19T02:12:00.000-07:00

2006-08-23T03:26:00.000-07:00

2006-08-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

John Smith

Put the following words in the story:

food work day white has eat lives is room years like read play happy his

This is John Smith. He’s Colombian but he _ _ _ _ _ in Brazil.
He _ _ a prisoner. Mr Smith is 33 _ _ _ _ _ old. He doesn’t _ _ _ _ or study. Mr Smith cannot
_ _ _ _ or write but he can _ _ _ _ the guitar very well. He plays the guitar every _ _ _ at 6:30 pm after dinner. The other prisoners all like _ _ _ music. Mr Smith likes POP ROCK but he doesn’t _ _ _ _ SAMBA. Mr Smith likes Brazilian _ _ _ _ and drinks…He loves brown chocolate but he doesn’t like _ _ _ _ _ chocolate. His _ _ _ _ number in the prison is 333 on the 3rd floor. People call Mr Smith "The Music Man". Mr Smith is a_ _ _ _ _ prisoner. He wakes up at 5:15am and _ _ _ breakfast; he eats a lot!!! He has black coffee and bread in the morning but he doesn’t _ _ _ fruit or drink milk. He smokes a lot !!!

2006-08-16T03:51:00.000-07:00

Walk on The Beach
More ideas...cropping to slab shape
plus special effects.

2006-08-16T03:40:00.000-07:00

Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Cropped and used special effects
to give an atumnal look.

2006-08-15T06:47:00.000-07:00

Sophie

Cropped, removed red eye
and increased warm tones.
I like it and I hope she does!

2006-08-15T03:15:00.000-07:00

Walk on The Beach

This photo was cropped
to create the rule of third proportion
and the contrast was sharpened

2006-08-15T02:59:00.000-07:00

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The contrast was altered on this photo to highlight the bridge. Would delete the sign if I could! I tried cropping the picture but got half a bridge which didn't look good!

2006-08-15T02:38:00.000-07:00

Our esteemed co-ordinator out of her little office!

This photo was lightened to
highlight the dark complexions
and the red eye was removed.
Can't do much about half a head!

Smoking and health

2006-08-10T02:16:00.000-07:00

Smoking companies have been kicked out of sport — should WA health groups do the same to fast food firms? Marnie McKimmie looks at the issues involved.
It will happen all around the State again this Saturday. Someone’s daughter will play a game of netball and win best on court and be handed a congratulatory certificate with a tear-off voucher for a local fast food outlet. And her parents, on the way home, will
stop and let her cash in. During the one-hour game, she used up 1500kJ, but in the car she consumes her free burger and small fries worth 2025kJ. Now she is 525kJ behind. And there will be someone’s son who spent most of his time on the bench at footy. He will get an encouragement award offering the same treat. Even if he just gets the free fries and buys a soft drink to wash it down, that will now take him 151 minutes of walking to wear off. In the current climate, where few gains are being made in the obesity epidemic, Australia’s Parents Jury, a health watchdog voicing parent concerns, is now saying all this has to stop.
In a poll of members conducted over the past couple of months, 93.5 per cent of respondents answered “yes” when asked if government regulations were needed to limit such sports-linked marketing and promotion of fast food to children. And just over half said that it would be a good idea for governments to “buy out” the food and beverage sponsorship of children’s sports and activities. Under such an arrangement, companies which promote junk food would not be able to sponsor sporting clubs, advertise at their venues or give out vouchers or promotional material to children. Parents Jury nutritionist Kathy Chapman said one solution was a buy-out similar to WA’s successful Healthway purchase of sponsorships formerly held by tobacco firms in a range of sports in recent years. Sporting clubs would then be assured of a sponsorship income for a set time, while working to enter into sponsorship contracts which promoted a healthy lifestyle and a positive attitude to children. One such example was with sporting apparel companies. Healthway executive director Neil Guard said his organisation was aware of increasing community concern about junk food promotion and sport and recognised a need to work with local health and sports groups to identify possible means to address the problem, but would not commit himself to a buy-out. The Parents Jury says big multinational corporations such as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Cadbury and KFC feature prominently as sponsors at many children’s sporting activities and have a vested interest in promoting their unhealthy food. “It seems senseless that children are being encouraged to adopt a healthier, more active lifestyle, yet when they do get out and play sport, they’re exposed to products and images that contradict this message,” Ms Chapman said. “There is little doubt that promotions for fast food and soft drink influence children’s food choices and often undermine parents’ attempts to provide children with a healthy diet.” Already, 30 per cent of Australian children are overweight or obese. Australia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world and its prevalence is increasing rapidly. Experts estimate that by 2025, nearly half of our children will be overweight or obese. Parents Jury member and nutritionist Rosemary Stanton highlighted two major problems with the current sponsorship. “First, it makes the product desirable in the eyes of the children, teachers and parents,” she said. “Second, it makes it difficult for the teachers to criticise companies which are seen as ‘helping’.” Parents Jury WA representative Terry Slevin said parents had long grimaced when handing out fast-food reward certificates for sport, silently wishing there was a more healthy alternative. He said it was time to start looking for these alternatives and getting Healthway to buy-out fast food sponsorship of sport was one option that needed to be considered. Mr Slevin, also head of Cancer Council Australia’s nutrition and physical activity committee, acknowledged that replacing fast food sponsorship would be a more complex issue than tobacco sponsorship, where tobacco taxes were raised to discourage cigarette use. Fast food is covered by GST but no separate tax. “But certainly it is something worth considering and for Healthway to start thinking about,” he said. Heart Foundation national physical activity manager Trevor Shilton said action should be taken now to tackle the deadly cocktail of unhealthy food and inactivity that was harming our kids. He strongly believed there was room for reform on the three fronts of sponsorship, using food as a reward for physical activity and providing high-fat, high-sugar foods at recreational and sporting venues. “The lesson we need to have learnt from tobacco is that you cannot wait that long to make a change,” he said. “And the food companies would not be doing this without a return on their investment. The obesity epidemic is not something that has crept up on us, the signs have been there for 20 years or more.”
The Parents Jury is a web-based forum for parents to voice their views and advocate collectively for the improvement of children’s food and physical activity environments. The Parents Jury is supported by the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity, Diabetes Australia Victoria, the Cancer Council Australia and VicHealth. Membership is free and open to all parents, grandparents and guardians of children aged under 18. You can register online at http://www.parentsjury.org.au/

List of Useful Sites

2006-08-08T01:21:00.000-07:00

View all the exciting inovations at AMES

http://ameslearnscope.blogspot.com/

Sites for Students

Grammar Exercises
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Grammar_and_English_Usage/

Crossword Puzzels
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Games/Crossword_Puzzles/

Quizzes and Vocabulary

www.usingenglish.com

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Vocabulary/

http://english.testove.com/english%20online/vocabulaty1/easy/Adjectives

http://english.testove.com/english%20online/otherquizes-

2006-07-27T03:11:00.000-07:00

Looking much happier than I feel!

2006-07-27T02:56:00.000-07:00

This is my very first blog entry. Here we are in the AMES computer lab having fun learning about blogs from Philip.