Posts Tagged ‘News stories’
Refugee wins by asking for a mentor – A
Matthew Foster, head of the international office at the Royal College of Physicians, offered to help an Afghan doctor who had come to the UK as a refugee. This article describes what happened next.
Read MoreOrganic T-shirts – 1
Some vocabulary you may not have met yet and which will help with the article about organic T-shirts
Read MoreSt Pancras railway station – step 1 – VB
London’s busiest railway station has been given an £800 million facelift and a ceremony to mark its completion.
Read MoreGetting the facts straight about muslims
Three letters from readers correcting misrepresentations of muslims in the press.
Read MoreSorry seems to be the easiest word
Canada is apologising to its immigrant communities for their treatment in the past. But where will such gestures end, the journalist Anne McIlroy asked in an online Guardian article from Ottawa.Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper**, apologised to Chinese Canadians last week for a punitive tax, first set in 1885, which was designed to keep the…
Read MoreUrbanisation in the present-day world – stage 1 – some vocabulary
The sheer scale and speed of urban expansion in the present-day world make it unlike any of the big changes that have punctuated urban history.
Read MoreRubbish! Bill Bryson talks about litter in Britain Exercise 1
Bill Bryson wrote a book about Britain called “Notes from a Small Island”. Here he speaks of his regret that our small island has become a dirty one.
Read MoreDurham City Vision
An exciting project which should brighten your visit to Duham City
Read MoreHelp save Mediterranean forests! Stage 1 – Initial facts and figures
WWF*,the Conservation Organisation, is urging wine consumers to support the cork economy by making sure the wine they buy has natural cork-stoppers. See if you can guess any statistics correctly before you read the text! *The World Wide Fund for Nature, www.org.uk 1. [Multiple choice] The French monk Dom Perignon first experimented with cork stoppers…
Read MoreTaking classical music to children
Initiatives to introduce children and young people to classical music have a very long tradition in the UK. Often musicians and teachers have devoted huge parts of their lives to fostering links with orchestras and choirs, and maintaining them. This correspondence is typtical of some of the sort of correspondence which emerges every now and then in newspaper columns on the subject.
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