September 8 What are your associations with

September 8

What are your associations with education? Is it necessary? How many years of study is it enough for the adult is it enough for an adult to finish to be accepted in the society in Melitopol? Are there many people on our planet that can’t read and write? Do you know personally people who are illiterate? How many languages can you read and write in? Do you think the countries should make children and adults attend school?

Facts about Education and Literacy • • • September 8 was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO in 1965; At the moment 775 million adults lack minimum literacy skills; One in five adults on our planet is still not literate Most of the illiterate people live in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. These days most countries have the so called compulsory education. Compulsory education means children have to attend school and to receive certain minimal education. In Australia the school starts at 5 years, In developing countries every additional year of education increases a person’s future income by of 10%. 53% of the world’s out-of-school children are girls and 2/3 of the illiterate people in the world (500 million) are women Each year of mother’s education reduces the child mortality rate by 2%. The world needs two million more teachers. 30% of Americans have such an aversion to Math that they would rather clean bathroom than solve even the simplest equation

Exercise 1. • Name a word for every alphabet letter that is connected to the education. Questions. 1. Did you go to kindergarten? Did you like it there and why? 2. How many years have you studied in total? What were the most interesting ones for you? 3. What do you remember about your teachers? Do you stay in touch? 4. How many students were in your school? And how many in your class? 5. Do you keep good relations with your classmates? 6. Did you skip class very often? 7. Do you usually walk or take a bus to school and back? 8. When are picking your higher education, what are the factors you consider? 9. Would you rather have a highly paid job you hate, rather than a low-paid job you love?

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September 7 AUSTRALIAN

Warm up Questions 1. What extinct species do you know? 2. What of them are extinct because of the human activity? 3. What measures could help to restore the already lost species? 4. Do you think that returning some species back could create an imbalance in natural order now? 5. What movies have you watched about restoration of the lost species? Did you like them?

1. Tyrannosaurus Rex

5 Fancy facts about T-Rex 1. ‘Tyrannosaurus’ comes from the Greek words meaning ‘tyrant lizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means ‘king’ in Latin. 2. T-Rex lived in an area of the Earth that now makes up western North America 66 million years ago. 3. The largest tooth of any carnivorous dinosaur found to this date is that of a T-Rex. It is estimated to have been around 30 cm 4. Female T. Rex were bigger than the males. So T-Rex was a henpecked hubby… 5. T- Rex wasn't the only Tyrannosaur. Same basic body plan - a bipedal posture, tiny arms, and big heads with sharp teeth - that set them apart from otheropod dinosaurs.

2. Saber-toothed Tiger

5 Fancy facts about Saber-tooth 1. They are extinct for 10, 000 years, the reason being both Ice Age and the climatic changes the Europe faced after it. 2. The Saber-Tooth Tiger wasn't really a tiger. It was only distantly related to modern lions, tigers and cheetahs. 3. The upper canines of the saber tooth tiger was 30 cm. 4. Largest of the Smilodons were up to 500 kg and 2, 5 meters long. 5. Saber-Tooth Tigers were hit and run hunters – they jumped on the large prey from the tree, hit it deep with their canines, and ran away, following the victim to fall from the blood loss.

3. Eurasian Cave Lion

5 fancy facts about Cave Lions 1. Most Cave Lions disappeared about 10, 000 years ago, during the Ice Age, though there are some indications they may have existed until 2, 000 years ago, in the Balkans. 2. The reason of the total disappearance of the Cave Lions are humans. 3. An adult male, which was found in 1985 had a length of 2. 1 m without a tail 4. The Cave lions were just a little larger than regular lions but they lived much more to the North. 5. Cave paintings show that people confronted the cave lions often and fiercely, often fighting for the hunting lands and nice caves.

4. Great Auk

5 fancy facts about Great Auks 1. Great Auks were the only modern penguins that enjoyed the Arctic and northern waters of Atlantic ocean 2. The Great Auk was up to 85 centimeters tall and weighed around 5 kilograms. 3. The Great Auks were under the government protection since 1553. 4. It was one of the first species fiercely fought for to prevent its extinction. 5. The last known Auk in Scotland was executed in 1840, after local villagers thought that it was a witch. Really.

1. Australian animal extinctions list running from 1788 to the present, right now names 128 species. 2. Most ‘famous’ extinct species is Tasmanian Tiger

QUESTIONS 1. Do you worry about the world’s endangered species? 2. Why are so many species becoming endangered? 3. What should governments do to protect endangered species? 4. Would you like to work for an agency that protects endangered species? 5. Forty percent of all organisms are endangered. What do you think about this? 6. De-extinction (DNA) and re-breeding (cross-breeding) programs, do you think they have future?

September 19 th Emoticon Day

Facts about Emoticons : -) 1. First digital emoticon was used by an American Scott Fahlman in a message on 19 September 1982. 2. Back in 1857 the number 73 in Morse code was used to express "love and kisses“ 3. In 1908 the reintroduction of "love and kisses" happened as the number 88. 4. Emoticons had already come into use in sci-fi fandom in the 1940 s 5. In 1963 the "smiley face“ was created by freelance artist Harvey Ball 6. The SMS messaging system has introduced emoticons to the non-web community. 6. The most well known emoticons are : -) happy : -( sad <3 heart </3 broken heart ^_^ cheerful 7. English-language anime forums adopted some emoticons that could be used with the standard ASCII characters available on western keyboards. <( ^. ^ )>

QUESTIONS 1. Do you type a lot? How much tome do you spend daily communicating via typing? 2. What language do you usually use for internet communication? 3. Do you prefer Internet communication to phone communication or real one? 4. What positive sides are there for the Internet communication these days? 5. Do you use emoticons often? What is your favorite that you use very much? ~^^ 6. Do you think there is a necessity for usage of emoticons in written speech? 7. These days with development of means of communication the emoticons might be pushed out by something else. What do you think it might be? 8. Are there any perfect ways to convey all possible emotions through distance? 9. If you were a top-notch software developer, what ideas to enhance communication between people would you look into?

NEWS FROM THE WORLD 1. Even though there's still more than a week to go until its official release in Japan, i. Phone fans have lined the streets outside the Apple store in Tokyo. About a dozen die-hard fans are hoping to be among the first in Japan to get their hands on the new i. Phone 6, which was announced earlier this week. Fans rolled out their sleeping bags, set up chairs and parasols and some even had replica i. Phones in preparation for the long wait in Ginza street. “It's a chance for us i. Phone fans to get together once a year and say hello to each other. It's like a street festival. ” 2. Astronomers have just discovered a super massive black hole - the largest type - at the center of the M 60 -UCD 1 galaxy. It was found at the heart of the compact dwarf galaxy - about 1/500 th the size of the Milky Way - 50 million light years from Earth. The black hole is thought to weigh as much as 21 million times the weight of our own sun. Researchers from the University of Utah hope the discovery, could prove a theory that these small galaxies may have black holes at their center owing to their density.

3. The UK Health and Social Care Institute (PSA) announced earlier in September they had given the Society of Homeopaths the lawful right to work in the UK. After that there was a very recent interview with science writer Simon Singh, who said “If homeopaths are regulated, I see no reason why the PSA would not accept medical astrology next. ” Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann based on his doctrine of ‘like cures like’. Homeopathy is considered a pseudoscience and its remedies have been found to be no more effective than placebos. 4. The Chinese city of Chongqing claims to have introduced the world’s first ‘slow-walking lane’ for smartphone users. Two 100 -ft lanes have been painted on to a pavement in the city, with one side reserved for those wanting to stare into their handheld device and the other exclusively for those who can presumably spare five minutes without checking their latest Weibo update.

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Extinct animal 1. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

Extinct animal 2. Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

Extinct animal 3. The Quagga

Extinct animal 4. Woolly mammoth

Extinct animal 5. Irish elk