THAT'S ENGLISH - LEVEL 3

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Improve Your English Quickly and Easily! Suggestions for Using the Podcasts

1 Listen to the podcast without reading the text.

2 Listen to the podcast for a second time and quickly write a few notes about what you hear.

3 Read the text with the podcast as you listen for the third time.

4 Read aloud with the podcast.

5 Try to explain what you have heard in your own words.

Word of the Day

Play transience discuss
Definition:	(noun) The attribute of being brief or fleeting.
Synonyms:	brevity, briefness
Usage:	The superficiality and transience of the club scene is part of its appeal for young people.

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This Day in History

Abraham Lincoln Delivers His "House Divided" Speech (1858)

In 1858, Lincoln was nominated to challenge incumbent Illinois senator Stephen Douglas for his seat. At the state Republican convention, he accepted the nomination with a now-famous speech explaining his view that the US could not exist with both slave and free states—as "a house divided against itself cannot stand." He lost the race but won the presidency two years later. When and by whom had the same biblical reference previously been used to describe the national rift over slavery? More... Discuss

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Today's Birthday

Joyce Carol Oates (1938)

Oates is an American author of over 50 novels and numerous volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won the National Book Award and the O. Henry Award and has been thrice nominated for a Pulitzer. She writes about modern American life and the connection between violence and love. Her characters are mainly ordinary, inarticulate people to whom terrible things happen. Her most famous short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is based on what real-life serial killer? More... Discuss

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Quote of the Day

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936) Discuss

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