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A poem written by a teenager with cancer.

Slow Dance

This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.

She wants to see how many people get her poem.
It is quite the poem Please pass it on.

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a
New York Hospital . It was sent by a medical doctor -
Make sure to read what is in the closing statement
AFTER THE POEM.



SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly ´s erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don ´t dance so fast.

Time is short. The music won ´t last.

Do you run through each day On the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores Running through
your head?

You ´d better slow down

Don ´t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won ´t last.

Ever told your child,

We ´ll do it
tomorrow?
And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say, ´Hi ´

You ´d better slow down.

Don ´t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won ´t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

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Even it's a hoax it is still a touchy poem ...

Projekty stron internetowych

sent by Piort, Asia D., Asia N., Grzegorz and Maciej

Wycieczka do Cambridge za Gramatykę

Ostatnio znalazłam konkurs, w którym można wygrać wycieczkę do Cambridge. Konkurs zawiera 75 pytań z zakresu gramatyki na poziomach: podstawowy, średnio-zaawansowany oraz zaawansowany. Osoba, która nie popełni błędów oraz wypełni test najszybciej jako nagrodę otrzyma wycieczkę. Zachęcam do wzięcia udziału.

oto link: TUTAJ

Pozdrawiam
GOOD LUCK :)

I keep my fingers crossed :)

My dear students I keep my fingers crossed for you!!!!
Good luck !!!

Polish leader dies in plane crash

Sirens and bells sounded as victims of the plane crash were remembered

The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski - who died along with 95 others when their plane crashed in Russia - has arrived back in Warsaw.

It is being given full military honours before taken to the president's palace, where people have been paying tribute.

The president, military chiefs and MPs were due to attend a memorial for a World War II massacre when their plane crashed near Smolensk on Saturday.

Russian officials say the pilots were warned that they were flying too low.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earlier attended a memorial service for the victims at the crash site, near the city of Smolensk.

He has said he would personally oversee the investigation into the disaster, promising to find out what happened as soon as possible.

Correspondents say the plane was flying too low and clipped some trees as it approached the runway in thick fog.

A Russian general said air traffic controllers had repeatedly urged the pilots to pull up. Investigators from the Russian emergencies ministry are sifting through the debris for any evidence of mechanical failure.

Church services

No-one survived Saturday's crash, and acting Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has called for a week's mourning for the dead.

He and Prime Minister Donald Tusk were among the dignitaries to receive Mr Kaczynski's coffin at Warsaw military airport after its repatriation from Smolensk.

After a short religious ceremony, the coffin was due to be driven under military escort to the presidential palace where it will be available for public viewing.

Church services to honour their memory have been held across the country, as has a two-minute tribute, with church bells and police sirens.

The president's twin brother Jaroslaw, the country's former prime minister, travelled to Russia to help identify his body.

The brothers' strong nationalist, conservative agenda divided opinion in Poland, but the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw says the president's supporters and opponents have joined together in paying tribute to him.

The president's body was given a full military honours at Warsaw airport

Boguslaw Staron, a 70-year-old from Warsaw, described Mr Kaczynski as "a great patriot".

"He taught Poles how to respect our traditions, how to fight for our dignity, and he made his sacrifice there at that tragic place," he said.

Poles gathered in town squares and in the streets at midday (1000 GMT) and stood silently to mark the tragedy, as church bells rang and emergency sirens wailed around them.

The president had been flying to Russia along with his wife, the heads of the army and navy, MPs and senior historians to mark 70 years since Soviet forces massacred more than 20,000 Poles near Katyn.

Russia has declared Monday a day of mourning and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who visited the crash site with Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, said he would oversee the inquiry.

Russian and Polish investigators have recovered the flight-data recorders and are carrying out a joint inquiry.

They are looking into the possibility that pilots ignored warnings that they were approaching Smolensk too low.

Experts have also suggested that the age and condition of the Polish president's Soviet-era Tupolev 154 plane could have played a part in the accident.

Witnesses have described seeing the plane's wing hitting treetops in thick fog before it came down in a forest.

Mr Kaczynski was a controversial figure in Polish politics.

He was active in the Solidarity movement that helped bring an end to Communist rule, but later fell out with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.

He advocated traditional Catholic values, opposed rapid free-market reforms and favoured retaining social welfare programmes.

As president, he held fewer powers than the prime minister but retained a significant say in foreign policy. He could veto new laws and frequently blocked government reforms.

from bbc

CREATE YOUR OWN POETRY !!!!!

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Here is the site.
And here are my examples, have fun!!!

HAPPY EASTER !! :)

taken from here

FAMOUS HOAXES

1) War of the Worlds

Known for his flair for the dramatic, Orson Welles, with members of his Mercury Theatre Company, incited mass hysteria and earned themselves national fame on October 30, 1938, when they performed an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds on their CBS radio show. The players used a news-broadcast format and announced that visitors from Mars had invaded New Jersey. Thousands of panicked New Jersey citizens fainted, fled their homes, and overflowed telephone lines when they heard Welles say, "Good heavens, something's wiggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather." Welles had reportedly expected a frenzied reaction, though he said, "the size of it was flabbergasting."

flair - talent
to incite - wznieść
to wiggle out - wić się
to glisten - zalśnić
flabbergasting - wprawiający w osłupienie


2) Big Ben

The BBC has kept up a tradition of April Foolery ever since. In 1980, it announced that the clock faces on Big Ben -- a London landmark in the clock tower of West minister Palace -- would be replaced with digital displays, to keep up with modern technology. They were flooded with calls of protest.

to announce - ogłaszać
landmark - charakterystyczny obiekt
to keep up with - nadążyć za

History of April Fool's Day

History of April Fool's Day
Many of the ancient cultures such as Romans and Hindus and the medieval Europeans used to celebrate New Year's Day on sometime near the vernal equinox that could range from March 20th to April 5th. In the Julian calendar, April 1st was designated as the New Year's Day and was so celebrated till 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII ordered the adoption of the new Gregorian Calendar, which specified January 1st as the New Year's Day. However, due to slow communications and resistance of people to change their traditions, many people continued to celebrate New Year's Day as before on 1st of April. Scottish only adopted the new calendar in 1660, Germans, Danish and Norwegians in 1700 and English in 1752.

Many French resisted the change and neoiites dubbed them as fools and played pranks on them. They started sending them on 'fool's errands', sent them the fake invitations for parties and tricked them into believing something false. The victims were called 'Poisson d'Avril' or 'April Fish' as the naïve fish gets caught easily and children would often tag of a fish's picture on someone's back. Thus, April Fool's Day originated and was popularly celebrated in England and in the American colonies. It evolved and was caught on quickly throughout the world to trick each other and have fun. Even today, people play pranks on each other on this day in the memory of those tradition-obsessed 'fools'.

Perhaps the best illustration of the April Fool's Pranks of the 19th century is the Thomas Nast's illustration, originally published in the April 2, 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly. It highlights the various pranks that were popularly played at the time with its caption as 'All Fool's Day'. Some of the pranks shown here include women visiting an older man wearing beards and moustaches, Civil War Soldiers tricking each other such as a soldier barring the view by holding his hand on in front of the binoculars of a friend and a sailor doing the same by holding his hat over the telescope of a friend. The other tricks include a young boy tying a string on the dress of a little girl while a schoolteacher is shown with the sign of 'Old Fool' on his back.

Glossary:
ancient - starożytny
medieval - średniowieczny
the vernal equinox - zrównanie wiosenne, równonoc wiosenna
to be designated - byc określonym
Pope - papież
to dub - nazywać
fool - głupiec
to play pranks - płatać figle, zrobić komuś psikusa
fool's errand - próżny trud
to tag - oznaczyć


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the webpage

MOJE MIEJSCE NA ZIEMI - konkurs

This is the contest by National Geographic Polska and Nowa Era.
Here are the links:
a) regulamin (pdf)

b) prace konkursowe
c) wyniki ubiegłorocznego konkursu (pdf)

Future

Everything is in front of us!!
Future is ahead of us and it is a big surprise. We all dream of a better life. Students imagine their life without school. Each of us would do what he wants. Each would have its robot-teacher responsible for his education - when you would like to learn to incorporate it, all housework: washing, cooking, cleaning… Adults will be involved in handling equipment wisely. Cars will fly, there would be no traffic jams.

Is such a life would be better? I do not think so. Although everywhere will be working as law and order in the world of robots. Feelings will be missed. Students will experience a positive stress, which is the strength to overcome obstacles, they will not have friends, there will be room for love. Runs jointly prepared dinners and holidays, because that’s the work of robots. We might live together, but really apart.

Such a life can be beautiful for many people, but I want to live in the present.

sent by Ewa

In Business / A formal letter 3

sent by Ewa

Best holidays ever ;)

I'd go to the Polynesian islands. Why? Because there is a crystal-clear water of the emerald hue. These islands are surrounded by the hills. On the Polynesian jingle can be found bloodthirsty papayas who attack for no reason. They can be tamed through singing, which produces the greatest enemy of papaya- koala. I will live on the first day on the beach admiring the view and enjoying the ocean breeze that gently blows in my face. Then I'll come to the crystal waters that soothe my tired body after a long journey. But I've to watch out for emo dolphins, they are able to transform each of emerald water, so whats is the pure... I'd spend the rest of the holiday sightseeing and enjoying the wildness of nature. It permits me to release my instincts in me, inside an animal that can survive in such conditions. When you receive in the end, which will end all that should be completed, it will be one man who enters the helicopter and flies to the Polynesian islands and forgets about them once and for all putting themselves new goals that are more important than himself.

sent by Piotrek

Healthy scrabble ;)

Doctor Gregory House

Funny cartoons about doctors :)

some pictures are taken from here

Doctor's advices

P: Good morning doctor.
D: Good morning. What seems to be the problem?
P: I have a sore throat.
D: Use a cough mixture.
P: Oh, thank you.
D: Do you have a headache?
P: No I don't.
D: So you have tonsillitis.
P: What should I do?
D: Stay in bed.
P: OK, bye.
D: Good bye.

sent by Wiktor

P: Good morning doctor.
D: What seems to be the problem?
P: I have a bad flu.
D: OK, I’ll prescribe you a medicine.
P: Please wait, I have pain in my leg and my arm.
D: OK, I’ll prescribe medicines. Stay in bed for 3 days and drink a lot of hot tea.
P: Thank you doctor.
D: No problem.
P: Good bye.
D: Good bye.

sent by Piotrek

D - doctor
P - patient
tonsillitis --> zapalenie migdałków

SCRABBLE Class 3 (Literature, Media, Sport)

In Business / A formal letter 2

In Business - Questionnaire

A Formal letter

sent by Daria & Marta

In Business / A formal letter

In Business - Questionnaire

A Formal letter

sent by Asia & Marcin

In Business - Questionary by Wercia&Donia

sent by Wercia & Dona

A Formal letter by Wera&Dona

sent by Wercia & Donia

FUTURE 2

FUTURE


In my opinion in the future the live will be much better. There will not be so much air pollution, the world will be clean and fresh. People will live much longer because it will be mandatory healthy life style. All the old cars will go for scrap and we will begin to produce new, cheaper cars on the current, water, sun. All people will stop smoking cigarettes and taking drugs. People will start to play football and run and practice. School will be checking on the Internet and the students will write the e-mails.


Unfortunalety, in 2242 World War III will break out, the annihilation of all will kill each other and it will be a real horror, a nightmare. The lab will relase deadly virus which turns humans in the ZOMBIE !!! Nobody knows what will happen, who will survive, who will die, probably atomic bomb will explode. A great big tidal wave may again come and sweep away everything from the ground. Such rumors circiculate that all the volcanoes to erupt and overflow with lava, for example in New York. In Tokio there will be the largest earthquake in the entire universe.


I think it is very modest at the annoncement of the future, but who knows for sure if this does not happen ???

sent by Orzeł

Life in the future

Life in the future

In my opinion the life will change very much in the future. A learning will develop the genetic engineering and the technique.
People will be improving the food what they will buy, that it won’t taste as this way as today. The electric energy will be acquired from wind or the sun and water what will allow to limit carbon dioxide emissions to the environment. Cloned animals will stay, a military industry will develop. People will produce more weapons and of the atom bombs which can destroy our planet. Machines will be making a lot activities for the man. There will be constructed in more modern equipment allowing it to communicate with others and travel long distances in less time.
In general I feel that life in the future on the one hand will be a better life, on the other hand worse.
sent by tomi

Going to sentences

Affirmative
1. I'm going to go to the cinema soon.
2. I'm going to study history this weekend.
3. I'm going to learn for short test one day.
4. I'm going to be more optimistic tonight.

Questions
1. Are you going to the cinema?
2. Are you going to study history?
3. Are you going to learn for a short test?
4. Are you going to be more optimistic?

sent by Wercia

The future

In my opinon people's life will be better and more comfortable in the future. Technology will be more developed. Scientists will create robots which improve our life. They might clean, cook and go shopping for us.
I think it's important that we take care of the environment. If we don't do it, we won't be able to breathe. What is more, there will be less animals. People will suffer from diseases more often. We have to clean our Earth otherwise we won't have enough space to live. In general I feel pessimistic about the future. I don't believe that people will become better. Unfortunately, there will be more wars so a lot of people might be killed. People will still cut out trees and kill animals. Our planet will be more dangerous. We might leave it in the future because we won't be able to live there in peace.

sent by Wercia

"Kochaj i tańcz" film review

The film is set in Poland. “Kochaj i tańcz” isn’t based on the book. The film was directed by Bruce Parramore. The cast include: Katarzyna Herman, Katarzyna Figura, Jacek Koman, Rafał Królikowski and others. The main characters are: Izabela Miko and Mateusz Damięcki. It tells the story of the dance. Izabela Miko plays the part of a journalist. I recommend the film to anyone who likes dancing. The film is interesting because it shows true loves of two people.

sent by Agnieszka

Guess the profession 2!!!!

Who are these people?
These people don't have to go to university but they have to wear a uniform.
These people have to help people.
These people have to be attractive.

creative -> studious -> mathematical -> ambitious -->BUSINESS

sent by E.

Guess the profession!!!!

1. These people have to help people and they have to wear a uniform. They don't have to speak English.
2. These people have to wear a uniform. They don't have to be attractive.
3. These people have to go to university and they have to speak English. They don't have to wear uniform.
sent by tomi