Flooding hits parts of Midwest, with evacuations in Michigan

    People living along two mid-Michigan lakes and parts of a river were evacuated Tuesday following several days of heavy rain that produced flooding and put pressure on dams in the area.

    Two Midland-area schools were opened for evacuees and more than 50 roads have been closed. The evacuations in Michigan followed days of heavy rains in parts of the Midwest that also brought flooding to Chicago and other parts of Illinois, as well as Ohio and other states.

“We were laying in bed when I heard sirens,” Jon St. Croix told the Midland Daily News. “A fire truck was driving around, broadcasting that (we needed) to evacuate. It’s a scary thing — you’re sleeping and awake to sirens.”

    St. Croix, 62, his wife and a next-door neighbor were among more than a dozen people sheltering in one of the schools. Their home was not flooded, but St. Croix said he had seen flooding in the area.

    Volunteers at the schools said about 120 vehicles were in the parking lots and about 30 people had been staying on cots inside, according to WNEM-TV.

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An e-mail to Mary

    Hi, Mary!

    How are you? I miss you so much!

    I arrived in Rome last week and I’m having a lot of fun. This morning my parents and I woke up at 8:00 and had a great breakfast at the hotel. Afterwards, I walked a little and saw many tourists (many from Russia and China) and even some famous people!

    Now we are going to Venice.

    How are things in Las Vegas? Come meet us!

    See you soon!

    Paul.

“The Little Prince”, now, is a movie

Alex Weiss

    An all-time favorite children’s book, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has been turned into a beautifully animated movie — and it’s finally being released. The inspiring lessons, timeless story, and beautiful quotes from The Little Prince make this a perfect choice for an on-screen adaptation. At one point or another, your parents read this book to you when you were a child, and then you picked it up later on in life, realizing how incredibly important this small book truly is.

Adapted from: https://www.bustle.com/articles/176416-18-the-little-prince-quotes-to-get-you-pumpedfor-the-movie  

In The End

Linkin Park

One thing, I don’t know why

It doesn’t even matter how hard you try

Keep that in mind

I designed this rhyme

To remind myself of a time when

I tried so hard

In spite of the way you were mocking me

Acting like I was part of your property

Remembering all the times you fought with me

I’m surprised it got so

Things aren’t the way they were before

You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore

Not that you knew me back then

But it all comes back to me in the end

You kept everything inside

And even though I tried, it all fell apart

What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard

And got so far

But in the end

It doesn’t even matter

I had to fall

To lose it all

But in the end

It doesn’t even matter

I’ve put my trust in you

Pushed as far as I can go

For all this

There’s only one thing you should know

I’ve put my trust in you

Pushed as far as I can go

For all this

There’s only one thing you should know

https://www.vagalume.com.br/linkin-park/in-the-end.html

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

    “If you ___________ know where you want to go, then it ___________ matter which path you take” 

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Beautiful Girls

Sean Kingston

Your way too beautiful girl

That’s why it’ll never work

You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal

When you say it’s over

Damn all these beautiful girls

They only wanna do your dirt

They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal

When they say it’s over

See it started at the park

Used to chill after dark

Oh when you took my heart

That’s when we fell apart

‘Cause we both thought

That love last forever (last forever)

They say we’re too young

To get ourselves sprung

Oh we didn’t care

We made it very clear

And they also said

That we couldn’t last together (last together)

See it’s very divine, girl

You’re one of a kind

But you mush up my mind

You ought to get declined

Oh Lord

My baby is driving me crazy

Adapted from: https://www.letras.mus.br/sean-kingston/1073265/

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Beautiful Girls

Sean Kingston

Your way too beautiful girl

That’s why it’ll never work

You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal

When you say it’s over

Damn all these beautiful girls

They only wanna do your dirt

They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal

When they say it’s over

See it started at the park

Used to chill after dark

Oh when you took my heart

That’s when we fell apart

‘Cause we both thought

That love last forever (last forever)

They say we’re too young

To get ourselves sprung

Oh we didn’t care

We made it very clear

And they also said

That we couldn’t last together (last together)

See it’s very divine, girl

You’re one of a kind

But you mush up my mind

You ought to get declined

Oh Lord

My baby is driving me crazy

Adapted from: https://www.letras.mus.br/sean-kingston/1073265/

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Bobby’s World (originally __________ as The world According to Bobby) is an American animated television series, which ran from September 8, 1990 to February 23, 1998, on FOX Kids. This Saturday-morning cartoon __________ the world from the point of view of a suburban 4-year-old named Bobby Generic and his very overactive imagination. The show __________ an Outstanding Animated Program Emmy nomination in 1991.

Adapted from: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/bobby_s_world and https://bobbys-world.fandom.com/wiki/Bobby%27s_World

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The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, completed by the end of March 1949 and published by Geoffrey Bles in the United Kingdom on 16 October 1950, tells the story of four ordinary children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who ______________ evacuated to the English countryside from London following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke’s house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. The Pevensie children help Aslan, a talking lion, save Narnia from the evil White Witch, who has reigned over the land of Narnia for a century of perpetual winter with no Christmas. The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia, leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books.

Adapted from www.en.wipedia.org/wiki/the_lion_the_witch_and_the_wardrobe

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Dance Monkey

Tones And I

I’ve never seen anybody do the things you do before

They say

Move for me, move for me, move for me, ay-ay-ay

And when you’re done I’ll make you do it all again

I said: Oh my God, I see you walking by

Take my hands, my dear, and look me in my eyes

Just like a monkey, I’ve been dancing my whole life

And you just beg to see me dance just one more time

Ooh, I see you, see you, see you every time

Adapted from: https://www.letras.mus.br/tones-and-i/dance-monkey

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    An international student who majors in engineering drops by the engineering department office and asks the secretary, “Can you tell me where the English department is?” The secretary smiles and responds, “I don’t know, actually. It’s probably somewhere in the Humanities Building. Do you have a campus map?” The student turns around and leaves. The secretary is taken aback and feels slightly uncomfortable. She wonders why the student left so abruptly.

     (...)

    People who interact with ESL students have commented that some seem to express gratitude excessively for small considerations, even to the point of embarrassing the person they are speaking. Others seem downright rude because they do not say thank you when they are expected to.

(Celce-Murcia, M. 2001.)