Nick talks about decisions at different ages in people's lives. This will help with IELTS Speaking Part 3 or Writing Part 2. 

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

What kind of big decisions do people make in their lives?

One morning, Toad writes a list of things to do but gets very upset when his list blows away!
Learn phrases about daily routine such as "get dressed" and "go to sleep" whilst listening to the funny adventures of best friends, Frog and Toad 😄

✨Storytime with Scarlett✨

🐸Frog and Toad Together - "A List" 

¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish!  

En esta serie de episodios especiales estuvimos compartiendo con ustedes el uso de diferentes verbos en español. Ahora en este último episodio de la serie de “Verbos en contexto”, vamos a darles algunas oraciones con el verbo ‘to fail’, que se puede traducir en español como: perder, no pasar, desaprobar, rajarse, tirarse y jalar.  ¡Empecemos! 

Les invitamos a conocernos en: 
📍 María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap  
📍 Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 


Maria & Pablo Spanish

21. Verbos en contexto. How to say ‘to fail’ in Spanish (Part 7)

it's all Greek to me!

Months & Seasons

There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

App Could Help People to Have Lucid Dreams

女: 今天天气怎么样？
男: 今天天气很好，太阳很大。 
女: 你喜欢晴天吗？
男: 是的，我喜欢晴天。晴天让我觉得很开心。 
女: 我也是。我不喜欢下雨天，因为下雨天很冷。 
男: 我同意，下雨天的时候我常常呆在家里。你喜欢刮风天吗？
女: 不太喜欢，刮风天出去不方便。 
男: 对，我也不喜欢。明天的天气预报说会下雨，还会刮风。
女: 那我们明天就不出去玩了吧？ 
男: 好的，我们可以在家看电影。

问题：

1.今天天气怎么样？
a. 下雨
b. 很好
c. 很冷
d. 多云

2.男的为什么喜欢晴天？ 
a. 因为晴天很冷
b. 因为晴天可以在家里
c. 因为晴天让他觉得很开心
d. 因为晴天可以看电影

3.他们明天打算做什么？ 
a. 去玩
b. 在家看电影
c. 去买东西
d. 去朋友家

开口说汉语    "Chinese Chit-Chat"

今天天气怎么样？ How's the weather today?

In this chapter Mrs. Frisby saves a crow named Jeremy and rides on its back to safety. Jeremy tells Mrs Frisby she can call on him for help in the future.  

**Vocabulary with definitions and audio for chapters 1-5.
https://teach.italki.com/vocabulary/910556**

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Mrs Frisby looked again at the sun and saw that she faced an unpleasant choice. She could go home by the same roundabout way she had come, in which case she would surely end up walking alone in the woods in the dark — a frightening prospect, for at night the forest was alive with danger. Then the owl came out to hunt, and foxes, weasels and strange wild cats stalked among the tree trunks. The other choice would be dangerous, too, but with luck it would get her home before dark. That would be to take a straighter route, across the farmyard between the barn and the chicken house, going not too close to the house but cutting the distance by half. The cat would be there somewhere, but by daylight — and by staying in the open, away from the shrubs — she could probably spot him before he saw her.
The cat: He was called Dragon. Farmer Fitzgibbon’s wife had given him the name as a joke when
he was a small kitten pretending to be fierce. But when he grew up, the name turned out to be an apt one. He was enormous, with a huge, broad head and a large mouth full of curving fangs, needle sharp. He had seven claws on each foot and a thick, furry tail, which lashed angrily from side to side. In colour he was orange and white, with glaring yellow eyes; and when he leaped to kill, he gave a high, strangled scream that froze his victims where they stood.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 

Chapter 3 The Crow and the Cat

Questa è la seconda parte dal mio viaggio sulla West Coast Americana, il Big Sur. Faccio una descrizione del paesaggio, parlo di alcune delle caratteristiche di questa zona e anche dei posti piú conosciuti da vedere, dove ci si puó fermare e anche mangiare. Tempi verbali: passato prossimo, passato remoto, presente.