English Clubs are great tools for learning English. Here are tips on how to start and organize your club.
On today’s podcast, learn about the brothers who made the first fixed-wing flying machine followed by a chat about aircraft terms in the story; hear about the Grand Canyon on our national parks series; then, barrow and lend on Lesson of the Day.
Wilbur and Orville Wright quietly developed a powered flying machine that proved heavier-than-air flight was possible more than 120 years ago.
About five kilometers from the White House in Washington, DC lies an historic building closely linked to the life of one of America’s most famous presidents: Abraham Lincoln. The building, known as President Lincoln's Cottage, is where he spent about one-fourth of his presidency.
Spring is an exciting time, but watching grass grow in any season is not something people want to be doing. Find out what it means when people say something is “like watching grass grow.”
This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Rohullah in Afghanistan about using the words “sew” and “knit” and related terms.
We continue the story of “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane. As we told you last week, the story is based on true events. In eighteen ninety-six, Crane was traveling to Cuba as a news reporter. On his way there, his ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Crane climbed into the last remaining lifeboat.
In the 1960s, scientists found the remains of a young man who was near the explosion of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. A study published in February shows that his brain had turned into small pieces of glass from the intense heat of an ash cloud.