Life & English

Last Saturday, I stayed at home. First, I got up and had breakfast. My family ate rice and eggs. Then I did homework, it was very easy. I played badminton with my friend. After that, my family went to the zoo. There were so many animals. I ate cotton candy and drank soda pop. I went to swimming pool. I could swim. I went to market with my mother. I bought many things such as: fish, meat, vegetables…

In the afternoon, I played game with my younger brother. It was funny. I went to toy shop and bought a doll. My family had dinner and watched TV. Finally, we went to bed. It was a happy day with my family.

Sunday, I write about my happy Saturday.

How is your weekend? Tell me.

Author: Tran Kim Anh                                 

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World Language Center: widerworld.edu.vn

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Hi. I’m Chi Mai. I live in Hanoi. Today, I’ll write about my hobbies.

First, my favorite subjects are Math and English. I have a lot of homework about them. And I love to ride my bicycle, too. I like vegetables, fruits and soup. They’re so yummy! I like to clean my room, make breakfast, and watch TV alone. I usually do that.

Time to play, I love to play with my dolls and kitchen toys. I like to go to supermarkets, restaurants, bookstores… Because is is so much fun! When I watch TV, I like The Apprentice Asia in AXN channel. It’s so cool! I’ll watch that in next season. How about my favorite cartoon? It’s Phineas and Ferb. It’s great!

What about your hobbies? Please tell me later.

Author: Nguyen Chi Mai

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World Language Center: widerworld.edu.vn

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This is my last Saturday. In the morning, I got up at 8 o’clock. I brushed my teeth and had my breakfast with rice and egg. After that, I went to the swimming pool. It was so fun. I had many friends here. On the way come back home, my mother took me to the bookshop with my young brother. I bought some books and erasers and a book with the title of “Nicholas”. I loved this book very much.

In the afternoon, I played with my friend and had a shower at 5 o’clock. After that, I cooked dinner with my mother. In the evening, I had dinner at 7 pm. I washed the pots and pan after that. I watched TV with my family. I did my homework at 8.30 pm. Then, I read a book “Nicholas”. This book talked about Nicholas’s life. I felt this so special. Finally, I listened to music and went to bed at 11.00 pm.

I love my last Saturday!

Author: Tran Hanh Nguyen                                 

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World Language Center: widerworld.edu.vn

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The exhibition “Born in 1983/Kham Thien” is organized from 05 to 28 Sept 2013 by L’Espace and British Council. This is the installation art exhibition of artist Bang Nhat Linh.

To the generation born in post-war period and knowing nothing about the war, they are obsessed by the stories of survivors and, above all, their way to live. This installation will display the objects whose utility had been transformed by users.

The artists recycles objects left over from the war (aircraft debris, sandbags, bullet casings, etc) into useful materials. This exhibition aims to narrow the gap between the post-war generation and the ones that experience this hard period and endure all the sufferings till today.

(Source: Hanoi Grapevine)

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(ICTPress) - Hello everyone, my name is Van Do. I am year 2 student at Nedlands Primary School.

I have been living in Perth since April 2012. When I was in year 1, I was granted a Certificate of Merit for writing a very convincing persuasive text on why books are better than television. Here comes it.

“I agree that books are better than television".

Firstly, books can help you know how to speak English, television can’t help you know how to speak English.

Secondly, books are can close whenever you want, television can’t close whatever you want.

Thirdly, you can take book to bed, you can’t take the television.

Therefore, I think books are better than television.”

Do, Mai Van

Year 2, Room 5

Nedlands Primary School

Perth, Australia

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My name is Viet. I am 11 years old. I am a pupil of Dang Tran Con - A primary school.

I like to draw. I usually draw Super Junior, animals, monsters, ghosts, cars… Sometimes I sent my drawings to some magazines. I am so happy when I see my drawings in my favorite magazines. While travelling, I bring pencils, color crayons, papers. So I can draw whenever I want.

I like to draw very much. I want to be architecture when I grow up. 

Author: Nguyen Cong Viet

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World Language Center: widerworld.edu.vn

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(ICTPress) - After three months of launching Life & English - a new section of ICTPress, ICTPress and Wider World Language Center (http://widerworld.vn) organized the meeting with the very young authors having writings for the section on August 8, 2013.

The authors are very young students from third to ninth grades around 9 to 15 years old. However, the very young authors have shown their interesting ideas and point of view about life through their writings that make us paying much attention.

The author, Duong Minh Khanh, a seventh-grade student has written about her future job as following: “Now, I’m telling you about my dream. When I was six, I wanted to be a famous chef. When I was eight, I wanted to be an English teacher but now I want to be a lawyer. I want to be a lawyer because I love justice and I want to protect innocent people”.

The author, Nguyen Thanh Mai, an eighth-grade student wrote her predictions for the year 2099 that “The Earth will get cooler. People will grow trees on the streets so it will be cool in summer. The forests will be grown again in many countries. There will be a lot of beautiful and clean rivers, lakes.”

The young authors for "Life & English" section

The writers are small students so they writes as natural as their age and the way they feel.

The editors for their writings are foreign teachers of Wider World Language Center such as Daniel McIntyre, Igor Mandic, Maria Aili and Ms Dao Thuy have highly evaluated their writings, especially the ideas for writing. Then the writing skills can be practiced step by step.

The author, Pham Minh Huyen, the sixth-grade wrote “True love comes from the heart, and only blood from the heart of a true love can create a endless blue rose. It will make a miracle...” when she told story “The legend of blue roses”.

The author, Hoang Quoc Minh, an eighth-grade student shared his thought of life that “Never shut yourself in a shell, let’s contribute to life and grow”.

The parents, students and organizers exchanged view on writing English and studying opportunities

On this occasion, ICTPress has presented gifts to the young writers and English teachers - editors for their great contributions to “Life & English” section and awarded the author, Duong Minh Khanh a certificate of merit for her many and excellent writings.

At this meeting, the authors presented about their hobbies, wishes, studying and interests lively.

In this meeting, Ms Trinh Thanh Khue, a mother has two children receiving scholarships to study in US, has shared her experience for preparing luggage such as English and skills for her children to look for abroad scholarships. Khue said the young students should have social, communication, work-team skills and self-confident as much as possible because the life and abroad universities are highly evaluated those skills, sometimes higher than academic marks at school.

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From 29 Aug to 14 Sep 2013, the Goethe- Institut and the Fine Arts Museum Hanoi present photo reportages of 22 cities around the world.

The city is the origin of civilization, melting pot of cultures, mentalities, religions and ideas. Each day around the world almost 200.000 people are moving from the countryside to the cities, looking for a better life, security, freedom and prosperity. The city offers great chance, but also great risks for each individual: poverty, criminality and anonymity as well as blatant contrasts which shape many megacities today. Although: The city is the future of the world, the place which determines how people will henceforth live together.

The 18 photographers of the German agency OSTKREUZ are on the quest for finding the urban realities of today: How are people living in Tokyo and Manila, Lagos and Las Vegas, Berlin, Minsk and Gaza? Made up of overall 22 cities around the globe, the photographers have concentrated their personal impressions into photographic essays – a once-only long-term project. Shown are cities as places of future hope, but also in a way in which they seem to perish under the waste and chaos. All pictures present as a whole: the city of the future.

OSTKREUZ is the most significant Germanphoto agency. Founded at the end of the GDR in East Berlinafter the model of Magnum it hosts the most import contemporary German photographers. To its 20-year-anniversary OSTKREUZ members conceptualized and realized the exhibition “The city. From the becoming until the decay”, which is on an international tour since 2010.

The exhibition will be presented by the Fine Arts Museum Hanoi and the Goethe-Institut.

(Source: http://www.goethe.de)

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Hello! My name’s Hang. I’m a student at Vietnam– Angeri school! Here are my predictions for the year 2099.

Transportation: In the future, I think transportation is very different from today. Many bridges and highways will be grown up. The cars will be smaller, longer and look like fishes!!! Why? Because everyone will want to have a car, so if vehicle still looks like today, we cause lots of traffic jams. We won’t see a lot of motorbikes and won’t see the bicycles, because bicycles are very slow. Planes in the future will still looks like now, but it will fly ten times faster and it is safer. Buses will be still popular. Many people like and usually use it. They contribute to reduce environmental pollution. I like bus, too!

Everything will be smart. The computers in the future are very smart. They will teach us all of subjects and can talk like the real people. So, we won’t go to school everyday, about 1 or 2 days a week. That’s great! We can learn at home from the computers. Computers will be our good friends. Television, electric fan, lamp, radio, camera and everything will be as smart as a computer. I think we can control them with voice and gesture. Oh! Beautiful life!

Would animal feed be rare? Yes! Animal feed would be very rare, because we can’t catch or domesticate them. They are very quickly evolved to become more intelligent in how to protect themselves. So, what will we eat? Only vegetables! Oh my god.

Aliens? Oh! I think aliens will contact us. They are friendly and interesting!!! But… they are very big. They have 3 eyes, 4 ears, 1 nose, 4 arms and 6 legs.

Oh! My future world is very interesting! Is it right? Everything will be smarter and we won’t go to school everyday. But we won’t eat many animals and will contact aliens. Would you like to live in my future world?

Author: Uong Thu Hang

Editor: Maria Aili

Wider World language center: www.widerworld.edu.vn

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I live in Ha Noi- the capital of Viet Nam. Its population is 6.561.900 people and it ranks the second biggest city inVietnam.

Unlike Sai Gon, Ha Noi always preserves the traditional beauty. Ha Noi is a classical, beautiful city. Ha Noi’s Old Quarter, the historical center, is still the most crowded area. Over the years, the residents lived by trade and craft that formed 36 streets such as: Hang Bac, Hang Than.... Nowadays, Ha Noi is more modern with many high buildings, supermarkets,... The city is crowed and busy with many vehicles.

Hanoi always attracts tourists, especially Hoan Kiem lake - the diamond of Ha Noi. From the top of the high buildings, it looks like a mirror.TurtleToweris one of specialist things when you tell about Hoan Kiem lake. The tower is located on an island in the middle of Hoan Kiem lake. Near the tower, there is a red bridge. It’s The Huc Bridge, and it’s like a crawfish. The bridge leads toNgocSonTemple. Moreover, Ha Noi has the historical places and public buildings likeTemple of Literature, Thang Long Imperial city, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, FlagTower,...

Ha Noi’s cuisine is delicious. It’s famous for noodles, “bun cha”, green rice cake,... But I think “pho” is the most delicious food. It has white rice noodles  with thin cuts of beef, vegetable, and spice such as chili, chili sauce..

I think the best thing aboutHanoiis the culture. Local people are friendly. They are polite and they’ll help you if you have any problem.

I love Hanoi.

Author: Nguyen Hoang Mai

Editor: Igor Mandic

Wider World language center: www.widerworld.edu.vn

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