How do you make feijoada?
Learn how to cook Brazilian food.
Mark: Fresh or seeds or …?
Brazilian Neighbour: Fresh. Fresh.
Mark: The leaves?
Brazilian Neighbour: The leaves. Yeah. You put it right in the end.
Mark: Right. OK. Wow!
A New Life in Mosquito City – part 39 – Here he comes
Mark waits for Frank in a cafe. Frank turns up. They are going to eat.
Almanac – 24 August 2010 – Tuesday
On this day in history, in the year 79 A.D. the volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, erupted in Southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman Cities of Pompeii and Hurculaneum, killing thousands of people.
A New Life in Mosquito City – part 38 – The Cafe
Mark finds a table at a Brooklyn café. A harmonica can be heard playing in the background. Have you ever tried playing the harmonica?
Almanac – 23 August 2010 – Monday
Some cannot understand the fuss over a house of worship and how a democracy promoting religious freedom, like the United States, could even be having such a debate. Others are offended at the conflation of the 9/11 attacks with all Muslims.
A New Life in Mosquito City – part 37 – Driving under the Overpass
Frank drops Mark off near and overpass in downtown Brooklyn. Mark will get a table at a nearby café while Frank finds a parking spot.
Almanac – 20 August 2010 – Friday
What are you growing at the moment?
Are you growing any of these?
What is your garden like? What’s your garden like?
Which one is the odd one out? Which one is the odd one out and why?
How important is an impartial media? How important is an impartial media and why?
What did he do? Where did he do it? What did he do and where did he do it?
What is the difference? What is the difference between them?
Almanac – 19 August 2010 – Thursday
a source of embarrassment
a source of pride
a source of concern
a source of joy
a source of strength
a source of information
a source of diplomatic tension
Almanac – 18 August 2010 – Wednesday
French activists have uprooted transgenic grape vines in a protest against the introduction of genetically-modified food. Global food supply is becoming increasingly more heavily centralized and transgenic food is a powerful tool in the armory of the food corporations as they struggle to maximize their profits. The French anti-GM food activist group “Faucheurs Voluntaires” (voluntary reapers) wants to pull genetically engineered plants out by the roots.
Almanac – 17 August 2010 – Tuesday
It is clear and it is not windy.
The wind has died down.
It is cold.
It is still quite cold but the weather is getting warmer.
Spring is coming.
Follow Us
Speak English Quickly
Subscribe
Creative Commons
All of the free content on our site is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Creative Commons license.
On Facebook
On Twitter
