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A New Life in Mosquito City – part 33 – The Dream

Written by Mark White on May 18, 2010 - 7 Comments

Dreams can be revealing. They can tell us about what is happening in our sub-conscious and unconscious mind. In this episode, Mark wakes up from a dream and discovers some interesting insights.

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A New Life in Mosquito City – part 32 – Is everything ok?

Written by Mark White on May 15, 2010 - 1 Comment

In this episode, Mark goes into work on a Monday morning at the Mosquito City herald. He speaks with his boss, Frank, and discovers that Frank isn’t exactly who Mark thought he was!

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Water Treatment

Written by Mark White on May 3, 2010 - 2 Comments

Words are powerful. They can affect water in noticeable ways. And since we are made mostly of water, words have a powerful effect on us, too.

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Easy English 100 – Grammar is Music

Written by Mark White on April 25, 2010 - 11 Comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download audio file (grammar is music.mp3) at M J M I think grammar is beautiful. I think grammar is beautiful. I think it’s beautiful. Grammar is music. Music. Words are music. Music. Everything has music. I was watching television. I saw a programme I saw a programme about [...]

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A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 27 – Calling the University

Written by Mark White on February 28, 2010 - 1 Comment

In this episode, Mark calls up the Mosquito City University Engineering Faculty in hope of interviewing someone about the hydrogen engine.

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Have you read Swedenborg?

Written by Mark White on August 7, 2009 - 0 Comments

Have you ever read Swedenborg? Do you know what a ‘scrim’ is? Listen to two guys talk about it.

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International Business Story

Written by Mark White on August 16, 2008 - 6 Comments

Synopsis: International Business Story is a business scenario that is based on the events around the tragic story of some children who were poisoned because of attempts to cut costs by replacing pharmaceutical chemicals with industrial chemicals and using them to produce cough medicine. The story takes place in Asia, the Caribbean, North America and [...]

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The Obsession

Written by Mark White on August 16, 2008 - 1 Comment

at The Library of Congress Synopsis: The Obsession is a story that was told to me by a student from Oman. It is about human relationships and emotions and the grammar focus is past simple tense and past continuous tense. It is an intermediate level story. Download the text: The Obsession (pdf), by Mark White [...]

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People and Places – Burke 2 – And then they went to Europe

Written by Mark White on March 10, 2008 - 42 Comments

What do Oranjeboom, Ghana, and CSIS have in common? A Canadian man named Burke, whose parents were teachers who worked in different countries when he was a child. Listen to Burke talk about it.

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What is it like in a Dogon Village?

Written by Mark White on October 10, 2007 - 6 Comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download audio file (luisdogon.mp3) at el rabbit A group of friends start to talk about Dogon villages in Africa and end up talking about nationalism. Mark: What is the Dogon village like? Luis: They are clay… and they are… Mark: Clay houses? Luis: Clay houses. Mark: Round houses? [...]

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