Greetings LINC 7 students!

Here's the link to Breaking News English. It's a wonderful website for learning English at many different levels.

I'd like you to read story #6 (the last one on the home page). It's called:

More People Die From Selfies Than Shark Attacks

The reading starts at 200 words per minute, but you can adjust the reading speed to challenge yourself!

If you want to stop the words, just place the cursor (of your mouse) on the scrolling page and it will stop for you. When you take the cursor off the page, the scrolling will continue...

When you've read the short article, try this fill-in-the-gaps exercise. Use the words at the top to fill in the blanks. You can check your answers by clicking on the box at the bottom. If your answer is correct it will change to bold letters in the text.

Please try to read at least 3 of these short articles using the speed-reader on the website.



Here's a link to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech from 1963 in Washington.

This is a great example of using repetition for rhetorical (speaking) effect:

"....And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."


Have a great weekend everyone!