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Plant Your Coffee Cup!
Imagine every cup of coffee that consumers discard turning into a beautiful tree. Imagine the immense problems of deforestation and overgrazing being tackled by just sinking your empty cup of coffee into the ground. How cool would that be?
Well, a company in California called Reduce. Reuse. Grow has already imagined and designed a biodegradable coffee cup that has seeds embedded in its walls so that it can be planted and grown! There are instructions on the bottom of the cup about how you do it.
The whole project was placed on fund raising some months ago and is now 100% funded waiting for the next step to be taken: commercial testing and potential partnering.
Read the following relevant article “A Biodegradable Coffee Cup With Embedded Seeds That Grow Into a Tree When Planted” posted at laughingsquid.com for more details. There are images explaining the planting procedure further down in this article.
CHALLENGE!!!
Can you give instructions on how to plant a coffee cup successfully so it can grow into a tree? Remember to use sequencing words. After your attempt check how you have done by reading The World’s First Plantable Coffee Cup
Welcome Spring! Vocabulary, Idioms, Games, Activities
What does spring mean to you? What vocabulary, images or feelings do you associate with it? Brainstorm for a minute and then explain your choices. You may wish to spot specific words or phrases in this springtime list found at the following cool site words-to-use.com.
Gardening is the ultimate springtime activity. What about playing some games?
- match words and pictures about gardening
- The Spring vocabulary game
- Spring bulb flowers
- Spring flowers
- Spring in Art and Music
Idioms are a never ending story in the english language and yes… there are many built around the word spring. Do you know any? Check the meaning and use of some spring idioms. When you feel ready play some spring idioms games.
If you are in the mood, it could be a good idea to start a web quest for spring related poems; or perhaps lines and quotes have already started swarming into your mind like happy spring bees waiting to be illustrated into picture quotes. How can you make it happen? Here’s a comprehensive guide of Top 20 Web Apps to Create Picture Quotes and Meme Posters which you can read through and try.
Happy Spring 2015!
Celebrate Valentine’s Day With Figurative Language Quotes,E-cards,Posters And Free Printables!
Would you like to use your poetic skills and compose some love quotes? Follow the presentation below to revise some basic figures of speech and then get inspired to use them right away! Combine this activity with some hands-on valentine crafts to make your inspiration and romantic mood real!
There is an earlier article on figurative language for further practice if you feel you need to clear up details.
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FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES (some suggestions without implying any endorsement)
- e-card at iwishyouto.com
Draw a live card online or use a ready template, save drawing process as time-lapse animation and get a permanent link to it to share card or embed to blog or email it to a friend.
- poster at pinwords.com Upload an image or use the templates provided to add text and create a poster you can use on social media.
- quote at quozio.com Make your own quote to share on social media or send by e-mail or keep (if you register first).
- free printables Choose the one you prefer and create your personilised Valentine gift.
- heart crayons with cute tags at catchmyparty.com
- fruit idioms gift tags at craftaholicsanonymous.net
- foodie-friendly valentine cards at craftycupboard.net
- Heart Breaker Valentines pouch for candies at danamadeit.com
- card “you swept me off my feet” at freeprintablegreetingcards.org
- décor to give as as a gift and hang around the house at howtonestforless.com
- pop-up love letters at minieco.co.uk
- cute printables at swtblessings.com
Happy Valentine’s Day! Love our English!
Get The Basics Of Figurative Language
Just Outside the Box Cartoons by Marti is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work atwww.justoutsidetheboxcartoon.com.
Come on! Don’t be a couch potato! Before exclaiming: “I’m done with figurative language!” take some time to STUDY the following resources. Then check yourself. I’m sure you will find it a piece of cake in the end!
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Simple Opinion Essay Plan and Useful Links
From “Which make better pets, cats or dogs?” to “Truth: Is it absolute or relative?” the list of opinion essay topics can be infinite. An opinion essay is a type of formal essay where the writer expresses their personal viewpoint on a particular topic.
The essay can be short or lengthy, depending upon the range of ideas or the word limit according to a particular exam type. Whatever the case, follow the regular essay guidelines and stick to your topic. Be clear, support with examples, use connectors to smoothly link one point to the next, avoid repetition and always prepare a plan to follow. Here’s a simplified one for you:
Are you more of an audio-visual type? Watch the following video to clarify any points on how to write an opinion essay.
Examples of Opinion Essays
writefix.com Essays listed by topic and category
Guidelines and exercises
Prompts and food for thought
Finally, the following chart from myeverydayinenglish.blogspot.com.br briefly presents some common connectors to use in your essay.
An Underground Park
Why would anyone think of building an underground park? Where is it going to be built? Who has designed this park? Well, read all about it in this article here or watch the relevant videos and find out. You are challenged to answer the following questions:
- What is New York City’s High Line and how is it connected to the Lowline?
- How is the Lowline connected to a revitalization project?