Unique English Magazine
Unique English Magazine
Best Regards,
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“The beauty of God is not descriptive,
Borrow the sight of love, to understand it ”
and if you borrow the sight of love
from the lovers of His beauty,
who are His openmouthed,
and you look at the world
using that especial sight,
you will see another world
full of angels
full of dance
full of rhythm
full of paintings
Moral: You can have anything even if you have nothing to begin with.
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How to Pass a Foreign
Language Class
Do you take English? Spanish? French? Latin? Italian?
Well, here are some tips for passing your class.
1. Know your materi- memorize, memorize a cards, one word per
al. That includes home- little each day. card) in blue for mas-
work. Know the book 6. Use the language culine, pink for femi-
you are learning from if you are learning. Espe- nine, purple for neuter,
you have one. Make sure cially if you are willing to green for verbs, and or-
you know what you are help somebody with her ange for everything else
supposed to be learning. English, it is not difficult (prepositions etc.). Then
It helps if you know what to find somebody online when you have to recall
language you are learn- who will chat with you. the word for a test, you
ing, too. You'll have fun and you'll automatically know what
2. Always do your learn more than you gender it is - that's im-
homework. If you do not would in class alone. portant!!
understand something, • For verbs, try writ-
you need to talk to your Tips ing all the different tens-
teacher. Their job is to • Write the words es on the side of the card
teach you. If you fail, or phrases in one color. where you've written the
they fail. Translate them in an- English definition. That
3. Write down pro- way, you have to
nunciations of words. recall the forms of
Especially if you are the verb as well as
learning a language the definition.
like French, writing • Make sure
out how words are pro- you have all of
nounced will help you your supplies. It is
ace that test! hard to do pg. 65
4. Don't let other #1-4 if you don't
kids distract you. If all have your book.
the kids in your French
class are all distracting other.
you and just goof off, • Better yet, write
see if you can transfer to different types of words
in different colors. For
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Spanish.
5. Relax and let it example, in German,
flow. Don't jam Spanish nouns are masculine,
into your mind! If you feminine, or neuter.
have a list of words to Write (on white index
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How to be Patient
I have 52 legs, 27 arms, 778 eyes and 640 ears; what am I? A liar!
What has 8 legs and goes up and down? A spider in the elevator!
How do you get cool music? Put your CDs in the refrigerator!
Why did you stare at the orange juice bottle for three hours? Because it said:
Concentrate!
How do you know carrots are good for eyes? Because you never see a rabbit
wearing glasses!
How many sides does a house have? Two! Inside & outside!
What is the difference between a hill & a pill! One is hard to get up & the other
is hard to get down.
A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook
cookies
I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better" So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so 'twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!
Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big
black bug bit?
A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
RED BULB BLUE BULB RED BULB BLUE BULB
"RED BLOOD BLUE BLOOD"
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch
wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
if a sledering snail went down a slippery slide would a snail sleder or slide
down the slide
bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble
These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue .
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
You curse, I curse, we all curse, for asparagus!
Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca
papaya.
Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to
make the bitter butter better.
A sailor went to sea To see, what he could see. And all he could see Was sea,
sea, sea.
A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box.
Upper roller lower roller Upper roller lower roller
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A B C … Z of life
Life is adventure, Dore it.
Life is beauty, worship it.
Life is challenge, meet it.
Life is dream, realize it.
Life is endurance, cope with it.
Life is fragrance, smell it.
Life is game, play it.
Life is heaven, enter it
Life is initiative, take it.
Life is journey, complete it.
Life is kerosene, burn it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is mystery, unfold it.
Life is name, find it.
Life is opportunity, catch.
Life is promise, fulfill it.
Life is question, answer it.
Life is realty, face it.
Life is song, sing it.
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Chinese theater
Mann's Chinese Theater
on Hollywood Boulevard
in Los Angeles is one of
the city’s most famous
movie theaters. Since it
opened in 1927, it has
been the location of nu-
merous Hollywood pre-
mieres. Then the Chinese
Theatre has been the site
of more gala movie pre-
mieres than any other
theatre. It is best known
for the handprints and
footprints of well-known
film stars, who have left
these signatures in ce-
ment in front of the the-
ater for more than 50
years.
It has since become one
of Southern California's
most well known land-
marks and is steeped in
Hollywood lore, having Premieres: the principle actor/actoress in theatri-
been home to numerous cal company
premieres, birthday par- gala: festival
ties, corporate junkets Lore: traditions
and two Academy Awards junkets: trip
ceremonies. Among traits: characteristic
the theater's most fa- reside: live in
mous traits are the auto- Forecourt: front section of building
graphed cement blocks revere: treat sb with respect
that resides in the fore Starlets: young woman actor
court, which bears the
signatures and markings
of many of Hollywood's
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He: Of course!
He: Yes!
He: Yes!
They
Tied
Tone
Have a beautiful day
If you woke up this morning
With more health than illness .You are more blessed than the million who
starvation you are a head of 20 million people around the world .If you
death .You are more blessed than almost three billion people in the
world.
Your back a roof over your head and a place to sleep you are richer than
Have money in the bank in your wallet and spare change in a dish some-
place .You are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy .If your parents
are still
Married and alive you are very rare especially in the united states if you
hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful you
If you can read this message you are more blessed than over two billion
people in the world .That can not read anything at all you are so blessed
in ways you may never even know try to find joy in every moment.
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Green Eternity
Who was he ?
By Hamideh Zangy Abady
Father Christmas is based on a real person, ST. Nicholas, which explains his
other name ‘Santa Claus’ which comes from the Dutch ‘Sinterklass’. Nicholas
was a Christian leader from Myra (in modern- day turkey) in the 4th century
ad. He was very shy, and wanted to give money to poor people without them
knowing about it. It is said that one day, he climbed the roof of a house and
dropped a purse of money down the chimney. It landed in the stockings which
a girl had put to dry by the fire! This may explain the belief that Father Christ-
mas comes down the chimney & places gifts in children’s stockings.
BOXING DAY
In English-speaking countries, the following Christmas Day is called’ Boxing
Day’. This word comes the custom which started in the middle Ages around
800 years ago: churches would open their ‘alms boxes’(boxes in which people
had placed gifts or money) and distribute the contents to poor people in the
neighborhood on the day after Christmas. The tradition countries today_ small
gifts are often given to delivery workers such as postal staff and children who
deliver newspapers.
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Shahriyar, an emotional poet
eyed Moham- other old books. At the and believed that lone-
mad Hussein same time he became liness and isolation are
Behjat Tabrizi acquainted with another prerequisites of poetry.
better known great Iranian Poet, Hafez. In 1953, Shahriyar’s fa-
by his pen name Shahri- Shayriyar was so fond of ther passed away and 13
yar was born in Tabriz, Hafez that once he said: years later his mother
northwestern Iran in “I owe whatever I have breathed her last, too
1905. His father, Haj Mir to Hafez.” Later Shahri- prompting him to leave
Agha Khash- Tehran for Tabriz
knabi was forever.
a famous
The first piece by Shahriyar was entitled
attorney is “ Shahriyar was
Tabriz and ‘ Soul of the Butterfly’. Defining poetry, not only good at
a respected lyrics; he was also
man with Shahriyar says: “The essence of a poem is a master of odes.
a taste for its mild and at the same time touching in- Shahriyar made
literature. use of almost all
Shahriyar’s fluence which quite unconsciously leaves styles and proved
mother as its imprint on the human mind. A poem unique in all of
put by the them. His poems
poet in his should be something the poet’s mind ac- are filled with the
f a m o u s quires from the nature and life and pres- most delicate sen-
piece en- timents and he is
titled’ Oh, ents to other minds in the form of a poem. frank in all he says.
My Mother’ As regards his dic-
was also fa- tion, Shahriyar was
miliar with the world of yar went to Tehran and deeply under the influ-
poetry. Shahryar’s child- continued his studies in ence of classical Persian
hood was more or less the capital at the Darol- poets, such as Eraqi and
intertwined with revolu- fonoun School and then Saadi. Shahriyar consid-
tionary moves and con- began his studies in the ered mankind’s suffer-
flicts in his hometown field of medicine. ing as the core of his po-
Tabriz and thus along However, before gradu- ems and believed that a
with his family, Shayri- ation, he gave up medi- true poem is one, which
yar moved to the Khash- cine and in 1931started a is inspired by both love
knab village. Shahriyar career as a state employ- and mysticism. Shahri-
started his preliminary ee in Khorasan and lat- yar is an emotional poet.
studies by reading the er in Tehran. Although, His sincere emotions are
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famous collection of po- while in Tehran, a group well reflected through all
etry of classical Iranian of friends used to visit the pieces he composed,
poet, Saadi called Goles- Shahriyar, he spent most particularly in his lyrics.
tan and a number of of his time in solitude
Greetings, Heydar Baba!
by Mohammad Hussein
Shahriyar (1905-1988)
Heydar Baba, when the Primrose and snowdrops And after us, may you
thunder resounds across appear from the frozen live long.
the skies, earth,
This world is full of mis-
When floods roar down When the clouds wing fortunes and losses.
the mountainsides, their white shirts,
The world is replete with
And the girls line up to Let us be remembered those bereaved of sons
watch it rushing by, once again and orphaned.
By: s.sky
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What do you think about
money? Is it good or bad?
I think with money…….
What Am I?
Alfred Lord Tennison
But what am I?
Man is mind
Man is heart
at last we come
Dergo sum.
Song
Christina Rosseiti
to create the desired ef- cellent examples of the ably became more ur-
fects. There are of course Georgia style include ban, the solo bluesman
a range of blues instru- Blind Willie McTell and was joined by a number
ments which accompany Blind Boy Fuller, highly of other musicians and
the blues combo was ponent of this develop- players in the group. It
born. The piano, har- ment is Louis Jordan is also worth noting that
monica, bass and drums who, originally with a the electric guitar, hav-
and, most importantly relatively small band, be- ing played such a promi-
of all, the electric guitar gan to make blues based nent part in the urban-
became the cornerstone records with humorous ization of the blues, was
of a sound of increasing lyrics and a rhythm ow- here often relegated to
rhythmic intensity. ing as much to boogie an accompanying role -
woogie as to the more listen to Charles Brown
Some of the major urban traditional classic blues records for example
conurbations included form. Jordan, Amos and you’ll hear virtually
Atlanta, Memphis and Milburn, Floyd Dixon, all the solos played by
St. Louis but there are Charles Brown and even Brown at the piano. This
critical milestones to be the great Joe Turner is not universally the
found in any number of were all leading practi- case of course. Some of
places. John Lee Hooker tioners of what came to the greatest “jump blues”
found a home in Detroit, be known as jump blues. came from T-Bone Walk-
the great T-Bone Walker What distinguished many er, with his unique and
established a following of these artists was the highly influential guitar
on the West Coast and sheer breadth of mate- work very clearly to the
Chicago exerted an influ- rial played - straight 12 fore.
ence of real significance bar, instrumentals, blues
- Sonny Boy Williamson, ballads and straight pop The early centre of re-
Muddy Waters, Little Wal- songs were all part of corded rhythm and blues
ter, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore the scene at that time. tended to beLos Ange-
James and Otis Spann les, usually via a series of
were all based there. small independents such
Howlin’ Wolf as Modern, RPM and Spe-
The Blues has influenced cialty. One of the major
just about everything Within this R&B mix, advances for the genre
musically which subse- there was plenty of room was the development
quently developed. Not for different band forma- of an R&B roster within
least of which was the tions - and many of the Atlantic Records, where
emergence of what came bigger bands were led Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry
to be known as Rhythm by singers whose previ- Wexler, along with engi-
and Blues. ous experience had been neer Tom Dowd, proved
with the great bandlead- instrumental in shifting
Rhythm and Blues is ers such as Count Basie R&B to a wider audience.
perhaps most common- and Lucky Millinder. Both They showcased some of
ly understood as the Turner and Jimmy With- the great female names
term used to describe erspoon had spells with in R&B, including Ruth
the sophisticated urban Count Basie. The smaller Brown and Lavern Baker
music that grew out of groups relied more on and, of course, they re-
the urbanization of the individual soloists tak- corded one of the greats
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blues which began in ing the spotlight, many of modern black Ameri-
the 1930s. The single of the solos being taken can music - the wonder-
and most renowned ex- by the alto and tenor sax ful Ray Charles.
Atlantic also worked
closely with the likes
of Clyde McPhatter and
Chuck Willis throughout
this period and such art-
ists, along with the afore-
mentioned Ray Charles,
can now be seen as the
clear links between the
blues and R&B of the
1940s and 50s and the
classic soul of the 1960s
and early 70s. And let’s
not forget the even
smaller independents,
such as Duke/Peacock,
all of whom played piv-
otal roles in the spread
of R&B and the evolution
of the music into what
became known as soul;
and of course the Duke
label was also respon-
sible for recording the
great Bobby Bland at the
height of his not incon-
siderable vocal powers.
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Way Of Suicide
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History of writing
People probably began Chinese characters start- how could they tell if a
with picture writing. ed out as pictures and picture of a bee, for ex-
They didn’t always have now stand for sounds. ample, meant the insect
an alphabet. In picture bee, the verb to be, or
writing, a sign stands for Egyptian hieroglyphs the first syllable in an-
an object. For example, are among the oldest other word like believe?
a circle might stand for forms of writing. The The alphabet developed
the Sun. earliest Egyptian writing in the Middle East. The
But a picture-writing sys- we know of dates from first alphabet we know
tem is difficult. There are about 3200 BC. The Su- about was developed
just too many things to merians of Mesopotamia by the Phoenicians who
represent with pictures. also were writing before lived in what is now Leb-
Picture writing requires 3000 BC. anon. Their alphabet had
thousands of signs. In 22 letters.
addition, pictures can’t The Phoenician alphabet
be strung together to did not have letters for
sound the way people Birth Of The Al- vowels (a, e, i, o, u). The
speak. It’s also hard to Greeks added those let-
express things like opin- phabet ters. Our word alphabet
ions and ideas with pic- comes from the first two
tures. At a very young age, letters of the Greek al-
Over time, picture writ- we memorize the let- phabet, alpha and beta.
ing developed into a dif- ters of our alphabet and
ferent system. The circle their sounds. Once we
that stood for Sun began have done that, we can The ABCS
to stand for the sound combine the marks into An alphabet is a clever
or syllable sun or even words and sentences. set of letters or other
son. It could be used to Other people can un- symbols. Each letter rep-
make other words, like derstand them. We can resents a different sound
sunshine. understand what other of a language.
This was a good system. people have written. We There are about 50 dif-
There are a lot fewer also can write down our ferent alphabets used in
sounds in a language thoughts just for our- the world today. They are
than there are objects to selves. different in the way they
be represented. After signs got linked to look and in the sounds
Egyptian hieroglyphs sounds, the next big step their letters stand for.
are a kind of picture in writing was the devel- Most alphabets have be-
writing. In time, the pic- opment of an alphabet. tween 20 and 30 letters.
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tures came to stand for With an alphabet, people The English language
sounds. This also hap- no longer had to guess uses the Roman alpha-
pened to Chinese and what a picture meant. bet. It has 26 letters.
many other languages. Without an alphabet,