Welcome to another issue of Hot English magazine, the fun magazine for learning English. This month, our main focus is on the Olympics. Even if you aren't into sport or that excited about the idea of hours of running, jumping and swimming, there are lots of interesting thingsto read about the Olympics: the corruption, the stars, the origins, the mascots, the drugs, the dieting... it'sall fascinating stuff. This month is the start of a new section for Advanced learners called Group Talk. It consists of a recording of a conversation in a social setting (a bar ) between several people.
For thousands of years, the star-filled sky has been a source of wonder, discovery, entertainment, and instruction. Ancient people from nearly every continent and culture wove exciting stories about the mythological figures they saw in the heavens. People also used the sun, moon, and stars for time-keeping and navigation. And careful observers throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and elsewhere kept precise astronomical records, eventually paving the way for the Scientific Revolution and its remarkable discoveries about the nature of the universe.
Why was this book written? Stories are very much part o f our lives as adults as well as children. We hear stories every day on the news, read them in the newspaper, exchange them with friends as jokes, anecdotes, rumours, stories overheard or ways o f sharing confidences. We collect stories we consider funny, surprising or shocking, and which throw light on what is happening in the world and our views about this. It is one way we exchange information, both about events that have really happened, and those that have been imagined.
Children have probably seen them in books or on display in museums, but what are fossils, and just how did they form over millions of years? Young viewers will learn the answers to these questions and more in All About Fossils, a lively look at the evidence of things that lived a long time ago. Examine the different ways in which fossils are formed, and see how paleontologists -- the scientists who study fossils -- figure out the age of these ancient creations.
