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Why Reading Matters
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Why Reading MattersWhy Reading Matters

Speaking is already in our genes. But reading is not. Until about 100 years ago most people didn't do it all. When we read fiction especially, we create new pathways in our brain. Reading 30 pages of fiction every night, gets the pathways thicker and thicker. Our brain needs a workout just like our body...
 
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Tags: thicker, pathways, fiction, Reading, brain
Thicker Than Water
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Thicker Than WaterThicker Than Water

A compelling and beautifully written memoir about dark and shameful family secrets, and one young woman's pilgrimage to Australia to attempt to lay the past to rest. British journalist Cal Flyn was holidaying in her childhood home in the Highlands of Scotland, when she stumbled upon a dark family secret.
 
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Tags: family, Highlands, childhood, journalist, British, Thicker, Water
Speaking Activities for the Classroom
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Speaking Activities for the ClassroomSpeaking Activities for the Classroom

The materials in this text were compiled over a period of ten years, in Thailand from 1993 to 2003, while I was teaching at The Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University and later at the Department of Language at KMUTT. I started a file of speaking activities because there were too many tasks and ideas to keep in my head, and I wanted to be able to access them when I needed them in the future. Eventually, the file grew thicker and thicker, until it was big enough to become a book.


 
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Tags: thicker, access, needed, wanted, ideas, Classroom, Speaking, Activities, tasks
Origami: Wild Animals
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Origami: Wild AnimalsOrigami: Wild Animals

These are good models from Montroll s early days. They are every bit as creative as his later models but tend to be a little thicker thus requiring thinner paper for good results.
 
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Tags: models, thinner, requiring, paper, Origami, Animals, thicker