Amparo Ruiz Belenguer
-ed verbs
list: TALKED / WAITED / DECIDED / LAUGHED / WASHED / STUDIED / ALLOWED / HOPED / ENDED / LIKED
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pronunciation poem
poem: I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through. Well done! And now you wish perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead- For goodness sake don’t call it ‘deed’ Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
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free choice speech
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech in ***Flawless:
[…] We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. Feminist: the person who believes in the social political, and economic equality of the sexes.
audio: click here.