Old Funnies

Hi everybody

 My name is Amine : 

When i was young ,I did a lot of huge problems , But I rememberred one of them very well ,like it happened yesterday .One day i was playing one game it’s not afomous game but we were playing it, it called ” Warrior ”  we made a big sword and we put it in our hip and when someone  come near to you with a rope you should cut it .I  took the sword quickly and i cut my hip before cutting the rope it was seriously injured,but finally i went with my father to the hospital and treat the injury.

Youssef: 

when i was in primary school .exactly in the first grade, i was with my friend in the yard at recreation time.my friend found a piece of 5 DHs , and he felt very happy . i told him that if he have toke it with him to the classroom ,the teacher would have taken it from him.so i advised him to bury it . my friend Ahmed toke my advice and i help him to bury the 5 DHs .

             fortunately Ahmed wanted to go to the W.C so i said to myself <<this is the occasion and i mustn’t miss it >>and i told him<<oh my friend you can go to the W.C and i’ll guard the 5DHs until you come back >>when he went to the W.C i dug and took the 5 DHs .and when he come back ,he tried to takeout  his money but he didn’t find it , and he ask me if someone had take ir .                    i said :<<i was here since you’ve gone to the W.C  and no one had taken it , may be there are some demons here ,let’s  run-away to the classroom >>

              once we got out of school ,i went to the grocery store and i bought some candies , some chocolates,some cookies and i went home very very happy!!!!!!!……..

Majda: 

When I was 7years old I still remember that I always ate cakes of everyone especially cake’s birthdays. One day my mom made a nice cake for my brother’s birthday  so as everyone knew I was a huge fan of cake’s mom because she was one of the most best cooker and she still it right now , I couldn’t stop thinking of this delicious cake , so without thinking I went to the kitchen trying to find this tresor . Hopelessly my brother was more intelligent then me , he knew that I love cakes , so he was like a guard in front of the door of the kitchen without moving telling me that I will paid all the cakes that I  ate before.
My reaction was laughing because the way he told me was very funny , when he saw me laghing he thought that I ate his cake and he run into the place’s cake he didn’t find anything he started crying when everyone were singing ” happy birthday mohamed…..” !

Asma:

                                                      My Silly Story

                                                Of when i was Young

When i was younger :ages 6-7, we went to the beach, and i  went to swim , ”in the send “of course because i was very young then, so I met a girl bigger than me a little bit i don’t remember her name anymore, but i remember that she was better than me at swimming.

So I watched her very carefully, and decided to do like her: I waited a wave a small one I swam under it and I get up and nothing happen to me ,but another one came and I didn’t take my breath ,and it pouched me down, I was sinking and drinking the salty water euh!! But my uncle saved me in the last minute: he took me up from my back “thanks’ to him I’m alive”

It’s was a freaky moment for me,

Maryam: 

when i was in premary school one man came to ask for my father  hi told me to tell hem hi is absent i told hem hi told you hi is absent …hhh

Chayma:

when i was 2 years old , and i could barely stand up , i went to the phone table and applayed the police number, and then a police man answered and he was yelling because he thaught that somone is playing some silly jokes ,but , fortunatly my dad came and save the situation,lucky me……hhhhhhhhh.can you believe that?….

Mouaad Errachiki:

    when i was 7,i had a horrible accident  , when i was playing with my friends football

  ,one of my team shoot a strong ball and it kicked me in my head ;so i lost my conscience and my friends took me to my house ,and i didn’t go to school for a week , it was a night mare  for me and it was a bad memory.

Zahira:

When i was  young .i like eating a delicious meal : it was a powder of(Flan)we mixed it with milk and we pour it in cups ,then i always try to choose the bigest cup after being freezing.One day, they were almost similar and because i coudn’t alter my habit, i went to kitchen with a compass and began to measure which one is bumper than the other ones.After trying and trying the fiddly measurment led me  to the bigest cup (as i thought) .When my mather saw me i thought that she will certainly make a scene  but the suprise was that she laughed deeply because there was no deffrence beteen the four cups .it was just a crazy behaviour by me but fanny, doesn’t it?.

 

Well done my little warriors. You have got funny stories.Love them. They are all my favorite.Now, I know you more.

Try to find out who made fewer mistakes.Mistakes mean you are definitely advancing in English.

Reading your stories made feel eager to share mine.I will write one ASAP.

Rich students

In a free writing activity, students tried to craft short articles.Here are few examples I have chosen randomly.No editing is done,and I wish you could help commenting positively and correcting the mistakes.

‘’Wanted’’

We’re looking for a groom :

Believed to be in Chichaoua

 Ilham is a pretty girl , she’s 30 years old , she’s an engineer wich have 10 years of experience her Salary is 7 million DH every month . Ilham is tall and a blond beautiful girl .

       Even all what does she have, she feels lonely and confused ; because she’s single -no children and no family- and her job monopoly on all her time also her free time , so the poor Ilham can’t  meet a guy .

      This rich girl lives in big palace alone in New York city , and she has a strange black car …

       She use to live in peace and happiness . Ilham want to find her White Knight ; so :’’ help us and try to find someone who could makes her happy and glad ‘’.

By Mohamed Kellali .

Our nuber is : 06 xx x3 xx 00 /  Life Mag / first edition . 

  The Arabic female Bill Gates

                       It’s imbeleivable but it’s real

Before i was all the time thinking that the most difficult thing in life is to be rich . but when i met miss Hajar i mean the most famous busniss  woman in the Arabic world , i change my idea completely  ! her start was somehow strange because she was a clothes seller in the flea market , and in a wink of an eye she becomes  the most rich miss . how ? when ? why and where ?? those wore my questions when i met her . she didn’t gave me an exact answers but  what i understand is that she has a very big self-confidence which gave her energy to maintain working haard and trying to change frpom the fame in the Arabic world to the whole world .

The extraordinary thing is that she has two children and a husband who loves her very much and who has just told us in a show that she’s the kind of a successful wife , mother and busnisswomen .

 

By Sanae …

moroccan women glitter in turkey

the Moroccan woman became more brilliant in the world more than Mrs.nezha skely and Aicha chenna in 2010; the example from turkey .jihan elalawi the ambassador of morocco in turkey .she is rich ,cultivated ,and more she is young .Miss jihan elalawi can win 10 million$ for one month with 31 year old ,she loves her job and country ,she gave all her life for them for that she is still single .jihan alawi has a big villa in Istanbul and she uses cars and plans but she still the modest Moroccan woman .jihan alawi thinks the rich is not the most important thing to be happy and she say “we can get whatever we  want by money but we can’t get a near family wherever we are”

by Asma Alouazkiti

manar is rich ??? this is a joke or what

who know manar when she was young he didn’t think that he will be the must rich women in morrocco.

manar is a beautiful girl but that not important if we comprate whit her job she is a busness women and not only that shr earn 1 milion dollar each mounth.
really she is rich but she say that sha is not happy without her small family and that why she bought a small housenear to the beach , in my opinion that not the reel raison for bought that smal house but she is so miser .
and when i ask manar about the positif of bieng rich she sayed : “no positif” and i say ”you can give my your many if they are no positif for bieng rich” .

(كما يقول المثل: (محاس بالمزود غير المشحوط بيه 

By Iliass Hilmi

Back to Access Program

Dear students:

Eid Mubarak  with  much more prosperity and success.

I really missed you and hope to get started ASAP. This year is so different. I wish it would be the same for you too.

I would like to leave a notice: we will start access program on Sunday, 25 September.Get yourself ready for the last and most important part in this program.Remember that we only have two more terms with 48 hour each. Good luck , and happy return.

 

Cheers,

Teacher Aziz Moummou

Reading 2 : By VOA

 Mentors improve lives of homeless Children

Read and listen to the article. Then answer the questions to improve your English!

Homeless children

A mentor is someone who teaches or advises a younger person with less experience. January is National Mentoring Month in the United States.
Some mentoring programs connect adults with children who need help. Researchers say mentoring can reduce drug and alcohol use, and violence among young people.
In Southern California, a nonprofit group called School on Wheels has volunteers who tutor children from homeless families. Experts estimate that one in every 50 children in the country is homeless at some time during the year. They might live in shelters or weekly hotels or abandoned buildings. They might live on the streets. They might live anywhere but a permanent home.
Sinead Chilton is a marketing consultant for School on Wheels. She moved from London to the United States. She says she was surprised to learn how big the problem was.
“When I first moved here ten years ago and I heard about School on Wheels, I didn’t even consider the fact that there were homeless children in America. And then when I realized that there were 1.6 million homeless children in America, it just floored me.”
Ms. Chilton has worked with School on Wheels for more than six years. She still remembers the first student she tutored. She met with her every week at a local church. The church gave shelter to people on winter nights. The girl slept on the floor.
“It just struck me as just so devastating and just how can you focus on school and how can you even think about homework when those are the circumstances that you’re living in?”
A retired teacher named Agnes Stevens started School on Wheels eight years ago. She wanted to help homeless children stay in school. The group now has more than 1000 volunteers.
Each year they tutor as many as 2000 students. The group also gives services to other children, including backpacks and school supplies.
Sinead Chilton says School on Wheels also helps parents to put their children in school and helps parents with the educational system.
“A lot of times, homeless children’s families are in chaos and homework is the last thing that parents want to be worrying about.”
The Harvard School of Public Health and the National Mentoring Project started National Mentoring Month in 2002. Ms. Chilton says she hopes more people will volunteer to help children.
“I think it’s so important for people that want to make a difference in their community to look at where the needs are. And the most vulnerable members of our community are homeless children.”

Answer the following :

1- Pre-reading :From the title of the text “ Mentors improve lives of homeless Children”, the text will be about :

a- Children without home  b- difficult subject in schools  c- families losing their homes  d- Old people helping teenagers.

2- School on wheels had a:

a- teacher who helps students going to college  b- very large building  c- tutors who help homeless families

3- Agnes Stevens started schools on wheel to :

a- Give homeless families a place to live  b- help homeless people in school  c- Make a lot of money

4- Schools on wheels help also :

a- parents with their students’  need  b- students in college  c- train teachers  d- charge money to parents

Vocabulary :

Find a definition to the words in bold from the text : mentor/tutor/floored/shelters/vulnerable

You can answer here !

Access Radio Chichaoua

Friends from Brazil

Hi everyone:

We are glad to be contacted by some friends from Access program in Brazil.We would like you as students or teachers to show your support and involvement.Primarily, we will start by exchanging emails with students there. As teachers , we are looking to enrich each others experience.

Friends from Brazil

If you want to see Brazilian students’ blog click HERE.

Cheers,

Aziz

Sleepy teens

Early classes= sleepy teens

from VOA

Sleepy teen

Listen as you read the article below:

Half of American teenagers don’t get enough sleep on school nights.  They get an average of 60- 90 minutes less than they need, experts say.

One problem is biology.  Teens are programmed to go to sleep later and wake up later than other age groups, but many schools start classes as early as 7:00 a.m.

Many students go to class feeling tired.  One student, Danny, says that getting up in the morning is terrible.  He feels tired.  During his first classes of the day, it’s difficult to stay awake.

Michael Breus is a psychologist.  He’s an expert in sleep problems.  He says that teenagers need eight to ten hours of sleep a night.  He feels that sleepy teens can become depressed.  This can also affect their ability in sports and driving.  Michael Breus says a tired driver, especially a tired teenage driver, is dangerous.

What can schools do?  Psychologists say schools can start classes later in the morning.  Studies show that students’ grades improved by starting classes later.

St. George’s School in Rhode Island wanted to try this.  They started classes just thirty minutes later.

Visits to the health center by tired students decreased by half.  Late arrivals to first period decreased by one/third.  Students felt less sleepy during the day.  The teachers also noticed that students were happier and more awake.

Check your vocabulary :

1- How old are teenagers ?

a- 2 to 5 years old  b- 10 to 12 years old  c- 13 to 17 years old  d- 13 to 19  years old.

2- An expert is someone who  has:

a-skills in a subject  b- lot of training c- enough knowledge   d- diplomas.

3- Biology is  the study of:

a- sport and exrcise  b-the earth  c- chemicals  d- life (body)

4- If someone is depressed they feel :

a- extremely sad   b- happy  c- good   d- sick

Send your answers as a comment .

American English

I think I have just come through a very interesting website. It is produced by the famous Voice of America program. On October 19, 1959, the Voice of America broadcast the first Special English program.  It was an experiment.  The goal was to communicate by radio in clear and simple English with people whose native language was not English. Special English programs quickly became some of the most popular on VOA.  They still are. Special English continues to communicate with people who are not fluent in English.  Over the years, its role has expanded.  It helps people learn American English while they learn about American life and stay informed about world news and developments in science.

VOA Classroom

I will post regularly lessons from VOA. So , check it out !!!

Gorge of Imin Doonit…Chichaoua

Imin Doonit Gorge

I have been working in Chichaoua since 2006. People in general , and my innocent students in particular , rarely praise this tiny city.”Come on teacher , There is nothing to do in this city…we really feel bored “,are words that my ears are used to hear. Last Thursday, I was invited to join a group of teachers for a guys’ trip ( trip for men only ). I was glad to discover that Chichaoua is not really as black as it is painted.

Taskoort Lake

1- Imin Doonit is a Berber village 82 km south east  Chichaoua. There is a wonderful scene of  a rocky gorge. The weather is usually warm in this region, but once inside the gorge you can’t feel your toes anymore. It’s really chilly.

We did find the weekly souk in its peak . We bought fresh vegetables and fruits from the generous farmers. We watched some chicken being kindly (hhh)  slaughtered.Then, we bargained with a mean cook . We did have a good bargain ( 10 dh per tajin) .

Village on a ship

There is a river flowing smoothly between the rocks. Many girls are singing while doing their house chores ( washing clothes, cleaning their heels,etc ) .

2- Taskourt Lake : is a newly built dam in the region of Imin Doonit. It’ s a medium size lake . But, the road is not yet ready for cars and modern means of transport.

3- A village on a ship : The village name is BELQASS. It is built on a rocky hillock. The most beautiful scene  is when you stand in front of the village. You will get the feeling that you are standing in front of TITANIC.

4- French Bureau: We discovered that even in this virgin region , France did leave its fingerprints. There is a place named the French court. It is partially demolished today. It was a place for justice and announcing verdicts.You can see that they built 4 or 5 cozy cells for inmates. Walking around makes you feel that some souls are tracking you. Our guide ( teacher of history) sarcastically said that there might be an angel watching a treasure. Who knows !!!

Real femininity.

Imin doonit village

We are moving… here!!!

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