I don't wanna miss a thing

 

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Watch the video and do the following exercises.

Choose the verbs that you can hear.

I could standstaysaystray awake just to hear youbeatingbearingbreathinggreeting

Watch you smilesmallmileslime while you are screamingslappingsleepingslipping
Far away and dreamingtrimmingdealingmeaning
I could sendspendspanspin my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lostleastlastlest in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you
Is a moment I measurelecturetreasurefracture

 

Unscramble the lines of the Chorus

'Cause I'd miss you, babe

The sweetest dream will never do

 

'Cause even when I dream of you

I don't wanna fall asleep

I don't wanna close my eyes

I'd still miss you, babe

And I don't wanna miss a thing

And I don't wanna miss a thing

Write in the missing words. The images may help.

Lying close to you
Feeling your  beating
And I wonder what you're 
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I  your eyes and thank  we're together
And I just wanna stay with you
In this  forever, forever and ever

Chorus

 

Unscramble the words in brackets.

I don't wanna miss one  (ielms)
I don't wanna miss one  (kssi)
Well, I just  (annaw) be with you
 (igtrh) here with you, just like this
I just wanna (dlho) you close
I feel your heart so close to (mnei)
And just stay here in this moment
For all the  (rset) of time

Chorus (2x)


Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep, yeah
I don't wanna miss a thing

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Source: Actual English

Standard: American English

Language level: Advanced

 

Saddam Hussein

By Aamer Madhani

His regime murdered at least 300.000 of his countrymen, according to estimates by human-right groups. But Saddam also left a legacy in his country as a sort of Mesopotamian revolutionary: a nationalist leader who stood up to the American superpower.

He was born April 28, 1937, to a poor family in the village of al-Awja, near the city of Tikrit. His father died before he was born, and he was sent to live with his maternal uncle.

In 1957, he joined the Baath Party. Two years after, he was found complicity in a failed assassination attempt against President Abdul Karim Qasim, and was forced to flee to Egypt. He returned to Iraq in 1963 after the country’s first Baathist Regime took power in a coup. Five years later, a relative of Saddam’s became president of the Revolutionary Command Council and he took charge of the nation’s security apparatus. On July 15, 1979, Saddam forced Al-Bakr to retire and wassworn in as Iraq’s president.

From his ascension to the presidency, western governments including the United States –recognized Saddam as a ruthlessstrongman, but someone they could do business with. During the 1980s, the U.S. government tolerated Saddam because they had a common enemy in the Shiite theocracy that ruledIran. In September 1980, Saddam launched an invasion, setting off an eight  year war in which the U.S. supported his country by providing satellite intelligence and refusing to sell the Iranian military spare parts  for its mostly American made weaponry.

In August 1990, Saddam’s troops invaded another oil-richneighbor, Kuwait. That was when the U.S. government stopped supporting him. From 1991 to the end of Saddam’s regime in April 2003, Iraq lived under paralyzing United Nations sanctions that turned the oil-rich country into a Middle East backwater. But it wasn’t until the September 11^th, 2001 attacks that the U.S truly focused on ousting Saddam. After the Taliban was ousted, Bush cited evidence that Iraq had attempt to buy weapons grade uranium in Africa, underscoring the need to take with action against Saddam. The allegation later proved to be unfounded.

Without U.N. backing and with a relatively small band of allies, the U.S. began the air assault on Baghdad on March 20, 2003. For more than eight months, Saddam remained on the lam. On December 13^th, 2003, U.S. Army soldiers caught him crouchedin a hole dug in the floor of a mud hut where he hid with a a pistol and several hundred thousand dollars in cash. He was executed on December 30^th 2006 for the homicide of 148 Shiites in 1982. AE.

Vocabulary:

Stood up to: To resist or refuse to be cowed by somebody or to refuse to back down; remain solid.

Baath Party: The Arab Socialist Party was founded in 1947 as a radical, secular Arab-Nationalist Political Party.

Complicit: Involved in something illegal or wrong.

Flee: To escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear.

Apparatus: An organization or system, especially a political one.

Sworn in (Phrasal verb,participle of swear) in: To induct intooffice by administration of an oath.

Ruthless: Without mercy or pitty.

Shiite: A member of the second largest religious movement within Islam, which is based on the belief that Ali, a member of Mohammed’s family, and the teachers who came after him, were the true religious leader.

Theocracy: Government of a state by immediate Divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.

Set (ting) off: Set in motion or cause to begin.

Crouch (ed) Regular verb: With our knees bent so that you are close to the ground a leaning toward slightly.

Mud hut: Temporary military shelter made of soft wet earth.

American History: World War Two on the Home Front

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 An American soldier at home on leave, learning about point rationing of food from his friend who runs the general store in Bowman, South Carolina, 1943.

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember

(MUSIC)

The United States entered the Second World War in December of forty-one. Europe had already been at war since nineteen thirty-nine. But the United States did not enter World War Two until Japanese forces attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

(SOUND)

The attack was a surprise. But American military and political leaders had believed that the United States, sooner or later, would be pulled into the fighting. And they began to prepare for war.

(MUSIC)

President Franklin Roosevelt had been assistant secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson during World War One. He remembered how American troops were not ready for that war. Now that he was president, Roosevelt wanted to be sure that the United States would be ready when it had to fight. Throughout nineteen forty-one, Roosevelt urged American industries to produce more weapons and other military supplies. He established new government agencies to work with industry to increase arms production.

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A wartime shipbuilding center in the United States

Some business leaders resisted Roosevelt's efforts. They felt there was no need to produce more arms while the United States was still at peace. But many others cooperated. And by the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the American economy was producing millions of guns and other weapons.

Still, this was not enough to fight a war. After the Japanese attack, Roosevelt increased his demands on American industry. He called for sixty thousand warplanes, forty-five thousand tanks and twenty-thousand anti-aircraft guns. And he wanted all these within one year.

A month after the Pearl Harbor raid, Roosevelt organized a special committee to direct military production. He created another group to help companies find men and women for defense work. And he established a new office where the nation's best scientists and engineers could work together to design new weapons.

These new government organizations faced several problems. Sometimes factories produced too much of one product and not enough of another. Sometimes tools broke. And some business owners refused to accept government orders.

But the weapons were produced, and American troops soon had the guns and supplies they needed.

(MUSIC)

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Women putting together gun parts at the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The federal government had to quickly expand its own workforce to meet war needs. Federal spending increased from six billion dollars in nineteen forty to eighty-nine billion in nineteen forty-four. That was fifteen times as much spending in just five years.

Roosevelt had to take strong steps to get the money for all this spending. He put limits on wages. He increased income taxes to as much as ninety-four percent on portions of incomes over two hundred thousand dollars. And he asked the American people to lend money to the federal government. The people answered by purchasing almost one hundred billion dollars in war bonds.

The great increase in public spending raised the threat of high inflation. Roosevelt created a special office with the power to control prices. Many Americans agreed with the idea of price controls. But every business wanted somebody else's prices controlled, not their own.

Federal officials had to work hard to keep prices and supplies under control. They restricted how much meat, fuel and other goods people could buy.

The price control program generally worked. Its success kept the American economy strong to support the troops fighting in Europe and Asia.

One reason these strong economic steps worked was because most of the American people fully supported the war effort.

(MUSIC: “Rosie the Riveter”)

Women who worked in factories during World War Two came to be known as "Rosie the Riveter." The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company produced this famous poster for its War Production Co-ordinating Committee.

STEVE EMBER: You can look at photographs of people from those times and see in their faces how strongly they felt.

In one picture from the state of North Carolina, a group of men are standing in front of old rubber tires. They are planning to give the tires to the Army to be fixed and used for military vehicles.

Another photo shows a woman visiting a hospital. She is singing to a soldier to lift his spirits.

Still another photo shows a man who owns a small food store. He is placing signs on meat and cans of food to tell people how much they are allowed to buy.

You can also get an idea about the feelings of the times by the names of some of the popular songs during World War Two.

(MUSIC: “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition")

STEVE EMBER: In addition to “Rosie the Riveter,” there were songs like “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition."  One of the most hopeful songs was this one, recorded by Britain’s Vera Lynn.

(MUSIC: "When the Lights Go on Again All Over the World")

STEVE EMBER: Not all Americans supported the war. A small number refused to fight because of religious or moral beliefs. They were known as conscientious objectors. And some Americans supported Adolf Hitler and other fascists. But almost everyone else wanted to win the war quickly and return to a normal life.

(MUSIC)

Many Japanese-Americans served with honor in the United States armed forces. But many Americans were suspicious of anyone whose family had come from Japan. They refused to trust even Japanese-American families who had lived in the United States for more than a century.

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Manzanar internment camp in the desert near Independence, California

Many banks refused to lend money to Japanese-Americans. Many stores would not sell to them.

The federal government relocated thousands of Japanese-Americans in California and other states into internment camps. They were released only after the war ended. It was many years before the government officially apologized for mistreating Japanese-Americans.

(MUSIC)

STEVE EMBER: But World War Two did lead to progress for another group that was often the target of discrimination: black Americans. Black leaders spoke out. They said it was unfair to fight a war for freedom in Europe while black Americans did not have all the same freedoms as white citizens.

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH: "Negros want the same things that white citizens possess – all their rights, and no force under the sun can stem and block and stop this civil rights revolution which is now underway."

STEVE EMBER: In nineteen forty-one, a leader in the black community, A. Philip Randolph, threatened to lead a giant march on Washington for civil rights for blacks. President Roosevelt reacted by issuing an order that made it a crime to deny blacks a chance for jobs in defense industries. He also ordered the armed forces to change some of their rules that discriminated against black service members.

Blacks made progress in the military and defense industries. But most other industries still refused to give them an equal chance. Major progress on civil rights would not come until the nineteen fifties and sixties.

(MUSIC)

Life was busy during the war years. There were many changes in the economy, business, music, race relations and other areas. But in many ways, life continued as it always does.

Americans did what they could during the hard years of World War Two to keep life on the home front as normal as possible. But almost everyone understood that the first job was to support the troops overseas and win the war.

This strength of purpose at home gave American soldiers the support they needed. And it also helped President Roosevelt as he negotiated with other world leaders. Diplomacy and foreign relations became much more complex during the war. That will be our story next week.

Our program was written by David Jarmul. You can find our series online with transcripts, MP3s, podcasts and pictures at voaspecialenglish.com. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English. I’m Steve Ember, inviting you to join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English.

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Correction: An earlier caption with the "We Can Do It!" poster shown on this page misidentified it as a government poster designed to get women involved in the war effort. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company produced it for its War Production Co-ordinating Committee to hang in its factories, as explained in Secrets of a Feminist Icon. 

Haiti, a country under eternal reconstruction

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World

Haiti, a country under

eternal reconstruction

Nature has been cruel to the poorest country in the Americas. A look back into the past helps explain how Haiti came to be so poor. Throughout the country’s history, the Haitians have suffered various coups [1], political crises and cruel tyrannical dictatorships [2]

It seems that nature has not been kind to Haiti. The earthquake on January 12^th (2010) aggravated the chaos and poverty in the country. According to the United Nations, up to January 23^rd the official number of dead was 111,000 and 200,000 had been injured [3]. It has been estimated, however, that the final death toll [4] could be 200,000.  Thousands of houses have been destroyed or damaged, and hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless. Before being hit by the earthquake the country was struck by a hurricane in 2008. However, nature cannot be held chiefly responsible for the Haitians’ suffering.  In this country of nine million souls, over half are living below the level of extreme poverty, earning just a dollar a day. It is the poorest country in the Americas. The country is very, very underprivileged – there is a lack of schools, jobs, hospitals, transport, security, infrastructure, basic sanitation, and – mainly – political stability. In political terms Haiti has always been in conflict. From the second half of the 19^th century until the beginning of the 20^th century, 16 Heads of State [5] were overthrown [6] or assassinated.

                 Governments that did not work

In the second half of the 20^th century, however, Haiti had two governments that stayed in power for a long time. François Duvalier, better known as Papa Doc, took power [7]  in 1957 and his government lasted until 1971, when he died. His son, Jean-Claude (known as Baby Doc) took over and remained in power until 1985. Both of them stayed in power by persecuting their opponentsmercilessly [8]. During these dictatorships, Haiti fell deeper and deeper into poverty. In the years that followed Haitians tried to stabilize their political situation, but a succession of military coups prevented any organization.

Matéria publicada na edição de número 53 da Revista Maganews

(Leia mais sobre o Haiti na edição impressa da revista)

Photo 1 (Marcello Casal – ABr) - Earthquake - Scenes of devastation in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.
Photo 2 (Marcello Casal – ABr) - Port-au-Prince days after the earthquake – What does the future hold for this child?

Voice – David Hatton

Vocabulary

1 coup – golpe

2 dictatorship - ditadura

3 injured – ferido

4 death toll – exp. idiom. = número oficial de mortos

5 Heads of State – chefes de estado

6 to be overthrown – ser deposto

7 to take power – assumir o poder

8 mercilessly – cruelmente / sem piedade

CONFESSIONS OF A LATIN TEACHER PART II

WILLIAM’S WORDS

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Standard: British accent

CONFESSIONS OF A LATIN TEACHER By William Sutton

The UK government has ignored demands to offer Latin in all schools. But the ancient world still holds our imaginations, from law and politics through to films like Clash of the Titans and Percy Jackson and he Lighting Thief.

CODGITO ERGO SUM

Politically, Roman laws passed through two houses. The UK copied this arrangement. The US went further, placing the Senate and House of Representative on Capitol Hill. Money stamped with our leaders’ faces is inspired by Roman coins. The Romans gave us public and civil law. Trial by jury and the principle “innocent till proven guilty. Today’s politicians are still influenced by Cicero’s oratory. We take rhetorical devices from the classics simile metaphor metonymy. Although we may prefer films to poetry, we use their literary genres: tragedy and comedy, epic and satire.

Even since Freud psychology has used classical words and concepts. We are aware of our ego, id and superego. We recognize narcissism, mania and the Oedipus complex. Philosophy is built upon Plato and Aristotle, giving us arguments a priori and a posteriori, syllogisms and reductio ad absurdum. Everybody knows Descartes’ phrase. “Cogito ergo sum.”

SCIENCE AND SPORT

Science is full of Latin from geometry’s humble oval to paleontology’s mighty Tyrannosaurus rex in meteorology, we have cumulo-numbus clouds, in physics, the quantum. We named the planets after roman gods. Neighbours Venous and Mars reflect the mythical enlargement of love and war.  The Pluto was dismissed to the underworld, in 2006, his planet was deplaneted’.

In sport, Romans took Greek pursuits and turned them into big business, with stadiums and gambling. Watch today’s racing, horses of Formula One, and you can’t help thinking of chariot racing in the Circus Maximus. The celebrities and hysteria in boxing, wrestling, rugby and football recall Rome’s gladiators.

LATIN ADVOCATES

Oxford classics professors recently urged the British government to give Latin the same status in schools as modern languages. The Department for Education replied: “Latin is an important subject, valuable for learning of modern languages and a useful basis for many disciplines. It is, however not classified in the curriculum as at modern language as pupils cannot interact with native Latin speakers or visit parts of the world where Latin is spoken as a native language.” A diplomatic response!

Even if few British schools teach Latin, nobody denies its influence on modern life. The little of a recent book says it all Vote for Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today. Next month we’ll investigate whether that’s really true. but there’s no doubt classical culture is  with us every day. Whatever the Education Secretary says. QED (Quod Erat Demostrandum). And, to prove our point, here are some Latin words and expressions used in everyday English.

LATIN WORDS

Virus

Antenna

Doctor

Facsimile

Via

Modus operandi

Per diem

Sine qua non

RIP (Resquiescat in Pace)

QED (Quod Erat)

Demonstrandum

Vice-versa

Alter ego

Alumnus

Alma mater

Post mortem

Bona fide

Tedium

Museum

Simulacrum

Agenda

De facto

Ex cathedra

Status quo

Quid pro quo

Sic

Ad hoc 

Words and Their Stories: All About Eyes

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Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.

Today’s program is all about eyes.  When it comes to relationships, people’s eyes can be a window into their hearts.  This means that their eyes can tell a lot about how they feel. We will tell a story about a man and woman who are teachers at the same school.  The woman is interested in the man.  She uses many methods to catch his eye, or get him to notice her.  Once he sets eyes on her, or sees her, she might try to get him interested in her by acting playful.  In other words, she might try to make eyes at him or give him the eye.

Let us suppose that this man gets hit between the eyes.  In other words, the woman has a strong affect on him.  He wants to spend time with her to get to know her better.  He asks her out on a date.She is so happy that she may walk around for days with stars in her eyes. She is extremely happy because this man is the apple of her eye, a very special person. She might tell him that he is the only person she wants, or “I only have eyes for you.”On their date, the couple might eat a meal together at a restaurant. If the man is really hungry, his eyes might be bigger than his stomach. He might order more food than he can eat. When his food arrives at the table, his eyes might pop out. He might be very surprised by the amount of food provided. He might not even believe his own eyes. If fact, all eyes would be watching him if he ate all the food.  This might even cause raised eyebrows. People might look at the man with disapproval.During their dinner, the couple might discuss many things. They might discover that they see eye to eye, or agree on many issues. They share the same beliefs and opinions.  For example, they might agree that every crime or injury should be punished. That is, they firmly believe in the idea of an eye for an eye. They might also agree that it is wrong to pull the wool over a person’s eyes. This means to try to trick a person by making him believe something that is false. But the man and woman do not believe in the evil eye, that a person can harm you by looking at you.The next day, at  their school, the woman asks the man to keep an eye on, or watch the young students in her class while she is out of the classroom. This might be hard to do when the teacher is writing on a board at the front of the classroom. To do so, a teacher would need to have eyes in the back of his head. In other words, he would know what the children are doing even when he is not watching them.(MUSIC)WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, in VOA Special English, was written by Jill Moss.  I’m Faith Lapidus.

The new muse of Brazilian music

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The new muse of Brazilian music

Paula Fernandes has a beautiful voice and also knows how to write good melodies. Her talent and beauty even charmed "The King" - Roberto Carlos

Composing, singing, playing, recording [1], touring [2]. These are just some of the things that make up the daily routine for singer-songwriter Paula Fernandes. And late last year a new item was added [3] to the list for the new star of Brazilian music: giving interviews to journalists all over Brazil. The question is always the same - "Are you dating Roberto Carlos?" - The answer the beautiful singer offers is also the same - "No, I am not dating anyone."Speculation about a possible romance began last Christmas.  In the traditional year-end concert by Roberto Carlos (broadcast Globo), the two shared the stage [4] and sang together. The muse and the King exchangedglances [5] of admiration and held hands [6]. But today, both Roberto and Paula deny [7] any romantic involvement between them.

Friendship with Victor and Léo

Paula is from Minas Gerais state, as are singing double-act Victor and Léo. Her friendship with the two brothers goes way back, starting 10 years ago, at a time when they were all struggling [8] and were totally unknown. She wrote some songs with Victor, among them the hit "Sem Você." Paula is young, only 27 years old, but she is a veteran in the music world. She recorded her first album when she was just 10 years old. Two years later she was signed as a singer by a rodeo company and for five years traveled the country singing at rodeos. In recent years, five songs recorded by her have been used on Globo soap opera soundtracks.

Áudio - Aasita Muralikrishna

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Vocabulary

1 recording – gravações

2 touring – aqui = em turnê

3 added – acrescentado

4 to share the stage – dividir o palco

5 glances – aqui = olhares

6 to hold hands – segurar as mãos

7 to deny - negar

8 struggling – aqui = batalhando