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=Moon Landing - 40th Anniversary=

Story and video on [|Behind the News]

**[|Moon Landing Anniversary] on The English Blog - with links to other articles**

 * [|"Armstrong"] - song written by John Stewart, perfromed by country music singer Reg Lindsay**

In 1971, two years after the moon landing, Cat Stevens released this song [|"Moonshadow"] Watch him sing on YouTube. This [|second version] of the song has no picture, but you can read the words. Cat Stevens later in his life became a Muslim and changed his name. Write a few lines about him.

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Woodstock_poster.jpg/250px-Woodstock_poster.jpg link="http://http://www.woodstockstory.com/"]]
Click on the picture above to find out more information

VOA - [|Woodstock Remembered] (with Read Along Text)

video on Manythings.org Watch the video on http://www.woodstock.com

**Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes** This is a beautiful story, which all Japanese people know. I would like you to know about it too!!! There will be a performance of this play in Coffs Harbour on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th August - 11am and 1pm. Click on the Coffs Harbour Council Website to find out more about it. Look at this video on YouTube to hear the story (and you can read it too): [|Sadako Sasaki] There are two other videos on YouTube that you can watch too - one with pictures, and another with just words (and the sad music from the movie "Titanic" - it always makes me want to cry when I hear this music).

Click on this link and you can find out how to fold [|a paper crane]
=Exploring ESL sites on the WWW= Read and listen to an article about Afghanistan (Voice of America - 2001) then do this 36 question quiz
 * www.manythings.org - Listening activity about American and British English
 * IELTS Preparation - Try this site [|STUDY ENGLISH] on the Australia Network. You can watch a video script, read a transcript and read study notes. It is quite advanced.
 * THIS AUSTRALIAN LIFE - series about life in Australia - choose an episode that interests you

= "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" = [|Skippy Song] Video on YouTube