Hi, and welcome back to Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates with Teacher Alyse!
Today, we’re going on an adventure to learn words that start with the letter L Are you ready? Listen carefully, repeat after me, and then try reading them on your own.

lovebirds, lion, lobster, lemur, lemon, lemonade, ladybug, loon, lynx, lettuce

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Captain Sesalt & The ABC Pirates

Letter L

En esta oportunidad, la fábula nos habla de dos personajes que tomarán decisiones muy importantes, ayudar al otro o no hacerlo.

¡Cuéntame!

Androcles y el león

Presentación personal de una persona. Con oraciones básicas y sencillas en árabe moderno estándar. 

Aprende árabe con Radia 

Presentación personal 1

Olá, tudo bem? Eu sou a Georgia, professora de português brasileiro para estrangeiros. A ideia desse podcast é divulgar o português brasileiro falando sobre curiosidades sobre o Brasil, cultura brasileira, música, cinema, folclore e também sobre a língua, gramática, expressões populares, tudo isso em linguagem acessível para alunos de nível intermediário que estejam aprendendo a nossa língua. Esse é o primeiro episódio, minha primeira tentativa, e eu espero que dê certo e você goste!

Mande uma mensagem para mim contando o que achou, dando sugestões para os próximos episódios ou falando um pouco sobre a sua experiência com o português brasileiro. Vou adorar ler as suas contribuições! 

Português Brasileiro

#1 - Expressões comuns em português brasileiro

LECTURA COMPRENSIVA.


ESTE CUENTO NOS HABLA DE: El Aprendiz y el Grimorio Perdido.



En una antigua torre, escondida entre las montañas, vivía un mago llamado Eldrin junto a su aprendiz, Kai. Un día, Eldrin le mostró a Kai un grimorio antiguo, un libro de hechizos lleno de misterios y secretos. El viejo mago advirtió a Kai sobre el gran poder que contenía el grimorio y los peligros de utilizarlo sin conocimiento.

Sin embargo, la curiosidad de Kai fue más fuerte. Una noche, mientras Eldrin dormía, Kai abrió el grimorio y pronunció un hechizo poderoso, desatando una gran tormenta mágica que hizo volar las páginas del libro por toda la torre.

Al día siguiente, Eldrin encontró la torre en completo desorden y el grimorio desaparecido. Kai, lleno de miedo, confesó lo que había hecho. A pesar de su enojo, Eldrin comprendió que su aprendiz había actuado por impulso. Juntos, buscaron las páginas perdidas por toda la torre y los alrededores, hasta que finalmente lograron reconstruir el grimorio.

Eldrin le explicó a Kai que la magia era un regalo poderoso, pero también una gran responsabilidad. Le enseñó que la verdadera magia no se encontraba en los hechizos más poderosos, sino en la sabiduría y la comprensión de las fuerzas que gobernaban el universo. Desde ese día, Kai se dedicó a estudiar con mayor ahínco, decidido a convertirse en un mago sabio y responsable.

Spanish Reading Comprehesion

The Apprentice and the Lost Grimoire

TikTok has announced it will block young users on the social networking platform from using certain beauty filters on photographs.

The filters allow users to edit photos and do things like make people's skin look clearer, their eyes a little bigger or their lips a little fuller.

Some filters also allow users to change their skin color, and it can be hard to see when a photograph has been edited in this way.

People under the age of 18 will be blocked from using these filters, some of which are created by users and others that are made by the app.

TikTok announced the changes after a report by Internet Matters, a children's online safety organization. The organization found that these beauty filters could be damaging to children's mental health because they put young people under pressure to look a certain way.

This can damage children's self-esteem and cause anxiety, experts say.

Christine Grahn from TikTok said on LinkedIn: "If our users don't feel safe, they won't bring their true selves to TikTok and the platform just wouldn't be the same."

One TikTok user told The Guardian in 2022 that she had considered getting cosmetic surgery after a period of using beauty filters on the app.

Fun filters that allow children to add dog noses or rabbit ears to images will still be available to use.

One problem with the ban is that not all users enter their real ages when signing up to TikTok. The company said it would soon be trying out new machine learning systems that could help find out when users had entered the incorrect age.

TikTok is under pressure to stop under 13s from using the platform by giving false dates of birth.

Children's safety charities want all social media sites to do more to make the platforms safe spaces for young people.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

TikTok to Ban Under 18s from Using Beauty Filters

IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 1 - Music.

Q. What types of music do you like to listen to? [Why?]
Q. At what times of day do you like to listen to music? [Why?]
Q. Did you learn to play a musical instrument when you were a child? [Why/Why not?]
Q. Do you think all children should learn to play a musical instrument? [Why/Why not?]

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