Expensive English - Caroingles

Why learn English have to be expensive?

With pages like these cannot be expensive (caro in Spanish), although Carolina tell you in her Caroingles website:





With 78 worksheet cards to reinforce vocabulary learning so far.

Kids Health in the Classroom

Some days ago I readed an article about computer translation programs giving confusing and incomplete instructions to Spanish-speaking people in the United States. They receive prescription instructions from the pharmacy so poorly translated that the medications are potentially hazardous to their health. Read the full article from businessweek.com here.

Talking to the Pharmacists to ask questions about medicines is very important to our kids and we must to know answers for educational purposes only:





In this page you can listen on the speakers about common problems with childhood medications and tips from the Pharmacist.

Información en español aquí.

Other interesting pages about health:

- For Parents

- For Kids

- For Teens

- For Teachers: KidsHealth in the Classroom.

The Girl Effect

The Girl Effect is the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.

Adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world.

Girls are the most likely agents of change, but they are often invisible to their societies and to our media.

When everyone -- girls, parents, teachers, executives, artists, hairdressers, forest rangers, rock stars, presidents, investors, advertisers, skateboarders, truckers, cowboys, organizations, chefs, teenagers -- knows about The Girl Effect, then real change can happen.

The Girl Effect site is just the beginning. The end is nothing less than ending poverty with CARE!





Votes for Women Speech by Mark Twain: