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Winter is an etching,
spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz

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	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December

2011
January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September

Stories written by members of ELE

Some of the students at Everybody Loves English have practiced their writing skills by submitting English stories for correction and then publication on this page, in addition to practicing their English speaking with private discussions and book clubs. If you would like to submit your English stories for correction and possible publication on our website, please follow these steps.

Title	Author
A Promise Is a Promise (audio available)	Truus Welgraven
Beach Reflections (audio available)	Julie Mockerman
Buying a Car (audio available)	Janusz Szyszko
The Cat and the Mice	Aesop's Fable
Cold! No Fishermen (audio available)	Julie Mockerman
Core Beliefs (audio available)	Julie Mockerman
Dots... Dashes--- Flashes***	Cornelius Lamper (grandfather of Julie Mockerman)
Easter Bunny - True or Not? (audio available)	Irene Kessler
Floating Market (audio available)	Vu Dang
Four Candles (audio available)	Irene Kessler
Just One of Those Flights (audio available)	Truus Welgraven
Newsletter Archive: Common Everyday Phrases October 12, 2008 - January 10, 2009	Julie Mockerman
No Smoking (audio available)	Truus Welgraven
Pancakes (audio available)	Truus Welgraven
Positive Parenting #1 (audio available)	Julie Mockerman
Star-Spangled Banner (audio available)	U.S. National Anthem
The Gift (audio available)	Truus Welgraven
The Birthday Lie (audio available)	Ellen
The Lovely Doll (audio available)	by Ellen
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (audio available)	Traditional
Two Zippers for Sale (audio available)	Irene Kessler
Why So Fast (audio available)	Johanne Lambert

English Practice

Listen to songs on YouTube and follow the lyrics for better understanding

Because You Loved Me	Smile
Celebration	Thank God I'm a Country Boy
Coming to America	Time in a Bottle
Everything I Do	What a Wonderful World
God Bless America	When I'm 64
Hello, Again	You Are Loved
Hush Little Baby	You Raise Me Up
Lean On Me	Your Smiling Face
My Heart Will Go On	You've Got a Friend
Que Sera Sera	Yellow Submarine
Taylor the Latte Boy	Love Me Tender
That's What Friends Are For

English Listening

A Day by Day History of Michigan

September

October

November
Nov. 1	Mackinac Bridge opens to traffic	Text
Nov. 2	Voters approve the 10-cent deposit law	Text
Nov. 3	Truman defeats Dewey	Text
Nov. 4	First black woman in the state senate	Text
Nov. 5	Upper Peninsula rejects Project Seafarer	Text
Nov. 6	Coleman Young elected first black mayor of Detroit	Text
Nov. 7	First Execution in French Detroit	Text
Nov. 8	8 Mile debuts	Text
Nov. 9	Great Lakes Worst Storm	Text
Nov. 10	Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior	Text
Nov. 11	Opening of Ambassador Bridge	Text
Nov. 12	Liquor sellers derail womens suffrage	Text
Nov. 13	Governor buys state's first lottery ticket	Text
Nov. 14	First gas light in Grand Rapids	Text
Nov. 15	Michigan town makes reputation with corsets	Text
Nov. 16	Death of Harry Blackstone	Text
Nov. 17	Treaty of Detroit signed	Text
Nov. 18	Carl D. Bradley sinks	Text
Nov. 19	MSU vs. Notre Dame in Game of the Century	Text

These podcasts are just a sampling of what you can learn from the book, Michigan Every Day by Patrick Sullivan and Carole Eberly.

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