New Arab Debates 'The Arab Spring is Over'

This evening I attended the New Arab Debates presented by Tim Sebastian, known for the BBC's HARDTALK programme. David McNally, Jameela, Tom, Elaina, David C. and his girlfriend were also there.Tonight the motion was 'The Arab Spring is over' and the televised debate was held at the Grand Hotel in Tunis. The debate was fairly lively with Tim Sebastian providing humorous comments and thought-provoking questions to stimulate debate between the two speakers.
I found that the comments and questions from the audience were actually more interesting than the two speakers' arguments and towards the end of the evening Tim questioned the confidence of the male speaker ' Your confidence is sagging !'Despite this apparent dent in his confidence he turned out to be the 'winner' as most of the audience seemed convinced by his arguments and voted against the motion.

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Graded Readers with Bill Bowler

Bill Bowler gave an interesting talk on using graded readers and told us some useful activities for doing 'writing circle ' activities.

After the talk the promoters generously allowed us to take some free sample readers.
I took 'The Beautiful Game ',The Omega Files ' ,Sherlock Holmes: Two Plays ' , that classic 'Robinson Crusoe ' ,'New Yorkers ',and 'Chemical Secret ';all the readers have an audio CD of the story!

 

 

Interview for Two Jobs!

Sounds You Simply Can't Imagine

Sounds you can't imagine ...

3rd Anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution

' More Than Just Words...'

Yesterday I started two blogs: 'More Than Just Words....' based on interesting comments/remarks I've heard and the other blog is a photo blog 'Blips2014' based on uploading just one photo a day.

Destiny of the Doctor

I've just listened to the Big Finish audio story Destiny of the Doctor 'The Time Machine'; I will need to listen to it again and maybe get some of the other stories related to the other Doctors.
Here's a trailer:

Here's review.