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The paragraphs below each contain MORE THAN 30 MISTAKES, ranging from spelling, verb tense, punctuation… Anything’s game!
Lower-level learners, try to find at least 10 errors. Are you up to the challenge of fixing everything? Give it your best shot. Then, check your answer on the second page. If you have any questions, arrange a meeting and I can walk you through it.
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Holidays this Month: Food For Thought
I hope your no tired of studying yet, because October it’s National Learning and Development month. You also here alot about educational disabilities like ADHD, dyslexia, Down syndrome. Head to school library during National Book Month to boost you health literacy, but no forget to full your stomach, too. Cookbook Months’ specialties include apple chili cookies, and even pickled peppers, weather youre a vegetarian, pescatarian, or lover of deserts, remember that those whose eat better, eat together.
Holidays this Month: Cultural Appreciation
Happy Celebrate the Bilingual Child month (and no forget their amazing multilingual parent! The cultural appreciation don’t stop there, a long with Oktoberfest, we hear in U.S. honor German- and Polish-Americans, as well as there tasty pretzels and sausages. Italians-Americans established now-controversy Columbus Day to fight prejudice, but never hurt to celebrate pizza and pasta neither. That said a big push for Indigenous Month on recent years paid homage to the reel first americans their contributions, and they’re loses.
Holidays this Month: Happy Thoughts
Between the onset of fell and approach of the Halloween, there a lot of doom and gloom these time of year, none the less, it’s also Emotional Wellness Month. If depressing thoughts start to menace, not rely to much in coffee or deserts to lift your mood and always remember god dental hygiene). Instead, try listen to county music, visit a museum draw own pictures, or simply sit back and relax outside at a sunny day, enjoy the crazy antics of squirrel.
Holidays this Month: Scared Safe
Lets not to forget Bat Appreciation Month as October drew to a close and Halloween loom. No be scared – the ghosts and ghouls are hear to scare reel evil spirits away to prove that I mean not harm, we should probably to talk about safety. Trick-or-treating childrens should accompanied by a adult, stay on sidewalks, adjust they’re costumes so noone trips. Check you candy and no bullying! Fortunately, is also National Crime Prevention month, online and in streets.
On This Day: October 1
Baseball fans, you are tired of wait until the end of month for championships starting? The Pittsburgh Pirates beet the Boston Americans during the berry first World Series on October 1, 1903. The games was broadcast on Tv for first time on September 30 1947 (Yankees vs Dodgers. Babe Ruth make history that some day on 1927 by hiting his sixtyth home run, thirty-for years and won day later, Roger Maris breaked Ruths’ record by hitting a 61rd homerun, but hed also had a extra twelfth games to urn them. Major League baseball’s schedule changed one again in 2001, when the 9-11 terrorist attacks delays the season in to November, where its stayed ever sense.
On This Day: October 2
During pre-season train, 1965, university of Florida assistant foot ball coach Dewayne Douglas approached campus scientists for the big problem. Him players can’t deal with the extreme heet. To help Dr James Robert Cade and his teem of university researchers were developed a special beverage with salts and sugars, that speeded up the body’s process of replenish bodily fluids during exercise. On Octeber 2, their named the finishing product Gatorade” on honor of the teams nickname, the gators (short by “alligator”. Early versions tasted such terrible that they maid some players through up, but they’re are now almost two dozens of flavors. Gatorade all so becamed center to a important football tradition twenty ears latter: pour a bucket above the winning coach’s of head.
On This Day: October 3
On United States, every one it’s “innocent until proved guilty,” not matter their crime. That maxim come in very handy fore O.J. Simpson, famous athlete an television star, after he accused of murder his wife and her friend at 1994. With a mountain of evidence again him, including DNA and lack any alibi. This seemed like a easy, open-and-shut case. Never the less, Simpsons lawyers – best that money could to buy – successful argued over a record-broken 252 days that her guilt no could be proving “beyond an reasonable dowt.” On October 3, 1995, with 140 millions americans listening in, the jury only requires for hours of deliberation to return there unanimous verdict not guilty?
On This Day: October 4
On Octuber 4 1957, Soviet Union maked herstory – and scarred the pants of the Americans by successfully launch Sputnik very first man-made satellite, in to space. The name mean fellow traveler in Russian. Near to foots wide, it could to travel a impressive 18,000 miles per our. And circle the earth in just over an hour and an half. It continued orbit the globe for three month before burned up in the atmosphere, these pushed the United States to steep up they’re own game, and they rushed too launch Explorer into space in January 31, 1958. Buy that time however the Soviets, had already one-upped them again by shot the first lived creature into the space, Laika the dog.
On This Day: October 5
Dave Kunst becamed the first people to walk all a way around the word (and have it independent verifyed) in October 5, 1974. He starts out from Waseca, Minnesota for years earlier with her brother, Jhon, who killed by robbers at Afghanistan. After the short break, Dave resumed his travels with other brother Peter who’s also dropped off later by healthy reasons. Despite of every thing, Dave never gived up, by total, a journey taken 14.500 miles and 21 pairs of shoes. Another american, Christian Evangelist Arthur Blessitt, is walked even further. Starting in 1968 and still going! He’d trekked over 43,000 mills (70,000 kilometers, threw 324 country, all the while to carry a twelfth-feet cross on him back.
On This Day: October 6
John and Simeon Reno invented a knew typo crime on October 6 1866 when he staged the first moving train robber. Trains have been looted be fore this. Sitting at the stations or leaved unguarded on freight yards, but the Reno Brothers genius was to held up railroad passengers in middle of now here, so they can take they’re time and no have to worried about the police showed up. The idea was starting in indiana, but soon taked off through out West, where large somes of cash regular traveled both way a long the new transcontinental railroads? Infamous Butch Cassidy and his gang becamed especially famous for this kind of thieves, that has romanticized in movies even sense.
On This Day: October 7
Was the longer war on U.S. history? The Vietnam War it’s famous four massive protests, but only lasted ten ears. The real winner draged on sew longer that most americans didnt even realise it still going on. “Operation Enduring Freedom begun on October 7, 2001, as a invasion in two Taliban-controlling Afghanistan, to hunted down the 9/11 terrorist attacks ring leader, Osama Bin Laden. It taken only won month to capture a capitol, but Bin Laden remains in hiding until 2011, ever after, the war continued to drag with, with US. forces tring to maintain the fragil peace, until 2021. Sadly as soon as they leaved, the Taliban sized control once again. Unravelling twenty year off hard work?
On This Day: October 8
Of all an natural disasters fire are alot least common then they use to be. Thats because every thing used to been made outof would – even the streets? At Chicago, the “windy city), for example, they’re used to were too fires day. The famousest occurred on October 8, 1871. All taked was one cow kicked over a lantern to set on a inferno that blazed four two days. Nearly twenty thousands buildings destroyed, more than two hundred peoples dead, and one hundredth thousand was lefted unhomed. It weren’t all bad, thou. A new modern city was rebuild from the ashes to became one most important economy and transport centrals of it’s day.
On This Day: October 9
Boasting nearly for million peoples. Los angeles ranks as the two largest city in United States New York City it’s number one, and Chicago, threed.) The “City of Angels started the 20nd century out barley one thousand hundred residents, but its population has exploded during the Roaring Twenty. Quickly exhausting local sources from water – Californian is part by the great American Desert, afterall . In response the Hoover Dam was completing on October 9, 1936, that still supplyes both waters and electricities all over California and Arizona from the neighbored state of Nevada, hundred of miles a way. Unfortunately, these source has nearly dry up as well. How will the largest state can quench its thirsty then.
On This Day: October 10
The battle of Tours maybe one of the most important fits youve never heared? In October 10, 732, on modern-day France, christian and muslim forces clashed too determined the future of Europe, Spanish rebels have actually invited Moors form Morocco to help they seizing power in 710, but, once they’re, the Muslims doens’t wanted to leave. They quick conquered Iberian Peninsula and started making plans move even farer East. Until the Frankish King, Charles “the Hammer” Martel, stoped them by their tracks. The Moors neven dared cross Pyrenees in so great forces again after that, fore better or worst. Spain flourishing all by itself while European suffered threw the rest off the Dark Ages.
On This Day: October 11
Life from New York. It’s Saturday Night!” This line have opened more than nine hundreds episodes of the icon comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live” sense it’s first aired on october 11, 1975. It’s one from the long-running shows in Television, poking funny at current events, american cultured, and especially political cast members had impersonated ever president form Ford to Biden. Different celebrity “hosts” each weeks: comedian George Carlin is the first, seven years-old actresss Drew Barrymore was the younger, and ever tech billionaire Elon Musk gived it a shoot on 2021. The show has a long history of jump-start cast member’s careers – like that of Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy – and have inspired number of movies, two.
On This Day: October 12
“Prost!” – that’s “Cheers!” with German, a important word to no if your planing on attend Oktoberfest. These tradition, two weeks festival usually end on first Sunday of October, but the very fist celebration actually taken place on October 12 to 17 , 1810. It is a wedding party, honored the nuptials by the crown prince of Bavaria, late King Louis I, but all the citizens of Munich was invited. A ear later, a royal couple invited everywhere back to help commemorate there anniversary. This time incorporating a agriculture fare as well. Food and beverage boths gradually become the hart of the event today, Oktoberfest its observed all over World with lot of musics, pretzels, and, most important, bear.
On This Day: October 13
At october 13, 1884, scientist from a round the word meeted in Washington, DC, and agreed establish Greenwich, UK, as the prime Meridian. Only France, Brazil, and Dominican Republic object. That means that not only do this other wise misconsequential town of least than 300,000 residents officially dividing the Eastern Hemisphere from the western, but it also seats the standard for all time zone (puting the “G” in “GMT”. Why. Most foraners cant pronounce Greenwich, let aloan find it at a map! Brief, the home of Britain Royal Observatory just so happens to all ready feature on almost three quarter of maps already in used. Much more then the thrity another longitude systems availed by that times.
On This Day: October 14
Scientists always working with fearful adventures to push the boundaries of what it’s considered possibly. This is how we get to the space, it’s also how the sound barrier was broke. Early experts insisted that it were unfeasible to flying faster then speed of sownd because drag will tare the aircraft a part. This didnt to stop Chuck Yeager, through, an U.S. Air Force Captain who had flow sixty-for missions during the World War II. He volunteered to tested Bell Aircraft Company’s top-secret, experimental X-1 rocket plane, and, on October 14, 1947. Topped 660 miles a hour 40000 foots up in the air above California. On 1953, she more than double that by fly the X-1A 1.650 miles per our.
On This Day: October 15
Early reviews of I Love Lucy, that premiered for first time on October 15 1951, was lackluster, yet it wood become the more popular show in television after just seventh months. It even setted a world record as is the first regular scheduled Tv program to see in ten millions homes. Lucille Ball the gorgeous but goofy redhead and suave Cuba actor Desi Arnaz couldnt to be more differently, but the real-life couples’ chemistry are undeniable, as well hilarious. It was Lucy whose really stealed the show, broken all stereotypes and becaming the first women inducted in to The Television Academys Hall of Fame, he was even honor by a Presidential Medal of freedom on 1989
On This Day: October 16
Buy 1934, the civil war between Chiang Kaishek’s chinese Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s rebel Communists has already stretched on four seven long years. Costing hundreds of thousand lifes, both soldier and civilian. On the brink by defeat, the Communists had know choice but to ran. They’re “long March’ to the north would to taken 368 daze and six thousands miles – two the distance form New York to San Francisco. It’s longest continuous march in the history of warfare and, constant harassing for enemy tropes and starvation, only 4.000 of Maos original 86000 soldiers survived. None the less, with fresh reinforces, the tide turned and the Red Army finally one, established Peoples’ Republic of China, on October 1 1949.
On This Day: October 17
When you watching the movie, you ever root for the bad guy? Al Capone was in famous ever among other criminals by her brutality, yet he was all sow very popular with the common man? Started form nothing , “Scarface worked his way upto very top of chicago crime. Seven off him bigest competitors was gun down in the St Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929, but authorities should never pin those, or any other murders, one him, between bribe officials and intimidating witness, Capone always remained one steep ahead of a law, so the FBI. has to got creative, too. There was tax evasion, of all things, which finally bringed down Americas Most Wanted on October 17 1931.
On This Day: October 18
Frigid Alaska and Tropical Puerto Rico does no have alot at common: You could to fit 190 islands territorys in to we biggest state! You known that they both come under U.S. possess at the same day though? Most person though that William Seward was crazy for pick up cold, empty Alaska from the Russians. Even if it did costs less then two sents a acre. None the less, the deal gone through on October 18, 1867. Puerto Rican, ontheotherhand, seized during Spanish-American war with almost know resistant, and that transfer became permanence in October 18, 1898. To top it of, won year later, gold was discover in Alaska, what a good time to be american?
On This Day: October 19
Several major defeat taked place at this day. The most important if you studying for you’re civics exam were the 1781 Britain surrender at the battle of Yorktown. The American Revolution was over, for Thirteen Colonies at least. Though Europeans continued to duked matters out for other two ears. Even than, peace is short-lived? Napoleon Bonaparte will come dangerous close to conquering all of Europe, but his whining streak endded at October 19, 1812, when he fail to taken Moscow . And had to march home threw a Russia blizzard. Yet an other major defeat for american wallets) were the largest stock market crashed in the U.S. history knot in 1929, but 1987. When the Dow can dropped 22.6% at just one day
On This Day: October 20
If you’re close your eyes and think from Australia, what it’s the first image to coming to mind. It is kangaroos, boomerangs, or a strange, shell-shape structure in the water? Sydney Opera house its one of more widely recognize buildings in the World. And it completed on October 20 1973. Jørn Utzon, form Denmark, could be the genius before this memorable desing, means to representing sails on a boot. Construction tooked forteen years and cost over 100$ million (a bite more then the original estimate only seven millions). A first performance was Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace, so now this UNESCO World Heritage Cite host near three thousands event and eleven million visitors all year.
On This Day: October 21
Alfred nobel born on Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. Wanted two help mine works, he became to obsessed for find save, practical use for the volatile explosion, nitroglycerine. He lost her brother at one failing experiment, but perseveres and finally patented dynamite on 1867. Which made him quiet wealthy. Poet and peace-loving, however, Alfred had deeply pained to learning how his invention was being repurpose four war, he dead heirless on December 10, 1896, leaving his grate fortune to the World. The one Nobel prizes were awarded on the anniversary by his dead in 1901. Honoring who helped humanity the more in fields of physics, chemistry, medicinal, literature, and piece, economics added from 1969.
On This Day: October 22
In the evening of October 22, 1962 US. President John F Kennedy adresed the nation with terrified news: The Soviet Union has constructed an secret missile base at Cuba and wood soon can to fire warheads capable hitting Washington, D.C., in under fivteen minutes. The next six days where closest the world has ever came to full-out nuclear ware. The U.S. declare a legally-shaky naval “quarantine’ to stop more weapons from arriving. The cubans shooted down a American spy plane, and the Russias paniced at news of an other America jet accidently fly threw there air space. Any won off these could ended in disaster, but fortunate, cooler heads prevail and both sides agreeing to downsizing.
On This Day: October 23
Soong Mei-ling is no well know today, but she graced Americas list of most admiring women in world four many years, and for well reason. She was borned on 1897 and dead on October 23, 2003, wielding a lots of global influential through out that long long live as the wive of Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Leader of China. She introduces he to Western culture and all so played an important roll in publicized his causes a broad, in 1943, she becamed the first chinese and second woman to even addressing Congress, seeking aide again the Japan invasion. Ultimately, how ever even his charm and charisma was not enough to hold of the Communist takeover. After which her family resettling to Taiwan?
On This Day: October 24
United Nations convened for the one time on October 24, 1945, mere month after the World War II ends. All though plans for it formation had began three years earlyer. It’s prime directive, putted simple, was to save succeeding generations form the scourge of war.” It hopped to achieve by uphold fundamental humans writes, enforcing international law, and promoting society progress. The League Of Nations , a similar organization established too decades prior has falled miserably main because noone taked it seriously. Including the United States, which had originally proposing the idea and then refused a join. Learned from earlier mistakes however the UN remained a powerful entity today. Limited, if not completely eliminating, conflict all around the World.
On This Day: October 25
At October 25, 1415, king Henry of England found herself out numbered, tree-to-one, in Agincourt, France. Yet he turned these potential disaster in two one of the great military victories ever killing fiveteen enemies soldiers for every won he losed. His secret weapon were the new improved longbow, having apparently forget this lesson, the Britain already winning the Battle of Balaclava on this same day on 1854 when Lord James Cardigan decides to mount an dramatic cavalry charge again well-defending russian artillery. Horses and man mowed down mercilessly, obliterating nearly halve the unit, Cardigan was hailed an hero for his brave and a famous poet was wrote , but days of so old-fashioned assaults was clearly numbers.
On This Day: October 26
The most old teem ball sport in record were the 3,000-year-old Aztec tradition of tchatali, where losers sacrificed to there sun good. The first kick game come from 3st sentry China, where as football, the popularest spot in the world today originated in Medieval English. With out any setting rules, the game varied greatly from place to palace, early versions caused sow many property damage and deaths that was banned fore centuries. The Football Association was found on London on October 26, 1863, too finally establishing some sort of order from the caos. It was hear that football and rugby official splitted. “Association football soon shortened, disofficially, to “assocer,” that is where we get an american term “soccer” from.
On This Day: October 27
The New York city cannot to boast the worlds first under ground trains network – that honor belong to London, as 1863 or even oldest in the county – Boston. Shanghai’s metro was twice as length (500 mils) and transporting twice as much peoples 2,8 billion ever year . Regardless what the New York Subway have excellent in ever sense it’s first opened in October 27, 1904, convenience. It comprise the most stations in the world (472) and is the only on to ran twenty-for hours a day, seven days the week. In 1967, a group of board collage students used one MIT’s supercomputers to calculating the most fast route to ride an entire system, they’re record: 21 ours and 28 minutes.
On This Day: October 28
The statue of liberty, or “Liberty Enlightening the World,” were a gift from France at the Declaration of Independences hundred anniversary. That 151-feet colossus designed for Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Gustave Eiffel (with Eiffel Tower fame). The least screw was finally riveting in to place during an ceremony on October 28, 1886, and it soon became know, the world over. As a welcoming beacon too all the “poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free” hopping find a knew start in America. Other famous land mark, St. Louis Gateway Arch, has also completed on these day on 1965. It’s commemorate the Louisiana Purchase. Curving 630 foots height and 630 foot wide along side Mississippi River – the largest arch in a World.
On This Day: October 29
After horrors of world war i, persons just want to have fun, fortunately, the economy booming, so many could do. Misfortunately, not anything lasts for ever. Do two mass urbanization, cityes were burst with low-wages, high-debt workers and most supply then demand. Wild stock speculation farther weakened the market until it could to taken not more. Prices begun a gradually decline in September, 1929 , but panic really setted on “Black Thursday,” when nearly thirteen millions shares were trading in just one day. “Black Monday” was even worst, and buy “Black Tuesday” – October 29 – most stocks have completely bottomed out. Just liked that, Americans had loosed about $14 billion dollars, and the “Roaring Twenties had gave way too “Great Depression.
On This Day: October 30
Jane Austens first novle, “Sense and Sensibility, were published anonymous on October 30, 1811. She would to complete tree more esteemed classics after she untimely death, six years latter, it’s a pity she didnt have enough since to start publish more early . An other famous artist whom no show many sensibility was Orson Welles. On these same day on 1938, he broadcast a updated version of H.G. Wells’ science ficshon thriller the war of the Worlds in national radio. Most listeners tune in late, at the middle of a orchestra performance repeat interrupted realistic reports of the extraterrestrial invasion. This led to real-live panick all over the country as listeners desperation tried fleeing from a treat that don’t actually existing.
On This Day: October 31
When comes to halloween, us normally think of gosts and gouls? But what aboot one the biggest schism in Christian history? A day after “All Hallows Eve it’s, naturally, All Hallows – or Saints, Day, so Martin Luther new that castle church, in Wittenberg, Germany, would was full the next mourning when he posts his 95 Theses in the door on October 31, 1517. His protests against wide spread corruption with in the catholic church sparked no only religion reform. But cultural and politics revolution aswell. Over the next three hundreds years the Protestant Reformation wood tear Europe a part, costing million of lifes and drive home the importance of kept church and state separately.