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=Sweet as English!!=

//Welcome to English with Miss Englebretsen.// //Why Sweet as English? Really what other subject is sweeter? In English you can ESCAPE from your everyday life and share your own thoughts and feelings with others. Every time you listen to a song, watch a film or read a Facebook post or blog, you are engaging with ENGLISH!!// //Why else do I love English so much? Because English opens your MIND, to other people's thoughts, feelings and experiences...//




 * **1. The Road Not Taken** ||


 * TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, ||  ||
 * And sorry I could not travel both ||  ||
 * And be one traveler, long I stood ||  ||
 * And looked down one as far as I could ||  ||
 * To where it bent in the undergrowth; ||  ||
 * Then took the other, as just as fair, ||  ||
 * And having perhaps the better claim, ||  ||
 * Because it was grassy and wanted wear; ||  ||
 * Though as for that the passing there ||  ||
 * Had worn them really about the same, ||  ||
 * And both that morning equally lay ||  ||
 * In leaves no step had trodden black. ||  ||
 * Oh, I kept the first for another day! ||  ||
 * Yet knowing how way leads on to way, ||  ||
 * I doubted if I should ever come back. ||  ||
 * I shall be telling this with a sigh ||  ||
 * Somewhere ages and ages hence: ||  ||
 * Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— ||  ||
 * I took the one less traveled by, ||  ||
 * And that has made all the difference. ||  ||
 * Somewhere ages and ages hence: ||  ||
 * Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— ||  ||
 * I took the one less traveled by, ||  ||
 * And that has made all the difference. ||  ||

Awesome moments for me as an English Teacher- giving a student a copy of Glenn Colquhoun's Poem "Mothers Love your Sons" and seeing the tears in his eyes. I wasn't happy that he was sad, more that he was deeply touched by the poem- which was about boys like him. What also struck me was he had the same reaction I and my partner had, when we first read the poem. Poetry has a way of bringing people together. Consider our National Anthem sung in Maori and English- the stirring power of our haka- words have power and meaning in every language.