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John’s Balloon
By Anne Commons
John had a balloon [bə’lu:n]
That went to the moon
He told me so.
Outside in the park,
Before it got dark,
He let it go.
It went up so high,
A dot in the sky
John could still see.
The moon has a spot,
A little black dot –
What else could it be?
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Do you know these facts about fashion?
• In the 1600s and 1700s in Europe everybody wanted to have big hair [heə]. That’s why men and women wore wigs. Some people slept in wigs. They were so big. Nobody washed their wigs. That’s why insects [‘ɪnsəkts] and rats lived in them.
• In Thailand [‘taɪlænd] it was fashionable for women to wear neck rings. Girls got neck rings when they were five years old and then a new ring every year. But the rings made the neck very weak.
• In China, people thought only small feet were beautiful and Chinese girls bound [baʊnd] their feet. It became difficult to walk.
• In the 1960s fashion appeared. Young people wore a new style of shoes – platforms. They were very popular, but many people had accidents [‘æksɪdənts] when they were walking, and platforms went out of fashion.
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