Topic of the Week - Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America

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Welcome to Fast Food English where every week we explore a new topic related to American Culture.  This week we will be talking about The Girl Scouts and The Boy Scouts of America.  They are two organizations for children in the United States with similar goals and activities.  

The Boy Scouts was started in 1910 by Robert Baden Powell  and the Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low the following year.   They started these organizations to teach children about the out of doors and to teach them other skills and values to help them grow up and become responsible and productive members of society.  That was over 100 years ago and these two organizations are still going strong.  Many children in the United States join these groups and attend weekly meetings.   It's a great way to make new friends and try new experiences.

All this week we will be talking about some of the things that Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts do.
Things like earning merit badges, going camping, singing and making crafts.    

Singing songs is a big part of the scouting experience so all this week I will be posting videos of songs for you to learn and sing along.  Here is the first song.  It's called Make New Friends.  The words are the words - 

Make New Friends

Make new friends, but keep the old

One is silver and the other’s gold.

A circle is round, it has no end.

That’s how long I want to be your friend.

Thanks for listening.  This has been Cassie Brenn for fastfoodenglish.blogspot.com.