lunedì 2 dicembre 2013

 WHO IS MALALA?
 She is the youngest candidate for the Noble Prize for Peace.
She is known for its activism in the struggle for Civil Rights and the right to education of the women of the town of Mingora.
When she was 13,he has become famous for his blog,which documented the regimes contrary to the rights of the women.
She was nominated for the Children's Peace Prize,for the fight against the right of young people.
On October 9 2012 she was shot in the head and neck by gun men while she was returning at home in school bus.
Hospitalized in military hospital of Peshwar,she is survived  the attack after removal surgical bullets.
Today is known like the youngest girl in all the world!!!!

                                            MISSING U






lunedì 11 novembre 2013

                          ARMISTICE DAY
Armistice Day  is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at CompiègneFrance, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.
The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. An exception is Italy, where the end of the war is commemorated on 4 November, the day of the Armistice of Villa Giusti. In the Netherlands World War I is not commemorated as the country remained neutral.
The Initial or Very First Armistice Day was held at Buckingham Palace commencing withKing George V hosting a "Banquet in Honour of The President of the French Republic"[1]during the evening hours of November 10 1919. The First Official Armistice Day was subsequently held on the Grounds of Buckingham Palace on the Morning of November 11th 1919. This would set the trend for a day of Remembrance for decades to come.
In many parts of the world, people observe two consecutive minutes moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. local time as a sign of respect in the first minute for the roughly 20 million people who died in the war, and in the second minute dedicated to the living left behind, generally understood to be wives, children and families left behind but deeply affected by the conflict. This gesture of respect was suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper, although Wellesley Tudor Pole had established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.

                   VETERANS DAY

Veterans Day is an official United States holiday which honors people who have served in armed service, also known as veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11. It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.)Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving.


lunedì 4 novembre 2013

                      REMEMBRANCE DAY

Remembrance day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who died in the line of duty.
Remembrance Day is obsverved on 11 November,where a British tradition includes one or two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of eleventh day of the eleventh mounth,to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918.
Hostilities formally eneded with the Armistice signed by the Representative of Germany and the Entente.
This day was dedicated by king George V on 7 November 1919 as a day of remembrance for the members of the armed forces who were killed during the war.
The emblem of this day is the remembrance poppy,where their red colour is an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.


                                       

lunedì 28 ottobre 2013

                    THE ROYAL FAMILY

The British Royal Family is the family group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. There is no strict legal or formal definition in the UK of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people. However, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty (HM), or Her or His Royal Highness (HRH) are normally considered members. By this criterion, the Royal Family will usually include the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widows and widowers of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and of previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the wives or widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.
Different terms may be applied to the same or similar group of relatives of the monarch in his or her role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms. For example, for Canada the family is known as the Canadian Royal Family.
Some members of the Royal Family have official residences named as the places from which announcements are made in the Court Circular about official engagements they have carried out. The state duties and staff of some members of the Royal Family are funded from a parliamentary annuity, the amount of which is fully refunded by the Queen to the treasury.[1]
After 1917, when King George V changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, members of the Royal Family belong, either by birth or marriage, to the House of Windsor. Senior titled members of the royal family do not usually use a surname, although since 1960 Mountbatten-Windsor (incorporating Prince Philip's adopted surname of Mountbatten) has been prescribed as a surname for Queen Elizabeth II's direct descendants who do not have royal styles and titles, and has also sometimes been used when required for those who do have such titles.

lunedì 7 ottobre 2013

                                             ENGLISH IDIOMS
English idioms with animals    

"Dark horse"
ex."I didn't know that you could play the piano,you dark horse"

"Dog days"
ex."I sleep in the basement during the dog days of july"

"Holy cow"
ex.Wow,holy cow!I can't believe that you would arrive today"

"Cat nap"
ex.I'm going to have a cat nap,while my mother prepares the dinner"

"Copy cat"
ex."My sister is such a copy cat.First she brought the same car as me and now sh's applying to my school of dance."