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Friday, 30 May 2014

DEAR JOHN

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You know exactly what you're getting into when you go buy a ticket to see a film based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. It's going...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

HAPPY MAY DAY!

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Click here to learn about May Day celebrations and customs in Great Britain.
Monday, 21 April 2014

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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Charlotte Bront ë was born on 21 April 1816, the third daughter of Reverend Patrick  Bront ë. At the age of four she moved with her ...
Sunday, 20 April 2014

HAPPY EASTER!

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For I remember it is Easter morn,  And life and love and peace are all new born. Alice Freeman Palmer
Friday, 18 April 2014

HAVE A BLESSED GOOD FRIDAY!

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Here  you can read an informative article about Easter celebrations in Britain.  
Thursday, 17 April 2014

LEARNING IDIOMS

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An  idiom  is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individua...
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

MACBETH

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Here you can find useful materials to understand and analyse one of Shakespeare's great tragedies,  Macbeth . https://www.rsc.org.uk/...
Monday, 14 April 2014

A VERY SPECIAL AFTERNOON ...

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This afternoon I had the chance to meet Erri De Luca at a seminar at the local library. He is a famous Italian  novelist, translator a...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

LOOKING FORWARD TO SHAKESPEARE'S 450TH BIRTHDAY!

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William Shakespeare is Britain's national poet, the world's most performed and translated playwright. He  was born about 450...
Thursday, 3 April 2014

QUEEN ELIZABETH MEETS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE VATICAN

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You can read some articles about the Queen's visit to Rome today  in The Guardian and   The Telegraph . 
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

APRIL

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AN APRIL DAY When the warm sun, that brings Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, 'T is sweet to visit the still wood, ...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

THE TEMPEST

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The Tempest  is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s last play, first performed in 1611 for King James I and again for the marriage ...
Friday, 28 March 2014

ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS

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Thursday, 27 March 2014

TWELFTH NIGHT

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Shakespeare wrote  Twelfth Night  between 1599 and late 1601. It was originally published in the First Folio  in 1623. Twelfth Night i...
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Thursday, 20 March 2014

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS!

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Here you can read an article about the UN  Day of Happiness.
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