Happy Thanksgiving! (2013)

 

The First Thanksgiving Menu

My neighbourhood

Write an e-mail to a friend describing your neighbourhood.  

Greeting: Hello+ your friend's name

Par. 1: Where do you live?   I live in...

            Is it quiet or busy? It is ...

            Do you like your neighbourhood?  I like / love / don't like my neighbourhood

                                                         because it is a great / interesting / nice / boring /

                                                         awful place to live in.

Par. 2: What shops are there? There are a few / a lot of...   Most of the shops are...

           What else? There are also...

Useful Vocabulary! Click HERE

Par.3: What is there for young people to do? There is a lot you can do in my

                                                                neighbourhood. You can...

            Invite your friend to your house. Why don't you come and visit me on...?

            How can your friend get to your house? I live near ... / My house is between the...and

                                                                  the...   at ... street.

Ending: Write and let me know!

Sign off:  Best wishes, + your name

The History of English in ten minutes

To see the subs click on the second button on the left.

Welcome to London!

A short hyperlapse film for London

Press HERE

from Mattia Bicchi Photography

Why everyone should learn 1,000 words in another language

According to the article by Teresa Tinsley, 'Academics believe that with 1,000 high-frequency words you should be able to understand about 72 per cent of a written text, so it’s an important first hurdle in breaking through communication barriers internationally'.

To read the full article click HERE.

Remember, remember the 5th of November...

Remember, remember, the 5th of November

The Gunpowder Treason and plot;

I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot...

 

The story of Guy Fawkes

 

V for Vendetta: the V speech 

Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that its my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.

The story of Guy Fawkes in Greek