https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Christmas
Saturday 18 December 2021
Saturday 4 December 2021
TODAY'S CONVERSATION LESSON - 2^C LINGUISTICO
“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
Italo Calvino, “Invisible Cities”
Thursday 2 December 2021
A DAY TRIP TO CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO
Last month I went to Civita di
Bagnoregio with my parents and my cousin. It is one of the most beautiful
medieval towns in Italy and a very popular tourist destination. In fact, every
year more than 700 000 people go there from all over the world to admire
this breathtaking town.
It is famous for its nickname: “the
Dying Town”.
It is located on the top of a
tuff hill which is constantly eroded, consequently the town always risks
disappearing. Today only eleven people live there.
It is in central Italy, in the province of Viterbo; it is about 120 km from Rome and by train or car it only takes you about two hours to get there. You can visit this town on a day trip because you will need about three hours for sightseeing. I recommend bringing suitable footwear because the only way to visit Civita di Bagnoregio is on foot. As soon as you arrive, you will find yourself in a parking area where you have to pay a €5 ticket. To reach the centre of the town you have to cross a 300 metre long bridge which connects the old town with the new one. While walking across the bridge, you can enjoy the spectacular landscape of "Valle dei Calanchi".
The historic centre is an attraction in itself, but there are other places of interest such as Colesanti, Bocca and Alemanni Palaces, built during the Renaissance. In Alemanni Palace you can visit the Geological and Landslides Museum. Another important building is the Church of San Donato which overlooks the main square and where a holy wooden crucifix is kept.
Civita di Bagnoregio has some small
shops of handcrafted products and souvenirs. If you are hungry, there is the
possibility to find small restaurants, taverns and bars where you
can try some typical dishes, for example “fettuccine with chicken entrails sauce” or
“polenta with truffle” ... I am sure you will enjoy them!
You can also download an app to
get all the information you need about the best places to eat and
drink as well as the tours to choose. I loved this
atmospheric town very much because it seems like a magical place
where time has stopped in medieval times.
Ivonne Ciocchetti, 2^C Linguistico
Tuesday 30 November 2021
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Thursday 18 November 2021
Sunday 7 November 2021
ACROSTICS - 3^C LINGUISTICO
The term acrostic is derived from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis. Generally, an acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line is spelled vertically and the vertical word is the subject of the poem. Each line describes the subject word.
https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/do-you-know-what-an-acrostic-poem-is
https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/other/acrostic/
Sunday 31 October 2021
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Halloween is thought to date back more than 2,000 years to Samhain, a Celtic New Year's Day that fell on 1 November. Demons, fairies, and spirits of the dead were thought to walk the Earth the night before when the separation was thin between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Saturday 30 October 2021
Monday 18 October 2021
Friday 15 October 2021
Wednesday 13 October 2021
Saturday 9 October 2021
RELATIVE CLAUSES
A relative clause is one kind of dependent clause. It has a subject and verb, but can’t stand alone as a sentence. A relative clause always begins with a “relative pronoun,” which substitutes for a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun when sentences are combined.
Tuesday 14 September 2021
A 700 ANNI DALLA MORTE DI DANTE ALIGHIERI
Pif racconta la figura del Sommo Poeta, attraverso una indagine coinvolgente, incredibilmente attuale e anche un po' irriverente.
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/09/Dante-Confidential-f736cec6-e5ea-4feb-af28-66e81d4c3c7a.html
Thursday 9 September 2021
Tuesday 7 September 2021
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Saturday 26 June 2021
Monday 21 June 2021
IN MEMORIA
In memoria nelle prime edizioni della raccolta Il porto sepolto appare isolata, all'inizio, come se si trattasse di una dedica. Viene poi integrata ne L'allegria, il cui tema centrale è rappresentato dalla guerra. Ed è proprio nella poesia di Giuseppe Ungaretti che la Prima Guerra Mondiale trova la sua interpretazione più memorabile. Leggi qui.
Sunday 20 June 2021
Friday 18 June 2021
L'ASSIUOLO
L’assiuolo è una poesia di Giovanni Pascoli, inserita nella sezione In campagna della
quarta edizione di Myricae (1897).
Il poeta descrive un paesaggio
notturno nel quale si distingue il canto lamentoso di un assiuolo, un
uccello rapace simile alla civetta. Il canto angoscioso dell’animale diventa
l’occasione per una riflessione sulla vita e sulla morte dell’uomo.
Thursday 17 June 2021
Monday 14 June 2021
Monday 7 June 2021
SOCIAL MEDIA – A WORLD OF APPEARANCE
The Internet is definitely the most important social
revolution of recent times and the appearance of social networks has changed
our lives, the way we deal with others, our way of thinking and our behaviours.
An important issue, regarding social media, is the contrast between
appearance and reality and the consequences that follow.
In social media like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and
TikTok it is possible to show every moment of our daily life: what
we usually eat, the book we are reading, what we are studying, if we are
hanging out with our friends or dating with somebody.
Friday 28 May 2021
Wednesday 26 May 2021
SYRIA, 10 YEARS OF WAR
In 2021, the terrible war in Syria has turned 10 years
old, and seems to have no end.
Main events of the war
Ten years have passed since peaceful protests broke out against the government of President Bashar Assad in March 2011 because of the so-called “Arab Spring”, it triggered a popular uprising which quickly turned into a real civil war. The hardest fighting of the war has taken place in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria. The United States had a leading role in the management of the war, during the years of Obama’s presidency, but especially during Trump’s presidency. In fact, the United States did not intervene in the war until the first use of chemical weapons in the conflict happened in August 2013. The first American air attack occurred in September 2014; an attack on the Syrian territories controlled by the Islamic State, which had proclaimed its "caliphate" in Syrian and Iraqi territories. Subsequently, Assad’s Syrian army suffered its first defeats against the Islamic State, for this reason Russia and then Turkey intervened in support of Assad. The conflict continued and in 2017, for the first time, the United States launched a barrage of missiles as a direct attack on the Syrian government. In 2018, after Assad had recaptured all the suburbs of the city of Damascus, Great Britain, the United States and France launched military attacks on Syria to punish Assad who was accused of using chemical weapons again and killing many civilians. Then the United States decided to establish new sanctions against the countries which supported Syrian military operations. Despite a decade of fighting and a destroyed country, Assad remains firmly in power.
Syria today is suffering a serious economic and humanitarian crisis, and is divided into three parts. An al-Qaeda group dominates the northwestern province of Idlib, while Turkish-backed rebels control some stretches along the Turkish border. The Syrian Kurdish forces supported by the United States control about a quarter of the country in the northeast. Assad controls the rest of the country.
Tuesday 25 May 2021
WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND LITTLE WOMEN IN COMPARISON
The reign of Queen Victoria gave the name to the
period of time between 1937 and 1901: the Victorian Age. During this complex
era, characterized by great hypocrisy and social imbalances, there was a marked
division between male and female skills.
The concept of family was very similar to the Roman
idea of “pater familias” or "father of the
family" who had
absolute rule over his household; in fact his wife and his children had to submit to
his will and his wife’s tasks included only the domestic sphere.
Women’s life was so difficult, since they were
considered as objects and their role was limited to have children, do household
chores and obey their husbands. They were requested to be pure, pious and
chaste; for this reason, they were associated with the ideal of “the angel of
the hearth”, thanks to Coventry Patmore’s literary work The Angel in
the House (1854).
Women did not have any right: they could study only if
it was useful for the maintenance of the house and any one of them who wished to
study or attend university was mocked; they also could not vote and paternal
rights were assigned to men, as well as every trace of money.
During a conference, even the scholar John Ruskin
presented his idea of men as “defenders and creators” and women as “those
who clean the house”.
Yet the condition of women started being in the
spotlight: as they were tired of it, they started overthrowing some of the
rules imposed on them by criticizing contemporary society in their literary
works in which they expressed their rebellion, hidden behind the feminine
ideal.
As I have just affirmed, women who transgressed the
Victorian “code of conduct” were not accepted; but despite the numerous
vetoes imposed by society, some of them - like the Brontë sisters and Elizabeth
Gaskell - decided to undertake the world of literature anyway, by hiding their
identities using male pseudonyms or by remaining anonymous.
Among them, there was Emily Brönte and Louisa May
Alcott.
Monday 24 May 2021
Tuesday 18 May 2021
Monday 26 April 2021
MY PASSION FOR TRAVEL
Since I was a child I have always
been fascinated by the idea of discovering new places outside my own country. I
was curious to know that there was such a vast world outside the door of my
house, and I wanted to travel it as soon as possible. Studying English at
school aroused my passion for this
language together with my interest in
all the countries where it is spoken, but in particular Great Britain. Lots of
my relatives told me about their adventures all over the world, they showed me
photos, videos and they brought me gadgets and I remember being really impressed
with what they showed me about London. I don’t know why, probably because I saw
that city very different from my village, it seemed another world to me and at
that time I was just a 10-year-old girl.
So I started to ask my parents to go
to visit London, I dreamed of getting on that strange giant wheel known as the
London Eye which seemed to me just a wonderful carousel, I couldn’t wait to see
the beautiful palace of the Queen and I even wanted to put on her crown, just
to feel like a princess!
Years passed, but my desire of visiting
the capital of Great Britain remained
essentially unchanged as I grew up. I was also learning the traditions and customs
of the country, and then those
attractions, which as a child seemed so strange to me, began to take their real
form, and they continued to captivate me very much … until Christmas 2017!
Friday 23 April 2021
GIORNATA MONDIALE DEL LIBRO 2021
Leggere per conoscere e per conoscersi.
Leggere per capire.
Leggere per perdersi completamente.
Leggere per rifugiarsi altrove.
Leggere per vivere tante altre vite.
Leggere per stupirsi.
Leggere per viaggiare.
Leggere per emozionarsi.
Leggere per salvarsi.
Leggere per trovare delle risposte.
Leggere per guardarsi dentro.
Leggere per incontrare nuovi personaggi.
Leggere per innamorarsi.
Leggere per imparare.
Leggere per aprire la mente.
Leggere per riconoscersi.
Leggere per ricordare.
Leggere perché è impossibile farne a meno.
Tuesday 20 April 2021
GOING ON A LANGUAGE TRIP
Speaking a foreign language is always an advantage in our modern society and comes with countless benefits. A very effective and fun way to learn languages are language trips. Read here.
Friday 16 April 2021
Monday 12 April 2021
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