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Charles Dickens was born in Landport in 1812 into a lower middle class family which had great financial difficulties. After the family’s move to London, Charles was employed in a blacking factory. His father was imprisoned for debts. The boy did not stay with his parents because he had to maintain his job. He suffered greatly from his experience in the

• the poor law (1834), that imposed the harsh workhouse on the poor;
• people’s charter (1839), that required the secret ballot, the payment for the parliament members and the universal male suffrage;
• the first mines act (1842), where the children under 10 and women were not allowed work in mines;
• repeal of corn laws (1846), because the

SIMPLE PRESENT
SIMPLE PAST
PRESENT CONDITIONAL
CAN
COULD
COULD
MAY
MIGHT
MIGHT
Nei tempi diversi da simple present, past and present conditional, CAN e MAY vengono sostituiti da:
• TO BE ABLE TO→ capacità, abilità. Alternative a CAN.
• TO BE LIKELY TO→ possibilità, probabilità. Alternative a MAY.
• TO

The next utopian work was The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon in 1626. It describes a completely isolated society which has full control of nature and where there are inventions suggesting the future development of airlplanes, submarines and telephones among other fantastic improvements. In the 18th century, the most famous utopian writer was Swift with

- The Isle of Wight, situated in the English Channel;
- The Isle of Anglesey, connected by a bridge to North Wales;
- The Channel Islands, near the French coast (situated between Britain and France);
- The Hebrides, an archipelago lying off the west coast of Scotland, formed by over 500 islands;
- The Orkneys and the Shetland, two group

• the development of a common foreign and security policy
• cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
• 626 members
• elected for five years by direct universal suffrage
• the Parliament normally meets in Strasbourg
• powers :
- legislative power; it can make laws
- budgetary powe

- he used middle class people, country gentleman who had a university education as his loyal servants
- new classes developed the gentry: countryman, gentleman, yeoman (small land owners) and merchants (businessman)
- during Henry's reign, there were great geographical explorations. In 1492 America was discovered by Cristoforo Colombo
- Hen

Few months later, Bill is still staying at the inn but he didn’t pay for the stay of the last months; he is drinking a lot of rum and Doctor Livesey, a family-friend of Jim’s father, who’s dead, has already gave him an advertisement : he must stop drinking do much and he must calm down.
An old, blind pirate, called ‘Blind Pew’ arrives at the inn and

In the transports by land, you can find road transport (that is the most important form of land transport. Its great advantage is flexibility), railways (that are much less important than in the past, but they are currently used to transport dangerous items and bulk freight over long distance) and pipelines (that are an important and recent method of tr