Lingue

1) It started with the so-called "Bloodless" or "Glorious Revolution" [1688] when James II has removed from the throne in a bloodless revolution to remove the absolutist theory of the divine hereditary right of monarchs.
2) William of Orange, who had married one of James's daughters, Mary, was invited by the parliament to succeed to the throne, but

Thanks to his experiences (he had to grow up quickly) he become mature and a keen-observer.
Finally, he had unhappy relationship with women (he did not have a very happy marriage).
He spent his last years travelling, and then he died in 1870 and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
He is one of the most popular English novelis

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B)…………………
EX.2 MAKE QUESTIONS AND SHORT ANSWERS AS IN THE EXAMPLE, USING THE PROMPTS.
ESEMPIO: SUE-AFRAID OF THE DARK?/YES
IS SUE AFRAID OF THE DARK? YES, SHE IS.
1- IT-SUNNY TODAY?/NO
2- SALLY-INTERESTED IN FOOTBALL?
3- BILL AND JOE-ENGLISH?/YES
EX.3 PUT A OR AN BEFORE THE NOUN.
ESEMPIO: A BOY
AN AIRPOR

Prof – Did he? Did he? What’s the world like, do you suppose?
Maurice – I don’t know sir, I’m a boy.
Prof – do you have any older brothers, Hall?
Maurice – No, sir. only Kitty and Ada. They’re my sisters, sir.
Prof – No unclease?
Maurice – No, sir. there’s Dr Barry. He knew my father before he dies.
Prof – So you don’t really kno

3- Lines usually begin with a capital letter
4- Some lines may be indented.
As regards sound, lines in a poem can come close to the condition of music through several devices, such as rhyme and stress. Lines rhyme when their last syllables make the same sound. It is sound, not spelling that determines rhyme: in Dreams “die” rhymes with “fly” and

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Act 2
It being midnight, Romeo with his companions departed; but they soon missed him, for, unable to stay away from the house where he had left his heart, he leaped the wall of an orchard which was at the back of Juliet's house. Here he had not been long, ruminating on his new love, when Juliet appeared above at a window, through which her exceedin

THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN

It’s a description of Modern man seen from the outside, from the official Bureau. This man is unknown, is referred to with a number or initials.
He is a perfect citizen who accepted all that his society offered him; he is a hero, who is commemorated, but he is a vary common man: that is the extraordinary point of p

Per un periodo visse a Milano, ma nel 1734, dopo l’incontro con Giuseppe Imer, capocomico legato al teatro veneziano di San Samuele, decise di far ritorno a Venezia dedicandosi alla composizione di intermezzi, tragicommedie e melodrammi per il San Samuele.
Tra il 1737 e il 1741 Goldoni diresse il teatro d’opera veneziano di San Giovanni Grisostomo d

When King James of Scotland became king of England too, the two countries agreed to unit their flags into one to form what was called the Union Flag of Great Britain.
The Union Jack was adopted about two hundred years later, when the Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland joined into a single Parliament. On that occasion the emblem of Ireland's