Capital - We need proverbs because they reflect who we are Proverbs. They’re old-fashioned, folksy, pithy — and everywhere. From old chestnuts like “no pain, no gain” to sports wisdom like “the best offence is a good defence”, there seems to be a proverb for everything. There’s good reason: proverbs touch on just about every aspect of life, providing a connection to truths that go beyond one person or any single moment in time. Proverbs have many names: they can be called axioms, old saws, sayings and adages. If your sibling lost a job to a friend of the boss, you might say, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” For a native speaker, the worst thing about a proverb is probably its overuse. It’s never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes Still, the best rebuttal to trite inspiring sayings is probably a tweet by comedian Damian Fahey: “It’s never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes.” Proverbial verse at work That could explain all the jargon we face every day, too. The origin of everything
Poppy Day - The Webquest Website Follow the links and answer the questions using the information you can find on the webpages. /15 A. Search skills: Read the first 3 paragraphs to answer the questions: /5 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. B. What we remember: List the 5 events of British History that are remembered on Poppy Day. Ways we remember: a. b. 1. a. b. c. d. 2. 1. 2. 3. D. Copy the entire poem respecting the spelling of the words, the punctuation and the structure of the verses.Illustrate your work in order to match the meaning. E. This webquest was created by Mrs Spitz of Collège Brassens in Narbonne Remembrance Day: The Australians killed before armistice A hundred years ago, just a week out from the armistice ceasefire that would end World War I, the last Australians were killed in combat. It was incredible bad luck, as virtually all Australian troops had been sent to rest after half a year of fighting. Six men died on November 4, 1918: three tunnellers, three pilots. One of them was the intriguing Captain ‘Rich’ Baker, a highly decorated flying ace who, among his achievements, is thought to have taken one of the first selfies. Apparently taken in early 1918, when he was waiting to begin flying school, the selfie shows Baker steadying his camera on a tripod, while he stares into the mirror with dangerous-looking eyes. Baker, one of the genuinely fearless characters of the war, had spent two years in the trenches with the artillery, and been twice awarded the Military Medal for bravery. From the letters home to his mother, we learn Baker took to dogfights with unabashed glee – and had no fear of flying close to his quarry. A bridge too far
Tales from the bar - a tour of London's 'great pubs' Image copyright Charlie Dailey Giant oak wine barrels sit above the bar of the Cittie of Yorke in Holborn - which is more reminiscent of a great hall in a Tudor mansion than than a traditional pub. The jury is out as to whether or not the massive casks were ever used as genuine storage vessels - or simply part of the inn's Tudor makeover in the 1920s. The Cittie of Yorke features in a new book, Great Pubs of London, written by George Dailey and featuring photographs taken by his daughter Charlie. The book examines the histories of 22 pubs. The Nags Head Belgravia On a quiet street in the heart of one of London's most exclusive neighbourhoods, the Nags Head's first customers would have been staff from the mansions on neighbouring streets. "The likelihood is that, because of its location, most of the early landlords were connected with horses, carriages and stabling," writes Dailey. The Blackfriar Blackfriars The Dominicans are known as "the blackfriars" because of the black cloaks they wear. Soho
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Remembrance Day: Haunting diary entries from the Armistice Soldiers’ diaries from November 11, 1918 – exactly a hundred years ago – make for haunting reading. Many have no entry for this momentous day, or no mention of the end of the war. Some were too sick or injured, too drunk or jaded. Perhaps the weight of the war wasn’t so easily shifted by the silence of the guns. Those who did remark upon the peace, did so with a shrug. Others take a more melancholy tone. John Henry Lewellyn Turnbull, a train driver from Geelong, took part in the Gallipoli landing and saw the remainder of the war out on the Western Front. On November 11, Turnbull’s unit had just pulled off the road to feed their horses and have a lunch of bully beef and hard biscuits “when we saw a motor car coming along flying a staff General’s flag over the bonnet. The man asked if “the b__ armistice was signed yet”. Private Verdi George Schwinghammer was the Australian-born son of German parents. “We wondered what was wrong and halted in the main street for a rest.
Culture - What’s inside the Queen’s handbag? Her Majesty the Queen has never yielded to fashion’s whims. As royal designer Sir Norman Hartnell said rather sternly to The New York Times in 1953: “The Queen and the Queen Mother do not want to be fashion setters. That is left to other people with less important work to do.” The Queen is, in other words, above fashion. Her signature style originated at the start of her reign, and she has steadfastly refused to deviate – so no regrettable ‘70s prints or ill-judged ‘80s frills and flounces. In her book Luella’s Guide To English Style, Luella Bartley lists some tongue-in-cheek Upper Class Rules of dressing: “Nothing should look new; Impractical fashion victims will catch their death of cold; If you have to try you have lost; Tradition is all that matters; The country is where it’s at.” The Queen’s style says unwavering authority, tact and diplomacy The Queen’s sartorial choices frequently set the tone. ‘Always appropriate’ At Balmoral, the Queen goes even more off-duty in her look.
Happy Halloween! - a lesson plan for beginners 1. Essaie de retenir le vocabulaire d'Halloween. Clique sur REVIEW . Tu peux écouter les mots. 2. - Ecoute attentivement l'histoire - et clique lorsque l'on te le demande. N'oublie pas de relever dans ton cahier de brouillon les mots correspondant aux objets sur lesquels tu dois cliquer. 3. 4. Pour t'aider à trouver les réponses, tu peux cliquer sur Picture Dictionary , ensuite clique sur les lettres de l'alphabet dont tu as besoin et complète le quiz sur la 2ème photocopie. Même si certaines phrases te paraissent difficiles, tu trouveras des mots transparents, c'est-à-dire qui ressemblent au français et qui t'aideront à comprendre. 5. 6.
Remembrance Day: Australia's last forgotten battle Over three days at the end of August 1918, the Australians achieved their most celebrated action of the war: Under the command of Lieutenant General John Monash, our troops crossed the Somme and fought uphill to storm the heights of Mont St Quentin, a last strategic stronghold of the Germans. There was an almost Trojan horse aspect to the Australian tactics, where troops to the right of the attack worked noisily in small groups – using Lewis guns and grenades – to distract and confuse the Germans, while the troops on the centre and the left flank managed to get a foothold. It’s now legend how the hill was taken, then lost to a counter-attack, but the Australians held their positions just below the summit – in grisly hand-to-hand fighting – until reinforcements arrived and the hill was taken for good. They then fought to help capture the nearby town of Perrone, at a cost of 3000 casualties, and with eight Australians awarded the Victoria Cross between August 31 and September 2. Not quite.
The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time Think of the gear you can't live without: The smartphone you constantly check. The camera that goes with you on every vacation. The TV that serves as a portal to binge-watching and -gaming. It's those devices we're recognizing in this list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time. Some of these, like Sony's Walkman, were the first of their kind. Rather than rank technologies—writing, electricity, and so on—we chose to rank gadgets, the devices by with consumers let the future creep into their present. John Minchillo—AP Google Glass, which cost $1,500 for those invited to a sort of public beta test, never took off. Victor J. The Makerbot Replicator was neither the first nor the best consumer-level 3-D printer. David LeFranc—Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Why is the Segway personal scooter such a potent cultural symbol? Yamaha Clavinova Digital Piano Kiyoshi Ota—Bloomberg/Getty Images Olly Curtis—Future Publishing/Getty Images Nest Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images Oculus/AP Reuters
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Remembrance Day: How the armistice almost didn't happen North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at more than a dozen hidden bases identified in new satellite images, in stark contrast to assurances by US President Donald Trump. The alleged secret ballistic missile bases were identified in a detailed study published Monday night by the Beyond Parallel program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. The sites can be used to develop weapons ranging from short-range ballistic missiles to intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to the Beyond Parallel report. The think tank says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may have as many as 20 undeclared missile operating bases, despite promising to dismantle a major launch site and take steps towards denuclearisation. The existence of the missile bases, which Pyongyang has never acknowledged, contradicts Mr Trump’s claims that his diplomacy has defused a nuclear and missile program that North Korea used to threaten the US and its allies.
Leap Year 2016: It's nearly February 29th - but why is there an extra day every four years? Why does the extra day fall in February? All the other months in the Julian calendar have 30 or 31 days, but February lost out to the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. Under his predecessor Julius Caesar, February had 30 days and the month named after him - July - had 31. August had only 29 days. When Caesar Augustus became Emperor he added two days to 'his' month to make August the same as July. So February lost out to August in the battle of the extra days. Julius Caesar vs Pope Gregory Pope Gregory XIII (1502-1585) The Roman calendar did have 355 days with an extra 22-day month every two years, until Julius Caesar became emperor and ordered his astronomer Sosigenes to devise a better system in the 1st Century. Sosigenes decided on a 365-day year with an extra day every four years to incorportate the extra hours, and so February 29th was born. Is February 29 a bank holiday? It's not - but there is a campaign to make February 29 a bank holiday. Technically, a leap year isn't every four years