In economic, trade and monetary terms, the European Union has become a major world power. The EU has considerable influence within international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the specialist branches of the United Nations (UN) and at world summits on the environment and development.
Some have described the EU as an economic giant but a "political dwarf". This is an exaggeration. Nevertheless, it is true that the EU member states have a long way to go, in diplomatic and political t
Present Simple Timetables, programe The train leaves London at 11.30. (everyday) This film finish at 6 p.m What time does train get to London? For people if their plans are fixed like timetable I start my job on Monday. (every week) What time do you finish work tomorrow? (every day you finish at the same time) Hope I hope Carol phones this evening.
Present Continuos Something arranged (naplánované, diár) I´m going to theatre at 6 Saturday evenings.
Česká rafinérská a.s. is a Czech joint stock company and engages in the refining of crude oil into finished products and petrochemical feedstock. It was incorporated on 28 April 1995 and its legal site is in Litvínov, Czech Republic. The Company is comprised of two refineries, which are located in Kralupy and Litvínov. Česká rafinérská a.s. is a part of a consolidated group Unipetrol. It consists of 6 divisions: Financial, Commercial, Technical, Planning and Development, General Affairs and Invest
I´d like you to meet my girlfriend. Her civil name is Petra, and she is thirteen. She has older brother; both of them go to elementary nine-years´school in our village. Besides this she also did dancing in a professional form, and that´s why I met her. Because I like dance very much, and now I train with her a funny theatrical performance for children, in which we also play some dance figures. Petra is equally as tall as me; she has a slim figure. She is dark-haired, and her hair is straight, medium long. The colour of her eyes is bro
The most popular saint named Valentine probably lived around year A. D. 270 in the Roman empire. At that time the Christians could not worship openly because it was a crime. One story says that the emperor had forbidden young men to marry because he wanted them as recruits the Roman army. But the brave priest named Valentine performed secret marriage ceremonies. He was arrested and placed in prison. Even after he was put in jail Saint Valentine remained cheerful and kind. His friends tossed him some post cards and flowers into his cell. His hea
I think there are many causes which have permitted in the last years increase people’s life expectancy. I consider people are living longer thanks to government policies on public’s health and due in most part to the great medical and technological advances that have been made in the last decades.
Cures and immunizations against many diseases have been found. Research has provided valuable information about the human body and the human mind. Even "miracle" medicines have saved a lot of lives and there are new methods
The mankind liked the sound of the music and the twitter of the birds, from the beginning. By the time the music has been develop, so in this state appeared many people with great talent beginning with Orpheus, and finishing with Luciano Pavarotti (born 1935, Italian operatic tenor) or George Gershwin (1898-1937, U.S. composer in whose works the frontiers between classical and light music spontaneously and naturally disappear). That’s the reason why all the civilizations gave a big attention to the musical education. Around the music was born
How can I describe our life at the end of second millennium? At first. This year 2000 is the last year of the second millennium. One thousand years ago nobody didn’t believe that there would be some "other" millennium. People were farmers, barbarians. But now everyone says that we are cultivated. But Romans were saying that Egyptian were barbarian. But where was the birthplace of civilisation? Of course, in Egypt. So if now somebody is saying that the other isn’t cultivated, is it true? What is the measure of accomplishments?
The United States of America is a country nearly 9.3 million square kilometres big with 300 million inhabitans.
The United states are a federation of 50 countries, the youngiest are Alaska and Hawaii from 1959. The USA are situated on northern american continent between Canada in the north and Mexico in the south. On the west coast there is Pacific Ocean and on the east coast there is Atlantic Ocean.The Hawaii is the only country which doesn´t lay on the continent, it is an island country - a group of tropical islands in Pacific
ADVERTISING a collective term for public announcements designed to promote the sale of specific products or services. Advertising is a form of mass selling employed when the use of direct, person-to-person selling is impractical, impossible, or simply inefficient. It is to be distinguished from other activities intended to persuade the public, such as propaganda, publicity, and public relations. Advertising techniques range in complexity from the publishing of simple notices in the classi
In the Northern Hemisphere, the western portions of con-tinents are especially favored by the prevailing winds. This is because the western lands gather the rains as they come off the ocean, blown by storms that circle from west to east. Unfortunately, the Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, so dose to the west coast, catch the largest share of the rain off the Pacific Ocean before it can go further Inland. As a result, there is too little rain for almost the whole western half of the United S
Alaska, one of the Pacific coast states, and the northern state of the United States, occupying the north-western extremity of North America. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the east by Canada (the Yukon Territory and British Columbia); on the south-east, south, and south-west by the Pacific Ocean; and on the west by the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Arctic Ocean. The state includes two major island groups: the Aleutian Islands, which extend in an arc west from the south-western corner of
Transformational Grammar by Andrew Radford and Valency and the English verb by D.J. Allerton are both books about linguistics, or to be more precise about phrasal syntax. This being their only common feature, both writers approach the topic with their own distinct, individual conceptions. These ideas are outlined and explained in the 4th and 5th Chapters of Transformational Grammar (entitled Noun Phrases and Other Phrases) and the 1st Chapter of Valency and the English Verb (entitled Syntactic Structure and Functional Relations).
What do we really know about Americans? Do we really know so much as we think? Can we really judge by media and films? Are they able to say us so much about real mentality of ordinary human being? From all that films we can have a view that American people don’t do anything but watch TV, do enormous shopping and visit concerts of Breatny Spears. But is it really so? It’s true that media and Hollywood can’t give us actual view of American society but it could help us to have a little bit brighter picture of life there.
dogs ears – somárske uši margins – okraje a trip of a spoarts team – sústredenie you see – vieš, rozumieš can you see – vidíš can you hear – počuješ at last – konečne a queue – rad, zástup whether – či spare – voľný ( čas ) valid– platný expired – neplatný to the fullest – naplno to get rid of dust – zbaviť prachu to go out with rubish – ísť vyniesť smeti
Animal farm Animal Farm is not just about a story about animals it is about human nature and behaviour.
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell is a novel based on the lives of a society of animals living on the Manor Farm. Although the title of the book suggests the book is merely about animals, the story is a much more in depth analysis of the workings of society in Communist Russia. The animals are used as puppets to illustrate how the communist class system operated, and how Russian citizens responded to this, and how propag
Armenian genocide If you were to overhear the words "extermination of about 50% of a population" in a conversation you would probably think that they were talking about "the" holocaust in Nazi Germany. You probably would not suspect that they were talking about Turkey and the Armenians. During the First World War, the Turks set out to annihilate the entire population of Armenians living within their borders (they almost did). An area known as Historic Armenia lies right in the
AUSTRÁLIA The area of Australia is about 7,7mil.km2.It hes 15mil. inhabitans.The density is low,only 2 per km2. It's a federation of 6 states:New South Wales,Victoria,Queensland,South Australia,Western Australia and Tasmania and 3 teritories:Northern Territory,Corral Sea Islands Territory,Capital Territory with Canbera.Australia is a monarchy within the British commenwealth and the british Queen it's his head represented in Australia by a governer.The real power is excercised by the federal parliament and the goverment.In 1770
Relationships between Beowulf, Hygelac and Hrothgar in “Beowulf”
The heroic poem “Beowulf” is the oldest preserved story in English literature. Although its exact date of composing is not completely clear, the poem was supposedly written in the tenth century, although according to some scholars, it might have been composed even in the eighth century by an anonymous writer (21). The poem itself is written in English and it has also an English origin, however, it does not deal with native Englishmen, but with their Germanic