You have just received the last issue of this school-year`s series of Friendship. May is a month which is also filled with a variety of re/letter days. In May, on the second Sunday of May, Mother`s Day is celebrated when all the mothers are treated in a special way. On Mother`s Day morning, some children follow the tradition of serving their mothers breakfast in bed. Another Possibility to treat mothers is to give them gifts which either have been made by the children themselves or the children buy some present in stores. Adults give their moth
Detroit`s history started 300 years ago. It was founded on July 24, 1701 by an adventurous Frenchman Antoine de la Cadillac. He was sailing down the Detroit River in search of a shore. He landed there and named the place Detroid.
Since Cadillac`s times the city has gone through many changes. Nowadays it is one of the ten most populated cities of the States, having approximately one million inhabitants. It lies on the canadian border, in the state of Michigan which is also famous for the Great Lakes (Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie
Easter, like Christmas is one of the holidays, which is significant for many people living on the Earth. Of course, it has got two distinctly different meanings, depending whether one is religious or not.
For Christians, Easter is by far the most sacred holiday of the year. It is the time when Christians remember the death of Christ and his return to life.
The Easter season actually begins 40 days before Easter Sunday. This period is called Lent`. It is similar to Advent before Christmas and it is the time when relig
If I could meet anyone in the world, I would meet Miro Šatan. Miro is my favourites hockey player. He is from Topolčany. Miro was born on 22 October 1974. He is 180 cms tall. His hair are brown and his eyes are green. He has god two brothers. Their names are Peter and Emil. Miro is older than Peter, but Peter is older than Emil. His fovourite colour is royal blue. He likes a singer Celine Dion. In his free time he plays billiards with his friend. He didn`t like to go to the disco. He has got a girl friend. Her name is Ingrid Smolinská. She i
Ask almost any english person who James Cook was, and you will probably get the answer, “Didn`t he discover Australia? In fact, thes man did for more than that. In the course of ten years, he undertook three great expeditions to explore the South Pacific. He discovered and charted the east coast of Australia, and also all the coasts of New Zealand and many smaller Pacific islands. He also sailed into the Antarctic and proved that there was no great inhabitable south continent to be colonized, as England believed. In 1788, more than two
Peter Murrey stood up from the bench straightened his Navy uniform, and watched the crowd of people making their way through City Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, bur whose face he didn`t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months ago in a Florida library. Taking a book off the words of the book, but with the notes written by pencil in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.
In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner`s
1.All`s well that ends well. - Koniec dobrý, všetko dobré. 2.Birds of a feather flock together. - Vrana k vrane sadá, rovný rovného si hľada. 3.East or west, home is best. - Všade dobre, doma najlepšie. 4.If you run after two heres, you will catch none. - Ak sedíš na dvoch stoličkách, tak spadneš. 5.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Lepší vrabec v hrsti ako holub na streche. 6.Better late than never. - Radšej neskoro ako nikdy. 7.Make hay while the sun shines.
The English equivalent of the Czech expression is taking coals to newcastle. the place referred to is Newcastle-on-Tyne, the biggest city, and the heart, of England`s north-East. Any modern visitor going there would find it hard to understand why, though. Coal mining, like the region`s other traditional industries of engineering and shipbuilding, now belongs firmly to history. The British mining industry, which employed a million people in 1920, now has about 15,000 workers, a figure that continues to fall. Many other places, which were
Queen Wlizabeth I of Wngland proved that a woman could rule England as well as any man. When Elizabath Tudor was born at Greenwich Palace, just outside London, on 7 September 1533, her father King Henry VIII was very disappointed. Henry had wanted a son so much that he had divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. She had only been able to give him a daughter, whose name was Mary. Elizabeth`s mother was a former lady-in-waiting called Anne Boleyn. Henry was very much in love with Anne but that love did not last. After three years Henry deci
Americans cook approximately 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving in the USA. They cook a meal that they usually prepare once a year. Preparing turkey that is the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving table may present various problems and couse a lot of stress. That`s why the largest U.S. turkey processors, and even government agriculture departments, run holiday turkey toll-free help lones to answer all sorts of questions and technical problems on how to prepare a turkey.
My mother called me, coincidentally just the day before Thanksgivin
The official name of Slovakia is Slovak republic. Slovakia is a small country in the middle Europe with area of 49 035 square kilometres. This country has a population of 5, 5 million. Slovakia borders with the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary and Austria. Slovakia has the longest limit with Hungary and the shortest limit has with Ukraine.
In northerly Slovakia these is to running Carpathian Mountains. These mountains are valley river area split to several mountains. The nicest mountains are the High Tatras, which has the
Long ago, before the first Christmas, there was a beautiful young woman called Mary. She lived in the little town of Nazereth. One day, when Mary was busy in her home, the room was suddenly filled with a bright light. There, in the light, stood an angel. Mary was really frightened. “Don`t be afraid, Mary,” said the angel. I have a message for you. You are going to gave a baby son” “But I have no husband,” said Mary. He will be the Son of God himself,”said the angel. There was a young man in Nazereth, called Joseph. He loved Mary. He
I've paid my dues Time after time I've done my sentence But committed no crime And bad mistakes I've made a few I've had my share of sand Kicked in my face But I've come through
And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions - my friends And we'll keep on fighting Till the end We are the champions We are the champions No time for losers 'Cause we are the champions of the
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) wrote many works. His top dramatic works are: Romeo and Juliet (1595), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604) etc. Two years after the edition of the Sonnets we can see his anger in an epilogue from The Tempest (1611): Now my charms are all o´erthrown, And what strength I have´s mine own, Which is most faint… . Odvrhol som všetky taje, Mám len vlastnú silu – tá je Stokrát slabšia… But when „his own strength“, of which fruit are Sonnets, is hundred time
In my essay I would like to shine some trifling light onto the most obvious traits that differentiate the U.S. American and the Canadian citizens. To European folks perhaps these differences are absolutely invisible at first glance and by no means qualified as distinctions. But most certainly both nations would be offended upon confusing or misperceiving one for the other. So what is it that really sizzles such a blazing issue between these people? Are history, politics, laws, religious beliefs and other organizing principles the only factors r
Použitie: 1.k vyjadreniu zvyku (I get up at 7.30. – Vstávam o 7.30 hod). 2.k vyjadreniu skutočnosti, ktorá má trvalú platnosť alebo je platná po dlhú dobu – zvyk. (We come from Spain. – Pochádzame zo Španielska.; I live in Oxford. – Bývam v O.)
Oznamovací spôsob I live You live She, He, It lives in Australia. We live You live They live Bývam, býva ... v Austrálii.
Free and compulsory edu. Funded by the state and guaranted by law became available in 1870 for children aged from 5 to 10. In 1944 a new law raised the leaving age to 15.All edu. Beyond the age of 11 became secondary.At that age most children went to sec. Modern sch. While about a fifth of all children ,chosen by examination went to grammar sch.,aiming to gain certificates at 16 and then 18 leading to further edu.Before 1965most children in the country had to take an exam at abou
Slovakia ranks among countries with well-developed school educational system. In general, education is under the control of state, church or private bodies. State and religious schools are free of charge, they are financed by the state, while private schools charge high tuition fees. Pre-school education includes crèches, nursery schools and kindergartens. They are attended by the children at the age 2 to 6. Compulsory education is for children between the ages 6 to 16. There is no selection
Their insularity, conservaticism and sticking to traditions are often pointed too. They are famous for their politeness, self - discipline and their specific sense of humour. May be many British are such in their nature but not at all. There are big differences in manners between individuals even within one nation. It is similar with customs and traditions. Many traditional British customs have changed as the way of life has changed.
Very popular always was Valentine's day on l4th February. It is a great day for all lovers. O
The environment means surroundings in which people, animals and plants develop and exist. Ecology is a branch of biology which investigate relationships between living beings and their environment
The most serious ecological problems of today are the pollution of air, water and soil, the destruction of ecosystem, disappearance of many species of animals and plants, the weather changes, acid rains, the warming up of the Earth’s surface, the destruction of tropical rain forests and the breaking of the ozone layer. These damages ar