Trick or treat? It’s Halloween today! By the way, did you know that Halloween is a Celtic festival? Halloween is a Celtic festival which was born in Europe. It was also celebrated in France, Italy, Swtizerland, Germany, Austria, north of Spain, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, all the countries where the Celts lived. In Ireland …
Autumn has arrived It’s October now and we’re in Autumn. The days are shorter and colder. It’s also started to rain. We’re going to school and summer is over. It really looks sad, but autumn is great fun too! There are a lot of nice activities to do! What can you do in autumn? Well, …
It rains a lot in Britain, doesn’t it? So, it’s quite normal in English to have many different ways to describe the rain. We may have drizzle if the rain is very light, or a shower if it is a short period of rain, a downpour if it is heavy rain or we can say …
Languages evolve all the time. English, too, was born a long time ago, and has never stopped changing since then. It was born from a mixture of different languages brought by different peoples over more than 2000 years of history. You can imagine English as a big soup, where everybody contributed by putting in some …
During Victorian England urban poverty was visible in degraded areas of London. The diet of English workers at that time was based on bread and potatoes, with bacon when extra earnings could be saved, as well as one of the most famous British fast food: fish and chips. The main problem of Londoners during the …
The ancient Celts divided the year into two halves, the lighter half and the darker half, and held four celebrations (also known as Fire Festivals) to mark the changing seasons: Imbolc – celebrated halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox (1st February) Beltane – halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice (1st May) …
Qui di seguito ti elenchiamo alcuni consigli per poter mantenere vivo l’inglese anche quando sei in vacanza. Il modo migliore per acquisire nuovi vocaboli ed espressioni è proprio cercando di creare un “mondo inglese” tutto attorno a te e sottoporti il più possibile alla lingua in tutte le sue forme: ascoltando podcast o canzoni e …
Let’s be honest, English pronunciation is not easy, nor are some place names we often come across when we travel through the UK, look at a map or read an article. The reason why there are so many exceptions in pronunciation is due to the fact that the language of the British Isles has undergone …
Il linguaggio di internet è spesso costituito da sigle e abbreviazioni che vengono usate in chat, forum, commenti ad articoli, video o canzoni ma anche un semplice messaggio via smartphone può essere un terreno fertile per questo tipo di codice “misterioso”. In questa lista abbiamo inserito le sigle più comuni. Buona lettura e buona investigazione! …