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This Issue 23 presents work from our students of all levels and reflects this transitional period of the year as stu-dents move from holiday to school mode plus the seasonal changes. The winners (Giulia Kainadl, Vida Skerk, Ma-ria Tremuli and Alice Bettini) and participants of the “Doing your Best & Worst” contest provide enjoyable reading with their varied styles from haiku to comic strip. In the Profile section you’ll read about love and idealized “people”. You may learn a few things about learning English & Gregory Peck in the Comments section. There are examples of a CAE essay and an FCE in Exam Models, which make for good reading too. Don’t miss the appropriately unsettling stories in the Seasonal Tales section. As usual the Kids Corner will entertain with its special imagery and fantasy.

As always your feedback on any aspect of this issue is welcomed. Melissa Wing, MWing@British-

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Vida Skerk, B1

Doing my best & worst

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The thing I think I do best

is thinking.

Have you ever understood that thinking is the most important thing we do? I

don’t just think about what I have to do every day of the week: when you have a Maths problem, you have to think about the solution or dur-

ing an English test, you have to think

about all the Grammar rules.

But I guess you will never discover the

why I like thinking. I like thinking about a perfect world, with rivers, mountains, lakes with peaceful big dragons, castles and whatever you want.

Because thinking isn't only a form of "rigid" reasoning, but also a form that allows your

ideas to take a per-sonal aspect, with not just the priority of to-

day.

The thing I think I do worst is taking care of my bedroom. I guess that the problem is that I stay a

bit at home, because on morning I go to school and during the afternoon I have to go to other activities. But when I arrive at home, I have a lot of home-

work to do. Anyway, when I finally fin-ish to study it’s always late, and I must go to bed. I’ve not got time to tidy my room, and if we want to complete the

description, I’m really lazy and I hate tidying my room. So I usually find something else to do, like reading or listening to music. I conclude saying that I really want to know Mary Pop-

pins, to make her tidy my room.

After you have read those sentences you can think to a lots of thing. Like

that I’m very lazy, or maybe that I’m strange. I don’t really know what you are thinking about me. I only can guess. And to guess isn’t the same of

know something.

Maria Tremuli, B1

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Giulia I’m the best at drawing

and sporty but the worst

at dancing.

I’m the most responsible

and creative but the least expressive in writing.

I love most sports but hate most

snakes.

I feel the happiest when I go on holi-day but the saddest when I get a bad

mark.

I believe in dreams the most but in

politics the least.

I should study math the most but his-

tory the least.

Kainradl

I am clever and sporty.

I am usually talkative but

messy.

Sometimes I

am lazy but I’m never shy

I am musical, helpful, funny

and tidy enough.

I am good at

drawing and I’m

often very happy.

Alice Bettini, T3/A2

B2

THE BRITISH SC HOOL O F FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA

Chiara I’m the most polite and sporty but the least courageous and fast

I’m the best at painting but the worst at writing.

I love most dogs but hate most sharks.

I feel the the happiest when I go to the cinema but the

saddest when I do my homework.

I believe in my family the most but in politics the least.

I should study science the most but history the least.

Böhm B2

B2

LORENZA I’m the most generous and talkative in my family but the least serious and calm in

class.

I’m the best at art in my class but the worst at sailing.

I love most Chinese food but hate most Japanese food.

I feel happiest when I get a good mark but saddest when I get

a bad mark .

I believe in science the most but god the least.

I should study math the most but Latin the least.

Barro Savonuzzi B2

Massimiliano Gostoli, B2 Tognolli, B2

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Nicole Vascotto,

B2

I don't know what I do best or what I do

worst.

Well, I think I'm keen on acting. I start-

ed acting when I was nine years old. In

these six years I got better. At the mo-

ment I'm in a group who is made up of really good actors and some have been

acting for twenty years. I'm very proud.

Anyway in 2008 I took part in a theatre group called , "Bandablande" and we

always use the local dialect of Trieste.

Moreover I’m

good at amusing

people.

Even if I'm

good at act-ing I can't

tell lies. If I wanted to tell a lie to my

mom I'd go all red and start laughing.

Moreover I'm unable to keep secrets too. If someone tells me a secret, I will

reveal everything to my best friend.

Francesca Valente, B2

F. Bratoa, A Coppa, C, De Dominis, B. Fabbro, G. Pelà, F. izzi, E. Segrè, G. Smilovic, D. Vujcic, T2/A1

About Leonardo

He lives in Italy. He’s got one sister. He plays football and tennis. He goes to school at

eight o’clock and says good-bye to school at four o’clock. He like ice cream, pizza, chicken and chips, He doesn’t like ba-

nanas.

Leonardo De Lindegg, P4/A2

Stefania!!

The best person in my family is MY SISTER. She is a special per-son in my family because she's ... my sister.

She's six years old and was born in Trieste like me. We are from Serbia but we live here in Trieste. She is in year 1 of primary school, Anita Pittoni, where I went. She's very friendly and funny.

She's the only person who I can pass my free time with. She likes

playing tennis like me and we go to a course in Muggia. At home we draw and we write in our notebook of decorations, where we draw, write, cut and stick; we do all what we want and we do it TO-GETHER. Sometimes we play tennis in the house but being very careful not to break something! On Saturday we do homework in the morning and in the afternoon and evening we go somewhere.

Now I want to tell you what she likes, what she doesn't like. She likes Shakira, like me, and Selena Gomez too. She says that she's going to be a singer like the singers on TV. She like Serbian, Eng-lish and Spanish music. Her favourite song was "Ai sente pego" but now she doesn't like it. Se likes to play "Hide and seek", with dolls, animals and watch "Sponge Bob", "Due Fantagenetori" and "Winx". Her good points are that she's lively, not lazy like me and she is very friendly, but I'm a bit shy. Her bad points are that

she is messy and when she has to tidy up she doesn't want to. but she is still small, when she will grow up she has to understand.

Despite her bad points she is the best sister in the world! Martina Dordevic, T3/A2

About Fiamma

She’s Fiamma. She’s from

Trieste in Italy. She’s nine. She has got no pets. Her

favourite sport is gymnas-

tics. She speaks Italian

and English. Her friends are Anna & Silvia. She

loves her stuffed animals.

Fiamma Cecovini Amigoni,

P4/A2


Profiles

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Frida, my Avatar, is a

Mexican painter. She has got brown hair and

brown eyes. Frida is a

delectable, complicated and bizarre person. Her

idea of perfect happi-

ness is to live peaceful-ly without thoughts.

The most important

possession for her is knowledge and

her greatest achievement is to paint what she feels. Her favourite sound is

the sound of water, while her favourite

smell is the smell of the tea tree and her favourite taste is the mint. What she

likes most about her lifestyle is her

freedom from social rules and what she likes least is wake up early. Frida al-

ways carries with her a pencil. Her per-

fect dinner date could be Francis Bacon

because he is similar to her about imagi-nation. Her favourite month is may be-

cause is the best month of spring. If she

could change one thing about the past she would change the distress dur-

ing her adolescence.

Roberta Clericuzio, B1+

My avatar - Frida

age: 55

weight: 80

hair colour: dark hair

eye colour: green

clothes: hat, tie, jacket

nationality: English

language: English, Chinese

job: helicopter pilot

favourite place: Hong Kong

motto: never give up

One thing no one know about me: I love the Russian language

My Avatar - Joseph

My avatar is a sky explorer with purple hairs.

Three words that best de-

scribes me are funny, loyal and determined. My idea of happiness is a place where there is only serenity, peace and no stress. The most

important possession is time for myself. To under-

stand that health, happiness and family are enough to live a beautiful life is my greatest achievement.

My favourite sound is the sing of the birds, my favourite smell is fresh baked bread and my favourite taste is choco-late’s taste. What I like most about my lifestyle is I am altruistic. What I like

least about my lifestyle is I am too touch sometimes. I always carry with me my phone. The perfect dinner date would be my English teacher of my school because finally we could talk together about many things. April is the best

month for me because it isn’t so hot and it isn’t so cold. The weather is mild and it is a pleasure to go walking. I wouldn’t like change anything about my past, but I would like to learn to play an instru-ment, for example the guitar.

Oliva Quasimodo, B1+

My Avatar - Avilo

The three words that describe me are: unselfish, outgoing and reliable. My perfect idea of happiness is money and healthy. The thing that is most important to me is my bike. My greatest achievement is obtaining my pilot’s license. My favourite

sound is the wind during the night, my fa-vourite smell is coffee in the morning and my favourite taste is marzipan and con-densed milk! The best part of my lifestyle is being a helicopter pilot. The thing that I like least is the monotony. I always carry with me my rabbit Grisù. My perfect din-

ner date is on a deserted island along a beach with a table and candles. My favour-ite months are September and October be-cause the weather is cooler and the leaves change colours. A thing that I would like to change about the past is my height be-cause this gave me a lot of problems. I would like to learn rowing.

Flavio Antonini, B1+


Friends Grano, J., Mami and I decided to share an apartment in Trieste when we went to Uni-versity there, as we wouldn’t have been able to commute daily from our hometown Trevi-so. Coming from the same part of Italy as

well as the same high school, we had similar backgrounds, which made us feel very close from the beginning. So, after few months together we became friends and our friend-ship grew to the point that we started think-ing of ourselves as a family and I can still vividly remember how proud we were of that

bond.

In this family, Mami, as her nickname sug-gests, was the fussy one. For her it was al-ways freezing cold inside, the pasta was al-ways overcooked or there was too much salt in it. And the neighbours made too much

noise, of course. I can still distinctly remem-ber that whenever we ordered some sand-wiches, Mami would order a set sandwich from the menu but then ask for so many changes in it, that she would end up with a completely different sandwich, which it would have been a lot quicker to make from

scratch. On the other hand, though, Mami was also the grown-up of the household: the only one who could suggest we should have a thermometer and a couple of aspirins at home, for example.

J., this is how we used to write her nick-name, which we pronounced Jay, wanted to be a Journalist and for this reason was at-tending the faculty of Communication Stud-ies, which made her stand out in our group as Grano, Mami and I were studying Medi-cine instead. So, where we were struggling with some of the most alien-

ating subjects, or spending hours with plastic models of the skull and other bones, J. used to come home talking about essays, movies and in-teresting topics that had been

tackled in her classes. It goes without saying that at that time we all considered J. the most articulated and cultured among us and somehow the luckiest.

Grano, who was called this because her hair were the colour of wheat fields, is the most easy-going person I’ve ever met. On top of that, she has always been very sensible and understanding too; so, because of all these

wonderful personal qualities, talking to her has always been incredibly heartening. Gen-erally speaking, I think that people fall into

two categories, trouble-makers and problem solvers. Grano belonged undoubtedly to this

last group, as she could have solved any conflict and she would have, had there been any, while we lived together.

Stella Bernardi, C2

A baker’s lesson

When I was a little boy, near my house there was a

baker's. My mother was tired because I didn't want to study, so she took me to the baker's with her. My mother left me there one night and one day to learn the baker's job. The baker worked very hard

all night. He made bread and cakes, and in the morning he went home to sleep. After two hours he went back to the bak-ery to sell a loaf of bread and some cakes, that he made the preceding night. He was very tired and he was happy. A the end of the day he had earned €10. When my

mother picked me up the day after I un-derstood that it was better to study.

Ares Pecorari, A2

Floriana

My favourite person in my

family’s my aunt. She's 35 years old:

She was born and lives in Palermo. She's married and she hasn't got any children.

She's one of the executives in the phone

company Wind. My aunt is thin she has got brown, long straight hair. She has

got brown eyes too. She's very clever

and tidy and she's always happy. Her favour-

ite foods are soup, fish and salad with

tomatoes, but she doesn't like fruit. Her

favourite color is red. Her favourite sports are dancing and basketball.

Noemi Tomaselli, A2

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An Academy-Award winner and Presi-dential-Medal-of-Freedom recipient, Gregory Peck undoubtedly was one of the most prominent, successful and

acclaimed actors of the 20th Century. The elegant, discreet, thoughtful manners that characterised most of the roles he played, built his image as one of the greatest (possibly the last) Hollywood gentlemen.

Born Eldred Gregory Peck in La Jolla, a small coastal

city in the proximity of San Diego, California, to parents of British-Irish ascent, he attended a mili-tary boarding school before being admitted to the University of Berkeley, from which he received a BA in English. Standing an astonishing 6’3”, he repeat-edly distinguished himself in the rowing team of the University. Unlike many of his colleagues-to-be, he did not enlist in the Armed Forces during the Se-cond World War, but instead studied acting.

He was offered his first major part in a film in 1944, shortly after his 28th birthday. After a few minor appearances in minor motion pictures, which in any case earned him two Academy Award nominations, his great break came with King Vidor’s “Duel in the Sun”, which the producers had tried, and failed, to

make into another “Gone with the Wind”. In the for-mer, he played the lusty, sadistic son of a cattle baron in possibly his only truly successful role as a villain.

One year later, Peck was cast in Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case” as Anthony Keane, a successful, happily married barrister who becomes infatuated

with his client, an upper-class enigmatic lady charged with murdering her much older husband. This was the first of a long series of successful films in which Peck devoted himself to playing extremely dignified, thoughtful, gentlemanly characters, often torn between difficult decisions and struggling with their consciences to make the right ones. His “military” roles (Capt. Keith Mallory in “The Guns of Navarone”, Captains Hornblower and Newman in

the eponymous films), all adapted from books, suit-ed him perfectly, so much so that he was repeated-ly praised by the authors for his masterly interpre-tations of their characters.

In the late 1950s he also starred in a number of westerns, most notably “The Big Country”, where

he played retired sea captain James McKay who, after moving to Texas to rejoin his fiancée, finds himself in the final part of a decade-long feud be-tween two cattle barons, one of whom is his father-

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Comment Why am I study-

ing English Hollywood’s Last Gentleman

The first reason is that I like the language both because in my opinion the British accent sounds very nice to hear and because the structure is clear and simple. However, I re-member that my curiosity towards Eng-lish exploded when I was only four years old and my uncle moved to the States. I was very fond of him, and he used to let me drive his sports car. So when he left, I decided I would do the same one day, be it in America or in the UK. I realised stud-ying English was the first step to getting closer to my dream.

In my second year of high school a schoolmate of mine asked me if I was in-terested in going to Cambridge on study vacation the next summer. Incredibly my mum said yes and she succeeded in con-vincing my father to let me go! Those two weeks I spent there changed my life in such a way, that I can hardly believe

how, sometimes, it can all depends on a single experience. In fact, there I met people from different countries and I un-derstood many aspects of my personality that I didn't know anything about. I dis-covered that I love travelling more than

anything else and that nothing makes me feel more at ease than living in an inter-national environment.

After my short trip to the UK I kept in touch with some friends I made there, so when I came back to Italy I had the chance to go on practicing English chat-

ting and skyping with them.

The next Summer I went to Malta for a month, again on a study vacation. Parties aside, I improved my speaking skills a lot and I met Laura, my best friend now, who comes from Spain. The following winter

she visited me in Trieste, and last sum-mer we went on a tour both to Spain and Portugal. Now she is studying in Leuven (a University town in the Flemmish part of Belgium) and I have been invited to visit her at the end of October. I can't wait!

Last but not least, I made an English friend who came to Trieste for a work ex-


having a meeting or during a business lunch. Secondly, the keyboards of smart phones are normally “qwerty”, so you can easily type your electronic mail. Thirdly, it helps you to organize your business life.

Are you hurt on the top of the mountains? Just call for help! And what about Italian mothers, who can now keep in touch with their children during the whole day? Not to mention what law enforcement can do to track down suspected criminals with their

phones. This is only a very short explanation, but you surely get the idea about how versa-tile and easy they are to use.

On the other hand, there are also heavy dis-advantages if you have a mobile phone. First of all, your life gets more stressful as people

can call you whenever they want. What’s more, you feel forced to keep your phone on, as you don’t want to miss some important call.

Another negative effect is that mo-bile phones reduce face-to-face relationships as you don’t need to

see a person if want to talk to


If you ask somebody which invention has changed modern life the most, they will prob-ably answer, “the mobile phone.” It is becom-ing increasingly important, because you can use it for many different purposes.

Just to talk about some of them (but teenag-

ers would surely be better teachers about this aspect), you can “text” your friends whenever you want. Need advice? Fancy meeting some-body? Just write it and send the text. What’s more, you can access the Net by mobile phone. Modern smart phones connect even as fast as a computer, so you can easily down-load music and watch videoclips. As well as that, you can use your phone as a camera if you happen to seea ravishing landscape or if you just want to post some pictures of your-self with your friends on facebook.

Besides that, movbile phones are useful for business. Firstly, they allow you to check how the stock exchange is going while you are

Model C1 CAE Essay

Task: Discuss which invention has

changed modern life the most

Model B2 FCE Story Write your story for an international magazine. The story must end with the following

words, “It had all ended well, but Sarah would never be able to forget how frightened she

had been.”


Model Exam Texts

Sarah was ten years old.

On a quiet afternoon of a hot summer, she was reading a thriller, lying on her bed in front of the window. A good light entered in her bedroom through the open window and a sweet silence was around her because her parents and grandparents were sleeping.

Reading was her favourite hobby. The story told about a killer doll and she was totally in-volved

Suddenly her eyes were distracted by a strange thing descending from the first floor: a terrible sight stopped her dead. She saw one of her baby-dolls, without any clothes on, coming down slowly.

The doll’s mouth was full of blood and it looked like a terrible murderer who had killed

somebody a few minutes before.

Sarah, unable to distinguish reality from fan-tasy, began to scream so loudly that every-

body in the house came to help her. Everybody came apart from her young brother who was staying hidden behind a tent on the first floor and was laughing because his trick, made with

a doll and a rope, had worked.

Sarah didn’t stop crying and screaming and nothing seemed to calm her so her parents be-gan to worry about her condition.

Sarah had been really scared and she needed some time to realise that nothing had hap-pened and that the doll had been only a bad

joke for her; she was very angry with her brother until, after many excuses and kisses, they could be in peace again. The doll was burned.

It had all ended well, but Sa-rah would never be able to for-get how frightened she had been.

Gloria Carlesso, B2

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Festive Tales A very scary house

Mark entered a spooky old house, but it was really dark and dusty, so it was impossible

for him to see anything. He was really scared and was standing still, para-lyzed, waiting for something scary…

And suddenly, “Waaaa!”

He turned his torchlight on, and pointed it on the top of the staircase. All of the sud-den he saw a white flash, like light ,that was going at full speed around the room.

Mark was shocked, and for him it was a relief when the light went away; he sat for a moment. He didn’t have the possibility to rest long, he had to exit that horrible

place…

As he turned, he stopped and thought, “Wait a second, a ghost appears and now it lets me go like this?”

Actually he shouldn’t have done that be-cause as he was thinking a ghost silently crept up to him! He froze at the feeling of her old boney hand on his shoulder. He

figured out immediately that that was of his dead neighbor, Mrs. Watson. He ran to the door but the ghost had bravely blocked it. He gathered all his strength and knocked it away, but he hurt his shoulder.

The fear made him get up and run again, but his shoulder didn’t hurt anymore. He looked back to the house and stood still, shocked. He discovered the reason his shoulder didn’t hurt anymore, he saw the ghost stabbing his body. Only Mark’s soul

made it out of the at house!

Dean Iurincich, B1

The ghost of a cowboy

As I was walking past the house, I saw a

light on in the upstairs window.

I was on a trip with some

friends in the desert in Mexico. At that moment we were in an

abandoned city, and it was

very exciting. It was built in the Far West in the years of cow-

boys and Indians. A light can’t work after

20 years!

We opened the door and it made a creak… we were a little frightened, but

we entered. The house was big and dark.

We climbed the stairs and went into the

room with the light.

“AAAAAAAAAHHHH! “ I saw a snake!!

Now I was terrified but nobody believed

me. I was sure that I saw it.

While I was trying to convince them of

what I saw, we heard a terrifying noise…. And an enormous ghost of a

cowboy appeared. We were all terrified

and we started running out of the house

and..

“Driiiiing!” It was only a dream.

Greta Rosini, Giorgia Stefanucci, Gioia

Zennaro, B1

Believe what you see

Last summer I was staying on an English castle. I enjoyed it a lot but one evening a scary

thing happened. I was reading a book when I heard a strange noise. It was coming from the door so I went to see. When I arrived, I switched on the light, but it was broken.

I said, "Who is that?" but no one an-swered. "Is there someone?" I said again.

Something touched my shoulder, I turned

around but I saw no one. So I looked down and that night I discovered that hob-bits exist.

Claudia & Eleonora Todde, B1

Rottenbrain zombie

Rottenbrain zombie always has fingers with soup of blood for breakfast. He often goes to the cemetery with go-cart.

He is always late for work because he eats breakfast very slowly. He often goes out with his zombie friends. They go to the haunted house

to eat spider webs.

Pietro Fontanot,T4/A2


A strange meeting

It was a freezing, dark night in Scotland.

I was in my bedroom, in my old, shabby

castle surrounded by a small lake. I loved that isolated place, and luckily my

mum allowed me to stay alone. I was

listening to music when I heard a strange, loud noise.

"It's nothing," I thought, but suddenly it

happened again, and then again.

I was really scared, but I got up from my

bed and followed the noise. It took me

down and down, across the cold, dark corridors and stairs to the dungeon.

There I lit a candle stick, and just then,

between the cobwebs and rubble, I heard a creaking noise. I opened the

door next to me, and saw the shadow of

a person with strange, small bat ears.

I didn't know who it was, when the

strange voice said to me, "Hello Grace! Have you done your maths homework?"

I saw my maths teacher! I hated her be-

cause I was not very good at maths and

she wasn't kind to me.

"Oh, hi!" Just then I realised that the sit-uation was weird; I was talking with my

maths teacher in my castle at midnight.

"I'm going to make some tea, OK?"

"OK, I'll wait for you," she said with a

false smile and evil eyes.

Then I started to run and run. I was in a

panic. Finally I escaped from the castle.

As fast as I could I took a ruined rowing

boat and started to row, but just then it started to rain. Suddenly, in the middle

of the lake I felt very, very tired and

stressed.

"Why am I here?

I only want to sleep," I

thought.

And the last

thing I saw was a pair of

strange, small

bat ears.

Isabella Zampa & Beatrice Grigoriev, B1

Planning for

Halloween

Two days before…

He’s going to wear a

brown hat, a black small moustache, a

brown waistcoat, a

black gun, a black

cloak, blue tracksuit bottoms and purple trainers.

Giulio Porelli, T3/A2

My ideal cos-

tume

Two days before…

She’s going to wear

a brown hat, a beige waistcoat, blue

jeans, a yellow and

brown belt, black boots and a black gun.

She’s going to wear red lipstick.

Alice Bettini, T3/A2

Sonny vampire

Sonny the vampire always has hot blood

with sugar for breakfast. He always goes to school with his bat. He’s hardly ever late

for meetings because he takes his black

cat. He often goes out with his vampire

friends. He often goes to the hospital to crash

pumpkins.

Ludovico Posti,T4/A2

Dracula’s wife

Dracula’s wife usual-

ly has bread, butter and blood for break-

fast, but on Sunday

she eats toast of bones. She never walks to

the vampire school. She’s always late for meetings because she gets up too late and

she has breakfast in one hour. She goes out

with her 30 daughters. They often go to the cemetery to play video games and dance.

Beatrice Gessi,T4/A2

Corner K

ids

Miley Cyrus’s summer

In the summer holi-days Miley Cyrus usually sleeps all the time, but this year she sang a little bit and she met Justin Bieber.

Matlide di Vitto, T4/A2

Selena Gomez’s

summer

In the sum-mer holidays Selena Gomez usu-ally sings, but this year she went to Maimi for a tour and she studied the part for her new film.

Federica Riccio, T4/A2

In the holidays I like playing with my friends. I can play in the park. I can play every day. I love swimming in the pool. I can swim with my family. I go swimming Monday and Friday. I like going to bed later. I can go to bed at eleven o’clock. I love reading my favourite book. I can read my

book in bed.

But now I go to school and I can’t go to bed late. I can’t go to the sea and I must do my homework. I have a lot of tests and I get up at half past seven. But I’m happy because I can see my friends again.

Fabio Bratos, T2/A1

Gaia’s summer

In the sum-mer I usually go to Croatia and I speak Italian with my friends, but this year I spoke English with my new friend. She lives in the USA.

Gaia Boncore, T4/A2

Bye summer holidays

in-law-to-be, and despite his earnest attempts to mediate and settle the matter, is unable to do an-

ything but witness the final showdown between the two parties.

The absolute peak of Gregory Peck’s career is uni-versally considered to be his splendid interpreta-tion of Atticus Finch, the widowed Alabama lawyer charged with the hopeless task of defending a black man wrongfully accused of rape in a deeply racist post-Great-Depression setting. For this role,

not only did Peck win an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, but his character was also ac-claimed as the greatest film hero of all times by

the prestigious American Film Institute. As Harper Lee (the author of the book) pointed out, “Atticus Finch gave Gregory Peck the opportunity to play himself”.

Peck’s later years saw him dedicating himself to humanitarian activities, which earned him the

Presidential Medal of Freedom. Declared a persona non grata by President Nixon for his liberal ide-as, Gregory Peck openly campaigned against the Vietnam War, but still accepted the controversial role of General Douglas MacArthur in 1976’s MacArthur, “the Rebel General”.

Gregory Peck died in his sleep, aged 87, having suffered from a heavy attack of bronchopneumo-nia. His funeral was attended by many of his colleagues and by most of his co-stars from “To Kill a Mockingbird,” including his lifelong friends Mary Badham (who had been Scout Finch in the film)

and Brock Peters (Tom Robinson in the film), who read his funeral eulogy. Marco Sinibaldi, C2+

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Hollywood’s Last Gentleman

In the holidays I like sleeping in the morning and I can play with my friends all day long. I can watch TV and I read a book in the evening. I like playing with my friends and I

can walk in the woods with my family. I can ride my bike with my friends.

But now I go to school I don’t like school be-cause there are a lot of tests. I can’t go to bed in the afternoon because I do home-work. But I’m happy because I like seeing my friends at school. I don’t like getting up early in the morning and I can’t watch TV after dinner because I go to bed.

Caterina De Dominis, T2/A1

In the holidays I love sailing with friends. I can ride my bike with my family. I over-sleep in the morning and this makes me very happy. In the morning I can go running with my dad.

But now I go to school and it’s very boring because I can’t go to bed late so I can’t watch TV! But I’m happy because I can see my friends every day and I play sport.

Emma Segrè, T2/A1


Name: Her name is Pink Girl

Nationality: She’s American.

Secret Identity: She is Ashley, a 17-year-old schoolgirl.

Special Powers: She can speak

with the animals.

Worst Enemy: She doesn’t like Big Monster and Space Woman.

Asia Negro, T3/A2

My super hero

Name: Her name is Mandy Girl

Nationality: She’s American.

Secret Identity: She is Priscilla a 16-year-old student.

Special Powers: She can fly and run fast.

Worst Enemy: She doesn’t like Space Woman.

Flora Sancin, T3/A2

Name: His name is Sharkman

Nationality: He’s Bra-zilian.

Secret Identity: He is

Peter Henderson. He’s a salesman.

Special Powers: He can swim and breathe and bite vigorously.

Worst Enemy: He doesn’t like Bull-dogs, snakes, cold or man.

Lorenzo Meroi, T3/A2

Which animal?

It’s not very small.

It’s got very big teeth.

I hasn’t got fins.

I can swim.

It can’t fly.

It loves wood.

It hates meat. Anastasia Giacaz, P3/A1

It’s brown.

It’s got teeth.

It hasn’t got a hump.

It can run.

I can’t swim.

It loves straw.

It hates meat. Chiiara Luna Angelli, P3/A1

It’s BIG.

It’s got big EARS.

It hasn’t got WINGS.

It can CLIMB.

It can’t FLY.

It loves BANANAS.

It hates ?

Matteo Parenzon, P3/A1

It’s got two wings.

It’s not very big.

It hasn’t got a trunk.

It can fly.

It can’t swim.

It loves freedom.

It hates being closed in a

cage.

Silvia Calgaro, P3/A1

It’s got a big tail.

It’s big.

It hasn’t got a trunk.

It can swim.

It can’t fly.

It loves water.

It hates grass.

Manuel Loche, P3/A1

Match the animal

with its description

them. Actually you don’t even need to talk, you can just text them.

Doesn’t it make people increasingly individualistic?

Mobile phones are a good invention, but only if you don’tlet them replace your real life with a virtual life. Don’t forget that meeting people, sharing emotions and seeing your friends talk are much more reqarding experiences than reading a cool text on your phone.

Finally, just look at the effect of mobile phones on teenagers; many say they dumb down children

and teenagers, which is difficult to deny.

So just turn your phone off for one day, see what happens and enjoy your real life.

Marco Brandolin, C1

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THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF FRIULI -

VENEZIA GIULIA

A TORREBIANCA , 18

TRIESTE

Trieste Phone: 040-369-369

Fax: 040-76-000-75

Email: [email protected]

Monfalcone

16, Via Duca d'Aosta

Phone: 0481-411-868

Fax: 0481-41-22-28


Udine

4, Vicolo Pulesi

Phone: 0432-50-71-71

Fax: 0432-50-75-46


Gorizia

17, Corsa Italia

Phone: 0481-33-300

Fax: 0481-53-15-18


Ti porta nel mondo che conta

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Federico Pelos, P1/A1

Riccardo , P1/A1

Russiani, P4/

A1

Ginevra Bonucci, P4/A1

Nicolas Pesaro, 6

Dominick Kreuzer, 5

perience. So I learned more about British culture and I also went to visit her in London. She was the one who pushed me to take up an English course, to improve and consequently to be able to go to University abroad.

After I had been set to the C1 level course, I started to be in-terested in a volunteering programme that was looking for peo-ple to help English teachers living in rural areas. If I wanted to be considered for the post, I had to demonstrate my ability through an examination that would certify my level of English. So I took the CAE exam after only six months of school and I passed with grade C, which is not the best of course but it was enough to allow me to go to Thailand for a month. English has opened so many doors for me! Now it's part of my daily life

and I hope in the future I will work in an international environ-ment to use it even more!

Flavia Rolli, C2

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