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Best Times 24 Magazine of Learners’ Writings This special Happy Holidays 2012 issue aims to evoke the joyous spirit of the season. As in previous winter issues the ‘Kids Corner’ work takes front page with all the decorative pieces of writing which have been adorning the school. Additional writings on the theme follow. An assort- ment of profiles about important people in one’s life, narratives generated from sound clips and pictures, comments about the former and some songs as well as model exam texts conclude this issue. My apologies for the lack of named authors on many works, but due to the short time I had to prepare this issue they will be added and this webpage will be updated once school is back in session. Your comments on any aspect of this issue are welcomed. Wishing you festive merrymaking & a happy New Year! Melissa Wing, [email protected] For Christmas you should: Be good, relax, play tombola, be happy, give to the poor, sing xmas songs, decorate the xmas tree and give presents. For Christmas you shouldn’t: Be bad, say bad words, be sad, fight or break things.T2/A1 I want to be the new Santa Claus because I’m mad about flying. It’s an exciting job and you travel all around the world. To be Santa Claus you have to be old, be fat, know all the languages, like red, have a long white beard and be good at flying. I like Santa’s work. From the Editor 24 24 Holiday cheer Holiday cheer 1-5 Profiles 6&7 Narratives 8&9 Comments & Reviews 10& 11 Model Exam Texts 12 Presentations 9 & 10 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: New Santa Claus wanted This is Rudolph. He is thinner than Santa Claus. He is younger than Mother Christmas. He is bigger than the Christmas fairies. He eat very much to have energy for the work on Christmas night. I love Rudolph. Rudolph When Mother Christmas was 10 she was fat and had blonde straight hair. She had big flappy ears and crossed brown eyes. She was a nerd. Mother Christmas Should’s & shouldn’ts

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Learners’ Writ ings

This special Happy Holidays 2012 issue aims to evoke the joyous spirit of the season. As in previous winter issues the ‘Kids Corner’ work takes front page with all the decorative pieces of writing which have been adorning the school. Additional writings on the theme follow. An assort-ment of profiles about important people in one’s life, narratives generated from sound clips and pictures, comments about the former and some songs as well as model exam texts conclude this issue. My apologies for the lack of named authors on many works, but due to the short time I had to prepare this issue they will be added and this webpage will be updated once school is back in session. Your comments on any aspect of this issue are welcomed. Wishing you festive merrymaking & a happy New Year! Melissa Wing, [email protected]

For Christmas you

should: Be good, relax, play tombola,

be happy, give to the

poor, sing xmas

songs, decorate the xmas tree and give

presents.

For Christmas you

shouldn’t: Be bad, say bad words, be

sad, fight or break

things.T2/A1

I want to be the new Santa Claus because I’m mad about flying.

It’s an exciting job and you travel all around the world.

To be Santa Claus you

have to be old, be fat, know all the languages, like red, have a long white

beard and be good

at flying. I like Santa’s work.

From the Editor

2424

Holiday cheer

Holiday cheer 1-5

Profiles 6&7

Narratives 8&9

Comments & Reviews

10&

11

Model Exam Texts

12

Presentations 9 & 10

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

New Santa Claus wanted

This is Rudolph.

He is thinner than

Santa Claus. He is

younger than Mother

Christmas. He is bigger than the

Christmas fairies. He

eat very much to have energy for the

work on Christmas

night.

I love Rudolph.

Rudolph

When Mother

Christmas was 10 she was fat and had

blonde straight hair.

She had big flappy

ears and

crossed

brown eyes.

She

was a nerd.

Mother Christmas

Should’s & shouldn’ts

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A Christmas tale Hundreds of blinking lights above my

head, shop windows full of colourful packs, Christmas trees I can barely see

from the flats' windows: it could appear

to be a pleasant atmosphere, but there is something that doesn't work. Faces of

people around me, who are too serious,

stressed or bothered, who constantly go inside and out of the shops, fighting for

a place in the queue at the check out;

advertising where a happy and beautiful

family smiles: "They're happy because they spend Christmas with.." it says.

“I don't wanna go to the mass but I

must,” says a passerby next to me.

“No I'm not going to buy her a present:

she has never given one to me!” ex-claims another on the mobile phone.

“Is that Christmas?” I wonder.

“Togetherness, true smiles, love, relax-

ing, brisk air, etc.. Where are they?”

I really start doubting their existence.

“Have we ever felt them or are they on-ly another commercial invention? That is

really sad; I have to calm down, my

mood is becoming even worse. Fantas-

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The same old story The annual party at Sharon’s. The Christmas tree in the corner, the lights

on the windows. Everybody was there,

it had become a tradition. Some guests had already graduated, but

most of them were in the first year of

university. Ash blond hair. Dark eyes. He was

leaning against the wall, while drinking

a beer. He knew a lot of people, and

he dispensed smiles to every girl who looked at him. He was the typical

handsome guy aware of that. Steve

joined him. “Hey, man. How do you do?”

“How do you do? The others are on the

terrace, are you joining us?”

They went out to the platform. Charlotte, from the other part of the

window, was looking at him.

They had met at the high school, then he had enrolled in the engineering fac-

ulty, while she had enrolled in the

school of architecture. A glass in her hand. She gave Mark a

last glance and tidied up her dark hair.

Then she went back to her girlfriends

on the dance floor. While dancing, she sometimes glanced an eye at the ter-

race.

She bit her own lip when she saw that tall, blond, Barbie-girl talking with

Mark.

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London for Christmas

In 2011 I stayed in London during the Christmas holiday. It was my first time in that fantastic city. I had never been in a place as stimulating as London. Below

you can find some reasons.

Firstly, English people are very kind. I think that it isn’t a cliché: nobody an-swered me in a silly way. I made lots of

Finally it’s Christmas

I love this period because the air

changes and people are happy and you can spend a whole day with family or

with friends.

I usually spend Christmas with my

family at my grandparent’s house. My

two cousins, Cecilia and Lorenzo, and my uncles also come. Usually my

grandmother cooks a pie. In fact I love

what she cooks, also her biscuits with choco-vanilla cream inside them. After

dinner we play (tombola) bingo and

the winner receives a prize. At mid-

night Father Christmas comes and brings gifts for us.

Giada Genovese, B2

questions in order to obtain in-formation or advice, and people were satisfied to help me. Their civility struck me a lot.

Secondly, I visited the Tate Modern and the Tate Britain too. I love art and culture. So seeing works by Giorgio De Chirico,

Paul Klee, Dante Gabriel Rosset-ti, John Everett Millais drove me crazy. In particular while was gazing at, “Ophelia”, I was speechless! Incredibly, you can

see these

works of art free of charge.

Finally I found a lot of cheap

bookshops. I bought books by British writers, such as Irvine Welsh, and spending few pounds.

Unfortunately, eating in London was not so easy. I don’t like

fried food, so I tried many mul-ticultural dishes from Japanese to Thai food. But English restau-rants are very expensive if you don’t know London well.

I stayed in London only a week,

but it was a special time of year.

Lorenzo Micheluzzi, B2

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Christmas time

For me Christmas time is “the´ special time of year.

Since I was a child, December was the special period be-cause there were a lot of oc-

casions to receive gifts (the 6th – St. Nicolò & the 25th – Father Christmas) and to cele-brate with the family (New Year’s eve)

Over the years it became very important during these holi-days to spend as much time as possible with my friends too. Every school was closed and so it was possible to do what in other periods of the year it wasn’t, for example, to

spend a lot of time playing tennis, riding motorbikes, ski-ing, dancing and coming back home late, however always too late.

Over the years, some years

later, I must say, it became very important to have in this occasion a period to relax and to stop my work. It’s a good moment to travel, in particu-lar, in my opinion, to visit cit-ies.

Exactly during these days, I can understand from my sons, that Christmas time is still a special time of year, also for the third millennium children.

M. Gostoli, B2

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It’s on the fire-

place.

In it there are

sweets too.

What name has it

got?

It has got five

points.

It is on the Christ-

mas tree.

What is its name,

hmmm?

Holiday Haikus

It’s near the fire-

place.

It has got three

wheels and hands.

What can we call

it?

It’s under the

lights.

It’s tall, green and

fresh scented.

What’s its common

name?

A festivity

Christmas is a festivity

held every year on 25th December. It is

celebrated to remem-

ber the day in which

Jesus Christ was born. As a consequence, it

isn’t celebrated in eve-

ry part of the world, for example in China.

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The three words that best describe me are:

fantasy , the capacity of

interact with other beings,

and the Knowledge of lan-guages.

My idea of perfect hap-

piness is to be able of re-

alize a correct balance be-tween your opposite senti-

ments, thoughts, wishes and expecta-

tions.

The most important possession is for

me a wise understanding of everybody and everything.

As for my greatest achievement, I

don’t have sufficient time to answer.

(many good or bad interpretations)

My favourite sound, smell and taste? Due to curiosity, I'd like to try

My Grandmother The mother of my mother was important

to me. She lived in Rome in a big house with a terrace where we could see all the

city. In the summer she came to Trieste.

She loved to go by car around the coun-try and the city centre.

While she was reading a book I sun-

bathed on the beach. At home

when she was cooking I

watched and I stole her reci-pes.

She had four children and my

mother was the second. She

stopped coming to Trieste when her son and daughter, my mother, died, thirty

years ago. She called every day from

Rome though. She died in January 2001 when she was 99 years old. I still have a

necklace which belonged to her.

My grandmother was important to me

because she took life with irony and in-

telligence, even in hard times.

Rossella Fabiani, B1+

Profiles every opportunity; but as for taste my favourites are fish and French beans.

What I like most about my lifestyle

is variety.

What I like least about my lifestyle

is the heavy affort you spend in keeping

up with the variety of life.

What I always carry with me are my

sentiments, my knowledge, the possibil-

ity of thought (as they are).

My perfect dinner date? It depends; it

could always be in the U.K.

My favourite month is when there are the awakening of the Nature.

As to the possibility change one

thing about the past, my answer is

that today with Second Life you can't

have regrets, and so no changes.

If I could learn one new thing it

would be how not to waste time!

Silvia Stefani, B1+

My brother

Tuesday, in the morning, I went to take my brother at the Venice airport. He was

coming from Jakarta after a ten hour

flight to spend the Christmas holidays

with me and my parents. I haven’t seen him for seven months because he decid-

ed to live and work in Indonesia, and I

have missed him very much.

When we were kids, we didn’t get on very well and very often we fought. He

is younger than me and when something

happened, the blame was always mine. Then when I was fifteen and

he was thirteen, he could go

everywhere and I had to stay

at home. I was very angry for this because I felt an injus-

tice. But in later years, our relationship

has changed; we started to go out to-gether and speak more. We exchange

tips and we talk about everything. Now

he is my best friend.

Maria Elena Serventi, B1+

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A leader Aung San Suu Kyi, one of today's most charismatic political leaders in the

world, was born in Rangoon and be-came an international symbol of peaceful resistance against the oppression spending most of the last twenty years in detention because of her efforts to bring democracy

to Burma. Her father was General Aung San, a coun-try's independence hero assassinated in July 1947, just six months before the Burma's independence. Suu Kyi grew up with her mother, Khin

Kyi, a prominent political figure who was appointed ambassador to India and Nepal. She graduated in New Delhi in politics (1964) and then in Oxford. There she met her future husband Michael Aris. They married in 1972 and settled in

the UK to raise their two children. In 1988 Suu Kyi returned to Burma, at first to tend for her ailing mother but later to lead the pro-democracy movement against the dictator, General Ne

Win.Inspired by the non-violent cam-paigns, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections. But the demonstrations were brutally sup-pressed by the army, who assumed power

in by force on 18 September 1988. The military government called national elections in May 1990 and Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD won the polls but the junta re-mained in power ever since. Suu Kyi re-mained under house arrest in Rangoon for

six years, until she was released in July 1995. In 1991 she had won the Nobel

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My colleague

At my age it is hard to describe which

person is important to me now! In my life there have been many people who

have played a very important role, oth-

ers less or only in part,

but all of them have brought in my life,

improvements or

worsening depending

on how you see it!

Of course, I'm not a big optimist!

A person who is important to me right

now is my colleague Elena! A special re-

lationship between friendship and work-

ing relationship! We don't see us outside after the work but when we work to-

gether we are like husband and wife!

Who looks at us from the outside tells us

that we are a beautiful couple! I met Elena three years ago, I had just arrived

and she welcomed me and she taught

me about the work of the department.

I was struck by her kindness, her metic-

ulousness and her professionalism at work! Now, me and Elena beyond the

work we are very close and we speak to

each other of our problems, our fears and we always find the comfort in each

other! I call her "adoptive wife", she al-

ways has a word of comfort and manag-

es to get into my mind like no one has ever done before!

She doesn’t judge me and always man-

ages to say the right things that reflect

reality!

Thanks Elena for coming into my life!

Flavio Antonini, B1+

But in European countries and other parts of the world like in America, it’s always celebrat-

ed.

Here in Europe in this period it usually snows and it’s cold. The days before Christmas are

always stressing because there are a lot of presents to buy and the people usually have to

organize the dinner with all the family. In the evening of the 24th there is always a big din-ner with the family and then at midnight some people give to others presents, some go to

church and some shoot some fireworks.

Michelangelo Atena, B2

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A festivity

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Next Bob took one of the books and start-

ed to examine it.

Why can these books speak and walk?

I can’t explain it?!

The book took him to amazing places.

Bob was a bit scared but happy to start a new adventure. In the end he met a lot

of fantastic people and when he came

home he was a better person.

I’ve read that book and now

I’m leaving my family. I’m a bit sad but happy about this

adventure.

Bye, bye!

Bob didn’t find anything strange. Before

going to sleep he heard a book say something. He thought he was going

crazy so he read the book.

What?! A book that speaks? Oh gosh, I need some friends to speak with; I’m

going crazy!

My name’s George.

Read me! I’m going to take you to amaz-

ing places

Bob was walking near the university library

when he heard a lot of noise inside and so he decided to enter. There he saw a lot of

books that were dancing all together.

What’s hap-pening here? Enjoy! Dance

with us!

Laura Mansotti, Francesco Viezzoli, Archia

Ghasem Pour, Francesca Valente, B2

Narratives The following narratives were inspired by the educator, Fitch O’Connell, and the images and sound track from the award winning short film, an animation , “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris

Lessmore” by Moonbot Studios during this year’s LEND (Lingua E Nuova Didattica) conference.

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Since then Ronald has been following his

tutor’s advice. Now he’s sad and depressed and his armchair’s not happy either.

Oh, my gosh, you are getting fat and so heavy!

Mmm… it’s

my first Christmas

with my Kate. I’m

completely alone

Em

ma F

estini, A

lex B

ole

, Fra

ncesco M

ichelli, B

2

It was Christmas holiday so Ronald could sleep, his tutor was shouting at him.

How nice sleeping is. I won’t wake up!

WAKE UP! You have to do a lot of things today.

The tutor woke him up and took him outside

because he wanted Ronald to swear that he would honour and read him. Ronald agreed.

I do.

Do you swear to honour me and read me as long as you live?.

A fairy tale Once upon a time there was a king, who lived with his girlfriend in a land far fara-way. The king was getting married to this girl when suddenly his arch-enemy interrupted into the great celebration. The king who had al-ready fought the other man without any

fear, challenged him. The duel the two of them was won by the king and as he had been years before, he banished his enemy from the kingdom.

To celebrate the victory the subjects an-nounced a great party with fireworks

during which unfortunately the queen

was abducted. When she woke up, she

was in a forest surrounded by unicorns and fairies who were singing a creepy

lullaby. At this point the queen went to

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The knight

One day a man was walking along the street, when suddenly a knight started a duel

with him. They were fighting when a policeman shot the man.

He died and went to heaven. All was dark and after some minutes he saw a light; he

was in a garden. The same knight, who had been fighting with him, now propelled him into the air with a strange machine. The machine shot him so high that he was flying

with the airplanes.

Then all was silent again. He landed in a place where there was a medie-

val festival and the same knight appeared again. The knight was shooting an arrow at him when he woke up and realized that it was only a dream.

Francesco Perossa, B2

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“I get a kick out of you” by

Frank Sinatra

is a particular song but not really my fa-

vourite nor a

song that I've lis-

tened to recently, but there’s a par-

ticular bond with

it that maybe

words are not enough to fully

explain it. Before

talking about sentiments and all that sort of thing, a more detailed description

of the song itself is in order.

The composer is the magnificent Cole

Porter, who in the 20’s and 30’s gained popularity mainly for writing musicals;

and it’s for a musical that this song was

originally intended, “Anything goes”,

which later became an internationally well– known picture. But this song was

so roaring that it just couldn’t remain

suck in this context. Just to cite some of those that made a cover over the years,

we have Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday,

Marlene Dietrich and Ella Fitzgerald, and

of course the one whose version I pre-fer, Frank Sinatra.

The lyrics basically narrate a story about

a man (or a woman if sung by a wom-

an) that can get no emotion from the world he lives in, that neither alcohol

nor drugs nor flying can give him a kick.

Later though , while fighting the old en-nui”, he meets a stunning beauty that

makes him shiver with an excitement

never felt before. At first, this whirlwind

feeling is positive, but then he realizes that she doesn’t adore him.

I’m particularly into this song because,

even if I have never experienced the en-

nui the song talks about, I empathize with it so much that it’s like I were

there. In my mind I can picture the

scenes and feel exactly like the protago-

nist does. Moreover I used to listen to it

“The Partisan”, by Leonard

Cohen

is commonly believed to be the fruit of

extra terrestrial inspiration, as if com-posers and songwriters were gifted

creatures whose supernatural powers

allowed them to make up a whole story in their heads and act it to music all on

their own. What people tend to forget is

that all musicians, in spite of the unde-

niably peculiar talent they dispose of, often draw inspiration from the infinite

stock of previous experiences, musical

and otherwise.

Just take into consideration this Leon-ard Cohen song possibly one of the

most evocative. One would think that

the text is the result of his own labour,

although the words have their roots in a concrete event—the heroic resistance

enacted by the French population as a

reaction to the repressive regime put into power after the Nazi invasion of

France. On the con-

trary, it is inspired with faithful adher-

ence to the hymn for

a short period before

“La Marscillese” was written, in order to

honour those who

had contributed to fight the Nazi power.

Leonard Cohen took all this, rearrang-

ing the melody and making it a great

piece of music.

Veronica Corsi, C1

Comments & Reviews

during a particular time in my life,

that made me appreciate it even more. What I find most amusing is the per-

fect mixture of the melody conceived

by Porter and the powerful, strongly

emotional voice of Sinatra.

Jacopo Zucca, C2

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is his most famous painting. This pic-ture was probably commissioned by Giuliano de Medici. In this picture is a portrait of one lady with an enigmatic smile. Her face is very sweet. In the background the land-scape is gorgeous and unnaturally ex-

tensive. This is possi-ble because from the top to the bottom.

Giuliana Suplina, A2

“Mona Lisa” by

Leonardo Da Vinci

Is a very unusual painting. In the foreground

with his back to us there is a man. He’s on

the bridge and he’s wearing a black coat and a black bowler hat. He is looking at the rose

in front of him. The rose is big and white and

seems to be growing from the street. In the background we can see many brown build-

ings, one street lamp

and red sky, so we may suppose that is

twilight.

We can’t know what

the man is thinking and

what he is doing.

Chiara Galvani, A2

“Pandora’s Vase” by R. Magritte

I think the world regulated by books is

different and more colourful. After the first scenes in black and white, through

books all became full of colours. The

meaning of this story is the power of knowledge, the force of the book;

through it all could im-

agine a world of colours.

Matteo Roici, B1+

The message is “always follow your dreams” and “it’s possible

restart again”.

The story is divided in three parts: the

disaster, the new beginning and the

end. Watching the animation I remem-ber Charlie Chaplin in

the film, “Loco dell rib-

alta”, then the Turchi-na Fairy who helps the

weak.

Flavio Antonini, B1+

The video is not too different from our picture story. The object is always the

book. The book became a person and

followed the life of its owner. The words are not the component of the book but

that of the brain of the person that lives

with the book. The message is Although

the world may die the book lives on.

Rossella Fabiani,

B1+

The video speaks about the im-

portance of books

for a human’s life. When people read books life becomes colourful because

the imagination is a spirit of life.

In our picture story we talk about man’s

need to give food to knowledge to grow

up as the man in the video feeds cereal to the books he’s caring for.

The video is a cartoon, a type of film

used to teach children a lesson of life. I

enjoyed the video about flying books because it gives me the idea of freedom

of the soul lies in reading a book.

Roberta Clericuzio, B1+

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

http://www.moonbotstudios.com/the-

fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore.html

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Model Exam Texts

The call At six o’clock in the morning the tele-

phone rang. I immediately woke up

and ran towards the phone. I didn’t

want to answer, I was really anxious and worried, knowing the possibility

that my husband could die in war be-

cause he left a long time ago.

I decided to answer and fortunately it was him calling. He told me he got hurt

and that the other soldiers brought him

to a military hospital, so that he could get medications. I told him I would go

there to visit him and so I did. I got

the first plane to Iraq and I immediate-

ly arrived at the hospital. I was really happy to see him.

The doctors gave me good news: they

told me I could bring him

home with me.

Emma Festini, B2

Model A2 KET for Schools note Write a text message asking a friend or family for some help.

Model B1 PET Story

Your English teacher has asked you to write a story. The story must begin with the following words, “At six o’clock in the morning the telephone rang.”

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After a while, he entered the hall. He

walked next to the bar and approached

Charlotte.

“Hi! Are you enjoying the party?” “Absolutely, it’s great!

And you, are you having

fun?” They started dancing to-

gether. After some time,

he told her he wanted to take a beer, and he van-

ished into thin air.

It was always the same

old story. They sometimes texted each other, they danced together at parties,

they sometimes went out together, but

then he always disappeared. And he kept on seeing that Barbie-blonde.

For a couple of days after the party he

behaved in a pretty cold way. The week after, he started to act normally again.

They had a date. They had a walk in the

park, they ate an ice-cream, they sat on

a bench. They kissed each other. They kept seeing each other for a couple of

days, then he vanished. He didn’t call

her, he didn’t answer to her phone calls, he didn’t do anything.

Charlotte ate a whole Nutella jar and

watched tens of American love movies. “At least they”, she thought, “have a

happy ending.”

One day, she met the blonde on the bus.

They knew each other just by sight, but

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The same old story

Stephanie was that kind of girl who

loves being in the middle of attention. “Honey! You look amazing today!” she

said.

“Hi Stephanie. How are you?”

“Oh sweetie! I’m great! Hey, listen, were you going out with Mark? Because,

you know, I’m dating him now.”

Charlotte didn’t know what to say. She did know how to feel, though. She just

faked a smile and told Stephanie she

had to go. “Are they really dating?” thought Char-

lotte ; she just couldn’t believe that.

She had never thought between Steph-

anie and Mark there was something se-rious.

The week after, Mark called her.

“Hey! What about meeting each other this afternoon?”

She should have had the courage to say

“no” and to hang up, but she didn’t. Period.

Katy’s book was finished. She didn’t

know whether Charlotte would meet

Mark just to give him a slap or if the story would have a happy ending. Leave

the decision to the reader. That was

what she loved about being a writer, she could shape reality in order to make

things go in the way she wanted them

to go, giving a certain freedom to the reader.

Period.

Cristina Melchiori, C1

tic! now I can be confused perfectly like

the rest of the crowd.”

Hastening, I turn into a smaller street

and immediately something unexpected

catches my eye: there is a man, sitting on the sidewalk. His hand are joined, in

his eyes the lights of the street shine,

and the mouth moves unhopeful asking for some money. Another man, walking

by him, stops and takes out from a big

shop bag some food which he gives to the poor man.

“Is that for me?” he asks with surprise.

(continued from page 2)

A Christmas tale “Yes, of course! Merry Christmas guy!”

laughs the other.

I am surprised too. All of people should have seen this act of goodwill, as well as

the peacefulness on the man's face and

the gratitude of the other one.

Everyone should stop being so indiffer-

ent and selfish, maybe starting right from Christmas

with such little acts

of kindness.

Anna Facchini, 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

Email: [email protected]

Udine

4, Vicolo Pulesi

Phone: 0432-50-71-71

Fax: 0432-50-75-46

Email: [email protected]

Gorizia

17, Corsa Italia

Phone: 0481-33-300

Fax: 0481-53-15-18

Email: [email protected]

Ti porta nel mondo che conta

sleep again.

She was woken up by a sound of the alarm

clock, in her bed near

her king. He told her

that he had dreamed about a man who had

abducted her and taken

her the moon and he was so sad without her

that he had thought to

kill himself. Luckily he

hadn’t, so to celebrate his decision they had a

great party with local

music and dances.

The story finished with

the king and his queen

watching the sunset

together and living happily ever after.

Alice Tondelli, B2

(Continued from page 9)

A fairy tale

Peace Prize. Unfortunately Aris was di-agnosed with cancer in

1997 and died on 27 March 1999. Since 1989 he had seen her only five times. On 2 May 2008 Cyclone Nargis hit Burma and Suu Kyi lost the roof of her

house living in virtual dark-ness without electricity in her residence. She was released from house arrest on November 2010. She ran for the par-

liament election on 1 April 2012, for the first time, and her party won more that 90% of votes.

Teresa Trevesan, C2

(Continued from page 7)

A leader

Irene, T3/A2