Best Times 33 Summer

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From the Editor In this Summer BT33 issue contains fine opin-ion pieces on artworks, books and holiday desti-nations among other things. There are also some unusual stories, exam practice examples and many illustrations and descriptions. The Best Times is issued

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Melissa Wing

Naturalistic Enclaves And Delicate Ecosystems The existence of “lost worlds”, remote plac-es whose population or ecosystem have been completely iso-lated for so many centuries that they have developed unique traits which are found nowhere else, has fascinated naturalists, philoso-phers and explorers alike ever since the Age of Discovery.

While there is no evi-dence that legendary places such as El Do-

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Commentary 2-5

Narratives 6

In Depth 7

Exams 8&9

Kid’s Corner 11-14

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

33 A Precious Object One of my prized possessions is my pencil case, the only one I’ve ever used throughout my en-tire school career from elementary to high school.

It doesn’t look par-ticularly catchy or flashy; it’s just a simple dark blue cyl-inder with brown-red bases and a zip that runs through its side.

My pencil case car-ries heavy markings of age and wear; In fact it was originally


Trieste “Trieste has an un-sociable grace. If one likes it is like a rascal, harsh and voracious, with blue eyes and hands too big to of-fer a flower.” Um-berto Saba

Located in the North East of Italy, between the Adriatic Sea and the border with Slo-venia, Trieste is one of the most stunning cities of Europe.

Embraced by green hills on one side and the Adriatic Sea on the other with the snow-capped Dolo-


The Enemy Within

I had just come home from Brussels after a working trip, around the 20th of March, when I got the notice of the ISIL terrorist attacks at Brussels airport and at its most popular metro station.

I felt shocked, not only because of the many people killed and injured, but also because I could have been there, if I hadn’t left two days before, just at the same time.

Due to this pure acci-(Continued on page 9)

Giuditta E Olofrene: The Amazing Caravaggio's Brainchild If you ask people about Art, they'll probably refer to some paintings made by Van Gogh, Picasso and other super fa-mous artists who cre-ated stunning pieces of Art in the 20th Cen-tury.

However, there are few painters who have been more cru-cial for the develop-ment of Art than Ca-


Forced Retirement Some people say that workers over the age of fifty-five should be forced to retire so that it is easier for young people to find jobs. Do you agree?

First of all the age for retirement is estab-lished by law. In my opinion the law should be divide re-tirement age depend-ing on the kind of job one person has done. We cannot consider at the same level a person who worked in


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The Shining One of the last books I read was The Shining, which was written by Ste-phen King in 1977; in fact, it was one of the most popular and successful novels of the author.

It's set in the impres-sive and sinister Over-look hotel in Colorado, where an unlucky writer and teacher, Jack Tor-rance, gets the job as a keeper during the long and freezing winter. It's about the difficult rela-tionship of a very young child, Danny, with his father Jack, her mother Wendy and, interesting-ly enough, with the dan-gerous ghosts who live in the hotel. There are other memorable char-acters including the di-rector of the hotel, a rich friend of Jack, who owns it, and particularly an African-American cook, who becomes the best friend of Danny, because he is able to see the ghosts, like him; at the end of the story, Danny and Wen-dy will be saved by him. On the very first page, we learn that Jack has a choleric, nervous tem-perament...

This is a novel about friendship, madness and


ravaggio. In fact, 500 years ago he found new and rev-olutionary ways to use the light in order to express hu-man emotions.

Considering “Giuditta e Ol-ofrene” as an example, you can certainly notice the ability of Caravaggio to rep-resent the dramatic atmos-phere in which Giuditta kills Olofrene. The colours em-phasize a dark scene – which comes from the Bible – where the lights force you to gaze the characters in the painting: the charming widow dressed in a modern and virginal white blouse, with a bright earing, is cut-ting Olofrene's head using a dagger. And it seems that killing him is something which must be done.

The old woman on the right is waiting that Olofrene's head falls into the towel held in her hands. Giudit-ta's beauty is clearly em-phasized by the contrast with the old woman's ugli-ness: they say that Cara-vaggio drew her so nice be-cause he wanted to justify the young girl making her a heroine.

Olofrene's right arm mus-cles prove that he might likely be still alive but on the contrary, his vague fa-cial expression could repre-

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Giuditta E Olofrene


Vanga e Latte (1884) This painting from Teofilo Patini fully expresses the socialist ideals of that time. Teofilo wanted to highlight the poverty of Abruzzo’s peasants: their extremely hard lifestyle and their enormous strength; their tendency to strive and their heroic resistance.

This painting belongs to the “Social Trilogy” by Teofilo, in which he wanted to hon-our the humble workers of his land.

It represents a peasant family, with the father, mother and son. The moth-er, having interrupted mo-mently her work, feeds her baby, while her husband keeps overthrowing the ground. It seems to be au-tumn, and they are prepar-ing the field for winter.

The anonymous peasants represent the greatness of humanity: our wish to im-prove our conditions through our hard work, the sacrifice we do by doing this, and our humaneness, shown by this moment of sweetness.

The colours give volume to the figures in a way that is seemed to be similar to the Caravaggio’s artworks, by some experts. They define it as “Outdoor Caravag-gism”.


Commentary

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overproduction in every field (agriculture, industry, building, commerce, etc. ); overconsumption and so ex-ploitation of soil, ground, water, raw materials; over-use and production of toxic substances leads to harm-ful, noxious waste, contami-nation and pollution (air, water, soil); overutilization of fossil fuels (industry, transport, house heating) and agricultural activities are responsible for the high level of C02 emissions and of the overheating of our planet (greenhouse effect). Just to give some examples, 1) the graph shows the huge past emissions of C02 by the countries (at the top USA, EU and China) and the projection for the future. 2) 14 of the total atmosphere emissions of C02 is due to agricultural activities. 3) In the last century the planet’s temperature has risen by almost 1 degree.

All these factors explain our envi-ronmental prob-lems and their in-fluence on the quality of life; we have to do some-thing; we have to change our behav-

Climate Change And Quality Of Life Due to the rapid and strange change of the weather, due to globaliza-tion, as expression of the almost instantly worldwide spread of news, knowledge and information, a lot of people are becoming aware of the importance of the en-vironmental issues closely connected with the stand-ards and quality of life. There aren't borders and everyone with his good or bad behaviour has his own responsibility. We say that nowadays mankind can't ignore the value of the health of the Earth.

The wrong present condi-tions are the consequence of the breakdown of the good balance between the growing attention to the needs of mankind and the wide respect of the law of Nature. Every excess or abuse transforms the "physiological cycle" to a "pathological" one. The increas-ing number of the world's in-habitants means:

collected data from immensely old sam-ples of particular form of carbon associated with living things.

If confirmed, it would rep-resent a dramatic advance in scientific study of ori-gins of life. There is no need to tell you that eve-rybody could be interested in this matter. Even if you are a non-expert, you can enjoy the Guardian’s arti-cle since it is written in a very plain style with no jargon.

Let me know if you want some further detail.

All the best, Nico Pitrelli, C2.1

Life on Earth Dear Melissa,

I hope this finds you well.

I am writing to you in connection with an article recently published in The Guardian about the begin-ning of life on Earth. They reported that some US scientists have discovered new evidence suggesting that living organism may have existed 300m years earlier than previously thought.

I think that it sounds reasonable since scien-tists have

iour!

The subject continuing to be discussed and is playing more and more importance in lectures, writings, confer-ences and meetings or sum-mit with a pres-ence of a lot of countries. The last of these is the summit that place in December 2015 in Paris, the COP 21, organized by the UN with 195 countries taking part.

Some results have barely been achieved: the Nations have had to keep the rise of temperature under 2 degrees centigrade by 2050 and have established a "carbon budg-et" to obtain this result. It could be realized increasing the production and use of "low-carbon energy", offering money and facility to the firms involved in this field, wind power, photovoltaic, hydroelectric, methane gas and also nuclear. The same aim may be achieved by im-proving the efficiency of en-gines, equipment, etc.; (clean technology), and real rising the "energy usage" for the renewable energy.

But the utter analyses of specialized centers there is left of shadow and a great possibility of failure. Some countries especially the un-derdeveloped one's, don't agree with thig policy have huge economic problems the USA have big difficulty with another negative question, the carbon budget has been very low by the analysts (it will run out by 2035). There is moreover negative impact of the big flexibility given to the single country about the level of emissions and, final-ly, the problem of control. Many fear it could be, this summit, another big Kyoto ". But now our knowledge says we are out of time.

Let's wait and see. Time will tell!

Silvia Stefani, C1.2

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Bodu Hithi, Why Not? What a wonderful expe-rience I had three weeks ago!!!

Why? Where? Read this review and you will know everything!!!

I love Maldives Islands and so I decided to share this feeling with my family (… with my children, in particular). After lots and lots of re-search, finally I picked up the resort I needed: it’s Bodu hithi, exactly part of Male South Atoll, far just an hour of speed boat from the air-port.

From the beginning of the holiday I was sure to have done the right choice, especially from the point of view of my children. This resort is exactly what a parent is looking for to make happy the kids. They can swim, they can learn the sailing, they can experience the div-ing, everything they want with the maximum of safety. And this is why I strongly recom-mend this resort to fam-ilies, while - on the oth-er part - I can’t suggest this solution to those need silence and relaxa-tion.

Can I forget to talk about food? Not in Bodu hithi, where there is a surprising attention about the quality in cooking. I’m talking about unbelievable fish and exotic fruits.


mites Mountains at the horizon, no city can honest-ly claim to have such a roy-al scenery.

Trieste flourished as part of Austria, from 1382 until 1918, when it was consid-ered one of the most pros-perous Mediterranean sea-ports as well as a capital of literature and music. This influence is readily appar-ent from the elegant tri-umph of Austro-Hungarian architecture.

The very heart of the city is Piazza Unità, one of the most breath-taking squares facing the sea in all Europe. It is an absolute must to stop and sit in one of the old cafes lining the square. Take a moment to relax and stare out at the ships on the horizon while drink-ing a real Italian coffee (be aware that drinks are a lit-tle overpriced!)

There are many outstand-ing restaurants in the city center capable of pleasing the most discerning pal-ates, but you can also find many restaurants with tasty and economic dishes.

The Triestini take their evening aperitivo very seri-ously, so don’t be too sur-prise to find each bar trying to outdo the next with free food and live DJ sets.

If you visit Trieste by foot, don’t miss a trip on the old blue tram that will bring you from Oberdan square up to Opicina, where you can have a wonderful view of the city.


Trieste


A Golden Beach

Resort I was always a non-resort kind of tourist. My favorite holidays were usually a fly & drive, where fly meant flying to the other side of the globe, and drive meant driving for 5,000 km in 2 weeks. Staying 10 days in the same place and doing more or less nothing was absolutely not part of my DNA. But after 3 heart at-tacks and a major open heart surgery my programs have changed forever.

After a short research a Golden Beach Resort looked like a perfect choice: a short flight, a long white beach and warm see on the web site promotional video. The Resort is situated in the Southern part of Sar-dinia island: that means no strong Northern winds and a calm sea. The main part

of the Resort is a beautiful modern building where the Reception and two of the four restaurants are locat-ed. The remaining part are ten small, two floor high buildings, all positioned nearby the beach, so eve-rything is just at a 5-minute walking distance. I' m still recovering and those short walks were the per-fect exercise I needed.

I had the chance to meet a chef, so my strongly rec-ommended diet was easy to follow. For me this was the most important thing and I recommend it to all visitors


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Holland Holland is very beautiful. There are a lot of windmills and really beautiful flowers. I visit Assen with my father and my

mummy. I stayed in As-sen for 7 days for the World Motorbike Cham-pionship. I like Holland and I love wind tur-bines.

Giacomo Conti, A2.2

Holland Holland is a place where I will return because it is very beautiful. Its beaches are sandy and the water is clear. You can see lots of windmills and you can visit lots of museums. In Hol-land they have culture for bikes and they are used a lot everywhere.

Augustino Alessio Verni, A2.1

Cortina This winter I’d like to go to Cortina. I went there in March but I stayed there only to have lunch. I’d like to go there with my best friend, she has a house in Cortina. Skiing is my favourite sport and all the people that have skied there said that it is beauti-ful. I want to rule the world with my skis! Cortina is a beautiful place because you can ski there in the winter; walk in the woods in summer. There are lots of shops and shopping is a very popular hobby!!!

Caterin Valle, A2.2

Pepperland Pepperland is a town on an island in the middle of the sea of Holes. It’s quite a small and it has got just a few houses. They’re colour-ful. You can see blue, green, yellow, red and orange houses. It’s a quiet village and the people are very friendly and happy.

Martina Zucca, A2.2

Chatez is a spa in Slovenia. I like it because there are a lot of fun things to do like water slides. They are great fun! There is also a camping site where I stay with my family when I go there. We go

there about once a year and it is one of my favourite spas. In the camping there is a very good restaurant, too.

Isabella Ramani, A2.2

London is the most beautiful city in the world. I Love it. There are lots of things to do, for example, you can go to the sci-ence, history museums. If you like eating chocolate you can go to the M&M shop. If you like taking photos with the wax models of famous singers and actors you can go to Madame Tussaud’s. If you are a Harry Pot-ter fan you can go to the Harry Potter

studios. If you love Legos you can go to the Legoland park In Lego-land there is a small wa-terpark.

Ilaria Baroncini, A2.2

Aqualandia A beautiful place to go on holiday is Aqualandia. It’s a waterpark at Jesolo. I think is open only in the summer. There is the tallest water slide in the world and there are very big swimming pools.

Oscar Porsche, A1.2

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made by two layers: one external made of tissue and one internal made of plastic. The latter one is almost completely shredded today. Moreover a writing on a green patch on its side is practically unreadable. So it is a battered and not particularly appealing pencil case, but for me it’s special because it has been a constant in my school career. With the passing of years there were always different places and faces, but it was always there and as a person who hates changes I found it reas-suring.

Now I don’t use it any-more partly because I don’t need a pencil case at the university and partly because I’m afraid of destroying it complete-ly, but I think that, after having served me faith-fully for thirteen years, it has earned a peaceful re-tirement on my room’s desk.

Giuliano Cadel, C2.1


A Precious Object What a journey! It was on Au-gust 1st last summer, my niece Sara, the daughter of my brother, start-ed to go to Dalmatia on vacation: final destination the island of Pag. She was with two girl-friends. The car was doubtlessly quite old but until now fully functional.

My brother and his wife said goodbye to their daughter and her friends and decided to spend a relaxing weekend at the beach.

An hour later, Sara called saying she stopped in Cro-atia, in Rijeka, because the car engine had fallen to the ground! Goodbye to serenity!

At that point my brother advised her to press the button on the device pro-vided by the insurance for help. It worked: 20 minutes later, the rescuer wagon was there to recov-er them. Immediately my brother and his wife took

their car and went to Rije-ka and see what had hap-pened. When they arrived they decided to leave their car to Sara so she could continue her journey to Pag.

Newly they said goodbye to the girls and with greater serenity went to dinner in a nice restaurant in Rijeka, near the sea, on the banks and then, satis-fied, took a bus to return in Trieste. On bus they still spoke of what had happened and while they were saying "all's well that ends well" ....... they re-ceived a call from their beloved daughter telling them that their car broke down just as they arrived in Pag, luckily near the hotel.

What a terrible trip, a nightmare weekend! To be a parent is not always so easy.

Marino Tironi, B1.2

make ends meet, but he learnt to work, to earn and to save money. He worked two years for an ob-noxious man, but

then when Bob told him to put his money where his mouth was, he got fired. This gave him the opportunity to open his own businesses, and now, after five years, he has got money to burn.

Marta Sartorio, B2.2

About Money

When Bob was a child his parents were always a bit short of money. He knew that and he was a good kid, so he would never have asked his mom for anything, even if she would never have answered that she wasn't made of money.

So he grew up knowing that it's sometimes hard to

Narratives

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It’s snowing. A parrot and a firemen are reading a book in at the disco.

Natalie D., A1

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In Depth subject to hunting either by human settlers or by predators introduced by man, such as cats, dogs, pigs or rats. After a period of exposure to predators, insular tameness is even-tually reduced and then lost, but such a process can take decades or longer and, in some cases, entire species have become ex-tinct before being able to effectively correct their be-haviour.

The most noteworthy ex-amples of isolated natural-istic entities can undoubt-edly be found in Oceania, where the huge distances

existing between the vari-ous is-lands and archipela-gos, com-

bined with the relatively recent human colonisation, have favoured the devel-opment of very interesting enclaves. Australia itself, having benefited from a long geographic isolation, has a very rich ecosystem, more than 80% of which is endemic and very peculiar. European naturalists visit-ing Australia after its dis-covery in 1606 were puz-zled when they first ran into a tree-climbing bear-like-looking marsupial which later became known as a koala bear and also when they came across a duck-billed beaver-tailed otter-footed egg-laying mammal which they called a duck-billed platypus. Even more peculiar is the fauna of New Zealand, the most recent landmass to be settled, which was en-tirely free of mammals

rado or Atlantis ever exist-ed, in spite of the many efforts by European expe-ditions to find them and secure the lost treasures, the presence of isolated regions where the ecosys-tem develops autono-mously and differently from the rest of the World is a scientific fact. Such a phenomenon generally oc-curs on small islands locat-ed far away from main landmasses, in tiny en-claves within the pluvial forest, in some deserts or in particularly inaccessible mountain regions. The flo-ra and fauna living in such places, uninfluenced by the outside world, develop traits unique to their habi-tat, such as an increase or a decrease in size depend-ing on the availability of food and the skills required to obtain it or to better flee from predators. Due to these phenomena first being observed on many islands in the Pacific Ocean, the expressions “insular gigantism” and

“insular dwarf-ism” were created by natu-ralists to

describe such occurrences. Another interesting aspect, named “insular tameness” is the loss of wariness and defensive behaviour of certain insular species whose habitat lacks any potential predators; such an ecological naïveté can prove deadly to such ani-mals when they become


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(except for those who could swim there, such as seals, whales and dolphins) until the arrival of the first Polynesian settlers in the 13th Century AD.

While the indigenous hunter-gatherer Aboriginal and Maori populations of Australia and New Zealand hardly had any negative influence at all on the local environment, the arrival of European settlers led to disastrous effects on such a delicate ecosystem. The indiscriminate hunting of species unaccustomed to predation led to their be-coming vulnerable to ex-tinction if not, as in many cases, extinct. The invol-untary introduction of pests such as rabbits, fer-rets, rats and other ro-dents caused irreparable damage to the Australian and New Zealand flora and the extreme difficulties in being rid of them is still an open issue. Although suc-cessful efforts are in pro-gress to restore the habi-tat of many small islands to their pristine state by removing any non-native species from them, such attempts have proven much more complex on the Australian and New Zealand mainlands.

Marco Sinibaldi, C2+

I’d like to fly in the sky and dance on the plane. Benedetta Semacchi, A1.3

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Exams Cambridge English First B2.2& Advanced Paper 2 Part 1

This essay task is compulsory and requires giving opinions about the title & using the ideas given, as well as using language functions, such as evaluating, expressing opinions, hypothesising, justifying, persuading. No specialised knowledge(140-190/220-260 words)

tem and economic basis, which cover all pensions.

This is one reason why most of coun-tries are increasing

the age of retirement. In my country this is a big problem because the agen-cy who pays pension is in the red so the country is trying to justify in this way the increasing of retire-ment age.

Coming back to young people, I think that Ger-man employment system is good enough, in fact in Germany students spent a period in factory in order to increase their professional knowledge and in this way they will be ready for a job at the end of the school.

Tiziano Bonano, B2.2

office for all his life with a fireman or a miner or a man who worked in factory. I cannot understand why the law and politicians are not con-sidering it. By the way, even if a worker is forced to retire at 55 years old, it is not sure for young peo-ple finding job. I think young people don’t agree with being employed in factory, for example.

Furthermore, many young people want to go to uni-versity so before 26-28 years old they will not start working.

If a country introduces the forced retirement at 55 years old, it has to be sure to have a solid welfare sys-


Forced Retirement

like oil and coal, with re-newable energies, that are endless and clean for the environment. We should change our way of life also to protect our rivers and seas, that are in danger because of the massive use of pollutants products.

On the other hand, it is very difficult to change radically our society, based on the use of oil and gas for many aspects of our everyday life. Furthermore, a lot of the new technolo-gies, which are less pollu-tants, have a really high price, and so that many states don’t prefer to adopt them.

In my opinion it is really (Continued on page 10)

The Environment Nowadays almost in every television journal or news-paper, we can listen about many problems with pollu-tion and what can we do to contrast it. At this point, can we really do something to improve our situation?

Firstly, it is clear that we could change many of our bad attitude. For example we could use less cars and replace them with bikes or with electric cars, which makes less pollution. More-over all the states have to change the fossil products,

Pension Age The economic recession and the way many manual jobs have turned into auto-mated ones, requiring less employees, have made searching for a job increas-ingly harder, especially for young people. Would it be a good idea to force older workers to retire, in order to give younger people more opportunities, as someone says? Young people could bring energy and innovative ide-as; they are usually more open-minded and know re-cent technologies better than older workers, so re-placing the latter with younger people would bring many advantages. But we must also consider that they lack the experi-ence that the older workers have gained through many years. Losing it would be an invaluable mistake.

Moreover, we must also take into consideration the fact that this would mean paying a pension to many more retired people. This would cost a lot of money that we can't afford as long as an economic recession is going on. Finally, a 55 y. o.


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dent I have been following the news for many weeks, looking for the reasons of such a tragedy.

In doing this, I’ve noticed that the news – led by countless political speeches – used to focus the public attention on the threat to Europe’s security brought by Muslim immigrants, without any discussion on the matter itself: are (Muslim) immigrants really the most relevant threat to our security?

At the same time, I’ve no-ticed that the news has re-ported some relevant facts about who are the sus-pects (three of them died in suicide bombings and the remaining two were arrested): they are young European citizens, being born in Europe; they have been living in European towns up till now; their parents had immigrated in Europe many years before and used to live in full re-spect of the laws and work hardly to give them a bet-ter way of life. So the ter-rorists aren’t immigrants at all.

Why did they decide to sui-cide while destroying the more lives they could? I believe that they, as many people in the same situa-tion, have been suffering very much for lack of inclu-sion in our society. As a matter of fact, they have been living in segregated neighbourhoods, where communities are most de-prived (low educational level, long-term unemploy-ment etc.), and they grew up feeling racist hostility upon their backs. In my


Grade 8:The Enemy Within

I love pop-rock and punk rock music very much. The best pop-rock band, in my opinion, is”5 Seconds of Summer”. They are four Australian boys and their names are, Calum Hood, Luke Hemmings, Ashton Irwin and Michael Clifford. They became famous when they were very young, about 15 years old.

The front man, Luke, started to do some ideas in YouTube and a famous singer saw some of them. They became famous in this way.

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opinion, they could have realized the impossibility to find their way to gain the European way of life. I mean that the terrorist choice involves the loss of all hope about the future: we are paying the price of their hopeless future.

What can we, as civilians, learn from the attacks in Brussels?

First of all, I believe that our lives should not turn upside down despite the news. We shouldn’t panic, because it’s useless: on the contrary, we should move and speak freely, even more than we did be-


The Difference between the First and Second Album

They have made two al-bums. The first is called like them and the second, “Sounds Good Fells Good”. In the first the songs talk about crazy boys in love with older girls. The

second talks about things that they left to be famous.

I think that the second is

more mature than the first, but my favourite song is on the first al-bum. Its name is, “Amnesia”.

Calum Hood

Calum Hood is the band’s bassist. He’s 20 years old and his birthday is on 25th January. His dad is Scottish and his mum is Kiwi, but he was born in Sydney, so he’s Australian. His mum wanted him to become a

footballer, but he loved to sing and to play the bass. He left high school when he was 15 to go to London and write songs.

My Music

I’m a singer like them, but I’m not just

a singer. I’m a bassist and a songwriter too. When I was 12 years old I started to write some songs because writing is the only way to say what I think and

what I feel really. Now I have about 15 songs in Italian and

about 10 songs in English.

Projects with Music

I love singing so much that I wanna be a famous singer. I’d like to meet someone to help me

to realize my dream.

Chiara Sardo, B1.1

Grade 5

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This painting makes the viewer identify himself/herself with the peasants, so transmissive this image is. The movements of the characters are so natural, and the colours make the atmosphere so realistic, that you feel to be there.

It well represents what Pa-tini wanted to show to the world.

Matteo Vattovani, C1.2


Vanga e Latte (1884)

sent his death.

There are several different points of view and fasci-nating interpretations of this picture but the point is that it will shake you up. It takes you to another artistic and spiritual di-mension making you for-get this “must see” has been created by a man as you are.

Lorenzo Micheluzzi, C1.2


Giuditta E Olofrene

with some health issues looking for a perfect holi-day site.

I also enjoyed funny and amusing dancing lessons with an excellent teacher Chiara and I came back home with a very nice waltz experience. The only problem was that the sound equipment was ra-ther poor, so I suggest to replace it with a better one.

All in all, my vote for the Golden Beach Resort is four stars and I hope to be back as soon as possible.

Aleksandra Sipovac, C1.2


A Golden Beach Resort If you get the chance, visit some scenic spots such as the “little Hollywood” in Con-conello and the “Vedetta d’Italia” at the Monte Grisa Sanctuary.

Lisa Lorenzi, C2.1


Trieste

the special ability of Dan-ny and the cook, which is called the "shine". The special psychological sur-vey makes it very compel-ling and interesting. There are such tense situations inside the hotel and in its garden and the description of the fire, at the end of the story, is so vivid that you want to believe it is real. The famous film The Shining, which is directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the book, but its story is very different from the original novel.

I would recommend this book to anyone. Although I enjoyed it, I would not recommend it for its Goth-ic content: if you like ghosts, you will enjoy it, but the book is particularly interesting as a psycholog-ical novel. It has such an unusual setting, too, which contributes to its success.

Luciano Dobrilovic, B2.2


The Shining

Finder This invention reminds you where you have put something that you can’t find. It’s cheap and useful. On the market there aren’t similar items. It’s pro-duced in our house.

Class DK32X, B1.2

Could it be better? Could it improve about anything? First of all, I’d like it could be less expensive, but we must consider that we’re talking about an “all inclu-sive resort”. Anything else? Too far from Italy ….

That’s all, enjoy yourself. Massimiliano Gostoli, C1.2


Bodu Hithi, Why Not?

important to change how we live in order to protect our planet and the envi-ronment. However it is al-so important to reduce new technologies prices, in order to use them more.

Lorenzo Soave, B2.2


The Environment

fore.

In addition, we should look beyond our borders and act as facilitators of dialogue, breaking the vi-cious circle of fear and ex-clusion. In a long-term ap-proach, if we change hab-its, working on education without prejudices, most probably also the “enemies” will do the same. The deciding issue should be only one: whether the immigrants accept to share our values (such as decency, democ-racy, equality, non- vio-lence) or not.

Paola Cameran, C1.1


The Enemy Within

worker can still do a lot. I have known many people who retired at that age, that are now bored and look desperately for some-thing to fill their days. Thus: there is a human cost too. So, in my opinion forcing workers to retire at 55 would not be a good idea, although it would give some immediate opportu-nities to younger people. A different case are people doing dangerous or heavy works: retiring earlier af-ter many years of such a burden would be healthier and probably economically feasible. Claudio Strizzolo, C1.1


Pension Age

THE BRITISH SCHOOL O F FRIULI -VENEZIA

I’m bad at smiling. In my aquarium there are three fish, two

starfish and one shark.Last week I like the past and I go to

the museum , saw a movie

and had an ice cream. Cris-

tian is sillier than me . I’m stronger

than my sister . Riccardo Perco, A2.1

I’m good at riding a bike and

taking pictures . Last weekend

I went with my family for a walk at the Russel. I used my Go Pro

video camera . At the finish of the Russel I eated an ice cream

. On my picnic blanket there is box of ice cream. There are some

pieces of pizza and sausages. There is a piece of meat. There is some cake, some bread and some glasses. My friend Samuele is

bigger than me. I’m faster than my friend Florent.

Alberto Crevato, A2.1

Things I know

Corner K

ids

I’m bad at cricket. In my aquarium there are two fish, one turtle and one octopus.

Last week I was ill and watched TV

on the sofa. My best friend is faster

than me. Emanuela Ramani, A2.1

It’s cloudy in the park. A grandma is reading a book to a wolf.

Davide Depangher 2, A1.3

I’d like to sail a boat and eat a hot dog.

Elisa Russiani, A1.3

I’d like to shoot with my gun and run in the street.

Mattia Susmel, A1.3

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It can swim. It can’t walk. It lives in the sea. It eats fish. It has got fins. It hasn’t got feet. What ani-mal is it?

Federico Giovanetti, A2.1

It can’t swim. It has got a long neck. It hasn’t got wings. It has got long legs. It lives in savanna. It eats grass and baby trees.

Andrea Bertoja, A2.1

In Our Aquarium

There are two fish. There is a dol-phin, a octopus and a seahorse. There is a jellyfish and a blue whale.

Niccolò Austoni, A2.1

What is it?

In my aquarium there are two oc-topuses. There is a crab, three red fishes, a orange seahorse, two jel-lyfishes and a big grey shark. There is a lot of sand and water.

Viola Corso, A2.1

This a drawing of Water World. There are two dolphins. There are some fish. There are two jellyfish.

Andrea Stipcovich, A2.1

It can fly. It can swim. It has got feathers. It has got wings. It lives in the lakes. It eats aquatic and submerged plants.

Gabriel Alfeo, A2.1

It can swim. It can’t fly. It has got a tail. It hasn’t got feathers. It lives in Africa. It eats plants.

Giovanni Davia, A2.1

It’s white. It has got a white fur. It has got a short tail and short tail and short ears. It can’t climb. It can swim. It can walk and fish. It lives in the Arctic. It eats fish and it hasn’t got feathers.

Michelangelo Forza, A2.1

It can fly, but it can’t swim. It has got two col-oured wings and a small body. It lives all around the world and it eats nec-tar of flowers.

Sara Ceglar, A2.1

My pet disaster is very big. She’s got six legs, two heads and two blue wings. She is nice and she’s not dangerous. She likes basketball and football. She lives in the garden. Her favourite food is pizza and her favourite drink is chamomile.

Perla Durdevic, A1.2

My house has nine rooms. My favourite room is my room. The wall is white and yellow. My house has a big garden. I like my garden, where I play with my dog, Krafen. In my house I like read books. There is a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. My house is fantastic.

Vasja Gulič, A1.3

My House I live in a nice house. There are one bed-room, two bathrooms, one kitchen, one hall and one living room. It’s very big. I like the house.

Nicola Faganello,

A1.2

My house is big. My home has got five rooms: a living room, two bath-rooms, two bedrooms, a kitchen and a balcony. My home has got one floor.

Alessandra Savi, A1.3

My house is very big. It is near the wood and is white. My house has got three floors and three balconies. My house has got two gardens and two parkings. There are three bedrooms, two bath-rooms, one kitchen and one living room.

Matteo Dello Russo,A1.3

In my dream day I don’t go to school and I can sleep in my comfortable bed till 10:50. In the after-noon I meet my friends and we go to the cinema, where I meet Iron Man and I fly with him.

Vittorio Vercelli, A1.2

My Dream Day In the morning: I sleep a long time and wake up at nine o’clock. Then I get up and have ice cream for breakfast. In the after-noon: I have-n’t got any homework and I’m very happy. I meet my friends in town and we play computer games. In the evening: We got to a pizza-restaurant and have a big piz-za.

James Xander Stofe, A1.2

In the morning, I sleep till ten o’clock and for breakfast I have ice cream. In the afternoon I meet my friends in town and we go shopping. In the evening, I eat piz-za and potato chips and I go to bed at ten o’clock.

Caterina Maniago, A1.2

It’s cloudy, a tiger is playing football with a baby in the theatre.

Nicole Maria Gostoli, A1.3

Gold

Digger This invention scans the river

and finds gold. You can make money from gold. There aren’t any

similar products on the market. Download it from the App Store or Google Play. It costs 1,99 if you don’t want publicity but it’s 0,99.with.

Class DK32X, B1.2

Trieste 18, Via Torrebianca 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

THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF

FRIULI-

VENEZIA GIULIA

5 Rules of Friendship

Find a person to make friends with.

Know each other well.

You should play together.

Go eat some ice cream.

Always love each other. Martina Merenna, A2.1

B1.2

Fan Cap This invention is revolution-ary because, the fan exists but you have to keep it in your hands, but this you just need to put on your cap. The fan is made of plastic and the cap is of cloth. It keeps you fresh every time, also in very hot countries. It is pro-duced in Trieste.

Class DK32X,-B1.2

Zanardi, A1.3

I play football on the table

I sleep in the park

I cook in the

bathroom.

I watch TV in the shower.

I get dressed in the park.

Gostoli

Benedetta

Semacchi

Russiani

Mattia

Susmel

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