вторник, 1 января 2019 г.

вторник, 25 декабря 2018 г.

The Night Before Christmas




Merry Christmas Everyone!
I’m going to revive the famous poem, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. This is an iconic poem, written with some old style grammar and vocabulary, that we often hear at Christmas.

The Night Before Christmas.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Sometimes, sometime, or some time?

10 "Cold" English Idioms

10 words to learn in 2019


“Learning new words at The Free Dictionary is the best resolution you can make.” - Ben Franklin, probably.
We’re not trying to coerce you or anything with the above  axiomatic saying, but if you find yourself contrite about not following through on your capricious New Year’s resolutions from 2018, don’t make an egregious mistake and make the same hackneyed resolution for 2019! Instead, resolve to learn some new words!

5 times you should NOT use a preposition

среда, 19 декабря 2018 г.

Burning the Clocks Festival, December, 21st


Burning the Clocks is winter solstice festival  that takes place each year in BrightonUK.  Founded in 1993the celebration centers round a procession of lanterns and costumesmade from  withies (willow canesand white tissuepaperlead by local bands with a carnival atmosphere.  The procession makes its way through Brighton city centre to the seafront where the festivities culminate in a lantern bonfireaccompanied by  fireworksThe costumes all include clockface to represent the passing of timealthough each year has a slight change of theme.
Same Skyan arts initiative first organised the event to commemorate the CoOp's 150th BirthdayThey explain: "Burning the Clocks is an antidote to the excesses of the commercial ChristmasPeople gather together to make paper and willow lanterns to carry through their city and burn on the beach as a token for the end of the year ... The lantern makers become part of the show as they invest the lanterns with their wisheshopesand fears and then pass them into the fireSame Sky are masters at creating new urban rituals to replace those traditional festivals that were lost in the dash to be new and non superstitious." [http://www.burningtheclocks.co.uk Burning of the Clocks homepage]