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Best Times
24 Magaz ine of
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, Melissa.Wing@British-fvg.net
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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My Avatar - Newgio
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.”
THE BRITISH SCHOOL O F FRIULI-VENEZIA Page 13
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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VENEZIA GIULIA
A TORREBIANCA , 18
TRIESTE
Trieste Phone: 040-369-369
Fax: 040-76-000-75
Email: treiste@british-fvg.net
Monfalcone
16, Via Duca d'Aosta
Phone: 0481-411-868
Fax: 0481-41-22-28
Email: monfalcone@british-fvg.net
Udine
4, Vicolo Pulesi
Phone: 0432-50-71-71
Fax: 0432-50-75-46
Email: udine@british-fvg.net
Gorizia
17, Corsa Italia
Phone: 0481-33-300
Fax: 0481-53-15-18
Email: Gorizia@british-fvg.net
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
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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
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A leader
Irene, T3/A2