inglese 2020_2021

🤓  We use the Present simple for: A facts and general truths B routines and habits C state verbs (e.g. want, know, prefer, remember, understand, mean, imagine, sound, appear, seem, own, belong to) Time expressions: always, every day, regularly, most days, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never  🤓 We use the Present continuous for: D actions happening right now E temporary situations happening around now F changing situations Time expressions: now, at the moment, these days, nowadays, this year State verbs are usually only used in the Present simple because they express states, beliefs, opinions or feelings. However, a small group of these verbs can be used in the Present continuous with a change of meaning,  e.g. think, have, look, see, for example: We think proms are a great idea. (think - opinion) I'm thinking of going home. (think - mental activity)

 

  https://www.raiplay.it/? Il diritto di contare - RaiPlay https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/ildirittodicontare?wt_mc=2.www.share.raiplay_prg_Ildirittodicontare 1961: Katherine Johnson, genio della matematica, Dorothy Vaughn, aspirante ingegnere e Mary Jackson, informatica, vengono assunte alla NASA, dove si lavora per inviare l'uomo nello spazio. Ma le tre donne sono nere e siamo in Virginia dove vige ancora la discriminazione razziale: uffici, toilette, mense, bus sono rigorosamente separati. Per loro non sarà facile affermare la loro professionalità, dovranno affrontare con coraggio ingiustizie e disuguaglianze.

 Guy Fawkes 5th November 1605 Poem https://youtu.be/L7hHL33lQ0I?feature=shared Song bbc https://youtu.be/4ywvzDpWLF4?feature=shared Poem 2  https://youtu.be/OBGnjtSJl_g?feature=shared Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night is a special event in the UK, celebrated on the 5th of November every year.   It is about a man named Guy Fawkes who was a member of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Over 400 years ago, a group of men, including Guy Fawkes, wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London . They were angry because they did not agree with the king about their church. They filled the basement under Parliament with barrels of gunpowder. However, the plan was discovered, and the guards found Guy Fawkes and his friends before they could light the explosives .  On Bonfire Night, people in the UK have parties, build bonfires , and set off fireworks to remember this event. They also make models of Guy Fawkes, called effigies , and burn them on the fire.  It is a night ful...

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  PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE   Video Rosa Park’s life   Video Martin Luther King’s life Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King      I n the 1950s African Americans couldn't go to the same schools as white Americans . O n buses and trains they had to sit in a different section from white passengers . African   Americans had to go to different hospitals and shops and they couldn't eat in the same   restaurants with white Americans.        The law at the time said African Americans were ' separate but equal ' - so they had to         l ive separate lives from white Americans.          In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks (1913-2005), an African American woman, was on a bus on her way home from work. When she refused to give her seat to a      white man, the bus driver called the police . The police arrested her ...