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23 April-World Book Day and UN English Language Day Celebrated with C.P.Cavafy

The United Nations Organisation has set 23 April as World Book Day  to promote reading and immersion to world literature. In the United Kingdom, the day is instead recognised on the first Thursday in March. The day was selected because it is the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso…

Easter Egg Cookies Recipe Video

Why not have some Easter fun along with listening and vocabulary practice in a …confectionery style? Watch this video to learn how to make butter cookies shaped and styled as Easter eggs. The recipe is simple and easy to carry out. Moreover, it is all written down further below, so…

Hot Information on Freezing Antarctica-Quiz and Article

We are fully in winter now and although there have been some cold days here in Greece, no snow has been really seen in most regions of our country, apart from the high altitude ones. I know we would all like to have some “white days”, but until the weather…

Websites that Help You Find What to Read,Listen,Watch Next

Have you just finished reading a book that really inspired you? Have you just heard a song that kept you tapping in excitement? Or you may have just watched a film that had you enraptured; and you start thinking you would absolutely like more of it or something like it.…

Feelings List

  It is often needed to describe emotional states, that is how one feels, either in descriptive essays or in every day communication. Here’s a helpful list of adjectives that describe feelings Read more

Improve your Writing with Transitional Words and Phrases-Βελτίωσε το γραπτό σου με συνδετικές λέξεις και φράσεις

Transitional words and phrases are used to connect one idea to the next. They show how the main idea and its further development are connected within a paragraph or within a sentence. They are like the asphalt (bitumen) that glues the materials of the road surface together. If the amount of the asphalt is little…

Anniversary of the “No”-A Message from Greece

moving to the front Ohi Day (also spelled Ochi Day, Greek: Επέτειος του «’Οχι» Epeteios tou “‘Ohi”, Anniversary of the “No”)  commemorates 28 October 1940. That day, Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas (in power from August 4, 1936, until January 29, 1941) used that single word (if not the actual word, this was the message of…

This is Greece-An article from the 40s

Click here to go to a news.google.com/newspapers page. Scroll down page 2 to find the article titled “This is Greece” which was published  in The Bladen Journal, 14 November, 1940. You can enlarge the page by clicking on the magnifying button. Read the article and do the following tasks: Read more