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the truth behind Romeo and Juliet tragedy
Hello, I’m from Verona, the city where the famous english playwright William Shakespeare located his well-known tragedy Romeo and Juliet. I have visited several time the famous Juliet’s house by myself, with the school, with friends, with girls and I everytime I went there I couldn’t gave up surprising by the hords of people coming from all over the world, queueing at the entrance of the tight and dark passageway that grants access to a little yet strikingly crowded squared yard and the palace that has likely become the most famous tourist attractions of Verona. The passageway ceiling and the walls are so covered up by names of couples that wanted to leave their eternal proof of love that some artful visitors have stuck bandaids to the walls to gain a tiny space for their names too. There are serious doubts about the truth of this story, yet I think is it worth to know a little about the origin of this legend. In favour of the truth of this story I must say that both families had really existed, Dante named them in his Divine Comedy as “sad families”, because of their feud against the Sambonifacio family, and Juliet’s house really belonged to Capuleti (originally Cappelletti) family, on the other hand it seems to be the only relation with the reality as there is no mention at all to this love story, neither on Dante’s Comedy nor on other ancient documents trasured in the prestigious library “the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona”, where Dante, Petrarca and Charlemagne’s son, Pipino, had studied, and any other documents hitherto found. The basic plot, the struggling love, wasn’t new to italian literature, as other writings located in Siena reported about a couple that found their death after a forbidden marriage. Another more recent version of the tragedy and more similar to the Shakespeare’s one moved the action from Siena to Verona and, for the first time, the name’s lover became Romeo and Juliet. French and english translations helped the tragedy to become even more popular but is the William Shakespeare version that contributed to seal forever Romeo and Juliet’s story as the icon of the perfect but forbidden love and Verona as the eternal stage of it. I beg your pardon if I ruined your past, further of future visit to Juliet’s house so I want to say you to not visit this place for the history but for the dream, a dream about an eternal love beyond time and death.
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my memories as high school student in Italy
Hello,
I have just studied some vocabulary about study and academic work so I though it was an excellent idea to write a little composition about my experience as "accounting high school" student in Italy.
Actually I have never been a keen student at high school, whereas I was good at elementary and intermediates; I think puberty had filled up my brain with a lot of "puberty" things.
However, while I had always crammed for subjects like history, geography and literature because I hated them, subject as accounting and financial maths had never given me any headache, I almost had to study them nor I had never had the necessity to bury myself in book to get high scores in this subjects. I was told by ex mates that I was in the exclusive group of genius of the "core subjects" (which are accounting, financial maths and bank calculations) in the classroom; I had never thought about me in this way but now it must recognize that they were right.
I could work out almost without help any type of calculation with insurances, loans, bonds, interestes, my enthusiams for it has lead me to my current work, which is managing the accounting of a company. Sometimes I open Excel and make some new statistic from the scratch only to find out some trend in my company or only to keep them registerd in case I need them for new data, I have a lot of fun making it!
I could have gone to the uni but I didn't want to go on with five years more of studies only to end up in a consulting firm to work for free to get enough experience to sit the national examination to became an official accounting and fiscal expert; I just wanted the money now!
I met my ex mates a few years ago and I'm the only one who were working as accountant, another girl went to the uni and at that time were working in a bank.
I hope you find easy to read and thanks for reviewing it.
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Looking for partner to improve english, I can raise up your italian and spanish fluency.
Hello, I'm 52 y.o. married italian man living in Barcelona, Spain. I'm looking for a regular language partner to improve english (I have recently passed the FCE exam), in exchange I can help to improve italian and spanish. My availability is from 18:30/19:00 to 20:00 and form 22.00 to 23:30/24:00. Skype and Zoom are my favourite tools.
Teachers please don't answer unless you are looking for real and free language interchange.
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How to check comprehension of audios to improve listening for exams?
Hello, I'd like to know if someone has camen out with a method to check real comprehension of audios to improve listening for Cambridge exams. I can understand a lot of words and phrases but I feel that for me is not so useful in order to improve this skill; I recently passed the FCE and the second worst score was listening even if I have been spending a lot of time on it.
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FCe writing test - what young people can do protect their local enviroment
Question:
What can young people do to help protect and improve their local enviroment?
Notes:
1 recycling thins
2 cycling or walking instrad of using cars
3 ...(your own idea)
Answer:
It is a fact that the environment is in great danger by the effect of the pollutions, micro-plastic and global warming.
Even if governments always issue new regulations in order to protect the environment, without the help the help of people, especially young people who will inherit this planet in the future, any struggle will be useless.
Young people not only have the choice but also the obligation to help and improve their local environment by recycling, cycling or using public transports instead of using cars. If I were asked to come out with an idea about this subject, I would recommend to organize a public pickup of the garbage that is usually available on the streets and in the fields nearby the cities and towns, as have already been made on some beaches where people recollected fag ends from the sand.
To sum up, if young people don't get involved actively in preserving and improving their local environment, this planet, their planet, will be soon inhospitable.
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FCE essay test - cars shold be banned from city centres?
Major cities authorities have raised their voice to call for a regulation to prevent from pollution warnings; the solution that most likely will be taken is the ban of cars from the centres but, in my opinion, it’s a short term solution.
Cities aren’t really ready to deal with an high volume of people going into centres to go to work, shopping or school without their own car because public transport hardly cover all the centre’s area and some of them aren’t available outside the city like the underground.
I live in a town and use my car daily but if I had a work in a city, I would be in big troubles if I weren’t allowed to use my car or forced to find a place in a parking lot, because it would take me hours to go to work using public transports and because parking lot are expensive and would generate me an additional fee.
In summary, I think that banning cars from centres of major cities would be a good idea in the future as long as cities will be prepared to offer valid alternatives to the use of private vehicles.
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PC and television - FCE writing test
Question:
Young people are spending more time each day on their computers than watching television. Is this a change for better?
Article:
It's a hard taks to decide whether is change for better or not that young people spend more time on computers rather than television but if we examine the differences between both devices we can extrapolate important conclusions:
1- Television creates passive users, people only can choose among a list of channels. Computers allow users to choose among a large list of activities as gaming, chatting up, playing music and many other activities.
2- Television doesn’t allow interaction. Computers allow users to send direct and instant messages through social platforms to other users and by following official television channels profiles, give them their own opinions on the fly.
3- Television content is several times filtered if not directly censured. Computers give access to any kind of content whenever is needed almost without filters and censorship.
Given this list of vantages and advantages between television and computers, it’s easy to understand why young people is keen on using new technology. As long as computers help young people to grow up with the ability to choose wisely and freely what to do and see it’s indeed a change for better.
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TV series and drama review - FCE writing exercise
I am not keen on TV dramas, I’d rather prefer watching movies, however I must recognize that during the last years the TV serie industry has come out with great products that have harvested a great popularity.
I am a fan of “C.S.I.” and “Breaking bad” but if I were asked to choose the best serie I've seen recently I would say that it is the original Danish/Swedish serie “Broen”, a police serie that unveils the hidden sins and flaws of the allegedly perfect nordic society.
The main character is the swedish female police Saga Noren. Saga is affected by Asperger syndrome but it’s not a obstacle for her to be extremely clever in her job, even if her colleagues don't like her because of her rudeness.
In my opinion what make this serie a milestone are the brillant cast, the solid plot that hasn’t weakened during the 4 seasons it lasted and the ability of the writers to create aesthetic stages where actors can exploit all their skills to create superb characters.
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Why you shouldn't drop the fag ends on the ground
Smoking ban laws have been approved in almost all countries all over the world and cigarette's manifacturers have been forced to display health warnings on cigarette's packs, despite negative effects upon health of adults and children, also as passive smokers, were been repetitively proved it's been a hard way to accept by governments to ban smoking by law.
Everybody thought that a great victory was been achieved by non-smokers in terms of public health but a new threat came out as smokers weren't allowed to enter into buildings while they were smoking. In fact, the smoking ban laws don't mention at all what to do whith the butts of cigarettes, because before smoking ban laws, smokers drop the fag ends into the trays, but the obbligation to put trays outside the building isn't regulated.
According to Newscientist, every year 4 trillons, 750.000 tonnes in total, of cigarettes filter are chunk in the enviroment. Used cigarettes butts not only aren't biodegradable but also containt toxic and carginogens elements. As the rain flush away fag ends to the drainage systems, the fag ends release all these toxics into the water. It's found that one cigarette butt soaked in a litre for 96 hours of water could release enough toxines to kill half of the fish exposed to them.
Fag ends are completely useless, as they even don't protect smokers from the toxines, in fact, cancer risks have increased over the last 50 years, in contrary, the harm to the enviroment is great.
I hope you think twice before dropping fag ends to the ground.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229750-200-time-to-kick-cigarette-butts-theyre-toxic-trash/
June 11, 2018
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My daughter's Sunday best.
At 7 o’clock my neighbour woke me up by banging around the wall to hang some stupid shot he likes taking with his cutting edge japanese photo camera. I thought I was having a mare but then I realized what was happening. “George!!!”, I screamed, “please bring down that noise, it’s 7 and your pictures suck”, I like being blunt with him, but every time we meet he always talk over his passion for photography.
I jumped into the shower hoping the warm water would take me off the laziness but the water didn’t fall, suddenly I remembered that there were warnings on the wall of today cutoff of water in the district, so I had breakfast and, still smelling of the day before sweat, run in the car to go to the company, lucky for me I don’t use to go for in.
I live alone because my wife and me have drift apart a couple of months ago. She went back to her mother’s home, with our daughter, and since then I haven’t been able to take up the idea of living without them.
The working day passed as bored as everyday, papers, papers and oceans of stacked papers to check and file, the daily try to ask my colleague Monica out and her daily answer “No way!”, but today was a special day because I wanted to make up something for my daughter. She is 11 years old but promised to lead her on to buy a new dress, she likes wearing her “Sunday best” on weekends but she grew out of the old one. It’s gonna be a wonderful day.
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