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The World Cup 2010

(Here's an old and unpublished article we found, so I thought I'd post it) It's about the 2010 world cup which changed much of St Julians into various small football-havens. I couldn't find the pictures they were talking about, ...

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Welcome to some new teachers

At this time of the year we always start preparing for the summer by employing new teachers, so this week I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the new members of our team – Moira, Mark, Brian, Jasmin and Rob. Let’s ...

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Gioebia Festival , Milan - Italy

Hi everyone….this week we shall be talking about a festival organised in Italy, specifically in a town on the outskirts of Milano. The article is written by Andrea Margiotta Andrea Margiotta My town celebrates a very old ...

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GENTSE FEESTEN - What is it?

Hello everyone As I promised you last week, today I shall be uploading another article written by another one of our FCE students. This time it shall be an article about the GENTSE FEESTEN, held in Belgium and the author is ...

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Tell Us About Queen's Day

Today is the day on which the Dutch celebrate ‘Queensday’ – and it is for this reason that they will be in charge of our diary page this week. I asked our 6 FCE students to write an article about festivals in their countries ...

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'All Fools' Day' Recipe

Many people in various countries refer to this day as All Fools’ Day, and they use every excuse they can think of to play practical jokes on their friends and colleagues. In some countries, such as the UK, Australia and South ...

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Another Maltese Recipe

This week I’m posting my blog earlier than usual…and do you want to know why? Well, tomorrow is a public holiday, which means that we can enjoy a long weekend! The 19 th of March is a religious holiday on the island and also ...

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Traditional Maltese Recipe

Today it’s time to move on to the next lent recipe, however, before doing so I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Elanguest team upon receiving a very special International award earlier on this week. I’m ...

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Welcome to the Reporter

What is "The Reporter"? Started in 1995, the reporter began as a showcase for the best of the students essays which were being produced for the Cambridge course at the school. The Reporter encouraged students to submit ...

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Poetry...

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” In English poetry this is possibly one of the most famous metaphors of all time used by none other than the National Poet, William Shakespeare, in Sonnet 18. However, metaphors in ...

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“It’s been a hard day’s night and I’ve been...

In English, whenever we want to compare two things to each other we can use a simile. The main difference between a simile and a metaphor is that the comparison in similes is always indirect. In fact we need to employ words ...

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The Cambridge Exams

When talking about “Cambridge Exams”, we use it as an umbrella term to group together different exams at different levels. We can divide these into two groups- ESOL and IELTS. All of these exams are recognized as ...

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‘He who dares to teach must never cease to...

Behaviorist B. F. Skinner was one of the pioneers of the idea that the human being is born with a tabula rasa (an empty brain), and throughout the course of our lives we learn how to do things. This goes for everything under ...

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My greatest dream

It was a Monday morning in November and the sun hadn’t risen yet. Like any other November morning it was frozen outside, only two degrees Celsius, the frost formations made remarkable patterns on the car windows. When the ...

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Young people always want to dress differently

Some people think young people always want to dress differently form their parents. Others believe they can wear the same clothes. In this composition, I will discuss both points of view and express my opinion on the matter. first ...

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My Military Service

The Swedish Armed Forces are divided into three different forces: The Navy, the Army and the Airforce. None of these are careers based. Our military service is obligatory (5 – 20 months) except for religious ideals, ...

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My Stay in Miami

1990, I was almost fifteen years old, when my parents decided that I should leave home for a while. They wanted me to improve my English because I just had two years of English lessons at school at that time. They also ...

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My time in a town above the Artic Circle

I arrived in Tromsö on a sunny August day in 1988 in order to study fishery science at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsö. I didn’t know, that time when I was standing at the Tromsö bus-stop, ...

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Reaching for the stars

The true story about talent show as pop idols. Isn’t it everybody’s dream to be on a poster in every bedroom? Doesn’t it sound ideal when you simply walk out the door as an ordinary person and to have the whole country ...

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The history of the computer

Back in the ‘Dark Ages’ The first mechanical calculator ever built was constructed by Willhelm Schichard (1592-1633) in Tübingen, Germany, in 1623. Schichard made two copies both entirely in wood. The first one was made for ...

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