words holiday or vacation have related meanings in different English-speaking countries and continents‚ but will usually refer to one of the following activities or events: A general leave of absence from a regular occupation for rest or recreation A specific trip or journey for the purposes of recreation / tourism Official or unofficial observances of religious/national/cultural/other significance‚ often accompanied by celebrations or festivities (public/religious holiday) A holiday or vacation
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. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7‚ 1915‚ in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ to Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her father‚ Clarence Halliday (Holiday)‚ a musician‚ did not marry or live with her mother. Her mother had moved to Philadelphia at the age of thirteen‚ after being rejected from her parents’ home in Sandtown-Winchester‚ Baltimore for becoming pregnant. With no support from her own parents‚ Holiday’s mother arranged for the young Holiday to stay with her older married
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something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship‚ you really haven’t learned anything. . A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide‚ and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small‚ silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. A true friend never
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main idea of Facebook is to let you keep in touch with friends all over the world as long as they have a Facebook account. You can post anything on your friend’s electronic wall and put up a status about something as trivial as what shoes you wore that day. The highest age groups who uses Facebook are teenagers. Facebook are now an essential part of their lives. Most of the friends they accept on Facebook are people
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A. BRAINSTORM 1. Look at the topics and add your own idea. Then choose one of the topics to write about. How to make a good first impression on: a classmate a college roommate a teacher a friend’s parents a new neighbor your idea: a new siblings or family 2. My topic: How to make a good first impression on a teacher Dos Don’ts 1. Introduce yourself 2. Be obedient 3. Smile 4. Participate 5. Listen 6. Positive attitude 1. Call his or her first name 2. Trying to crack joke 3
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Your evening activities** 3. A firefighter** 4. Your home town*** 5. Your leisure*** 6. Your visit to the liberation war museum*** 7. Olympic games** 8. Your favourite games and sports** 9. Your favourite foods** LETTER 1. Write a letter to your friend about your illness.* 2. Write a letter to your friend about how you spend/pass your leisure time.*** 3. Write a letter to your friend about your favourite foods.** 4. Write a letter to your
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Most of all I want to travel all around the world. I want to see new places and learn about different cultures. I love travelling so travelling around the whole world would be a dream come true. There are so many places I want to visit. I have been in 8 countries. One of them is England. I want to tell you about that trip‚ because it was a dream holiday. The trip lasted for 4 days. It was a girl trip‚ only me and my mum. We had to take the coast bus to Haugesund very early at the morning. We
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A Disappointing Holiday Have you ever experienced a holiday trip that you yearned for long‚ which turned out to be a disappointment? Well‚ I did. I am an employee who had been working continuously like a ticking clock for five years in the hectic world of Singapore. It was then‚ I decided to pamper myself for a holiday trip and break away from the air-conditioned office. While I was pondering over which destination I am heading for‚ I came upon an advertisement on the television
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the best passion that I’ve ever gotten in my life. If I hadn’t danced‚ my self wouldn’t be as well as like now. I started dancing when I was 14 years old and my first crew was called Elnino. At first‚ I joyed that crew to find my friend‚ a bboy. He is my best friend when we were a little girl and boy. After I had moved to new house‚ we didn’t meet each other for 10 years. But day by day‚ I realize that I love music‚ dancing is my life and my crew really is the second family. Music remind me
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I see the walls of my lovely house and I wonder whether there is any sense in cracks‚ rents‚ scratches that have changed its look through years. Dozens of nice pictures‚ photos‚ yellowed papers‚ attached to the aged wooden planks‚ so significant for my world awareness‚ so dear to my precious memory‚ – do they really have any meaning now‚ after many years from the time they actually got some particular importance? Why do they tell me so much‚ why do they rouse such a great attachment‚ such a true
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