The History of the English Language

The history of the English language started with arrival of three Germanic tribes . These tribes were Angles, Saxons and Jutes, at that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. This tribe spoke a similar language called Old English, with different sound and words to today's English. Old English was spoken until around 1100.

In 1066, William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy that was from France, invaded and conquered England. The Normans brought with them a French language, and during this time Old English and French mixed words and sound called Middle English.

In the 16th century began the most important change for English language became and many new words and phrases entered the language. This was at the time of William Shakespeare,the invention of printing and the first English dictionary was published. After that Modern English began wich grew to become today's vocabulary.

Now, English is probably used for about a quarter of all the people in the worldand it's often call the world language.

John Charles

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

SUMMARY

The title of book that I have read is ,Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp.

The book tells us the tale of a poor boy , Aladdin. He lived in a city in Arabia, near the market and he lived with his mother in a poor house.

Aladdin was a lazy boy and he didn´t like to work , because his mother was always angra with him .

But , ONE day his life changed, because he found an old man called Abanazar. He said to Aladdin that he was his uncle , but he was lying because he was a bad magician from Morocco.

Abanazar said Aladdin ; Don´t worry!, you will be a rich man , soon.

Abanazar and Aladdin went through the hills and arrived at a cave, then Abanazar gave aladdin ONE MAGIC RING and with it , Aladdin could go into the cave , where aladdin found a old enchanted lamp .

In that moment, Abanazar was angry, only, he wanted the lamp and when Aladdin understood that Abanazar was a bad man, then Aladdin didn´t give it to him.

The magician was very furious and he closed the cave and Aladdin didn´t go out.

But, Aladdin was CLEVER , and he went out with the help of his magic ring. Now he had got his Enchanted Lamp and his Magic Ring.

In the Lamp lived a jinnee and he gave Aladdin gold and jewels, now, Aladdin is a rich man and he can marry with the Sultan´s daughter.

But some time after, Abanazar wanted to recover the lamp and he went near to Aladdin´s palace and he changad ONE new lamp for the old lamp, he took the princess too and they went to Morocco.

When Aladdin Knew it, he cried. Then he began to rub his magic ring and with its help, he went to Morocco.

In the end, the bad old magician died, because he drunk some sleeping-powder. Then Aladdin and his wife were free and they returned to Arabia and they were happy.

Mercedes Mogío Meneses.

Dancing with strangers

SUMMARY
`DANCING WITH STRANGERS´
BY Mª CARMEN CUENCA GARCÍA


1st story: EKATERINA

A South African man is coming back home from another country. His flight stops in Athens and he thinks it’s a beautiful place to stay because of its ancient culture. In the airport he meets a poor young Greek girl who is going to fly with him. She’s very sad and seems helpless. They sit together in the plane and she starts speaking in Greek. He doesn’t understand her but looking at her eyes and her face, he can imagine what’s she’s trying to say. She’s engaged to a rich Greek man who lives in Johannesburg but they haven’t met yet. The South African man tries to say to her that she should think about coming back home and living her own life but she says she can’t. When they arrive to South Africa she meets her engaged man. He’s an old fat man but she decides to get married to him because it’s her duty.


2nd story: BREAKING LOOSE

An African man and an Indian girl meet in a pub in her home town in Africa. She’s with her friends and it means that she mustn’t dance with a stranger but she does. He’s a professor at the university where she’s studying Literature. They start a forbidden relationship against her mother’s will: he’s not Asian and he’s older than her. His father is more open-minded and let her continue seeing him…but he dies and she has to be strong and determined to break away from family, friends, old customs and old ways.


3rd story: REMEMBER ATITA

Atita is a young African girl who comes back to her home town to try to find her friends. She always says they were as in that old song ´Five green bottles standing on the wall’ because she’s got a photo in which they are sitting on a wall, smiling at the camera when they were little girls. While she’s looking for them, she meets a boy who sleeps in the streets since his family fear for his life because military men kill people in their homes at night. Atita sleeps next to him on the floor of the shop veranda every night. After some days looking for her friends she finds one of them. She’s at the hospital and she doesn’t recognize Atita. She can’t talk but Atita visits her every day. Some weeks later Laker can remember at last and tells her about one of their friends. Laker saw some soldiers shooting her and that’s the reason she couldn’t talk anymore. But now Atita is near and she´ll be happy again.


4th story: A GATHERING OF BALD MEN

A man who sells insurances to old black people looks at himself one day and notices he´s got a bald patch on his head. He’s very worried and gets nervous. His wife doesn’t make light of that but then she remembers some men who kill themselves for that reason. He goes to work but instead of this he enters in an old pub and drinks a lot. A man comes in and tells him he knows about his thoughts. He’s got the solution: he´ll help him to kill himself. He says he’s blind but he’s going to drive his car. He does it and the police stop them. They know this crazy man-who is not blind- and decide to let them go. The new friends open an agency where they work telling people that to be a bald man is not a misfortune and they get lots of money.

SUMMARY: THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

The story surrounds the double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. Newspaper accounts of the murder reveal that the mother's neck was very deeply cut, and when they tried to lift her, the head fell off and the dead body of the daughter, head downwards and it was difficult to pull the body out because the chimney was so narrow. The murderers occur in an inaccessible room on the fourth floor locked from the inside. Chairs and tables were broken and lay in pieces everywhere, on the floor were two bags, which contained nearly four thousand francs in gold. Neighbours who hear the murder give contradictory accounts, claiming they hear the murderer speaking a different language.

The first investigation conducted by the brigade of investigations, do not give any results, demonstrating the impotence of the police to clarify the facts.

Mr Dupin and his friend, the unnamed narrator of the story, read these newspaper accounts with interest. Mr Dupin decides to investigate on his own and after intense and brilliant research, offers an extraordinary explanation.

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