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Agatha Christie's house. Learnenglishteens.britishcouncil. When you say the word “graffiti”, some people think of big, beautiful and colourful artwork whilst others think of mess that make our towns and cities look untidy and badly-maintained.

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Graffiti is art that is painted on walls and other public places. It is most often made with spray paint, which comes in a can. However, graffiti can be made with any type of paint or other material. Some people use real paint to make their art. Graffiti can vary from a small “tag”; someone’s name written on a wall, to a very large mural, which covers a whole wall. Graffiti often has a social or political message which it shows in pictures or words or both. In the United Kingdom graffiti is illegal. My strange obsession with horror films. I used to hate horror films, and would refuse to watch them as I didn’t understand why anyone would want to scare themselves on purpose.

My strange obsession with horror films

But now I love them, and I will even watch them by myself. So what is it about them that makes us keep watching? To be completely honest, I will still have a cushion nearby to cover my face for particularly bad parts, but I enjoy watching them nonetheless. My sister is exactly the same, and we always watch a scary film together whenever we stay with each other. Learnenglishteens.britishcouncil. I think the time has come to say goodbye to the sun, to not wearing a coat and to summer in general.

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We all know it happens every year but it’s still always a disappointment when it does. It feels like not that long ago when I was on a beach on the island of Crete on my summer holidays without a care in the world and now here I am, digging out my coat and boots and moaning about a sore throat. LearnEnglishTeens. On May 7th the British people will vote in the general elections.

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As I was trying to decide who to vote for, I realised how lucky I was that I could vote at all. A century ago, British women did not have the right to vote. Many women felt that this was unfair so they became members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). These women were known as the Suffragettes. Moment judge recognised school friend in dock - BBC News.

Are young people today worse than ever? ‘We live in a decaying age.

Are young people today worse than ever?

Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self-control.’ Does this sound familiar? LearnEnglishTeens. Who was Nelson Mandela? The Maasai and the lions. For thousands of years the Maasai people in Kenya had no doubts about their relationship with the lions who shared the land with them.

The Maasai and the lions

They were enemies. The lions wanted to kill the tribe’s livestock and the Maasai had to protect the animals. It was even part of the coming-of-age ritual of young warriors to kill a lion. But now things have changed and the Maasai are part of a new East African scheme to protect lions, called the Lion Guardians. The aim is for local people to be trained to manage and protect the lions without involvement from outsiders after the period of initial training. Fury Erupts After Walter Palmer Is Named As Cecil The Lion's Killer - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás. A fogorvos, aki megölte a világ leghíresebb oroszlánját.

Fury Erupts After Walter Palmer Is Named As Cecil The Lion's Killer - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás

Angol nyelvű összefoglaló szószedettel és fealdattal. Fury Erupts After Walter Palmer Is Named As Cecil The Lion's Killer Outcries could be heard around the globe after a Minnesota dentist was identified as the man who killed Zimbabwe's beloved Cecil the Lion. Dr. Walter Palmer was named by the Telegraph as the man who paid $55,000 to hunt the famous 13-year-old animal, luring him out of Hwange National Park with dead meat, piercing him with a bow and arrow, and then following him for 40 hours before shooting him dead with a rifle. MOON RIVER. Lyrics to "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) at Reel Classics. Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffany's. LearnEnglishTeens. A Walk in the Forest - level 3.

Tuesday Going through the forest is my favourite part of the walk.

A Walk in the Forest - level 3

Benji loves it too. There are rabbits to chase and old leaves to smell. Friends Reunited! Judge Meets Old Pal In Dock - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás. A tárgyaláson jött rá a bírónő, hogy egykori osztálytársát ítéli el - olvasd el és nézd meg a hihetetlen történetet!

Friends Reunited! Judge Meets Old Pal In Dock - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás

Friends Reunited! Judge Meets Old Pal In Dock "This was the nicest kid in middle school," the judge said. Coca-Cola Removes Its Labels To Send An Important Message - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás. Miért távolította el a Coca-Cola a címkéket az üdítős dobozokról?

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Olvasd el, és kiderül - természetesen egy kis feladattal a végén. Coca-Cola Removes Its Labels To Send An Important Message Loud and clear. In a video for Coca-Cola, six men sit around a table in a pitch black room, and guess what the others look like based on stated interests, professions and hobbies. When one man says, "I read a lot of books. 'I Didn't Know My Mother Was Audrey Hepburn' - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás.

Egy rövid olvasás értést ellenőrző feladat Audrey Hepburn-ről és családjáról. 'I Didn't Know My Mother Was Audrey Hepburn': Her Son Reveals the Star's Private Side For the first six years of his life, Audrey Hepburn's youngest son didn't realize his mom was a world-famous movie star.

"To me, my mother was Audrey Dotti," says Luca Dotti, whose father was Hepburn's second husband, Andrea Dotti. "I never realized she was Audrey Hepburn. Egy rövid lecke Hitchcock-kal - filmes feladat szószedettel - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás. Thief Returns Stones After 20 Years Of Bad Luck - Ingyenes online angol tanulás, Ingyen Angol nyelvtanulás. Olvasási feladat egy rablóról, ai 20 év után visszavitte a zsákmányát.

Thief Returns Stones After 20 Years Of Bad Luck Ancient sling stones taken two decades ago have been returned to a museum, with a note urging others not to steal antiquities. A thief has returned two archaeological treasures with a confession note - after apparently experiencing 20 years of bad luck. The 2,000-year-old sling stones were taken from the ancient city of Gamla on the Golan Heights in July 1995, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. They were returned in a bag to the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures in Israel's southern city of Beersheba, along with a note from the thief. LearnEnglishTeens. LearnEnglishTeens. LearnEnglishTeens. By Louise Cooper. The First Woman in my Life. The Colourful Life of Calum McCall. By Ron Butlin During the early years of his life, Calum McCall was surprised to find himself waking up every morning in a winter country of darkened tenements, black railings and streets of pitiless traffic. There seemed to be only one sun in the Scottish sky, and it wasn't even striped - which perhaps explained the look of perpetual disappointment he could see in the faces of the men and women who lived there.

Every so often he tried asking his parents: 'What has happened to the multicoloured suns that used to bounce across the sky, and to the colours that trailed after like rain? ' 'Aye right’, said his dad. 'Elbows off the table,' said his mother. That night he slept badly for the first time. LearnEnglishTeens. Pink Bow Tie. By Paul Jennings Well, here I am again, sitting outside the Principal's office. Ex Poser. LearnEnglishTeens. Bedtime stories. Never underestimate the power of a bed time story. Picture the scene: the year is 1999. Saintly St Andrews.