KIDS' CORNER

Do you know the colours in English?

Red, blue, green, orange, yellow, black, white [bianco], grey, brown, pink, purple.

If you are in Ragusa Province, Italy, you can see our newsletter in the February-March edition of "Freetime" magazine!

OUR JUBILEE AMBASSADOR?

This is our student Giovanna,  who has recently spent a few days in London.  As you see, she has come back full of enthusiasm and we think she should be Sicily's Ambassador to the Jubilee celebrations in the UK!

Giovanna also brought us some delicious, homemade chiacchiere to celebrate the end of Carnival:

This article has been cross-posted on Sicily Scene.

DICKENS QUIZ

Charles Dickens in 1858
Image:  Wikipedia

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the novelist, journalist and philanthropist Charles Dickens [7.2.1812 - 9.6.1870].

Whilst, sadly, the popular expressions "What the Dickens...?" ["Che diavolo sta succedendo?"] and "It hurts like the Dickens" ["Ho un dolore infernale"] have nothing to do with Dickens [the former is used by Shakespeare], the word "Scrooge" has entered the language to mean a miserly person.

Dickens Quiz

Match the Dickens character to the book!

Characters


1.  Captain Cuttle            
2.  Ebenezer Scrooge
3.  Uriah Heep
4.  Nell Trent
5.  The Artful Dodger
6.  Augustus Snodgrass
7.  Thomas Gradgrind
8.  Madame Defarge
9.  Miss Haversham
10. Wackford Squeers
11. Mrs Gamp
12. Lady Dedlock


Books


a.  The Pickwick Papers
b.  Hard Times
c.  Dombey and Son
d.  Bleak House
e.  David Copperfield
f.  Nicholas Nickleby
g.  The Old Curiosity Shop
h.  Martin Chuzzlewit
i.  A Tale of Two Cities
j.  Great Expectations
k.  A Christmas Carol
l.   Oliver Twist


Disney - A Christmas Carol




Quiz answers
Highlight the space below to see the answers:

1c 2k 3e 4g 5l 6a 7b 8i 9j 10f 11h 12d

AN EXCITING YEAR

 2012 – AN EXCITING YEAR

Official emblem of Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth 11
by ten-year-old Katherine Dewar from Chester, UK

2012 is going to be an exciting year for the UK. Not only is London hosting the Olympics and Paralympics, but this is also the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11. This means that she has reigned for 60 years.

There will be many celebrations and one of the main events will be a river pageant on the Thames on 3rd June. You can read all about it here.

There will also be a three-evening pageant at Windsor Castle and on 4th June beacons will be lit in many countries around the world in celebration.

DIAMOND JUBILEE WORDSEARCH

A P B B B S E S C X N F D B N

G F Y E U E E A E O O I N T E

S N L D L N T G I V I R O H E

E L I I E H T S A Z T E M A U

S C B V E L S I C I A W A M Q

V U A D I E I M N E R O I E T

J L R L C G N Z D G B R D S A

S A G O A F S U A F E K A J O

L T R K U P P K J B L S J C B

X P A G E A N T N P E N T E K

Y H C R A N O M C A C T A D Y

B U C K I N G H A M H C H T B

C R O W N V M J K J O T X O J

E G R A B S E O U N L I M M O

N O D N O L X R C C S Q A X H

BARGE,  BEACON,  BELLS,  BOAT,  BUCKINGHAM,  BUNTING,  CARRIAGE,  CATHEDRAL,  CELEBRATION,  CROWN, DIAMOND,  ELIZABETH,  FIREWORKS,  JUBILEE,  JUNE,  LONDON,  MONARCHY,  PAGEANT,  PALACE, PROCESSION,  QUEEN,  RIVER,  SIXTY,  THAMES, THANKSGIVING.