Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Kate and prince William, a love story not as the others

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Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, called “Kate” Middleton, was born on January 9th, 1982 at Reading, in Berkshire, in the South of England.
She is the child of businessman Michael Middleton, former airline pilot today millionaire, and of Carole Goldsmith, who was a stewardess.
She grew in Berkshire, before going to study in Scotland.
That is how she met prince William, son of prince Charles and the second heir to the British throne, at Saint Andrews's university in Fife. They were both students in art history.
In autumn 2002, she moved with him and another student in a collocation. Both young people got closer little by little.
In Christmas 2003, the relationship between prince William and Kate Middleton was officialized.
The young couple have continued to live in the same apartment until they passed their diplomas, in 2006.
Since this date, she has worked as a seller of a brand of clothes.
On April 14th, 2007, we learned that the couple had separated. A simple quarrel, apparently, because the couple re-formed in the course of June.
 The gossips asserted that Kate’s mother would have urged her to separate from the the prince of Wales’s son. Kate Middleton pleases Queen Elizabeth II.
On November 16th, 2010, Kate and William officialy announced their engagement.
They got married on April 29th, 2011, in front of 2 billion televiewers.
The English population likes very much the young princely couple because they make the monarchy more modern.
Married to Prince William since April 29th, 2011, she possesses the title of Cambridge. She is also called Princess Catherine.

Written by Mathilde Gay

QUIZZ: Can you answer the following questions ? (use the comment box)

1.     Does she come from a poor social environment?
2.     In what university was she?

Tennis

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Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players.
The necessary equipment for playing tennis is : a racket and tennis balls.
There are differents types of floor covering : concrete , quick,  grass, dirt...
The basic movements are : service, forehand and backhand.
The number of sets required to win a match variable according to several criteria (sex, age, tournament ...). The land and the net are different for single matches and doubles.

Tennis is an English adaptation of the game of ''paume'' , a French game from Provence. There are more than
27 000 000 tennis players in Europe.
Tennis is a racket sports the most popular, as well as table tennis, or badminton.

There have been great champions like Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras ...
But now the champions are Roger Federer, Raphael Nadal,  Novak Djokovic, the Williams sisters, Maria Sharapova ...

 

In the four Grand Slam Tournament there are :
The Australian Open
French Open
Wimbledon
Us Open 

Written by Chloé (Mortreau) 

Quizz : Can you answer these questions :
1) What are the differents types of floor in Tennis ?
2) When was tennis  invented?

Linkin Park


Linkin Park is an American rock band from California formed in 1996.
The Linkin Park’s first name  was Xero (from 1996 to 1998). After that they were
called Hybrid Theory (from 1998 to 1999) and now they're called Linkin Park.
The original musical style of Linkin Park is heavy metal. In their songs, they talk about politic, environnement and fatality of death (in the song Powerless).
The 21/09/2012, Linkin Park was the first rock group who got 1 billion views on Youtube !




From left to right : Dave Farrel, Brad Delson, Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon and Joe Hah













They released 5 albums:

-Hybrid Theory (2000) (best album in 2001)

-Meteora (2003) (the third best album in 2003)

-Minutes to Midnight (2007) (6 best album in 2007)

-A Thousand Suns (2010) (20 best album in 2010)

-Living Things (2012)

One of the famous music of Linkin park Is What I've Done (A fan made lyric video)

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The last song of Linkin Park Lost in the Echo (It's a lyric video by the group):

My favourite song, Castle of Glass(a fan made lyric too) :

I very much love this group because it’s a hard-rock group and I’m a fan of hard-rock. And in all hard rock group there are guitars and guitars are my passion. I specially like the last album because for me, it’s the most complete of their albums. My favourite songs are Burn It Down, Victimized, Roads Untraveled, What’s I’ve Done and Powerless and the best of the best is Castle of Glass. Linkin Park have a very great future if they continue like this, I think .With their song they make me happy and very calm.

I hope you enjoy document on Linkin Park   and maybe you discovered this group and you like it.

Written by Axel 

QUIZZ:  Can you answer the 2 questions ? : (answer in the comment box)
What were Linkin park's names before ?
Where are they from ?

A European Country: Hungary

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Situation:
Hungary is situated on the East of Europe next to Austria and Slovakia.
Its capital is Budapest and it is the most famous city in Hungary.
The Danube is very present in this country; it’s the second biggest river in Europe



General information:
Its flag is composed of 3 horizontal stripes: the highest is red,
                                                                   the part in the middle is white
                                                                   and the lowest is green
The official language is Hungarian.
The currency of Hungary is the forint (1€ = 280 forints)
There are 10 076 062 inhabitants in this country.

The Capital: Budapest
The actual city is the reconciliation of Buda (old capital of Hungary situated on the left bank of the Danube) and Pest (the city on the right bank of Danube)


 In order to seal this reconciliation they built the Chain Bridge which connects the two cities.
 The most famous monuments in Budapest are the Thermal Bath where people play chess, play cards, swim and relax.










The Hosok Tere (square of heroes) is placed in UNESCO world heritage; around this square there is the museum of Fine Arts.


Traditions:
The most famous dish is goulash (it is a stew composed of beef and peppers in a paprika sauce).
The desserts are mainly composed of pancakes, like the Gundel palacsinta (pancakes in Hungarian).

Written by Chloé (Gomard)

QUIZZ: Can you answer the 2 questions: in the comment box)

1) What is the capital of Hungary?
2) What is the currency of Hungary?