for:agricultural and natural resources of the country(green), justice(white) and Freetown's harbor(blue). Languages & religion l Official language is English l National language is Krio which is understood by 95% and spoken by 10% of the population l 60% of the population are followers of Islam, 30% Christianity and only 10% African indigenous religion. Education Six years at primary level and three years in junior secondary educatio. 2/3 of the adults are illiterate Sierra Leone Civil War resulted in the destruction of 1,270 primary schools Two universities: Fourah Bay College and Njala University l Who is the president of Sierra Leone? l What is the population? l When joined with Commonwelth? l Where is Sierra Leone located? l What is the capital? l What does the Coat of arms symbolise? l What are the colours of the flag? l What is the national language? l How many of the population can speak national language? l How much of the adults are illiterate
political unrest политические волнения to hype проводить массированную рекламную кампанию decent programmes приличные программы howls of protest крики протеста my foot чепуха, бред take a stand занять определенную позицию dumb down упростить до абсурда illegible трудный для чтения gist of the article суть статьи illiterate необразованный человек manuscript рукопись outline of the story краткое содержание истории out of print вышло из печати circulation тираж to be subject to censorship подлежать цензуре target customer потенциальный клиент stare blankly at the screen тупо смотреть в экран to rush headlong бежать сломя голову
Tar tõrv 47. Gingerbread piparkook 100. Terse napisõnaline 48. Gory verine 101. Tribulation (raske) katsumus 49. Gullible kergeusklik 102. Trivial ülilihtne 50. Halt seisak 103. Tusk kihv 51. Hinder takistama 104. Ubiquitous kõikjal olev 52. Illiterate kirjaoskamatu 105. Venerable auväärne 53. Immersive ümbritsevatele 106. Wallop klobima/kolkima
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All forms of Media Assuming you mean Broadcast Media, the single most important function of Media is to report events as they are happening. The advantage of this is that more people can be informed and therefore involved in the happenings of the day. But like any other facet of life these wonders can be corrupted by those with their own agenda. That is to say that a news agency can choose to omit some things from their broadcast to place a particular "spin" on the events. Using 9-11 as an example: Everyone saw the planes crash into the buildings but none REALLY knows why this happened. Same with the assignation of JFK. Information can be repressed or expounded to create misinformation that leaves us all wondering why. Mass Media refers to all forms of media that are open to and accessible by the public. This includes newspapers, television, internet, magazines, radio etc. Following are the advantages and disadvantages of mass media t...
Manna. He is good-hearted, kind, hesitant, encouraging, but disappointing because he hardly ever makes his promises come true. Manna Wu is a nurse in Muji and she was a student of Lin in anatomy course. She is gentle and very passionate lover. She never loses her temper, but gets really jealous when Lin talks to younger women. Hua is a daughter of Shuyu and Lin Kong. She's affectionate and forgiving. Shuyu is Lin Kong's first wife and a mother of their daughter. She's diffident and illiterate, but hardworking and caring. She's a good mother to her daughter Hua.
3) A outdistance B outdo C outreach D outnumbe 4) A protest B complaint C objection D disapproval 5) A fill B serve C make D form 6) A position B place C stand D stage 4. Complete each sentence, using one of the words from the box. fiction illiterate literature outline shorthand gist illegible manuscript prose unprintable a) The first chapter is based on fact, but the rest of the book is complete ..fiction.. b) David was unable to read the postcard because the writing was …….. c) I understood the ……..of the article, but I didn't read it in detail. d) Brenda's comments were so insulting they were …….. e) Bill had decided to study French…….. at university.
Further north lived the Picts and Scots. Some Celts crossed the sea & settled in the north-west of France called Brittany after the Celtic tribes of Britons. The Celts who stayed behind became mostly slaves. Hardly anything is left of the Celtic language or culture in England, except for some names of some rivers (Thames, Avon, Severn) and two large cities London & Leeds. The new conquerors were warlike and illiterate. Disliked towns, preferred to live in small cillages. They destroyed the Roman towns & villas. Beautiful buildings, roads were neglected or broken up. The first settlements were groups of 3 or 4 family farms. Houses were all made of wood & had sloping thatched roofs. Around the settlement was a fence. In time the settlements became villages. Villages were self-sufficient. In the village there was also a forge where a blacksmith mended tools & weapons
He did not receive it for this novel alone but all the work. The very end of his life, in the 1960's he wrote non fiction. ,,Travels with Charlie"-his puudle. Very uneven author. Elements of style. Unlike naturalists his style is more poetic, he uses some of the devices of folk tales. Such as repetition. Description of nature are terse-charged with imagery. Ancient greek tragedy, his characters are not kings, warrior , gods, his characters are simple people. Even humble, poor, illiterate people may have their own personal tragedys. You dont have to be king to experience tragedy. His books are very muc based on dialogue. The situation of the characters are very often explained through conversation. His texts are rather easily adapted to the stage and for the cinema. ,,Grapes of wrath"- the major breakthrough. Published in 1939. That made him notorious. Contained a lot of elements that went against puritanian minds. Story of farmers, that is forced
Actual inflected Latin verbs used as nouns o Audio, audit, caveat, video. Endings dropped or adapted, often through French o add, addition, additive, agent, agentive, aqueduct, candle, colo(u)r, colossal, consider, contemplate, decide, decision, erupt, eruption, general, generic, hono(u)r, hono(u)rable, honorary, igneous, ignite, ignition, ignoble, illiteracy, illiterate, immoral, immortality, ingenious, ingenuity, literacy, literate, literature, meditate, meditation, meditative, memorable, memory, moment, momentary, momentous, moral, morality, nobility, noble, pendulous, peninsular, revise, revision, sex, similar, similarity, temple. Binomials o Gluteus maximus, Homo sapiens, miles gloriosus, Pax Britannica. Inflectional endings retained
learning easier than ever. Well, technology is indisputably better. We can store and retrieve data much more efficiently. We can communicate in a flash. But still, at the basic level, we must be well grounded -- we must possess common sense, civil manners, frank discussion skills, reasoning abilities, and moral fiber. It is possible to be a technological genius, say a computer nerd, without social skills or civil conscience. I'd rather have as a neighbor an illiterate janitor with an easy-going, friendly disposition. Hence, I value what we might call character more than specialist knowledge from an antisocial person. God knows we want everyone to be a well-mannered genius. But humans are not cut out to be happy like pigs in a pen. We instead have insatiable brains, with mental appetites. So our goal is to balance the brainwork with hearts and smiles. "Facts served with sauce." Where does common sense fit on? Is it teachable
They compared recall on series of words from among the US and Liberian children in different age groups. The differences in recall were among the schooled and non- schooled children, not the age. Children who had attended school in Liberia learned the lists of words just as rapidly as children in the US. The researchers took in consideration the cultural differences, thus developing lists of world relevant in that culture. When they analyzed the data, they found that illiterate children did not use strategies like chunking and that non-schooled children did not improve significantly in memorizing when they were older, but they did recall better if the words were presented in a narrative way, as a progressing story. It has also been found that Mayan children could easily recall objects if they were related in a meaningful way to the local scenery. Memory studies like these show that even though the ability to remember is universal, strategies for remembering are not
easily. The Romans made use of the Celtic aristocracy to govern the province and encouraged the ruling class to adopt Roman dress and the Roman language. They brought the skills of reading and writing to Britain. They trained the sons of tribal chiefs in the liberal arts. Eventually many townspeople and the richer landowners in the country began to use Latin in their speech and writing, and the toga came into fashion. But most of the population, the peasantry, remained illiterate and Celtic-speaking. Roman soldiers and traders brought Christianity, and in the fourth century, the Christian Church was established in Britain. It survived in Wales and Cornwall. The End of Roman Rule Roman control of Britain came to an end as the empire began to collapse. In the late fourth century the Roman legions found it more and more difficult to stop the Scots from crossing Hadrian's Wall. On the mainland, Germanic tribes began to raid
" This five volume work records events in Britain from the raids by Julius Caesar to the arrival of the first missionary from Rome. Bede's writings are considered the best summary of this period of history ever prepared. Some have called it "the finest historical work of the early Middle Ages." *The coming ofe the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians to Britain Very little is known about the first several hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. It is known that they established separate kingdoms: the Saxons settled in the South and West, the Angles in the East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria and the Jutes in Kent. They probably thought of themselves as separate peoples, but they shared a common language and similar customs. *The 7 Anglo-Saxon kingdoms The first of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, which was popularly known as the Heptarchy (or the Seven Kingdoms), was founded in the latter half of the 5th century
we get parents more involved within the school, emm..not in day to day aspect in the school.. but how we can get the parents involved with school. (pause) How we get parents understanding of what we are doing at school, the clubs , societies way of looking at how to break down the barriers because as I said lots of the parents have a school phobia, emm they are reluctant of being in the school, and that has been continued, like I said earlier some of the parents are illiterate, innumerate so they have a (pause) fear factor of school. emm, so our aim is not only to educate children but also educate some of the parents also, like tea time learning, homework clubs, emm we are hopefully increasing this in a due course because this is what we perceive as important emm, there is evidence of … I can`t remember the name of the professor but there are benefits of engaging parents in children`s learning.
Code to spell out a message. The New York censorship station once shifted the hands and altered the positions of the individual timepieces in a shipment of watches lest a message be concealed in it. The examination of the linguistically concealed messages —or, more correctly, those suspected to be such—was largely a frustrating experience. Often the examiner could not tell whether or not a message was hidden beneath the awkward or illiterate or misspelled writing. And even if he felt certain, solution often eluded him. He usually had only one message to work on, and no probable words. Early in the war, censorship practice even forbade working on a suspected cryptogram more than half an hour, on the theory that if the cryptanalyst hadn't gotten it by then, he'd never get it. These unsolved messages posed a difficult problem to the censors. Presumably they were carrying contraband information and so should be banned
book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared for backgammon. Chapter 15 Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self- conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity. A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de
U C L A . A couple of weeks before the seminar two articles appeared in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, in which a film critic attacked filmmaker George Lucas and his movie Willow. Somehow the critic h a d got h o l d o f the "Practical G u i d e " and claimed it had deeply influenced and corrupted H o l l y w o o d storytellers. T h e critic blamed the "Practical Guide" for every flop from Ishtar to Howard the Duck, as well as for the hit Back to the Future. According to him, lazy, illiterate studio executives, eager to find a quick-bucks formula, had seized upon the "Practical Guide" as a cure- all and were busily stuffing it down the throats of writers, stifling their creativity with a technology the executives hadn't bothered to understand. W h i l e flattered that someone thought I had such a sweeping influence on the collective mind of Hollywood, I was also devastated. Here, on the threshold o f a
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