AUSTRALIA

Australia's first people,the Aborigines,lived in the northern territory and have occupied the continent for 50,000 years.

Convicts from England arrived in Australia in 1788 and called those lands New South Wales.

The British settled in Australia to find new places for convicts,to use Australia's resources,to stop other Europeans from claiming Australia.

In the 1830s more migrants arrived from Britain:they worked as sheep farmers.

The States of the Commonwealth of Australia appeared then as colonies:Victoria,Western Australia,Tasmania,Queensland.

INGLESE:RIASSUNTO GULLIVER 'S TRAVELS

The main charachter of this novel tells about his adventures.

He left school soon;but he loves to travel so he got married and after he takes The ship called Antilop,sailing to te South Seas.His journey starts on 4^th May 1699.Because of a storm his ship sinked and the crew drowned.But he was safe and he arrived in a land:he felt asleep.

When he woked up he coldn't move because he was tied.He looked arouns and he saw a very short man:he was fifteen centemetres tall.There were a lot of other short man around him.

They were scared of him.The language of this characters was incomprehensible,but Gulliver sensed:he was a prisoner of  them.

They conduced him to their city called Mildendo and there a temple become Gulliver's new home.

When G. asked at the King if he can leave the island, he answered: 'No'.

So he decided to became kind to persuaded the King.

One day the King said: 'You are free if you  respect this three orders':

You couldn't leave the country or go to the City without permission

You couldn't walk only long the main roads and you have to pay attention at cars,horses and people

You have to help people to work,to defend Lilliput from the enemies of the Island of Blefusco.

G. promised to respect these orders and he was set free.

He also visited Mildendo.

A night an important man said him that Lilliput are divided in two parts:the High-Heels and the Low - Heels.Low - Heels are the people of the Government and also the King,the People are High - Heels and the heir wears one high heel and one low heel!!!

There is another division:Big - Endians,the ex inhabitats of Lilliput which now live in Blefusco, and Small - Endians, the attual inhabitats of Lilliput.There is a big war between this two parties.

One day G. captured some inhabitats of Blefusco and the People of Lilliput were very satisfied.

Ambassadors from Blefusco came to ask for peace.

G. went to the King to ask the permission to visit Blefusco:the King accepted;but a Gulliver 's friend informed him about a plot against him.The King decided to eat G. because the Lilliputians had nothing to eat.So he went immediately to Blefusco.

There he saw a boat and he had an idea:he asked to the King of Blefusco twenty ship to build an enormous ship for him.After he asked to the King the permission to leave the land.

The King was very kind because he gave him a lot of food  such as very little cows and bulls,which when he arrived in England maked him very rich.

An english ship took G. on board and he arrived at home.

THE OGRE

A wind storm broken out, Simon was in the middle of it, he could heard some wolves howling.

He was walking along a narrow country lane when he reached a wide forest.

Suddenly he heard a noise coming behind him

But in the moment his fear was so much that he wasn't be able to see anything.

He continued to walk along the street all at once a shadow appeared in front of himhis torch dropped down from his hand,he was so scared that fainted falling down on the floor.

When he woke up a voice whispered " Is there something wrong with you? ".

He saw a beautiful girl stand next to him.

She told him that during the night a huge ogre had attacked him.

Those attacks often happened in the forest, she said.

A chill run down his spine: to his relief he was still alive.

The girl told him that he was welcome to spend the neccessary time in her house.

A month went by and the young boy fell in love with the girl.

He didn't want to go away from the house so he decided to marry the girl,called Cristhine.

He felt very joyful and satisfied to have such a beautiful wife.

A night he went upstairs to go to bed but Cristhine wasn't in the room.

He was looking for her when the bedroom's door creaked open:he saw an horrible ogre in front of the mirror: it was his wife Cristhine!!!

The leggend tells that ogres during the day are normal people, but in the night they change becoming horrible monsters.

ine 36 - 37 Heritage Holidays

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Hastings  is worth seeing because William the Conqueror's armies arrived there from Normandy in 1066.

Battle Abbey was built by William to celebrate his victory.

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Elizabeth I's reign was a golden age of sea exploration,discovery and military victory.In 1588 Elizabeth's troops defeated the Spanish Armada

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The Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror in 1078.Two of Henry VIII's six wives,Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard,were imprisoned and beheaded here.Elizabeth was imprisoned here by her sister Mary.

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Stonehenge was built by tha Celtic Britons around 2000 BC.Bath was the Roman spa town of Aquae Sulis that means "the waters of the goddess Sulis".

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Stratford-on-Avon is Shakespeare's Birthplace.Here there is the world - famous Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

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The majestic ruins of Fountains Abbey represent the best example of the destuction caused by Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries because the king had broken away from the Catholic church in 1534 and made himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England.

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Although Julius Caesar led the first invasion of Britain in 55 BC,it was under the Emperor Hadrian that the Roman legions reached the most northern point of their Empire and built a wall from coast-to-coast as protection against the Scottish tribes.

The haggis is a Scottish dish made from offal,cereal,cooked inside the animal's stomach.

Whisky is a Scottish drink perhaps accidentally made in medieval times,when wet cereal was left to ferment.

Bagpipes are a Scottish music instruments used to frighten enemies and probably brought to Scotland by the Romans.

The kilt is an article of clothing worn by Scottish tribes because it gave freedom of movement,it was warm,and it could also be used as a blanket.