Children and Their Particularities of Age in Teaching a Foreign Language

by Monique Barb - The age of students is a major factor in our decision about how and what to teach. People of different ages have different needs, competences, and cognitive skills; we might expect children of primary age to acquire much of a foreign language through play, for example, whereas for adults we can reasonably expect a greater use of abstract thought. There is a considerable...

We Live In An Age When Anyone Can Be Famous For 15 Minutes

by Monique Barb - Everything is possible nowadays. We hear about a lot of people that have became stars over night. So, it is possible to be famous at least for 15 minutes in your lifetime. We see and read news everyday by mass media. Everyone that has a certain strange or odd idea can be a star only for one TV show or newspaper article. If you give an interview about your job or school or...

How could we imagine Huckleberry Finn at forty years of age?

by Cristina Nuta - 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is a complex story in which the main character, Huck, is confronted with decisions that sometimes run counter to the society he lives in. Thus, Mark Twain, its author, takes the opportunity to comment on the values of that society, the heart of the novel being this very moral awareness of Huck Finn. First of all, Huck lives in two...

Love Doesn't Care About The Age Difference

by Herminne Tonita - The relationship between an older man, financially powerful and a young woman, who's on the edge of starting to live is already put of fashion. Together with the emancipation of women, they have also learnt how to “rule” the love affairs. Anna Karenina and Monica Columbeanu have in common one simple thing: life next to an older man, capable of providing them a...

A Stone Age Settlement

by Monique Barb - The great Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago and the ice sheets of northern Europe melted slowly, forming lakes and marshes and causing the level of the sea to rise. At that time Britain was still joined to the continent of Europe. Groups of people lived by these. lakes and marshes; they hunted deer and wild pig, and collected berries and nuts from the trees like their...

About The New Stone Age

by Monique Barb - The first farmers lived in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. Somehow they learned how to sow seed in order to grow crops. Perhaps they discovered this accidentally when harvesting wild wheat or barley. They dug up the ground with primitive digging sticks and, when the corn appeared, they used polished flint sickles to cut off the ears of corn. They also discovered that...

The Bronze Age

by Monique Barb - The peoples of the Middle East were using metals at a time when our ancestors were using flint and stone. But in time the idea of using metals spread from the Middle East to Europe and eventually to Britain. The first metal users to settle in this country were the Beaker people. They knew how to use copper and bronze and made daggers and axes from these metals. The Beaker...

Life in the Iron Age

by Monique Barb - The Iron Age came to Britain in exactly the same way as the previous revolutions in farming and in the use of bronze. Warrior farmers came over from Europe and settled in south-eastern England. This area of Britain was close to their homelands in Europe, it was well favoured for farming, there was iron stone to be found in the area known as the Weald and also forest land to...

Stammering - A Problem of the Preschool Age

Speaking handicaps can exist having different degrees and proportions at the normal intellectually subjects and at these presenting another handicap, also. Even if there is no other handicap about but the speaking one only, the child is missing more or less the possibility to get and to express the knowledge correctly. The graver the speaking handicaps are, the simpler and more uniform by they...