Germany a Land of Culture

Goethe, Bach and Beethoven – the cultural life of Germany has a long and rich tradition. Nowadays, however, names like the painter, Gerhard Richter and the director, Fatih Akin, and German hip-hop, also stand for a lively, many-faceted land of culture. The nation’s culture emanates from the peaceful and tolerant coexistence and collaboration of all who live in Germany at the present time. Music ...

Date added: 21 November '07

Is there a 'culture of perfumes' in Romania?

by Cristina Nuta - Nowadays, in Romania, a good perfume is like Kent cigarettes in the past, when people could not afford to buy them. But do women in Romania know what perfume matches perfectly their personality and tastes, the season of the year or the occasion? Or do they just use cheap perfumes or the ones they receive on different occasions, as for example on the eight of March? In Roma ...

Date added: 25 April '07

Virginia Woolf - Social Background

by Herminne Tonita - The period of Virginia Woolf's early life was one of profound social and cultural change. She was born into a Victorian world, and came to maturity as an author in the modern world. In the Victorian world, certain beliefs were regarded as central and were not to be questioned: they were summed up in such words as "empire" "civilization" "progress" and "duty". A particular w ...

Date added: 04 May '07

People should be warned against becoming part of an advertising culture

by Cristina Nuta - Nevertheless, it seems clear that the advertising outlets that exist today- TV and radio commercials, prints ads, billboards and taxi tops- will be inadequate for accommodating all the commercial messages that are agitating to get out. Advertising will therefore inevitably slip beyond the boundaries of the 30-second commercial and the full-page ad and migrate to the rest of t ...

Date added: 30 July '07

Lesson Plan : Hippos are big

Level : Intermediate (3rd year of study) Subject of the lesson : "Hippos are big" Teaching aims : communicative aims : - understanding words in context; - increasing awareness about the sound-letters; - increasing cultural awareness about similarities and differences in fauna. Learning aims : By the end of the lesson students will have : - become aware of the way we learn new vocabulary; - ...

Date added: 21 May '08