the last English home work

Shorts stories:

Story n°1:  The true Friendship.

There were two friends making a journey in the desert  and suddenly on friend slapped the other one  on his face .This friend was hurt but he did not say anything .He just wrote in the sand “ my best friend slapped  me on the face today ” .

Then, they continued walking in the desert until they found a small oasis. They decided together to stop and to have a rest .The friend who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning. His friend saw him and went quickly to save him. This friend wrote on a stone “my best friend saved my life today “

The friend who has slapped and save the other friend asked him: when I slapped you, I hurt you and you wrote in the sand  and now when I saved you wrote in the stone why?

The other friend replied  “ When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand  where winds of forgiveness can erase it away and when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone  where no wind can erase it “ 

Story n°2: The mother s’ sacrifice.

The story told us that there was a kid who lived with his mum. The mother had only one eye and worked hardly to feed her son and to pay for his school. The kid was always embarrassing because   his mother was poor women and with one eye only. More than that, he hated her when  his friends at school saw his mum, they made him a laughingstock. He wanted that his mum disappeared of his life completely. He said to her “why you don’t die?

The mother did not answer his child and did not do anything to punish him. That night, the kid woke up and went to the kitchen to drink some water, he found his mum crying quietly but he didn’t care of her .The son left his mother and went to another country to study hard. He succeeded in his university, got married and had two kids a boy and a girl. So, he was living in a nice house and having a nice life. The mother decided to visit his son .He did not receive her and was afraid that his daughter scared of his mum with her one eye .He screamed at her and don’t recognize her.The mother sad sorry to his son and return back to her house. One day, the mother felt very sick and wanted to see his son, so she wrote to him:

“ My son, i miss you so much and i want to see you before  dying . I am sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment for you. You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye… so I gave you mine… I was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. I miss you so much. I love you.”

home work 7

Rewriting the article with our own word and giving opinion:

This article is a recent one. It  talks about a problem of many Arab countries .Its the problem of the revolution of people against  the bad system of management of their  countries, the poverty, the unemployment, end the dictator of their presidents.

It started in Tunisia and now it is in Egypt  which is the most populous in the  Arab world : people is revolting  against their president Mubarak .He promised them to change the situation in their favour and to reform the economy but they did not accept . They ask him to leave immediately. No dialogue without leaving of Mubarak.

The population of Egypt is  fed up with corruption, oppression, during 30 years   of rule enforced by the ruthless security forces. It is so much to live in these horrible conditions for a such period .

Mubarak has designed  a person  who offered to open a dialogue with the opposition  but it   did not change anything and the revolution continued

The president is under a big and  strong press ion  , which came from his population and other managers of others countries such as Turkey ‘s Prime   Minister and the UN chief . 

 My opinion

I think that Mubarak is going to leave the presidency, go far with his family who took all the wealth of Egypt and its people.

Elbaradei will manage this period ( after leaving of Mubarak )  and work to organize a democratic elections in order to  design the new president of Egypt.

To have best conditions of life ; democracy,  food , jobs, flats …people need to work hard and to wait until   the real efficient  economic end  political reforms took place  .

I think other Arab countries will follow: Syria, Jordan and Algeria.

About Ostler's article.

According to me , the strongest arguments  in  his favour are :

-first is the statistic: more than 1 billon people  speak English but only 330 millions of them have English as the first language .So that the percentage  33% is not  high.

-Second, the author focus on the fact that two new factors: nationalism and technology will check the spread of English.  Britain’s ex colonies used  English because it  was a neutral language among competing native tongues and it was rejected in other ex colonies such as

Siri lanka and Tanzania. .

I don’t  agree with the writers’ point of view .I thing that English is the language a vehicle of different sciences .We are in the age  of sciences and technologies  and they all develop in English .The first universities in the world  according  to Shangai  order  are the  American and the English universities

and the all use English . All busines  are using documents written in English. 

May be it will be other languages in the future but I think that English preserve it important place in the world of Languages.

why languages are dynig ?

1- Which  dying  language , the author speak about ?

-The language dying is : Andamanese languages.

2-Whay its is dying?

- The language is dying because of the death of its last speaker at  the age of about 85

3-Which origin is it from ?

-Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be up to 70,000 years old.

4-is it  divided ?

4-Academics have divided Andamanese tribes into four major groups, the Great Andamanese, the Jarawa, the Onge and the Sentinelese.

To maintain languages  on life  , it  need speakers and users .

who is salima?

I am an algerian women of 36 years old. I am 1.65 long  and 65 weight  i am tall women with brown eyes and fair hair .I am a member of   numeros  family composed of  4 sisters and 4 brothers.
I am teacher in Algeria , exactly in Oran's university .I am in France in order to finalize my  doctorat thesis in Economy. I have two best Friends in Oran . Here, in France , i missed them a lot .
I dont like pets specially dogs and cuts. Many times i, wanted to take tramway when i saw many dogs , i let it go and i waited for another ....
I love plants and i dream to have a small house with a big garden ....
I want to know more things  about english in these  courses.I  wanted to have more hours per a week ...
I am really happy to have class with you  Miss Carmene. You are professionnal, kind  and helpful.

Thanks a lot for all your efforts.

salima's home work 3

Could, would  and should are used to express ability and asking permission. We can also use Can, may  and other expressions.
These  expressions  are used en function  of the relationship  with whome  we are talking ; asking permission or advice...
Would is more polite tant could , i thingh .I have already  studied theses expression  but i  do not remember all what i have learn. 
Could  you  help us to make diffrencees between these expressions?
I  should learn  them  and i should not forget them  another time.
I  would help her in her situation.

salima's home work 2

About my self :

Salima rekiba

36 years old.

Origin from , Oran, Algeria..

Actually preparing thesis in Economy in Grenoble university.

I like discussing with people, travelling  ,   knowing different sciences , having new serious  friends  .

Notes from the article :

1- Which  dying  language , the author speak about ?

-The language dying is : Andamanese languages.

2-Whay its is dying?

- The language is dying because of the death of its last speaker at  the age of about 85

3-Which origin is it from ?

-Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be up to 70,000 years old.

4-is it  divided ?

4-Academics have divided Andamanese tribes into four major groups, the Great Andamanese, the Jarawa, the Onge and the Sentinelese.

To maintain languages  on life  , it  need speakers and users .

The article :

The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC.

The death of the woman, Boa Senior, was highly significant because one of the world's oldest languages, Bo, had come to an end, Professor Anvita Abbi said.

She said that India had lost an irreplaceable part of its heritage.

Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be up to 70,000 years old.

The islands are often called an "anthropologist's dream" and are one of the most linguistically diverse areas of the world.

'Infectious'

Professor Abbi - who runs the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (Voga) website - explained: "After the death of her parents, Boa was the last Bo speaker for 30 to 40 years.

"She was often very lonely and had to learn an Andamanese version of Hindi in order to communicate with people.

"But throughout her life she had a very good sense of humour and her smile and full-throated laughter were infectious."

She said that Boa Sr's death was a loss for intellectuals wanting to study more about the origins of ancient languages, because they had lost "a vital piece of the jigsaw".

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"It is generally believed that all Andamanese languages might be the last representatives of those languages which go back to pre-Neolithic times," Professor Abbi said.

"The Andamanese are believed to be among our earliest ancestors."

Boa Sr's case has also been highlighted by the Survival International (SI) campaign group.

"The extinction of the Bo language means that a unique part of human society is now just a memory," SI Director Stephen Corry said.

'Imported illnesses'

She said that two languages in the Andamans had now died out over the last three months and that this was a major cause for concern.

Professor Abbi and Boa Sr became firm friends

Academics have divided Andamanese tribes into four major groups, the Great Andamanese, the Jarawa, the Onge and the Sentinelese.

Professor Abbi says that all apart from the Sentinelese have come into contact with "mainlanders" from India and have suffered from "imported illnesses".

She says that the Great Andamanese are about 50 in number - mostly children - and live in Strait Island, near the capital Port Blair.

Boa Sr was part of this community, which is made up of 10 "sub-tribes" speaking at least four different languages.

The Jarawa have about 250 members and live in the thick forests of the Middle Andaman. The Onge community is also believed to number only a few hundred.

"No human contact has been established with the Sentinelese and so far they resist all outside intervention," Professor Abbi said.

It is the fate of the Great Andamanese which most worries academics, because they depend largely on the Indian government for food and shelter - and abuse of alcohol is rife.