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HELLO,MY DEAR FRIENDS!

TODAY WE ARE HAVING:

1.  A TEXT OF A SONG:AVRIL LAVIGNE "SK8ER BOY".

2.  NEW IDIOMS.

3.  A POEM 'DARKNESS' BY GEORGE GORDON LORD BYRON.

4.  QUOTES AND PROVERBS.

5.  ANECDOTS.

6.  OUR PENFRIENDS CLUB.

1.  AVRIL LAVIGNE "SK8ER BOY"


He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it anymore obvious
He was a punk 
She did ballet
What more can I say
He wanted her
She'd never tell
Secretly
she wanted him as well
But all of her friends 
struck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes

He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Sha had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back to earth

5 years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
She turns on TV
Guess who she sees
Skater boy rockin' up MTV
She call up her friends 
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
Sha tags along
Stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned down

He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a superstar slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?

HE WAS A SKATER BOY sHE SAID SEE YOU LATER BOY
HE WASN'T GOD ENOUGH FOR HER
NOW HE'S A SUPERSTAR SLAMMING ON HIS GUITAR
DOES YOUR PRETTY FACE SEE WHAT HE'S WORTH?

Sorry girl but you missed ouy
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside

He'd just a boy 
And I'm just a girl
Can I make it anymore obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock eachothers world

I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back after the show
I'll be at the studio 
Singing the song we wrote
About the girl you used to know

2.Idioms:


dirty one`s hands 
   -hurt one's character or good name, do a bad or shameful thing

let the grass grow under one`s feet
   - be idle, be lazy, waste time

bean-counter
   - accountant

keep one`s shirt on
   - calm down, keep from losing one`s temper or getting excited

lack and white
   - thinking of everything or judging everything as either good or bad

green belt
   - an area of fields and trees around a town

keep one`s nose to the grindstone
   -work hard or keep busy for a long time

3.George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)

                    Darkness

1 I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
2 The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
3 Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
4 Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
6 Morn came and went--and came, and brought no day,
7 And men forgot their passions in the dread
8 Of this their desolation; and all hearts
9 Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
10 And they did live by watchfires--and the thrones,
11 The palaces of crowned kings--the huts,
12 The habitations of all things which dwell,
13 Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,
14 And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
15 To look once more into each other's face;
16 Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
17 Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
18 A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
19 Forests were set on fire--but hour by hour
20 They fell and faded--and the crackling trunks
21 Extinguish'd with a crash--and all was black.
22 The brows of men by the despairing light
23 Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
24 The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
25 And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest
26 Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;
27 And others hurried to and fro, and fed
28 Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up
29 With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
30 The pall of a past world; and then again
31 With curses cast them down upon the dust,
32 And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd
33 And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,
34 And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes
35 Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd
36 And twin'd themselves among the multitude,
37 Hissing, but stingless--they were slain for food.
38 And War, which for a moment was no more,
39 Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
40 With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
41 Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
42 All earth was but one thought--and that was death
43 Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
44 Of famine fed upon all entrails--men
45 Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
46 The meagre by the meagre were devour'd,
47 Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,
48 And he was faithful to a corse, and kept
49 The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,
50 Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
51 Lur'd their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,
52 But with a piteous and perpetual moan,
53 And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
54 Which answer'd not with a caress--he died.
55 The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two
56 Of an enormous city did survive,
57 And they were enemies: they met beside
58 The dying embers of an altar-place
59 Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
60 For an unholy usage; they rak'd up,
61 And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands
62 The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
63 Blew for a little life, and made a flame
64 Which was a mockery; then they lifted up
65 Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
66 Each other's aspects--saw, and shriek'd, and died--
67 Even of their mutual hideousness they died,
68 Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
69 Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,
70 The populous and the powerful was a lump,
71 Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless--
72 A lump of death--a chaos of hard clay.
73 The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,
74 And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths;
75 Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
76 And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
77 They slept on the abyss without a surge--
78 The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
79 The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
80 The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
81 And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
82 Of aid from them--She was the Universe.


Notes
2] thickens: deepens
17] did: didst
24] O: Lord
29] then: Thou
30] Speak: Shine

4.Quotes and Proverbs:

 God is not in  need of anything, but all things are on need of him.-Marcus A.Antonius

Never let a fool kiss you and never let a kiss fool you.-Jenet Balmer

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5.Anecdots:


A man and woman are driving...
A man and a woman are driving down the same road at the same time.As they pass each other the woman leans out the window, points and yells, "PIG! "The man immediately leans out his window, shakes his fist and shouts back, "WITCH!"They each continue on their way, and as the man rounds the next corner, he slams into a pig that had wandered into the middle of the road.If only men would listen.

A Fisherman's Tale
Two fellas are fishing in a boat under a bridge. One looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge. He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head. The procession crosses the bridge and the man puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing.The other guy says, "That was touching. I didn't know you had it in you."The first guy responds, "Well, I guess it was the thing to do - after all, I was married to her for 40 years."

6.OUR PENFRIENDS CLUB.
PEOPLE,WHO WOULD LIKE TO EXERCISE ENGLISH,TO WRITE LETTERS TO EACH OTHER ARE WELCOMED. LET'S MAKE AN ENGLISH PENFRIENDS' CLUB TOGETHER,WHERE WE COULD DISCUSS DIFFERENT SUBJECTS AND MAKE FRIENDS. DON'T BE SHY, JUST E-MAIL ME, ALL LETTERS WILL BE PUBLISHED.
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