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1. Nice to meet you!!!!! We are 16 students :4 boys and 12 girls.This is our class 5 b ginnasium. We have a lot of fun together!!

2. %(‘Capital / Population Country name: Italian Republic Conventional short form: Italy Short form in Italian: Italia Long form in Italian: Repubblica Italiana Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy Electoral system: Universal direct suffrage from the age of 18 Area: 301.338 Kmq Population: 59.206.382 inhabitants; density: 196.5 ab/Kmq Maincities:Rome (2.706.428 abitants); Milan (1.303.437 abitants); Florence (366.488 abitants); Genoa (164.141 abitants) Language: Italian Religion:87.8 % catholics, 12.2% other religions

3. Where are you? We live in Monopoli, a little town in the south east of Italy. It is right next to Bari a big city in Apulia. Monopoli is a beautiful town with many beaches and discos, for fun! ;-) In fact life in Monopoli,during the summer can be very exciting,if you like sun,sand and sea.

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5. Our typical product: pasta with tomato sauce Take a saucepan insert some oil and to fry of the garlic or of the onion. Add some pulp of tomato and to make to cook the everything for about 20 minutes, watching out that doesn't stick on the fund of the frying pan sometimes turning with a spoon the everything. Apart, make to cook in salty water of the pasta (of hard wheat) for about 10 minutes, precisely when " it is that is to the tooth " neither hard neither soft. To season the cooked pasta with the juice adding above of the cheese. With a bit of imagination from the basic recipe so many other recipes can be created adding to the tomato during cooking any other product as the bacon, whipped cream, wustel, meat, tuna and other. Good appetite.

6. The Italian flag is tricolor composed by three vertical stripes of equal dimensions.The colours are: green, white and red. The romantic meaning of the choice of the colours are: · Green as our lands · White as the snows of the Alps and the Appennines · Red as the blood poured by our fellow citizens for the union Italy There is another interpretation, less romantic and more popular: · Green as the basil · White as the mozzarella · Red as the tomatos Another interpretation refers to the theological virtues: · Green for the hope · White for the faith · Red for the charity

7. The climate in Italy:SPRING • In spring the temperature is not very high. • In this season flowers blow and in meadows there are a lot of flowers every kind. • My country is full meadows.

8. SUMMER • In summer the temperature is very high. • My country has beaches. • In this season the meadows are full of flowers . • The summer is our favourite season because we don’t go to school.

9. Autumn • In autumn the temperature is not very low , because the climate in Italy is temperate . • In this season the leaves are brown, because they dry and drop.

10. Winter • In winter ,sky is very cloudy and it rains a lot . • In my country winter is wet and the sea is very cold and very weavy. • Winter isn’t a beautiful season because we can’t go out with friends.

11. Famous monuments; Cappella Sistina. Cappella Sistina is in Vatican City and is one of the most famous monuments in the world. It was built between 1475 and 1483, during Pope Sisto IV epoch. It is known all over the world both because it is the room where the conclave takes place and because it was decorated by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

12. Torre di Pisa. Pisa’s tower is a bell tower in the very famous Miracles square. It is next to the Cathedral of Pisa, where the ground was incurvated and the tower was tilted. It was built in two centuries time, in three different phases of job, from the end of XII century. It is built only in white marble.

13. A famous person Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena on the 12th of October in 1935. He was an italian tenor and one of the most celebrated artists all over the world. He was called Big Luciano, too. He became famous with “Pavarotti & friends”, a concert with popstars like Ligabue, Madonna and others. He cooperated with “Tre Tenori (three tenors)”, a group composed of Placido Domingo and José Carreras. He died on 6th of Septmber 2007. “I THINK A LIFE IN MUSIC IS A LIFE BEAUTIFULLY SPENT AND THIS IS WHAT I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO” (Luciano Pavarotti)

14. The landscapes that WE love This is a beach in Monopoli, in the south-west of Italy

15. This is Monopoli sea at sunset!Very romantic, isn’t it?

16. This is a view of the old town :we love this part of Monopoli very much!!

17. A FAVORITE POEM OF OURS We chose this poem because it represents the life in country in autumn when the wine ferments. It describes what happens on St. Martin’s day, on the 11th of November and it refers to the wine tradition.

18. San Martino La nebbia a gl'irti colli  piovigginando sale,  e sotto il maestrale   urla e biancheggia il mar;  ma per le vie del borgo   dal ribollir de' tini  va l'aspro odor de i vini  l'anime a rallegrar.  Gira su' ceppi accesi  lo spiedo scoppiettando:  sta il cacciator fischiando  sull'uscio a rimirar  tra le rossastre nubi  stormi d'uccelli neri,  com'esuli pensieri,  nel vespero migrar.  Giosuè Carducci St. Martin The fog to the bristly hills drizzling goes up,  and under the north-west wind   the sea howls and whitens; but for the streets of the village    to ferment some vats the sour smell of the wines goes the souls to cheer up.  The spit turns on alight logs  crackling:  the hunter is whistling  on the door to stare at  among the reddish clouds flocks of black birds, as exiles thoughts,  in the migrate far.  Giosuè Carducci

20. Greetings of our language Good-morning = Buongiorno Good-afternoon = Buon pomeriggio Good-evening = Buonasera Good-night = Buonanotte How are you? = Come stai?

21. Who finds a friend, finds a treasure This is the most famous proverb in Italy. It rappresents the great importance of true friends.