Cosmo Sapiens

Τοπωνύμια δήμων και συνοικιών της Αττικής στο παρελθόν : Πώς ονομάζονται σήμερα… οι Ποδαράδες; - Σας θυμίζουν κάτι οι… Χαλκωματάδες; - Ποιος μεγάλος Δήμος ονομαζόταν Νέαι Κυδωνίαι;

Τοπωνύμια δήμων και συνοικιών της Αττικής - Α' Μέρος : Περιοχές με αναλλοίωτα ονόματα από την αρχαιότητα ως σήμερα – Κοινότητες που έγιναν Δήμοι ή αποσπάστηκαν από άλλους Δήμους

"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river" -Virginia Wolf

EDUCATION The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar No more diagramming sentences: Students learn more from simply writing and reading. MICHELLE NAVARRE CLEARY FEBRUARY 25, 2014 A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to become better writers. Yes, they need to learn grammar, but the old-fashioned way does not work. This finding—confirmed in 1984, 2007, and 2012 through reviews of over 250 studies—is consistent among students of all ages, from elementary school through college. For example, one well-regarded study followed three groups of students from 9th to 11th grade where one group had traditional rule-bound lessons, a second received an alternative approach to grammar instruction, and a third received no grammar lessons at all, just more literature and creative writing. The result: No significant differences among the three groups—except...

The hazards bred by raising unrealistic L2 learning expectations One central promotion concept predicts that a self-respecting commercial for English as a Second Language intensive series of courses should include at least one or all the following key terms: free of charge, 100% success, immediately, certificate, and the main verb would conjugate in the imperative case alongside a rigid deadline so that no time for reflection is allowed . The approximate time span promised for the procedure of certificate acquisition sets as its maximum the time length of three to nine months of courses measuring up to four times weekly. The decision to state the afore-mentioned messages in Greek (the prospective L2 audience's native language, that is) bears its distinct significance. Can such unrealistic promises have a toll on the ESL teaching and learning? Unrealistic educative expectations cannot generate beneficial outcomes for any of the involved parts of the procedure. Star...

Sylvia Plath, pseudonym Victoria Lucas, was born in October the 27 of 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. She prematurely died by suicide on February 11, 1963 in London.   Fiercely intelligent, penetrating and witty, Plath was diagnosed with clinical depression. She used poetry to explore her own states of mind in the most intimate terms, and her breathtaking perspectives on emotion, nature and art continue to captivate and resonate. When she was eight years old, her first poem was published. In 1955, Plath graduated from Smith with highest honours and went on to Newnham College in Cambridge on a Fullbright Fellowship. In 1956 she married the English poet Ted Hughes with whom she had two children. In 1962 the couple separated following Hughes's extramarital affair. The Colossus BY SYLVIA PLATH I shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and prope...

Idiom Meaning: " To Have Bats in One's Belfry" On a metaphorical note, someone who has " Bats in the Belfry" is crazy or eccentric. This phrase is responsible for the use of "bats" for "crazy" . -Are you completely bats? and the occasional use of "belfry" for "head". -He's not quite right in the belfry. "To have bats in the Belfry" means: to be silly and slightly crazy and behave in a confused way. THESAURUS Around the bend, battle-scarred, disturbed, (as) mad as a hatter/ March hare, basket case, be besinde yourself, be losing it, be not (quite) right in the mind, be of sound/unsound mind, be off your head, be out to lunch, be/go round the twist, certifiable, deranged, dysfunctional, insanity, identity crisis, institutionalization, irra...