michael gwapo report
TRANSCRIPT
Egypt:• Is a transcontinental country
between Asia and Africa.• Has one of the longest history in any
modern country.• Is considered as one of the cradles of
civilization.• Lies within the Nile Valley.• Is famous for its pyramids, The Great
Sphinx and for the world-known “mummification”.
Ancient Egypt
• Has a series of different cultures and traditions, especially when a pharaoh’s death occurs.
• Has a very old literature, in which is best known for its hymns and its texts that are carved around tombs of their rulers.
• They were known for worshipping many deities.
Modern Egypt:
• People doesn’t practice polytheism today, majority of the people in Egypt are muslims and small part are Christians.
• Ancient cultures and traditions aren’t practiced anymore because of modernization.
• I’ve been feeling pretty down in the dumps lately.
• “Rise and shine!”
• “Hey, hold your horses!”
• She was tickled pink by the good news.
• Idiomatic expressions are originally Greek. It means “something belonging to a private citizen, personal”.
• Idiomatic expressions, then, have no form.• It can violate grammar, logic or both and still
be acceptable because the phrase is familiar, deep-rooted, widely used, and easily understandable- for the native born.
There are many idiomatic expressions in our language:
• One is that several words are combined which lose their literal meaning and express something very remotely suggested such as: birds of a feather, blacklist and make out.
• Another one is that parts of the human body have suggested many of them: keep one’s chin up, all thumbs and break a leg.
• Another one is that hundreds of idiomatic phrases contain adverb or prepositions with other parts of speech. Examples are: walk over, run down, get nowhere and get off.