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   A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other across the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, he wrote on the sand:

Today my best friend slapped me across the face.

   They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and was drowning, but his friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on stone:

Today my best friend saved my life.

   The friend, who had slapped and saved his best friend, asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote on the sand, and now, you are write on a stone, why?"

   The other friend replied: "when someone hurts us, we should write it down on sand, where the winds of forgiveness can erase it away, but when someone does something good to us, we must engrave it on stone where no wind can erase it.

Somebody …

                        Right now...

Somebody is thinking of you.

Somebody is caring about you.

Somebody wants to be with you.

Somebody hopes you aren't in trouble.

Somebody wants to hold your hand.

Somebody is praying for you.

Somebody everything turns out all right.

Somebody wants you to be happy.

Somebody wants to give you a gift.

Somebody hopes you're not too cold, and not too hot.

Somebody is thinking of you and smiling.

Somebody wants to go out with you and have a lot of fun.

Somebody wants you to believe in yourself and know they believe in you.

Somebody wants you to know you are always in his/her heart.

Somebody wants you to know that you are a part of her/him… no matter how far or near you may be…

Somebody is playing a song that you love.

Somebody is helping you without you knowing.

Somebody is your friend.

Somebody misses you more than you know.

A man walks into a bar and finds a Genie in a lamp. The Genie will only grant him one wish. The man wishes to be a million times smarter than any man on earth. *POOF* the Genie turns him into a woman!

During their silver anniversary, a wife reminded her husband: Do you remember when you proposed to me, I was so overwhelmed that I didn't talk for an hour?" The hubby replied:

"yes , honey, that was the happiest hour of my life."

       1    Beautiful England

 About twenty-five million people visit England every year. They come from all over the world. Nearly all of them start in London, and some never go out of that great city.

But there are many more exciting and interesting places to see. Many of these places tell you about England and the English people. There are the beautiful university cities of oxford and Cambridge, the wonderful Dorset coast, the Lake District, Stonehenge and Windsor Castle.

Visit an English pub. Watch a game of cricket, or see a Shakespeare play at Stratford-upon-Avon. There are lots of different things to do. England is a beautiful country. But who are the English …?

2    who are English?

   The name ' England' comes from ' Angle-land'. This was the name the Angle and Saxon people gave it. They came here from Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries.

Before them, the Romans lived here for four hundred years or more. They made houses and roads. And they made a town next to the River Thames, and called it Londinium. Today its name is London.

The Anglo-Saxons came across the North Sea from north-west Germany and southern Denmark. More invaders –the Vikings- came from Denmark and Norway. In 1066, William of Normandy - the famous William the Conquer – invaded England, bringing French-speaking people to the country.

In the nineteenth century, thousands of Irish people came to live in England, and many Jewish families came from Eastern Europe and Russia. All century, people came to live in England. After the Second World War, many came from the West Indies and Asia. In the 1950s, Hungarians came after Russia invaded their country. Then, in the 1980s, people from Vietnam came because they wanted to get away from the war in their country.

Today, nearly fifty million people live in England, and about fifty thousand more come and live here every year.

Many continue to come from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Some come from Eastern Europe. l