1. Something About English

2. Countries where English is a majority language are dark blue; countries where it is an official but not a majority language are light blue. English is also one of the official languages of the European Union.

3. Pie chart showing the relative numbers of native English speakers in the major English-speaking countries of the world

4. Influences in English Vocabulary

5. Some Important Festivals

6. Thanksgiving Day

7. Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.

8. Christmas Day

9. Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday observed mostly on December 25 to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.

10. Easter
Easter is the central religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion.

11. Easter eggs are a popular sign of the holiday among its religious and secular observers alike.

12. Easter Egg Hunt
Egg hunt is a game during which decorated eggs, real hard-boiled ones or artificial, filled with or made of chocolate candies, of various sizes, are hidden in various places for children to find.

13. Easter Egg Hunt
A young woman hides Easter eggs for preschool-aged children to find. She's careful not to make their location and retrieval too difficult.

14. Some Famous Quotations

15. The charm of modern London is that it is not built to last; it is built to pass.---Virginia Woolf, The London Scene

16. The Great Fire of London destroyed many parts of the city in 1666.
The London Scene

17. London's architecture ranges from very old to modern
Virginia Stephen ( )

18. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.---Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”

19. Head of Odysseus from a Greek 2nd century BC marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga
Odysseus or Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( ), author of "Ulysses", painted by George Frederic Watts

20. Map of Homeric Greece

21. Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus (Attic red-figure kylix, ca
Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus (Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 500 BC)
Trojan War

22. That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.---William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

23. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

24. The reconstructed Globe Theatre, London.

25. An 1870 oil painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting Romeo and Juliet's famous balcony scene
L’ultimo bacio dato a Giulietta da Romeo by Francesco Hayez. Oil on canvas, 1823.