Idioms are a very important part of the English language: you are told that if you want to go far (succeed) you should pull your socks up (make a serious effort to improve your behaviour, the quality of your work, etc.) and use your grey matter (brain).1 Learning and translating idioms have always been very difficult for foreign language learners. The present paper explores some of the reasons why English idiomatic expressions are difficult to learn and translate. It is not the aim of this paper to attempt a comprehensive survey of the vast amount of material that has appeared on idioms in Adams and Kuder (1984), Alexander (1984), Dixon (1983), Kirkpatrick (2001), Langlotz (2006), McCarthy and O'Dell (2002), and Wray (2002), among others

The sunna has the great effect in building the Islamic civilization, and the formulation of the Islamic thinking. It worked at spreading of soicinces at every district of Islam. The purified sunna represent one of the main monuments of Islam after Quran in clarifying the basics of the human intercommunication, and the divine reality. It comes as an explanation to the myertious accounts in the shariaa and sunna that it has begun to form an intellectual depth of the Mulsims' life. The importance ofsunna is it is the second source of legislation in Islamic after the holt Quran. It comes only to affirm what have been mentioned already in theHoly Quran, or clarifying what is not clear in the Quran.

The Maghreb Did not know modern problem more complex and dangerous than the problem of Western Sahara, which is the first obstacle in front of building Arab Maghreb, did not enter Post-independence governments in attrition mutual since liberation wars until today, as happened with this problem between Morocco and Algeria supporting the Polisario Front separatist and did not know the end after so, this research focused on the show dimensional geopolitical to this problem and reveal the role of regional and international behind its continuation and the latest developments after the revolutions Arab Spring and its impact on the problem and the end of UN mission new to the Sahara and results.

Discourse markers are expressions used to connect sentences to what comes before or after and indicate a speaker's attitude to what he is saying.As linguistic items, they have important functions in discourses of various styles or registers. And being connective elements, discourse markers relate sentences, clauses and paragraphs to each other. "One of the most prominent function of discourse markers, however, is to signal the kinds of relations a speaker perceives between different parts of the discourse". (Lenk 1997: 2) Through political discourse, different types of discourse markers are used. This paper deals with the importance and functions of discourse markers and tries to shed light on the kinds of discourse markers used in polit

The role of kindergarten in the development of moral values of children" The child moral education in institutions of basic education considered as the priority of values and social goals of methodical education , and consideringto how the child be in the kindergarten of susceptibility to absorb and configuration and modification of experiences, thus the kindergartens are important because of their influence in the formation of his character through reincarnation of the personality of those who manage education and try to imitate their values and attitudes and standards of right and wrong. This is also happen through his exercise of educational activities until he has moral insight which enables him to distinguish between good and evil b

wealth which has, as well as the factors which entered the national consciousness of thousands of the continent 2. has not been possible to continue the national resistance in Namibia means spontaneous first and in light of the factors of national awareness of the new has taken sweeping the continent during the interwar period in the thirties and forties of the last century, marked by the return of a lot of educated Africans who have received their education in the countries of Western Europe, where traders who looktoa life of freedomenjoyed bythe people ofWaldo.. As well as awareness of labor represented by the working class and the work of strikes and mass anti-exploitation, which was subjected to factor in the region in wages and lack

The organization and coordination of any communication is based on the system of turn-taking which refers to the process by which a participant in a conversation takes the role of speaker. The progression of any conversation is achieved by the change of roles between speaker and hearer which, in its turn, represents the heart of the turn-taking system. The turn-taking system is not a random process but it is a highly organized process governed by a set of rules. Thus, this system has certain features and rules which exist in any English communicative process. These rules, if applied by speakers, help to achieve successful exchange of turns in any conversation. This paper attempts to present full exposition of the concepts of conversation

The goal of this research is to identify the effect of the programmed teaching method on the academic gaining for the material of general sciences (physics) for the female pupils in the third class in the teachers preparing institutes . And The research sample included 70 pupils after excluding the pupil who failed for the academic year ٢٠٠٨ -٢٠٠٩ , represented by two classrooms and one classroom was chosen random ally which contained 35 pupils, to represent the experimental group which studied by the programmed method, and the second group (35) pupils represent the controlling group, which studied by the lecturing method, then we made equivalence between the two groups in the previous knowledge in the third class intermediate sc

Waste is the most common phenomenon in the educational systems. Such a waste should reduce its efficiency and weaken its productivity which is best represented by failing and dropouts .thus resources meant to develop the educational institutions quality and quantity–wise would be wasted .in other words the return of the investments allotted to develop the educational system would fall short of the aims . The consequences would worst in the primary learning field. The research has three chapters: The first chapter is about significance of the research and its aims in addition to a review of literature. The second chapter is about the concept of dropping out of schools in the primary learning sector plus a history of the phenomenon .Thir

The winds of change witnessed by the Ottoman Empire after the constitutional coup in 1908 carried the breezes of freedom, writers and journalists were finally able to express themselves, this change was reflected on intellectual and cultural life and on freedom of publication and expression , perhaps the first thing that was affected by this change was the press, it entered a new phase in which it got rid of those restrictions and limitations imposed by the Ottoman Sultanate concerning the right to issue newspapers and freedom of publication. Iraq was the first to witness a new phase of press relief, before the constitutional coup, it was possible to count on the fingers of the hand how many newspapers were issued, that number doubled to