I do cook! I need your help, english speakers! I have a doubt with this construction: "Now I have a son so I do cook!" What is the meaning of "DO + verb"? Is it the same if I say "I have to cook"? Thanks!

Summer holidays! I tried to translate a text from my english grammar book! It should be full of errors, I know that I have to study hard english prepositions!!! =P Every summer I stay in a camping located in Numana for a month. We often leave on sunday afternoon at about 2 o'clock and we arrive there before dinner time. They are almost four hours to reach Numana from my home. That day I wake up early and I help my dad putting all the camping stuff into the car. After a light lunch, my father always says: "We'll move in five minutes!". In one minute we are ready and we can go into the car: dad is at the wheel, mum is next to him, my sister and I seat behind, among plastic bags, hats and towels. When we arrive in Numana, my sister and I turn off the car and run to the beach for saying hello to our friends. There is always someone under the beach umbrella or around the bar. Then I help dad to put up the tent, whereas my mother and my sister turn the luggage off to the car. When everything is in order we have dinner in a little restaurant not far from the camping in which we stay. Obviously we go there on foot. After dinner we go to sleep immediately. Our holiday starts the next day. In the morning, after a strong breakfast, I go around camping to call all my friends. Then we go to the beach together and we stay there till lunch. We usually play volleyball, we swim or we listen to the music. In the afternoon I meat my friends in the bar of the camping and we come back to the beach. Sometimes we turn on our rented bycicles for going to Sirolo, a beautiful town near Numana. Otherwise, if George is with us, we can go with his car. In the rainy days the place we meat each other is the recreation room in the citycenter. In the evening, after dinner, we usually go around the city or we go up to the hill to see the landscape. Then we go to the disco. Instead, if there is a birthday or an anniversary we make a barbecue on the beach and we stay there until the sun arises. Summer holidays are really funny. The only bad thing is that time runs out and it is already time to come back home.

Linda's life! Linda is a twelve years old girl that lives in a farm near Inverness, in the north of Scotland. She lives with her parents and her grandfather called Bill. Usually Linda is at school from nine to three p.m. In the afternoon, when she is at home, she is always busy! Indeed, despite she doesn't have brothers or sisters, she never gets boring. When the weather is good, she likes playing with some small friends in the garden or in the yard. She loves animals: she has a nice dog, two cats, some hens and two white rabbits. The dog, called Lassie, is a very smart Collie; the cats, called Romy and Shiny, are two beautiful persian cats. Even the hens and the rabbits have a name! Instead, when it's rainy, Linda remains in her bedroom reading some good books and the dog is always with her. She prefers adventure books, but she reads also many books about animals because she would like to become a vet for curing sick animals. In the evening, after dinner, above all in winter, she watches tv with her parents or plays chess with her grandfather. She thinks that it is nice playing with him because he is a good player. He is an happy man and he is always in a good mood. The only bad habit he has is smoking. He smokes pipe and Linda doesn't like the smell of tobacco, but she is so happy with him that sometimes she doesn't realize he is smoking!

The fox and the stork One day a fox says to a stork: "why don't we have a dinner together one of these evenings?" "It's a good idea! Where can we go?" says the stork. "Why don't you come to my home? I'm a good chef, I can prepare something good. Come next saturday!" The next saturday the fox's guest arrive on time. He is very happy and elegant, but when he sees two plates on the kitchen's room he starts to be worried. "I have a long beak, I can't eat in a plate!" - he think - "What may I do now?". The fox says happily: "Dinner is served, don't waste our time, let's seat and start eating!". But the stork is in a difficult situation and he isn't be able to eat, so the fox says: "I don't understand why you aren't eating. Don't you like the food? May I help you to finish it?" and quickly she empties the plate. After few months the stork invites the fox too. When the fox knocks on the door, the stork says: "Come in and seat down, dinner is almost ready" and gives him a very long glass. Foxes haven't got beak and our smart friend can't eat nothing. Very kindly the stork reassures him: "don't be so sad, if you don't like food, I can help you!". She put her beak into the fox's glass and empties it.

The key of creativity Psychology and neuroscience are trying to find the subjective characteristics and the mental processes on the basis of creativity. Creativity is now considered as a value: headhunters are always looking for original people that can easily solve problems. In the past creativity was a mystical issue. In the early tweentieth century the frenc psychologist Alfred Binet showed that imagination is a parameter to measure intelligence. This is the born of lateral thought. Unfortunately the test created by Binet was soon forgotten. During the fifties, the american psychologist Guilford was the first who told that creativity needs specific intelligent abilities: problem identification, analysis, assessement, synthesis. And all these abilities come with a fluid and flexible thought. His theory is based on lateral thought, that is the ability to create a lot of different ideas starting from a single point. Until this moment a lot researchers have been interested in creativity and have studied it with different approaches and from different points of view.