I'm an English teacher and I've created this blog for 7th, 8th and 9th grade students from Escola Básica Hermenegildo Capelo, Palmela, and their teachers. The purpose is to motivate students to participate in English. I/ We/They can share opinions, curiosities, information, thoughts, short comments and/ or texts about topics discussed in classes. Learning English can be fun!
21st December 2020
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
"A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens
Click here and have a look at your Christmas tasks.
Congrats!
European Day of Languages
26th September 2020
This year this was the theme for your tasks to celebrate the E.D.L..
Click HERE and have a look at the tasks you've chosen/voted in your classes.
You all did very well and we're very proud of you. Congrats!
The English teachers
Halloween
Do you want to watch the Addams Family trailer and do a quiz? Why don't you give a try?
Happy Halloween!
Watch the video and choose the correct option.
1.The Addams travel to…
a.New Orleans
b.New Jersey
c.Nashville
2.Their pet is…
a.a dog
b.a lion
c.a cat
3.The boy is drinking…
a.water
b.milk
c.wine
4. The neighbour calls the Addams…
a.monkeys
b.hamsters
c.monsters
5.The candy is…
a.on the boy’s head
b.in a box
c.on the woman’s toes
6.In the video the frog…
a.dies
b.comes to life
c.disappear
(Porto Editora, adapted)
World Food Day
In recent decades the world has made significant progress in improving agricultural productivity. Although we now produce more than enough food to feed everyone, our food systems are out of balance. Hunger, obesity, environmental degradation, loss of agro-biological diversity, food loss and waste and a lack of security for food chain workers are only some of the issues that underline this imbalance. As countries begin to develop and implement COVID-19 recovery plans, it is an opportunity to adopt innovative solutions based on scientific evidence so they can build back better and improve food systems, making them more resistant to shocks.
World Food Day is calling for global solidarity to help all populations, and especially the most vulnerable, to recover from the crisis, and to make food systems more resilient and robust so they can withstand increasing volatility and climate shocks, deliver affordable and sustainable healthy diets for all, and decent livelihoods for food system workers. This will require improved social protection schemes and new opportunities offered through digitalization and e-commerce, but also more sustainable agricultural practices that preserve the Earth’s natural resources, our health, and the climate. (…)"
(in http://www.fao.org/world-food-day/themes/en/)
"(…) World Food Day 2020: Theme
Every year, World Food Day endeavours to promote food and preserve food resources. In light of the current pandemic this year, the day will be celebrated with the theme - "Grow, nourish, sustain. Together. Our actions are our future". (…)"
World Food Day 2020
(30 seconds of your time) to watch https://youtu.be/KQZFqakBw04
5th October
World Teacher's Day
"Held annually on 5 October since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO recommendation concerning the Status of teachers. This Recommendation sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions. The Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel was adopted in 1997 to complement the 1966 Recommendation by covering teaching and research personnel in higher education.
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education, and the dedicated target (SDG 4.c) recognizing teachers as key to the achievement of the Education 2030 agenda, WTD has become the occasion to mark progress and reflect on ways to counter the remaining challenges for the promotion of the teaching profession.
World Teachers’ Day is co-convened in partnership with UNICEF, the International Labour Organization and Education International. (…)
In 2020, World Teachers’ Day will celebrate teachers with the theme “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future”. The day provides the occasion to celebrate the teaching profession worldwide, take stock of achievements, and draw attention to the voices of teachers, who are at the heart of efforts to attain the global education target of leaving no one behind. (…)"(in https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldteachersday)
2nd October
Do you know that …
today it is celebrated the
International Day of
Non-Violence?
"Say No to Violence
The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence. (…)
The name of Mahatma Gandhi transcends the bounds of race, religion and nation-states, and has emerged as the prophetic voice of the twenty-first century. The world remembers Gandhi not just for his passionate adherence to the practice of non-violence and supreme humanism, but as the benchmark against which we test men and women in public life, political ideas and government policies, and the hopes and wishes of our shared planet. (…)" (in https://www.un.org/en/observances/non-violence-day)
&
1st October
International Music Day
&
International Day for Older Persons
IMD
Do you know that ...
"The IMD was initiated in 1975 by Lord Yehudi Menuhin to encourage:
Letter to all IMC members dated November 30, 1974
and signed by Yehudi Menuhin and Boris Yarustowski:
Dear Sir,
The first International Music Day, organised by the International Music Council, will be held on the 1st of October, 1975, in accordance with the resolution taken at the 15th General Assembly in Lausanne in 1973.
The intention of this day is to encourage:
- the promotion of our musical art among all sections of society;
- the application of the UNESCO ideals of peace and friendship between peoples, of the evolution of their cultures, of the exchange of experience and of the mutual appreciation of their aesthetic values;
- the promotion of the activities of the International Music Council, its international member organizations end national committees, as well as its programme policy in general.
In order to put these intentions into practice, our international organizations and national committees are invited to consider the following plan of action:
Music Events:
- invite leading composers, interpreters and musicologists to give lectures, and to speak of the importance of music, of its place in modern life, of the ideals of UNESCO and of the activities of the IMC
- organize meetings of artists, competitions and musical quizzes;
- organize exhibitions of musical instruments, records, posters, paintings, sculptures, caricatures, or photographs on musical themes;
- invite delegations of musicians of other national committees to participate in thiS International Music Day, as well as prize winners of the IMO Rostrums, arid composers arid interpreters from different continents;
- ask major interpreters in your country to give concerts on International Music Day for which they would agree to contribute either all, or part of the proceeds to the Musicians' International Mutual Aid Fund.
Radio and television programmes
- broadcast concerts, as well as talks and debates with the participation of major personalities who are also music lovers a painters, writers, and even politicians On this International Music Day, leading members of the IMC will broadcast special messages.
Press and Recordings
- publish articles in the press to draw the public's attention to International Music Day;
- organize the exchange of tapes arid records1 using them for demonstration purposes
The struggle against the pollution of the sound environment
- propose to local authorities that, on this Day, they should order a few minutes of silence in towns; this period of silence would be used for listening to music to be played in public places such as parks arid main squares.
In order to realize these activities, it is essential that we mobilize all the means at our disposal: radio and television, concert societies, opera companies, amateur societies; a great many different types of localities should be used to their best advantage: concert halls theatres, cultural centres, universities, churches, schools, factories, as well as in the open air: in parks, gardens, and stadiums.
We hope that this first International Music Day will constitute a major achievement among our' activities, and that it will become an annual event for the propagation of greater knowledge of our art, arid for the strengthening of the bonds of peace and friendship between peoples through music.
Yours faithfully,
Yehudi Menuhin/President
Boris Yarustowski/Vice-President"
(in https://www.imc-cim.org/programme/international-music-day.html)
Well, choose your favourite music/song
and enjoy it as much as you can!
One of mine: "Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water" (from The Concert Central Park) https://youtu.be/WrcwRt6J32o
IDFOP
Do you know that ...
30th September
"The Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, who created the character Mafalda, has died aged 88 in Mendoza, the city where he was born.
(in https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54362413)
Read more here.
