London Time
WIKILEAKS
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT WIKILEAKS ? LISTEN TO THE ARTICLE AND DO THE ACTIVITIES
IT IS THE LATEST NEWS EVERYWHERE.
ROOM 13
This is a cartoon based on the story we have read in 4º div. It is going to be a good help for you to review the story.
LONDON DEMONSTRATIONS
YOUTH ISSUES
What would happen if after you finish school, you couldn't go to university because you couldn't afford the tuition fees?
What do you usually do when there is a demonstration, where people your age are campaigning for your interests?
Do you take part or just skip lessons?
AND A VIDEO
What would happen if after you finish school, you couldn't go to university because you couldn't afford the tuition fees?
What do you usually do when there is a demonstration, where people your age are campaigning for your interests?
Do you take part or just skip lessons?
AND A VIDEO
THANKSGIVING
THANKSGIVING has come and you may not know what it is all about.Well, I am giving you some fast facts:
1. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada.
2. By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast. The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate the Thanksgiving.
3. The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621 and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also to the feast.
4. The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag and it lasted three days.
2. By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast. The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate the Thanksgiving.
3. The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621 and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also to the feast.
4. The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag and it lasted three days.
5. President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in the year 1789 and again in 1795.
6. Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor with Ladies’ Magazine, started a Thanksgiving campaign in 1827. Due to her efforts, in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer.
7. Abraham Lincoln issued a 'Thanksgiving Proclamation' on third October 3, 1863 and officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving. Before President Lincoln made this happen, each president used to make an annual proclamation to specify the day when Thanksgiving was to be held.
8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored Thursday before last of November as Thanksgiving Day in the year 1939. He did so to make the Christmas shopping season longer which would stimulate the economy.
9. Congress passed an official proclamation in 1941 and declared that Thanksgiving would be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November every year.
10.Traditional foods like turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie are served by many on Thanksgiving Day.
6. Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor with Ladies’ Magazine, started a Thanksgiving campaign in 1827. Due to her efforts, in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer.
7. Abraham Lincoln issued a 'Thanksgiving Proclamation' on third October 3, 1863 and officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving. Before President Lincoln made this happen, each president used to make an annual proclamation to specify the day when Thanksgiving was to be held.
8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored Thursday before last of November as Thanksgiving Day in the year 1939. He did so to make the Christmas shopping season longer which would stimulate the economy.
9. Congress passed an official proclamation in 1941 and declared that Thanksgiving would be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November every year.
10.Traditional foods like turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie are served by many on Thanksgiving Day.
 Pumpkins are a Thanksgiving favorite for about 400 years. |
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 Turkey is an inseparable part of Thanksgiving celebration. |
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 Corn were a part of first thanks giving feast & are popular till date. |
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 Cranberry sauce is turkey's favorite thanksgiving feast partner. |
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 Cornucopia is a horn-shaped basket filled with fruits & goodies |
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 Beans are regarded as the third of the Indian Three Sisters. |
PRESENTATIONS AMPLIACION BACHILLERATO
Before you start to practice the presentation task, read the following tips carefully.
SOME ADVICE BEFORE PRESENTING...
SOME PRACTICE
It is important, while learning a language, to work on your own and check what you are able to do by yourself. This is one of the thousand sites you can come across in the net.
WORK YOUR ENGLISH
Are you very different from a British teenager?
WORK YOUR ENGLISH
Are you very different from a British teenager?
CANADIAN PRIDE
Lately we have been learning about Canada in Ampliación de 2º bach.
This is a modern version of Canadian people.
Enjoy it!!!!
This is a modern version of Canadian people.
Enjoy it!!!!
CHILDISH?
It is for children, but you can have fun and share it with the youngest of the family.
It is so tender!
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"THE SOCIAL NETWORK" THE MOVIE.
The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the website facebook and the resultinglawsuits
In 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg has the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates after his girlfriend Erica Albright breaks up with him. Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called "FaceMash", where male students can iteratively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive.read more
THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY ( By Oscar Wilde)
We are considering the possibility to take you to the theatre to watch this play.
Some notes on the plot:
Dorian Gray is a young and handsome man living in nineteenth-century, in England. He likes enjoying life very much and he indeed does so. However, his soul is not as attractive as his face and he does as he likes without minding the consequences of his acts. He hurts people’s feelings all the time, even forcing one of his lovers to commit suicide....Some notes on the author:
FAST FACTS
Birthname: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth date: October 16, 1854
Birth place: Dublin, Ireland
Death date: November 30, 1900
Death place: Paris, France
Burial: La Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Grey
• Although a proficient and versatile writer, Wilde only wrote one novel during his lifetime: “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” published in 1891.
THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY
AMAZING PICTURES
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Amazing pictures of Earth
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GUY FAWKES NIGHT IN LONDON
Fireworks Night in London (also called ‘Guy Fawkes Night’ and ‘Bonfire Night’) is an annual celebration held on November 5th (five days after Halloween) that remembers the audacious failed attempt of Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder and kill the English King, James I, in 1605.
LONDON FIREWORKS
LONDON FIREWORKS
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