Happy Teacher's Days

Happy Children's Day

Por Camila Rennó

CHILDREN’S DAY IN THE WORLD

Sadly, few cultures have a day dedicated to children. Japan seems to be the only country that goes in for honouring children in a big way. They have a Coming-of-age Day (Seijin-no-hi, January 15), Girl’s Festival (Hina-matsuri, March 3), Boy’s Festival (Kodomo-no-hi, May 5) and a festival for children aged 3, 5, and 7 (Sichi-go-san, November 15).

STATEMENTS OF CHILDREN’S DAY IN THE WORLD:

In Mexico all the movies are half price or free on Children’s Day, and the parks too. Adults give children presents – toys, clothes, and candies. Children really look forward to it. (Claudia Cano, Mexico)

We have Children’s Day in June. We have parties at school and then we go on excursions with our teachers. All the amusement parks are free on this day. (Lucia Oliveira Noversa, Portugal)

In the US we don’t have a Children’s Day. Some people wanted to organize a national day for children, but they were told that children were celebrated every day, so there was no need for one. But I think there should be one. (Natashia Hancock, USA)

It would be good to have a special day when children could say what they really think about things, because parents, and adults in general, make a lot of decisions involving us without ever asking us. (Andrew Brogdon, Great Britain)

In Japan we have two big secular festivals for children – one for girls and one for boys, on different days. This division is part of Japanese tradition. In fact until the Second World War they thought that girls and boys shouldn’t play and study together after age of seven. We can see this difference in the two festivals. On the girl’s day, which is not a national holiday, the girls play with special dolls which they keep and display until they are married. On the boy’s day, which is also known as Children’s Day, there is no school. Boys show off weapons and fly banners of carps – the carp is a symbol of strength, as it is a fish which can swim upstream. (Yoshie Kojima, Japan)

HOW IS THE CHILDREN’S DAY IN YOUR COUNTRY? DO YOU THINK IT IS A GOOD CELEBRATION?

Fonte: Teacher Karina Wou

Sites para aprender a língua inglesa

Por Camila Rennó
Pate papo, você poderá conversar com varias pessoas de varios paises, aprender linguas e suas culturas.
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English as a second language, ideal para quem já tem um básico e quer aprimorar.
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Este site mostra como se pronuncia palavras em diversos idiomas e principalmente o inglês com diversos sotaques.
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Short History - The Guitar

Por :Lais, Rafael e Patrícia

Mary was cleaning all her husband´s guitars in his studio, when she looked his favorite on the chair.
“He’ll never hold me as he holds that guitar. Hasn’t touched me that way in years”.
At that moment, she started to compare her shape and the guitar’s. And looked to herself:
“I’ll get inside the guitar, to be in his arms again”.
After cleaning she started to dress and make her up, and chose her best dress with the same color that her favorite husband’s guitar.

She spent all day sacrificing shape, voice, everything but desire to be held. Finally, in the studio, mute, invisible, she stayed next to the other guitars and waited.

She heard her husband’s steps coming to studio’s direction, and his screaming:

“Honey, I’m home! I bought a new guitar! Honey…?”

At that moment, the husband got surprised to see his wife and then he said:

“Look! A new guitar!”

“I can’t believe you! I spent the whole day trying to look like your old guitar and now, you come up with this and that means that I spent so long to look like your new guitar too!”

“What, honey? Did you try what? What are you saying?”
“Let it go, you wouldn’t understand, never!”
“Well, I can’t understand what you’re saying, but I also spent too long buying this new guitar to make a surprise for you: play a special song.”
“What? Special song?”
“Yes, listen: ‘You are so beautiful, to me…’”
Mary smiled relieved and kissed her husband.

Olimpíadas 2016 no BRASIL