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.
http://www.paltalk.com/

Por Stela Cazelotto

English as a second language, ideal para quem já tem um básico e quer aprimorar.
http://esl.about.com/od/beginningenglish/u/start.htm#s1

Este site mostra como se pronuncia palavras em diversos idiomas e principalmente o inglês com diversos sotaques.
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php

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

Contos de Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter (28 de julho de 1866 em Kensington, Londres; † 22 de dezembro de 1943, próximo de Sawrey, Cúmbria) foi uma autora e ilustradora inglesa, conhecida principalmente pelos seus livros infantis, que contavam as histórias de personagens animais tais como o coelho Peter Rabbit. Foi uma escritora, ilustradora, micologista e conservacionista.

"Na minha infancia eu assitia muito a TV cultura, e lá tinha um desenho, "Peter rabbit", que era sobre os livros de Beatrix."

Livros em português

No dia 2 de julho de 2009, a Editora Lótus do Saber publicou no Brasil o livro "A História do Pedro Coelho", como parte da coleção dos livros de Beatrix Potter nunca antes editados no formato original

Cinema

Em 2006, a vida de Beatrix Potter foi transformada em um filme, Miss Potter de Chris

Noonan, com Renée Zellweger e Ewan McGregor como protagonistas.

Curiosidade

Muitas fontes afirmam que J. K. Rowling deu o sobrenome do seu personagem principal, Harry Potter, porque gostava da autora Beatrix. Porém, até hoje, a autora de Harry Potter nunca confirmou nada. Além disso, existe outra referência a Beatrix nas obras de Rowling: Beatrix Bloxam é uma escritora de livros infantis no universo de Harry Potter.

Veja no link o livro completo com a Hitória de Peter Rabbit.
http://www.bygosh.com/peterrabbit/index.htm






Fonte: The World Of Beatrix Potter - http://www.peterrabbit.com/potters-world-introduction.asp

Short history

The guitar

Rosenildo, Stela e Selma

A couple were about to complete three years of marriage, Márcia, the wife, was feeling sad due to the fact that her husband Carlos was spending more time playing his guitar than with her. Day after day she felt that the guitar was taking her place.
One day when she arrived home, Carlos was playing the guitar, she called him three times: “Carlos, Carlos, Carlos!”. But he didn’t say any word and even looked at her. At that moment she noticed that his guitar was more important than her. She still insisted for some time to get his attention, but the attention that she desired was giving to the guitar. While she was there, standing and waiting for a piece of attention she was thinking: ”He´ll never hold me as he holds that guitar. Has not touched me that way in years. I´ll get inside the guitar to be in his arms again.” She left the room thinking about the idea.
The following day when they were celebrating their wedding anniversary, her husband left home early saying that he would come back with a surprise to her. She got really excited, she spent all day, sacrificing her shape, voice, because she wanted to be the guitar to her husband. Finally, she waited for him, mude, just like a guitar, waiting to be held and played.
Some hours later she heard steps, her husband had arrived, he got home saying: “Honey, I´m home! I bought a new guitar!”.
She wondered shouted: “Another?”
Then her husband gave the guitar to her and said: “Of course my dear, some days ago you were standing in front of me while I was playing it, and then I realized that I could teach you how to play the guitar and we could play together, so this is my wedding anniversary gift to you!”
She couldn´t believe what she had just heard from him, but she was so happy to see that her husband was still thinking of her and they could spend more time together again, that she hadn´t even cared to agree and play that fool instrument.