What is the Peace for you?

The 30th of January we celebrate the international day of peace.
This day is the day when Ghandi died. It's very important day in the world, and it's a very beautiful day in our school, we sing songs and dance in the playground. In this day everybody try to be nice with other people. The symbol of the day it's the "dove of peace". In our school we decorate the walls with big pictures with messages of peace. The big pictures are normally made by the youngest students. When we go out to the playground, we put the pictures on the sports centre windows and everybody see them.

This year we have made another activity: at eleven o'clock we have gone to the preschool classes to help the children to inflate balloons, and we put into them messages of peace, later on we all meet at the playground, teachers, students and parents carry a balloon each, everybody sits on the balloon and brakes it, then people read the messages and everybody sing a song all together.

Pictures of Peace

School Friends, Quinton White, Atlanta, GA, USA Family, Inka Jankovicova, Bratisolva, Slovak Republic Tank of Peace, Paula Soares da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Bridge in Suzdal, Valentina Strelkova, Surgut, Russia People, Shinida Butler, Atlanta, GA, USA Friends, Shinida Butler, Atlanta, GA, USA Farmlife, Relka Von Schalkayk, Windhooek, Namibia Av. Atlantica, Anderson Tavares de Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Village Woman, Tulika Gupta, Jamshedpur, India People Around the World, Sidik Abuba Kari, Atlanta, GA, USA My City, Tanja Voskoboinikova, St. Petersburg, Russia Two Ladies & a Flute Player, Shruti Mishra, Jamshedpur, India Welcome to Hungary, Timea Karman, Budapest, Hungary Jumping Rope, Prince Phala, Johannesburg, South Africa Leopard, Olivia Walton, Windhock, Namibia Drowsy, Nay Alar, Johannesburg, South Africa Inspirace, Midrot Jaceloder, Krakow, Poland Nane Annan, United Nations

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• Translate the text in your English notebook.
• Write a text in the English blog about the Peace and the No-Violence.
• Draw a picture about the Peace in your English notebook.
• Choose a sentence of Gandhi here>>>, translate and explain what it means in your English notebook.
  
• Remember. You must do this task until 31st January 2009.

For more information about "the Peace" do click here http://anacleta.homestead.com/peace.html and visit these site to learn more:
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp

Pipes of peace - Paul McCartney

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I LIGHT A CANDLE TO OUR LOVE,

IN LOVE OUR PROBLEMS DISAPPEAR.
BUT ALL IN ALL WE SOON DISCOVER
THAT ONE AND ONE IS ALL WE LONG TO HEAR.

ALL 'ROUND THE WORLD,
LITTLE CHILDREN BEING BORN TO THE WORLD.
GOT TO GIVE THEM ALL WE CAN 'TIL THE WAR IS WON,
THEN WILL THE WORK BE DONE.

HELP THEM TO LEARN (help them to learn)
SONGS OF JOY INSTEAD OF BURN, BABY, BURN. (burn, baby, burn)
LET US SHOW THEM HOW TO PLAY
THE PIPES OF PEACE,
PLAY THE PIPES OF PEACE.

OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH,
OOH-OOH-OOH.

HELP ME TO LEARN
SONGS OF JOY INSTEAD OF BURN, BABY, BURN,
WON'T YOU SHOW ME TO PLAY (how to play)
THE PIPES OF PEACE, (pipes of peace)
PLAY THE PIPES OF PEACE

OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH.

WHAT DO YOU SAY? (what do you say?)
WILL THE HUMAN RACE BE RUN IN A DAY? (in a day?)
OR WILL SOMEONE SAVE THIS PLANET WE'RE PLAYING ON?
IS IT THE ONLY ONE?

WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?

HELP THEM TO SEE (help them to see)
THAT THE PEOPLE HERE ARE LIKE YOU AND ME. (like you and me)
LET US SHOW THEM HOW TO PLAY (how to play)
THE PIPES OF PEACE, (pipes of peace)
PLAY THE PIPES OF PEACE.

OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH.

I LIGHT A CANDLE TO OUR LOVE,
IN LOVE OUR PROBLEMS DISAPPEAR.
BUT ALL IN ALL WE SOON DISCOVER
THAT ONE AND ONE IS ALL WE LONG TO HEAR.

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• Translate to Spanish this song in your English notebook. Check your work here>>>
• Then, learn and sing it.

Christmas in England

In English speaking countries, children don’t get their presents on Christmas Eve (24 December). Santa comes at night when everyone is asleep. Santa’s reindeer can fly and take him from house to house. They land on the roofs of the houses and then Santa climbs down the chimney to leave the presents under the Christmas tree.

In the morning of Christmas Day (25 December), children usually get up very early to unwrap their presents. Then they have plenty of time to play with their new toys.

Christmas dinner is served in the early afternoon. Most people eat turkey and sprouts and a Christmas pudding.

26 December is called Boxing Day. It hasn’t always been a holiday. People used to go back to work on that day where their bosses gave them little Christmas presents in small boxes. That’s why the day is called Boxing Day.

Questions on the text

Translate the text in your English notebook and answer the questions according to the text in your English notebook too.

1. Santa’s sleigh lands …
   in front of the house
   in the sitting room
   on top of the house
2. Santa puts the presents …
   under the tree
   in the chimney
   in his bag
3. Why is 26 December called Boxing Day?
   People used to fight for their presents on that day.
   People hang around all day watching TV.
   People received little gift boxes on that day.

Nursery Rhyme

Little Jack Horner,
Sat in a corner,
Eating a Christmas pie.
He stuck in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, »What a good boy am I.«

• What do you think about Christmas?

• How are your Christmas Holiday?

• What do you do in Christmas Time?

Write a text.

Remember. You must do this task until 7th January 2009 and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tell me your opinion about the English class and the School.

Hello my friends:

With this last comment of the blog I hope your written opinion in a free text about English classes in particular and on your life at school in general.

As a teacher is very important for me to know your honest opinion, as it is the best way to learn and improve for the future.

Kind regards.

Your English teacher Luis.

John Lennon and the woman

What do you think about this song? Especially of the letter of the song. Explain your answer, please.

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Best wishes.

Your Teacher Luis.

Write a text !

Hello my friends!

Now we propose you a new free work. Write a text that necessarily takes the following words: school, parents, life, class, sybject, home, rules, holidays, games, sports. We expect you to invent a title.

An example is the fact that your colleague has 1st of ESO, Ana Nieto Espejo.

Your Teacher Luis.

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