St. Patrick's Day Chicago River Dying and Parade 2011

St. Patrick's day

How about learning something about St. Patrick?

1. Where and when was St Patrick born?
2. What happened to him when he was 16?
3. When did he become a Christian?
4. How long was he a slave?
5. Where did he study and who was his teacher?
6. What did he want to do with his life?
7. Where did he want to go?
8. Who was sent there in his place and how long did he stay there?
9. What did Patrick achieve in Ireland?
10. How long did he work in Ireland?
11. Where did he go when he retired?
12. When did he die?
13. What legends developed about St Patrick?
14. What is the traditional icon of the day and what does it symbolize?

I suggest you visit this website and share your answer with your classmates: ST. Patrick's Day.

International Women's Day

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on March 8. This holiday has been introduced in the 20th century in the United States. After a while the people of United States stopped celebrating this holiday. In 1920's Soviet Union and then some other Communist countries like China, Cuba started celebrating this day as a holiday for women. Since then the holiday has been finding more and more acceptance around the world. In 1975 United Nations also started to recognize this holiday.

International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of political ideologies.

IWD is now an official holiday in Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Georgia, Italy, Israel, Laos, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia. The tradition sees men honouring their mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc with flowers and small gifts. In some countries IWD has the equivalent status of Mother's Day where children give small presents, such as flowers, to their mothers and grandmothers. In some countries women are given 1/2 day off work. Often, schools will have a celebration where students will honor their teachers.

(Data retrieved from http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day)  

Learn About International Women's Day

DO YOU CELEBRATE THIS DAY?

Imagine (The Beatles)

MAGINE THERE´S NO HEAVEN
IT´S EASY IF YOU TRY
NO HELL BELOW US
ABOVE US ONLY SKY
IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE
LIVING FOR TODAY... 

IMAGINE THERE´S NO COUNTRIES
IT ISN´T HARD TO DO
NOTHING TO KILL OR DIE FOR
AND NO RELIGION TOO
IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE
LIVING LIFE IN PEACE...

YOU MAY SAY I´M A DREAMER
BUT I´M NOT THE ONLY ONE
I HOPE SOMEDAY YOU´LL JOIN US
AND THE WORLD WILL BE AS ONE
IMAGINE NO POSSESSIONS
I WONDER IF YOU CAN
NO NEED FOR GREED OR HUNGER
A BROTHERHOOD OF MAN 

IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE
SHARING ALL THE WORLD...
YOU MAY SAY I´M A DREAMER
BUT I´M NOT THE ONLY ONE
I HOPE SOMEDAY YOU´LL JOIN US

AND THE WORLD WILL LIVE AS ONE

ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English | ELL/ELT

Here you have some interesting listening exercises which uses clips from movies to learn:
ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English | ELL/ELT

ENJOY!!

VOCABULARY: EVERYDAY LANGUAGE

Irlanda 2011