Schools around the world - Produções - 7os anos

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Schools around the world - 7os anos

Hi, Guys!
Last week nós observamos imagens de schools around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/oct/02/schools-around-the-world-un-world-teachers-day-in-pictures
Essa semana conheceremos um pouco mais sobre as escolas em diversos países e a ampla diversidade cultural presente em cada uma. Segue o texto estudado em sala e os vídeos que assistimos. Aproveitem para treinar o listening! Enjoy it!

SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD

While we may be used to rows of desks in brightly decorated classes, there are many more unique schools around the world teaching children. These school have sprung up to meet the needs of kids who didn’t have access to an education. This lesson about schools around the world (with photos and videos) is an eye opener for kids in traditional school settings, and helps us to learn about different perspectives of kids. Find the school locations on a map and discuss the landscape, climate, and demographics of each setting. Learn some facts about how climate change is affecting the regions, and guess why getting to school could be a problem. After exploring these schools around the world, make connections with students in another country, and share what school is like where you live.

UNICEF tell us that “as of 2001 estimates around 115 million children of primary school age, the majority of them girls, do not attend school..”   Kids may wonder, why don’t they, or why can’t they go to school? The main reason is that some countries do not have enough money and resources to build schools. Some families live too far away from school… other families can’t afford to send their kids to school when they could be working. Other kids aren’t allowed to go because of their background, their gender, or their citizenship.

Educating children helps reduce poverty and promote gender equality. Many organizations and individuals are coming up with creative ways to help provide an education for students in some of the toughest environmental and cultural challenges, who live some of the most unique lifestyles on Earth. In the fascinating book “Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World,” by Susan Hughes, which describes many of these amazing schools. Here’s a peek at four of my favorites in the book, each with a link to photos or videos from the schools around the world.

 In Bangladesh, which is in Asia near northeast India, an architect named Mohammed Rezwan has developed boat schools to make education more accessible to students living in the region. Floods from monsoons and the heavily melting glaciers of the Himalaya Mountains due to climate change, have damaged thousands of schools. Now, for 3 hours a day, students board a boat to have lessons in math, reading, writing, English, Bengali, and conservation. Solar panels (!!) provide electricity for internet and a DVD player, and the boats are equipped with books. See this slideshow of children attending boat schools in Bangladesh.

In a high-altitude desert in the Himalaya Mountains, in the Ladakh region of India, a school was built to help sustain the Buddhist way of life for the students (who are mostly of Tibetan descent). The region is closed off from the rest of India for more than half of the year due to severe weather, limited electricity, and earthquakes. There were few local schools, and parents did not wish to send their children to boarding schools where traditional Ladakhi culture could be lost.

One special aspect of the Druk White Lotus School was that it was built by local architects, using local materials, and traditional building methods so that materials did not need to be transported long distances, and so that the local knowledge could help the school survive earthquakes. Combining modern technology (such as solar energy and thick insulating walls against the cold) and traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture (of “do no harm”), the school is a sustainable model that gives students the best of both worlds. See these photographs to learn more about the typical day of a student at Druk White Lotus School.

In Burkina Faso, in West Africa, students needed a new school to replace their collapsing local school; not only was it old, it was also very dark, and very hot. An architect named Diebedo, who was the son of the chief, was the first person to win a scholarship and get a university degree. He came up with an ingenious way to build a school that used a lot of natural light and circulated the air so that the students could be comfortable without electricity. As an added bonus, Gando’s villagers were trained to do the construction, and now earn money working in other towns. Nearby communities are following Gando’s example and building sustainable schools and houses as well. Here’s a short video of Diebedo, and how he used local materials and methods to create an award-winning school that keeps students cool and dry.

The last school showcased today is in northern Russia. The Evenks are a group of Siberian indigenous peoples, who maintain a traditional, nomadic lifestyle based on raising reindeer. They move their herds over a huge territory so they can graze from one area to the next. Several families live in a camp and travel together, and the parents and elders teach their children everything they need to know as reindeer herders. French-born ethnologist (a branch of anthropology) Alexandra Lavrillier arrived in 1994 to do a photo expedition, and was so impressed by the people’s warmth and efforts to conserve their culture, she created a moveableschool just for the Evenk children. Besides the regular Russian curriculum, the students also learn English, French, and some computer skills.

Fonte: https://kidworldcitizen.org/schools-around-the-world-2/

Starting over!

Hi, guys!
Let's start posting new activities on this page!
I am glad to have a little time to do this hahaha!

A partir de hoje retomarei as postagens de atividades e complementos das aulas nesse blog! Fiquem ligados!

7o. ano - PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Hi, guys!!!

Nessa atividade vocês poderão escolher o exercício que querem realizar clicando nos links abaixo. É só seguir os seguintes passos:

1) Acesse o link: http://www.learnenglish.be/gr1_prco_study.htm e estude todas as formas verbais (afirmativa, negativa e interrogativa);
2) Depois do estudo, escolha que exercício deseja realizar - você tem 4 opções (os links abaixo);
3) Faça o exercício que escolher prestando bastante atenção na forma como você o realizou: as dificuldades que teve e também as facilidades;
4) Para entregar, você deverá anotar o link que escolheu, explicar de que se tratava o exercício que realizou, como você teve que realizá-lo, as suas dificuldades, facilidades e sua opinião sobre essa tarefa on-line (se gostou ou não e por que?);
5) Esse trabalho a ser entregue poderá ser digitado e deverá contar com uma capa com os dados do aluno e o seguinte título: PRESENT CONTINUOUS - ATIVIDADE ON-LINE.
6) A data para a entrega será divulgada em sala de aula.

Aí vão os links para vocês acessarem e escolherem suas atividades:

http://www.englishspace.ort.org/esdemo/startdemo_4.htm

http://nea.educastur.princast.es/repositorio/RECURSO_ZIP/1_jantoniozu_Clothes/Tema_9_1%BAESO/Quiz/activ_5/quiz3/quiz%203.htm

http://michel.barbot.pagesperso-orange.fr/cap/prs_ing/exo1.htm

http://www.english4all.pro.br/students/exercises/L1/whataretheydoing.htm

Have a nice job!!!

Kisses

What time is it? - 6os. anos

Hello, dear students from 6th grade!!!

Let's talk about "What time is it"?

Assistam à vídeo aula e anotem as informações para nossa próxima aula.

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Biography - Mark Zuckerberg - 9os. anos

Hello, guys!!!

Assistam ao vídeo e anotem o que compreenderam. Lembrem-se do texto lido em sala que vai ajudá-los na compreensão, ok.
Essa atividade deverá ser feita de 14 a 22 de fevereiro.

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Food Pyramid - Listening activity - 8o. Ano

Hello, dear students!
Pensem sobre o que estudamos - eating habits and the food pyramid. Ouçam a gravação e anotem o que entenderam. Depois deixem suas observações em comentários.
Have a good comprehension practice!!!

Listening comprehension practice - Planning for good eating - 8os. anos

Hi, students!!!

Este é um exercício de compreensão auditiva para os alunos dos 8os. anos treinarem um pouquinho seu "listening".
Assistam prestando atenção às imagens e em todo o texto, pois fazem parte do conteúdo que estamos estudando - Eating Habits.
Façam anotações de tudo o que acharem relevante para conferirmos nas próximas aulas - essa atividade será avaliada.
Espero que gostem deste Walt Disney Cartoon.
Watch and have fun!!!
Kisses

Coral - "Redemption Song"

Hi, guys!!!

Vamos começar nosso ensaio para o coral do projeto "Africanidades" na próxima semana. 

Nessa postagem segue a letra da música que iremos cantar e o vídeo da versão escolhida para vocês treinarem em casa também, ok.

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Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob I,

Sold I to the merchant ships,

Minutes after they took I

From the bottomless pit

But my hand was made strong

By the hand of the Almighty

We forward in this generation

Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing,

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs!

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy,

'Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets,

While we stand aside and look

Some say it's just a part of it:

We've got to fulfill the Book

Won't you help to sing,

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs!

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our mind

Oh, have no fear for atomic energy,

'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a-the time

How long shall they kill our prophets,

While we stand aside and look?

Yes, some say it's just a part of it:

We've got to fulfill the Book

Won't you help to sing,

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever had:

Redemption songs,

All I ever had:

Redemption songs!

These songs of freedom,

Songs of freedom!.

Jogo dos 7 erros com a música "We are the champions"

Hi, everybody!

 

Esse é um jogo dos 7 erros na versão musical. Achei bem interessante a ideia e acabei copiando de um outro blog bem legal (http://www.englishexperts.com.br/2012/08/03/jogo-dos-7-erros-com-a-musica-here-without-you/).

 

Para testar o listening de meus students que deverão ouvir a música acompanhando a letra para encontrar os 7 erros espalhados por ela. Depois deverão escrever as respostas corretas nos comentários (lembre-se que se encontrar um erro que se repete - como no refrão, por exemplo - só poderá contá-lo uma vez, ok).

We Are The Champions

Queen

I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no dime
And by mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand
Kicked in my race
But I've come through

And we mean I to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on trying
Till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No crime for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and luck
And everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it's been no sea of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before
The whole human race
And I ain't gonna lose

And we mean I to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on trying
Till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No crime for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world

 

  See you...