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HOMECOMING 2024

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Third edition. 22/3/24

Friday 29 January 2021

[11thCW] COMING UP... THE SEA PREVIEW.

As we're approaching our 11th cultural week about "THE SEA", in the following days and weeks we'll be posting entries about the topic so that you can gather information to work on.
Watch out for the posts full of information and videos. Coming up...


- THE DIMENSIONS OF THE SEA: LARGENESS AND DEPTH & GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT OCEANS & SEAS.

- BRITAIN AND THE SEA: BASIS OF ITS TRADE AND EMPIRE.

- THE IMPORTANCE OF GREENWICH (LONDON) IN THE HISTORY OF NAVIGATION + THE CUTTY SARK.

- HOW EARLY SAILORS NAVIGATED THE OCEANS.

- SHIPWRECKS: THE 'TITANIC' AND THE SWEDISH 'VASA', HOW THEY SANK.

- NAVIGATION GADGETS: THE SEXTANT. + ONE WITH HISTORY.

- FELIXSTOWE: ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST IMPORTANT PORTS.

- HOW WOULD THE SEAS/OCEANS CHANGE IF ALL EARTH'S ICE MELTED?

- MUSIC: "YELLOW SUBMARINE", "THE SONG OF THE SEA", "THE SEA", "SURFIN' U.S.A.", etc... & SHANTIES


Friday 15 January 2021

[11th CW] THE SEA


This year's topic for our eleventh cultural week is once again:

THE SEA

As the pandemic made it impossible to celebrate last year's cultural week, we're back thinking about things we can work on. Certainly we'll recover the work we had already done for last year.
It's a very broad subject matter to work on, as usual we're open to suggestions on things we can do about it from and in English.
English is a language which from an island has travelled throughout the world and over the wide seas and oceans. Its origins are in a land surrounded by the sea, and of course, it's not only Britain, Ireland, Australia and even the States have great connections with the sea. So hopefully we will be able to come up with many ideas...
Let's brainstorm ideas... storms are also connected with the sea...
Waves of ideas...
The due dates for this year's cultural week are 22-26 March.

+ info @ Wikipedia/Sea

Some possible suggestions to work on and links to information:

- Historical ships: Mayflower, RMS Titanic, Vasa, The Three Caravels (Pinta, Niña & Santa Maria), Cutty Sark, Spanish Armada, USS Enterprise, Queen Elizabeth II..(Top historical ships)

or fictional ships: Nautilus, Pequod, African Queen, Black Pearl, Yellow Submarine...

- Shipwrecks (General info on shipwrecks, List of shipwrecks, Shipwreck history)

- Seas & oceans. (Oceans & seas, Data, The biggest seas & oceans, Oceans vs seas, The 7 seas, Straits-Canals-Gulfs)

- Important ports around the world. (List of ports worldwide, British ports, Spanish ports, Container ports)


- Maritime traffic. (Cruise ship tracking, Cargo-container tracking)

- Shipyards. (List of shipyards around the world)

- The sea as a way of trade and extension of political power.

- The sea in culture. (Sea in Culture)

- The sea in literature. Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Heart of Darkness, Old Man and the Sea... (Nautical fiction) 

- The sea in songs and music. Yellow Submarine, Surfin' U.S.A., Beyond the Sea... (Songs with 'Sea' in title, Top 10 sea songs)
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