BREAKING NEWS: HANTAVIRUS

 

MAY 1st: INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY & MAY DAY TRADITIONS

MARCH 8th, WOMEN'S DAY: 5 FACTS & VOCABULARY

 

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, "STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS"

 

Bruce Springsteen has just released today a new song called "STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS", against Trump's ICE immigration attacks and killings.

Lyric-video "STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS", Bruce Springsteen:

HOW WE MAKE HOPE NORMAL AGAIN

RAFAEL DIESTE'S NEW DOME ROOFTOP

 "Rafael Dieste" school has undergone a complete refurbishment throughout this last year. Changing windows, indoor lights and the central dome rooftop. These three photos show the difference between the new and old central dome: the two above with the new one (on 25/11/25 minute of silence in favour of the ellimination of violence against women) and below, the old one.

WORLD REFUGEE DAY

 

80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ (+ HISTORY IDIOMS)

 Video BBC coverage of the memorial 27/1/2025:

IDIOMS RELATED WITH "HISTORY":

BAND AID 2024 40th ANNIVERSARY

 This year sees the fortieth anniverasry of Band Aid & the song "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?" and they've made a remix of the song with some famous artists of today. Again a charity issue. Previous post about BAND AID.

Video "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?" 2024, Band Aid:

Original version "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?" 1984, band Aid

Documentary "THE MAKING OF BAND AID":

THE MEANING OF THE RAINBOW FLAG

VIDEO: THE GRETA GENERATION: YOUTH ACTIVISIM AROUND THE WORLD

Unit 5's topic on Social Issues is introduced with this video.

8-MARCH: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2022

Inspiring quotes about empowering women on their international day:

“To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” – A Spanish Prover

“The best protection any woman can have is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Where there is a woman, there is magic.” – Ntozake Shange

“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Ain Eineziz

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” – Hillary Clinton

“A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel

“She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.” – Atticus Poetry

“There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels.” – Ginger Rogers

“Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

“She is a Dreamer, she is a believer, she is a doer, she is an achiever, and that she is “You”. Happy Women’s Day.”  – Hassan Saleem

“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry

“A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” – Gloria Steinem

“Your life isn’t yours if you constantly care what others think.” – Norm Kelly

“If you have a dream, make it a goal.” – Unknown

“Sometimes it’s the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.” – Samuel Lowe

“Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” – Unknown

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

“She believed she could, so she did.” – R.S. Grey

“Sometimes it takes balls to be a woman.” – Elizabeth Cook

More inspiring and empowering quotes: HERE

 

[12th CW] HEALTH & WELLNESS

 During these last two years, the word HEALTH has gained a great importance and we have realized how important it is. Without it, nothing else matters, because HEALTH IS WEALTH.

This year's Cultural Week is devoted to this topic, the tag HEALTH in this blog has already got many entries, most of them during the outbreak of COVID19. Now new ones will be added due to this school annual activity.

Below some charts to show what HEALTH means and what it implies: