english camp campalto 2008

Martin Luther King

Timeline of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life:
1929 Born on January 15, in Atlanta, Georgia
1948 Graduates from Morehouse College
1953 Marries Coretta Scott
1955 Earns a doctoral degree
1956 Dr. King's house is bombed
1958 Dr. King publishes his first book, Stride Toward Freedom
1963 Dr. King gives his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1964 Dr. King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1968 Dr. King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
1986 Martin Luther King Jr. Day is declared a national holiday in the U.S.

Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA in 1948. In 1953 King married Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They had four children: Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice.
King most famous speech is called " I Have A Dream." He spoke to 250,000 people in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.
King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray in 1968. On January 20, 1986 the United States celebrated King's birthday as a holiday for the first time.

I HAVE A DREAM (Parts of Speech)
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

What do you think of becoming a journalist?

Progetto didattico Repubblica@SCUOLA che per la prima volta unirà studenti, docenti e giornalisti sulla stessa piattaforma di lavoro.
http://www.repubblica.it/: è il nuovo spazio web in cui ciascun studente avrà l’occasione di scrivere sulla stessa piattaforma tecnologica di un vero giornalista.
Ogni settimana sul sito www.repubblicascuola.it gli studenti come veri e propri giornalisti potranno partecipare alla realizzazione del giornale con recensioni di libri, cd musicali e film proposti dalla redazione. Ogni istituto avrà il suo sito dedicato, che gli studenti potranno arricchire costantemente, ogni giorno della settimana, scrivendo su qualsiasi argomento colpisca la loro immaginazione.
L’edizione cartacea del quotidiano potrà essere consultata on line con Repubblica EXTRA (http://www.extra.kataweb.it/); ogni settimana gli studenti potranno partecipare al Campionato italiano di: esercizi, giochi e quiz per mettersi alla prova e vincere fantastici premi e i titoli di “Studente dell’anno” e “Istituto dell’anno”. Ogni professore coinvolto diverrà caporedattore e approverà gli articoli scritti dagli studenti, verificandone in prima persona i requisiti di correttezza e legittimità.
che ne pensi? vuoi che la nostra scuola partecipi all'iniziativa?

Waiting for Xmas holidays

Babbo Natale manda gli auguri di Natale in diverse lingue

Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo! (Italiano)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (Inglese)
Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo! (Spagnolo)
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année! (Francese)
Kellemes karácsonyt és Boldog új évet! (Ungherese)
Gledileg Jol (Islandese)
Nadolig Llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda (Gallese)

USA elections

November 4, 2008
Barack Obama Wins The Presidency!http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

About USA Election Day
The United States presidential election of 2008 was held on November 4, 2008.
This election was the 56th consecutive quadrennial election in the U.S. and has determined the President and Vice President of the country.
The Republican Party has selected John McCain (Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona). John McCain has selected Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska) to run as his Vice President.
The Democrats have selected Barrack Obama (U.S. Senator from Illinois). It is the first time in history that an African American is a presidential nominee for a major party. Barrack Obama selected Roman Catholic Joe Biden (senior U.S. Senator from Delaware) to run as his Vice President.
This 2008 election is the first time in U.S. history that two senators have run against each other for president. It is also the first time that both major candidates were born outside the continental United States. Obama was born in Hawaii and McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone..
The 2008 election have coincided with Senate elections in 33 states, House of Representatives elections in all states and gubernatorial elections in 11 states.
The president-elect and vice president-elect are scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2009.

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the race for the White House Tuesday night. The following is an exact transcript of his speech. http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/speeches/obama-victory-speech.html
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.
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Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
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She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.
And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.
Yes we can.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

Translation into Italian

Ciao, Chicago!

Se là fuori c'è ancora qualcuno che dubita che l'America sia un luogo dove tutto è possibile, che ancora si chiede se il sogno dei nostri Fondatori sia vivo nella nostra epoca, che ancora mette in dubbio la forza della nostra democrazia, questa notte è la vostra risposta. È la risposta data dalle file di elettori che si estendevano intorno alle scuole e alle chiese, file mai viste prima da questa nazione, è la risposta che hanno dato le persone che hanno aspettato tre, quattro ore, molti per la prima volta in vita loro, perché erano convinti che questa volta doveva essere diverso, che la loro voce poteva fare la differenza.

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Sì, possiamo farcela.

Americani, abbiamo fatto tanta strada. Abbiamo visto tante cose. Ma c'è ancora moltissimo da fare. Perciò questa notte domandiamoci: se i nostri figli dovessero vivere tanto da vedere il prossimo secolo, se le mie figlie dovessero essere tanto fortunate da vivere tanto a lungo quanto Ann Nixon Cooper, quale cambiamento vedranno? Quali progressi avremo realizzato?Questa è la nostra occasione per rispondere a questo appello. Questo è il nostro momento. Questa è la nostra epoca: per rimettere la nostra gente al lavoro e aprire porte di opportunità per i nostri bambini; per riportare la prosperità e promuovere la causa della pace; per rivendicare il sogno americano e riaffermare quella verità fondamentale, che da molti siamo uno; che finché avremo vita avremo speranza: e quando ci troveremo di fronte al cinismo e al dubbio, e a quelli che ci dicono che non ce la possiamo fare, noi risponderemo con quella professione di fede immortale che riassume lo spirito di un popolo: sì, possiamo farcela.Grazie. Dio vi benedica. E che Dio benedica gli Stati Uniti d'America.

the wizard of oz

Synopsis for The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Gale is a teenager on a Kansas farm who daydreams about going "over the rainbow." Along with her house and her dog Toto she's swept from her black-and-white world to the magical, beautiful, dangerous and technicolor land of Oz by a tornado.
Dorothy's house lands on and kills the wicked witch who rules the Land of the Munchkins, little people who think at first that Dorothy herself must be a witch. The Wicked Witch of the West sister of the dead witch, threatens Dorothy. But Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, gives Dorothy the dead witch's enchanted Ruby Slippers, and the slippers protect her.
Glinda advises that if Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas, she should seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City. To get there, Dorothy sets off down the Yellow Brick Road.
Before she's followed the road very far, Dorothy meets a talking scarecrow whose dearest wish is to have a brain. Hoping that the wizard can help him, the Scarecrow joins Dorothy on her journey. They come upon the Tin Woodman who longs for a heart; he too joins Dorothy. As they walk through a dense forest, they encounter the Cowardly Lion who wishes for courage and joins the quest in the hope that the wizard will give him some.
On the way to the Emerald City, Dorothy and her friends are hindered and threatened by the Wicked Witch of the West. Within sight of the city, the witch conjures up a field of poppies that cause Dorothy, Toto, and the lion to fall asleep.
Glinda saves them by making it snow, which counteracts the effects of the poppies.
The four travellers marvel at the wonders they find in the Emerald City, but are frustrated at their reception by the "great and powerful" Wizard of Oz at first he won't receive them at all.
When they finally see him, he declines to help them until they bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. Daunted but determined, they set off again.
The witch sends winged monkeys to attack Dorothy's party before they reach her castle; the monkeys snatch Dorothy and Toto and scatter the others. When the witch finds that the Ruby Slippers can't be taken against Dorothy's will as long as the girl is alive, she turns her hourglass and threatens that Dorothy will die when it runs out. Meanwhile, Toto has escaped and run for help. Dressed as guardsmen, the Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow sneak into the castle and free Dorothy. They're discovered before they can escape, however, and the witch and her guards corner them and set the Scarecrow on fire. Dorothy douses him with a pail of water, splashing the witch by accident. The water causes the witch to melt away. The guards are happy to let Dorothy have the witch's broomstick, and Dorothy and her friends return to the Emerald City.
The wizard isn't pleased to see them again. He blusters until Toto pulls aside a curtain in the corner of the audience chamber to reveal an old man pulling levers and speaking into a microphone -- the so-called wizard, as the Scarecrow says, is a humbug. He's abashed and apologetic, but quickly finds ways to help Dorothy's friends: a diploma for the Scarecrow, a medal of valor for the Lion, and a testimonial heart-shaped watch for the Tin Man. Then he reveals that he's from Kansas himself and came to Oz in a hot-air balloon, in which he proposes to take Dorothy home.
The wizard appoints the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion rulers of Oz in his absence. Just as the balloon is about to take off Toto runs away and, unable to stop, the wizard leaves without Dorothy. But Glinda appears and explains that Dorothy has always had the power to get home;
Glinda didn't tell her before because Dorothy wouldn't have believed it. Bidding her friends a tearful good-bye, Dorothy taps her heels together three times, repeats
"There's no place like home," and the Ruby Slippers take her and Toto back to Kansas.
Dorothy wakes up in her own bed with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry fussing over her.
She raises indulgent laughter when she tells them about Oz, but she's so happy to be home she doesn't mind that they don't believe her.

SONG: Over The Rainbow
Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.

There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue.

And the dreams that you dare to dream

Really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far

Behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops,

Away above the chimney tops.

That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.

Birds fly over the rainbow,

Why then - oh, why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,

Why, oh, why can't I?

tongue twisters for kids

Tongue Twisters
it is a phrase or sentence which is hard to speak fast, usually because of alliteration or a sequence of nearly similar sounds.
It helps develop speech skills & helps in speech therapy.
To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.

Here are some cool English Tongue Twisters, have fun ! Repeat them a few times !

If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues.

A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies
I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
If you understand, say "understand".If you don't understand, say "don't understand".But if you understand and say "don't understand".How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
A sailor went to sea To see, what he could see. And all he could see Was sea, sea, sea.
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box.
Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
Do tongue twisters twist your tongue?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,wheres the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Which witch wished which wish?
If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? ...

Thanksgiving Day - a harvest festival

When is Thanksgiving?
2008 Thursday, November 27

Thanksgiving Day Symbols: Pumpkin Turkey Corn Cranberry Cornucopia Beans

About Thanksgiving
The first Thanksgiving in America was celebrated less than a year after the Plymouth colonists settled in the New World. The corn harvest brought celebration and Governor William Bradford decreed that a three day feast be held.
Thanksgiving Day is a day in the United States for giving thanks.
People give thanks with feasting and prayer for the blessings that they have received during the year. The first Thanksgivings were harvest festivals, or days for thanking God for plentiful crops. For this reason, the holiday is associated with fall - a time of harvesting the crops.
In the United States, Thanksgiving is usually a day celebrated with big dinners and family reunions. Thanksgiving is also a time for religious reflection, church services and prayer.
The last Thursday in November was proclaimed the National Thanksgiving holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. He proclaimed it "a day of thanksgiving and praise to the beneficent Father." Thanksgiving was celebrated on that date for 75 years until President Roosevelt set the day one week earlier in 1939. He wanted to lengthen the shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas to help businesses. Congress finally ruled in 1941 that the fourth Thursday in November would be the legal National Thanksgiving Day holiday.

SONG ACTIVITIES

SONG
􀀄 Shadow Of The Day – Linkin Park 􀀄
Complete the song with the following words: (You may have to change the form)
set – stay – close – day – simple – beginning – below – goodbye

I __________ both locks __________ the window
I __________ both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so __________
Sometimes __________'s the only way, oh
And the sun __________ for you
The sun __________ for you
And the shadow of the __________
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun __________ for you
And cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to __________
Sometimes ___________ aren't so __________
Sometimes __________'s the only way
And the sun ___________ for you
The sun __________ for you
And the shadow of the ___________
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun __________ for you
Repeat 3 times

SONG: Last christmas BY Wham
listen to the song and fill in the blanks
Chorus:
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next _____________
You gave it _______________
This ___________,
to save me from ______________
I'll give it to someone special
Once bitten and twice ____________
I keep my distance but you still catch my __________
Tell me baby do you _______________ me?
Well, it's been a year, it doesn't ______________ me
(Happy Christmas!) I wrapped it up and _____________ it
With a note saying "I Love You" I ________________ it
Now I know what a fool I've _______________
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me __________________
Repeat Chorus twice
(Oooh. Oooh Baby)
A crowded room, friends with tired ____________
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ________________
My God, I thought you were someone to ________________ on
Me? I guess I was a shoulder to ____________ on
A face on a lover with a fire in his ____________
A man undercover but you tore me _____________________
Oooh hooh
Now I've found a real love you'll never fool me again
Repeat Chorus twice
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
(Gave you my heart)
A man undercover but you tore him apart
Maybe next year
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
(Special someone)
1. Are these sentences true or false?
a. The song is about Easter.
b. The woman in the song fell in love with him.
c. She doesn’t recognise him this year.
d. If she kissed him now he wouldn’t be fooled by her.
e. He has found someone else this year who loves him back.
2. Correct this summary of the story- there are 10 mistakes. Can you find them all?
Last 25th November the singer declared his love to a woman who married him on the 26th. He promises
himself that this year he will fall in love with someone who hates him back. However, despite this
promise his ex still catches his attention but unsurprisingly she recognises him. He knows if she made
advances now he would try to kill her again so he tries to find her in the crowd. He knows that she used
him for financial support last year and he was happy to help. However at the end he knows he has lost a
true love this year and can be fooled by her again.

A school trip in Burano

English City Camp 2008

A very exciting English experience
together with a lot of friends and 5 fantastic and energetic tutors