HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 

Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on 31 October. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the 8th century, Pope Gregory III designated 1 November  as a time to honor all saints. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, donning costumes and eating treats.  Read here.

WHAT IS COP26 AND WHY IS IT HAPPENING?

 

The UK is hosting a summit that is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control.  It will bring together heads of state, climate experts and campaigners to agree coordinated action to tackle climate change.

The meeting in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.   Read here. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51372486

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/28/what-is-cop26-and-why-is-it-so-important

https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2021/11/01/does-climate-change-language-matter/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=fb_post

STUDYING ROMEO AND JULIET - 4^C LINGUISTICO

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as exemplary  young lovers.

http://2013.playingshakespeare.org/index.html

HADRIAN'S WALL - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Hadrian’s Wall is the remains of stone fortifications built by the Roman Empire following its conquest of Britain in the second century A.D. The original structure stretched more than 70 miles across the northern English countryside from the River Tyne near the city of Newcastle and the North Sea, west to the Irish Sea. Hadrian’s Wall included a number of forts as well as a ditch designed to protect against invading troops. The remnants of a stone wall are still visible in many places. Read here. 

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-rome/hadrians-wall

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/hadrians-wall/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hadrians-Wall

THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-elizabethan-theatre.html

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-introduction-to-shakespearean-london.html

https://shakespeareantheaters.weebly.com/the-globe.html

https://youtu.be/b9uDK3xsLYk

THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT

The Romantic period was largely a reaction against the ideology of the Enlightenment period that dominated much of European philosophy, politics, and art from the mid-17th century until the close of the 18th century.  Whereas Enlightenment thinkers valued logic, reason, and rationality, Romantics valued emotion, passion, imagination and individuality. Chris Baldick provides the following description: “Rejecting the ordered rationality of the Enlightenment as mechanical, impersonal, and artificial, the Romantics turned to the emotional directness of personal experience and to the boundlessness of individual imagination and aspiration.” Read here.

HIDDEN FIGURES - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gaudianohunt/2017/01/23/9-leadership-lessons-from-hidden-figures/

https://fsharetv.co/movie/hidden-figures-episode-1-tt4846340

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