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Welcome to your English blog at Paidos School! Here you can learn, practise and improve your English in a different way. You will find useful links and information and you will also be able to participate and share experiences and opinions... in English, of course! I hope you enjoy it!

viernes, 31 de octubre de 2014

HALLOWEEN




Happy Halloween!
Do you know about the origins of this holiday? find out about its history and how it is celebrated in the following links...                                                                                                                                        


video

listening

reading - trick or treat

reading - halloween

And here you have a fun song to practise your English. Listen to it and then scroll down and fill in the gaps in the lyrics! Enjoy!

song

And in this website you have many more links to Halloween related sites...

martes, 25 de febrero de 2014

Superstitions

2nd ESO students are learning about superstitions around the world...here you have a video with the most popular British superstitions:


martes, 28 de enero de 2014

30th January - School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The "School Day of Non-violence and Peace", founded in 1964 and also known as World or International Day of Non-violence and Peace, is a pioneering, non-state, non-governmental, non-official, independent, free and voluntary initiative of Non-violent and Pacifying Education,which is now practised in schools all over the world and in which centres of education, teachers and students of all levels and from all countries are invited to take part.
It advocates a permanent education in and for harmony, tolerance, solidarity, respect for human rights, non-violence and peace. It is observed on January 30 or thereabouts every year, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi.
Its basic message is: "Universal Love, Non-violence and Peace. Universal Love is better than egoism, Non-violence is better than violence, and Peace is better than war".


NELSON MANDELA (1918-2013)




This year, we would like to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela, who died a few months ago (5th December 2013), by reading some of his most famous quotes about Peace and Freedom.
Nelson Mandela was awarded  the Nobel Peace prize in 1993 for his role in the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.


  • “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
  • “A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones."

§ "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished"
§ "No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it's opposite."
§ "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
§ "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
§ "Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
§ "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
§ "There is no such thing as part freedom."
§ "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
§ "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
§ “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
§ “I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
§ "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" (From the poem "Invictus", by W.E. Henley)



Find out more about this great man in the link below
 Nelson Mandela

...and here you have a song by the Irish band U2, dedicated to Nelson Mandela