December 10 is Human Rights Day. It commemorates the 61st anniversary of the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year Human Rights Day focuses on ending discrimination.
Dear students,
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. In the USA, It commemorates the feast held by the Pilgrims in 1621 who were thankful for the harvest and for the help of the Wampanoag people in teaching them to hunt, fish and grow crops during their first year in America. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated in much the same way. A large meal is shared and eaten with family and friends. People say thank you for their food and the good things they have in life. There are some special foods that are associated with Thanksgiving such as turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes, corn and pumpkin pie. Besides eating the Thanksgiving meal, Americans watch football, go to parades, travel and go shopping on the long holiday weekend.
I´d like to thank Judith, our Language Assistant, for her help to write this post.
Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated on November 5th in the United Kingdom. It's a British tradition dating back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. People celebrate the defeat of Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators with fireworks and bonfires.
There is a famous rhyme that goes:
Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
The Gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
This Saturday night we must set our clocks one hour back, from 3 am to 2 am. Here in Spain, Daylight Saving Time, which began on the last Sunday of March, ends today, the last Sunday of October, but in The United States and Canada it always begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Don't forget to change the time on your clocks back one hour before you go to bed tonight!
We have a new Language Assistant. Her name is Judith and she came from Connecticut, USA. We are very excited and we´d like to thank her for sharing her language and culture with us. We are sure our English will improve a lot with her help.
On 26 September 2009, the European Day of Languages will be held in Europe to celebrate linguistic diversity and promote
language learning.Let's celebrate linguistic diversity!Click here to read more about this day.
