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Thursday 23 November 2023
Wednesday 1 November 2023
ENHANCING COGNITIVE SKILLS WITH MULTILINGUISM: INTERACTIVE VIDEO ACTIVITY
Our latest interactive activity is about the fascinating world of multilingualism and its impact on cognitive skills. In this activity, we'll explore a video that reveals the cognitive benefits of being bilingual and the advantages of learning foreign languages. To make this learning experience more engaging, we've crafted a set of questions to test knowledge and understanding as well as stimulate thoughtful discussions.
Thursday 21 September 2023
READING AND DISCUSSING AN ITALIAN TV SERIES: MARE FUORI. ARTICLE + WORKSHEET.
‘We Are a Romantic Country’: On the Set of a Steamy
Hit in Italy
from The New York Times, 3rd August
2023
Italy falls for “Mare Fuori,” a television melodrama about the inmates of a juvenile detention center who pass the time making out — when not scowling at or occasionally stabbing one another.
Before dawn, the teenage girls convened outside the Naples Navy base where the wildly popular Italian television show “Mare Fuori” is filmed.
“We want to show them all of our love,” said Federica Montuori, 16, who with her fellow fans unfurled white sheets with spray-painted messages expressing how the lead actors, who play star-crossed — and mobbed-up — lovers in a juvenile prison, “belong in our hearts.”
Wednesday 20 September 2023
BEST WAYS TO LEARN ENGLISH STUDYING BY YOURSELF
Learning a foreign language on your own can be a rewarding but challenging endeavor. Here are some effective tips to help you succeed.
Set Clear Goal
- Define your reasons for learning the language (e.g., travel, work, personal interest).
- Set specific, achievable goals, such as being able to hold a basic conversation or passing a language proficiency exam.
Choose the Right Language
- Select a language that aligns with your interests and goals. Practicality and personal motivation are key.
Thursday 13 April 2023
CONNECTED OR HYPER-CONNECTED?
Internet, wifi, connections, meeting platforms, online learning: all of this suddenly entered our lives. How are we managing this change? Covid-19 forced many teens to stay locked in their houses, studying and seeing their friends only through the Internet, in front of a screen. Is that good or bad? Let's think about that together.
DIGITAL EDUCATION POVERTY
Wednesday 6 April 2022
THE WAR POETS - RUPERT BROOKE, SIGFRIED SASSOON & WILFRED OWEN
Wednesday 16 March 2022
STUDYING & WATCHING NORTH AND SOUTH BY ELIZABETH GASKELL (1855)
Monday 21 February 2022
DICKENS AND THE INDUSTRIAL NOVEL: HARD TIMES (1854)
BBC Hard Times - 1994 |
Thursday 10 February 2022
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, JANE AUSTEN AND PROTOFEMINISM
Protofeminism is a concept that anticipates modern feminism in eras when the feminist concept as such was still unknown. So we can correctly say that Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen were protofeminist writers.
Friday 17 December 2021
18 DECEMBER 2021: INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY
International Migrants Day (18 December) this year falls almost exactly 70 years after the Brussels conference that led to the establishment of the organization that, in 1989, was renamed the International Organization for Migration. A broad range of factors continue to determine the movement of people. They are either voluntary or forced movements as a result of the increased magnitude and frequency of disasters, economic challenges and extreme poverty or conflict. Approximately 281 million people were international migrants in 2020, representing 3.6 per cent of the global population.
Monday 6 December 2021
READ AND WATCH: JANE AUSTEN'S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Introduction
Friday 3 December 2021
BYRON, KEATS & SHELLEY - ETERNITY
Byron, Keats and Shelley lived short lives, but the radical way they lived them would change the world. At 19, Shelley wrote The Necessity of Atheism - it was banned and burned, but it freed the Romantics from religion. Through their search for meaning in a world without God, they pioneered the notions of free love, celebrity and secular idolatry that are at the centre of modern Western culture.
Wednesday 1 December 2021
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Monday 15 November 2021
ROMEO AND JULIET: LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
A) COMPARE THE SCENE OF ROMEO AND JULIET'S FIRST KISS IN THE FOLLOWING MOVIE ADAPTATION OF THE PLAY
1) ROMEO AND JULIET (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968)
Wednesday 6 October 2021
Tuesday 22 June 2021
WALTER SCOTT AT 250: SO MUCH MORE THAN A GREAT HISTORICAL NOVELIST
Wander through Edinburgh and you will find glimpses of Scotland’s most famous novelist, Walter Scott, everywhere: pubs named after characters or places in his books, his walking cane and slippers in The Writers’ Museum, and snippets of his work adorning the walkways of Waverley train station – named after his first and most famous novel. And just outside, towering over Princes Street Gardens, his statue stands beneath an elaborate monument affectionately dubbed the “Gothic Rocket”.
Friday 14 May 2021
Wednesday 5 May 2021
KNIGHTHOOD & CHIVALRY: THE INSPIRATION OF DON QUIXOTE
Don Quijote y Sancho Panza by Pablo Picasso |
As a Spanish gentleman living a quiet life of retirement and enjoying his favorite pastime of reading medieval romances about knights and their ladies, Don Quixote one day feels inspired to emulate the knights of old and restore the ideals of chivalry, honor, truth, courtesy, and service that his own age has relegated to the past.
Because the modern man of the sixteenth century has revolutionized the nature of warfare by the invention of gunpowder, the institution of knighthood has declined and disappeared. Jousts, armor, and lances are obsolete in the new world called “The Iron Age.”
As the military practice of knighthood has become outdated, the virtues of the knight have also become relics of the past.
Wednesday 13 January 2021
BUILDING A CATHEDRAL - THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH by KEN FOLLETT (1989)
In a time of civil war, famine and religious strife, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge. Against this backdrop, lives entwine: Tom, the master builder, Aliena, the noblewoman, Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse. A sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
Saturday 9 January 2021
BYRON IN ITALY
Wednesday 25 November 2020
SHAKESPEARE, THE BOOK OF THOMAS MORE & THE STRANGERS' CASE
Tuesday 29 September 2020
THE GLOBAL GOALS OF AGENDA 2030
Sunday 27 September 2020
LITERATURE, FAITH AND PANDEMICS
Agnes Mueller, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, wrote an interesting article introducing the literary works she taught in her course “Pandemics in Literature” and reflecting on the role of faith and religion in a time of uncertainty such as a pandemic.
Read her article HERE, then take the reading comprehension test HERE