Category Archives: older students
What can YOU do on Mandela Day?
The objective of Mandela Day is to inspire individuals to take action to help change the world for the better, and in doing so build a global movement for good. “Take Action; Inspire Change; Make Every Day a Mandela Day.”
Individuals and organisations are free to participate in Internaitonal Mandela Day as they wish.
You can find your way to spend 67 minutes on Mandela Day (July 18th) to help others and make a better world!
You have over two weeks to prepare for Mandela Day…
Here is a link to the official website where you can register your personal action :
Movie trailer: Ruby Bridges
Man destroying his world – by Steve Cutts
If the world were a village – animated
If the world were a village of 100 persons…
Giving your opinion
Words you’re probably mixing up
Welcome to New York City.
Life Experiences: Diana Funtana.
Watch this video and practice talking about your experiences.
Surf trip in Pichilemu, Chile
For my students who went to London…
If you want to print the document for your travel diary, go to the school’s website:
If you want to save or print photos from our trip, go to the travel blog:
Different ways to say “good”
Global warming – man and bear habitats
How to reduce your carbon footprint
Martin Luther King Jr: a biography
Open the first document, read the biography and try to fill in the blanks with the verbs at the bottom.
After you’re done, open the second document and check your answers.
Mandela: “Long walk to freedom” official trailer
If planets were the same distance as the moon…
Two weeks later: resolution fails…
Ruby Bridges sees Barack Obama at the White House
▶ Ruby Bridges visits with the President and her portrait – YouTube.
Remember the 6-year-old Black little girl who started school in a White school in 1960?
Well here she is now, with President Obama at the White House, looking at her famous portrait by Norman Rockwell.
First little Black girl in a White school in New Orleans, 1960.
From TV show “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”