Ler em férias : Hello LightHouse, livro em Inglês LE1

 

Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

https://www.sophieblackall.com/books/ 

 

As férias começaram. E muitos alunos partem de férias com família ou em grupo de amigos.

 

Praia e costa são dos destinos mais procurados para usufruir do mar. Eis um livro que pode levar à descoberta de faróis.

 

O livro pareceu-nos uma bela homenagem a todos os que, de forma bem solitária, durante anos, dedicaram e dedicam a vida a guardar e a assegurar o funcionamento daquelas casas de luz no meio do mar.

 

Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

https://www.amazon.com/

 

Hello Lighthouse é um livro ilustrado escrito e ilustrado pela autora e ilustradora australiana, radicada nos Estados Unidos, Sophie Blackall. Sophie Blackall já ilustrou mais de 30 livros para crianças e adolescentes.

 

Podem conhecer um pouco mais sobre Sophie Blackall, biografia e bibliografia aqui

Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

créditos: Matt Carr

 

O livro parece-nos uma bela homenagem a todos os que, de forma bem solitária, durante anos, dedicaram a vida a guardar e a assegurar o funcionamento daquelas "casas de luz".

 

O livro conta a história de um farol e seu último faroleiro. Foi galardoado Janeiro, com a Medalha Caldecott 2019 pelas ilustrações. 

 

"Children will delight in immersing themselves in the captivating discoveries each new look at Hello Lighthouse will bring."

 

Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Mary Fellows

 

Finding Winnie : The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Lindsay Mallick

illustrations : Sophie Blackall

Esta é a segunda vez que Blackall vence a Caldecott Medal. Em 2016, foi distinguida com Finding Winnie : The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, um livro que já conhecem.

 

 

Lembram quando escrevi sobre Winnie  e a sua verdadeira história?

Será que,  um destes dias,  atravessam o oceano, e chegam a Portugal? Em Português, claramente!

 

Mas voltemos ao livro Hello LightHouse ...

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Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

https://www.sophieblackall.com/books/

 

Visitar um farol por dentro significa viajar no tempo e imaginar  a vida daqueles que viveram confinados a espaços tão pequenos e isolados. Entendemos as rotinas dos seus guardiões, conhecemos os espaços onde passavam os dias e as noites, onde dividiam a vida com as famílias. Uma vida contada ao pormenor no diário de bordo de cada faroleiro.

Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

https://www.sophieblackall.com/books/

Temos assim, uma visita guiada por Sophie Blackall, magnificamente ilustrada e bem documentada. 

As rotinas e os factos relatados revelam a dimensão da abnegação destes guardiões e das suas famílias, não deixando ninguém indiferente.

 

A chegada de um novo faroleiro, os alterações e ajustes que fazem, a solidão de um tempo que custa a passar, a chegada da mulher, o nascimento do filho, as estações do ano...são detalhes descritos primorosamente por Blackall, que nos faz viver cada um deles de forma singular.

 

 

In this beautifully illustrated picture book you will learn all about the life of a lighthouse keeper whose job was to keep ships safe at sea.

📘📗Actividades férias:

 

Ler nas férias, é uma belíssima actividade para os estudantes. Desta vez, em Inglês, língua estrangeira I. Desenvolverá as suas capacidades de compreensão da língua estrangeira, neste caso Inglês, e alargamento de vocabulário,

Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

https://www.sophieblackall.com/books/

👉Synopsis (English):

 

"Hello Lighthouse is a beautifully rendered story about a lighthouse keeper and the ins and outs of his daily life. The illustrations truly lift the story to another level, allowing readers to gather information from both the words and images to make meaning. It is sure to be a book that children return to again and again!"

Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp's wick, and writes every detail in his logbook.

Step back in time and through the door of this iconic lighthouse into a cozy dollhouse-like interior with the extraordinary award-winning artist Sophie Blackall

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Hello LightHouse

Sophie Blackall

https://www.sophieblackall.com/books/

Aim: 

 

Developing reading skills in English as a first foreign language, strategies for an independent reading.

 

 

Age: up to 9

A beloved picture book from twice Caldecott Medal award-winner Sophie Blackall that transports young readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor!

 

 

G-Souto

 

 

18.07.2026

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Schools : NASA Contest : Mars rover : your best name ideas !

Name the Rover Contest
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

NASA is inviting K-12 students in U.S. public, private, and home schools to enter the Mars 2020 Name the Rover essay contest. 

NASA’s Name the Rover contest asks students from kindergarten through 12th grade across the United States to send short essays with their best name ideas.

The contest started on August 27 and runs until November 1, 2019. 

What's Mars 2020:

The Mars 2020 rover is a 2,300-pound robotic scientist that will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.

Mars Rover
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

• Aims:

The Name the Rover contest is part of NASA's efforts to engage students in the STEM enterprise behind Mars exploration and inspire interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

STEM concepts are ripe with opportunity for English language, Arts (ELA) integration. So, an interesting cross-curricular contest!

"This naming contest is a wonderful opportunity for our nation’s youth to get involved with NASA’s Moon to Mars missions,” (...) "It is an exciting way to engage with a rover that will likely serve as the first leg of a Mars Sample return campaign, collecting and caching core samples from the Martian surface for scientists here on Earth to study for the first time.”

Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator

Name the Rover Contest
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

By participating in the essay contest, students will:

• Learn about real NASA missions
• Apply their critical thinking skills
• Learn something new, and form questions about a place they may never have heard of
• Conduct research using NASA websites
• Applying their writing skills

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

• So what makes a good name? 

There are lots of ways to become inspired, but students should start by learning about the rover as well as the Red Planet and why NASA explores it. 

But they shouldn’t stop there. There are many ways to spark ideas from students, including writing planetary poetry (Languages curriculum), making cosmic art (Arts & Media curricula), and having them build rovers of their own (STEM curricula).

Get students thinking and writing creatively, and encourage them to submit their essay!

credits: Adolie Day

https://www.facebook.com/Adolie-Day-

• How to participate:

To enter the contest, students must submit by Nov. 1 their proposed rover name and a short essay, no more than 150 words, explaining why their proposed name should be chosen. 

The essays will be divided into three groups by grade level:

• K-4, 

• K-5-8,

• K-9-12.

Name the Rover Contest
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Judge & vote:

The essays will be judged appropriateness, significance and originality of their proposed name, and the originality and quality of their essay, and/or finalist interview presentation.

Fifty-two semifinalists will be selected per group, each representing their respective state or U.S. territory. 

Three finalists then will be selected from each group to advance to the final round.

As part of the final selection process, the public will have an opportunity to vote online on the nine finalists in January 2020. 

NASA plans to announce the selected name on Feb. 18, 2020 – exactly one year before the rover will land on the surface of Mars.

• Registration:

Register, learn more, and submit entries using the link below:

Registration here

• Prize:

One grand prize winner will name the rover and be invited to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

• Volunteer to judge:

If you’re a U.S. resident over 18 years old, you can volunteer to help judge the thousands of contest entries that NASA expects to pour in from around the country. 

Sign-up to Judge here

Mars 2020

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Education:

A contest to engage students in a cross-curricular activity: the STEM behind Mars exploration and to inspire interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 

Of course, STEM concepts are ripe with opportunity for English language and Arts (ELA) integration.

Contests are always welcome activities in school curriculum. Students are encouraged to show their inner creativity and develop competences and skills.

Of course a national contest, in this case, in a big country as the US, kids and teens have the unique opportunity to reach an interesting prestige in their schools and in the all country.

It's fhe big moment to share new ideas, common interests and gain experience in a contest that involves such an important award! An invitation to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Wow! 

“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.” 

Joel Barker

G-Souto

08.09.2019

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Let's talk ! Oxford English Dictionary : new entries 2017

Oxford English Dictionary

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the English language, providing an unsurpassed "guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 280,000 entries – past and present – from across the English-speaking world."

As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. 

We'll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but we’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford English Dictionary

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Today, the dictionary is in the process of its first major revision. 

Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language. The last one in June 2017, another one in March 2017.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/

What's New?

More than 600 new words, phrases, and senses have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2017 including bug chaser, chantoosie, gin daisy, and widdly. 

Ute Lemper, German chantoosie
http://parterre.com/

Teachers & Linguistic:

You can read about other new and revised meanings in the article by Katherine Connor Martin, Head of US Dictionaries, and explore OED timeline of veil words.

As this update also includes revisions to the word come, Denny Hilton, Senior Editor of the OED, explores the evolution of the term to come out in release notes. 

You can also review your serve - or your backhand or volley - in OED discussion of tennis terms.

Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014, edited by J. Michael Lennon) has recently been read as part of the OED’s reading programme, and the letters have provided several antedatings and some interesting insights into the challenges of finding evidence for swear words in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. You can read about this here.

*Don't forget to explore my post English Dictionaries Oxford & Collins (January 2017.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/

When work began on the Philological Society’s proposed new English dictionary in the 1850s, the modern game of tennis did not exist. At that time, ‘tennis’ referred to what we now know as real tennis or (in North America) court tennis, a ball game of French origin played since medieval times on a purpose-built roofed oblong court. 

Henry V

William Shakespeare

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

This game had made its own impression on the English language and its literature: perhaps most famously, Henry V, in a scene immortalized by Shakespeare, is said:

And tell the pleasant Prince this mock of his
Hath turned his balls to gunstones, and his soul
Shall stand sore chargèd for the wasteful vengeance
That shall fly from them….

Act I, scene ii, Henry V

In the throne room of the royal palace in England, King Henry V prepares to speak with a delegation of ambassadors from France, after have received a mocking ‘gift’ of tennis balls from the Dauphin of France with the suggestion that playing tennis was a more suitable occupation for him than making war. Henry did not take this well. 

Most of the tennis-related items that have now been added to Oxford English Dictionary Online reflect the changes and developments in the game in the twentieth century, of which the most important is professionalization.



Some other entries 2017:

Kodak moment

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

Some of them seem to be rather late additions - Kodak moment and sausage party - but others might become part of your daily lexicon.

They include zyzzyva, a genus of tropical weevils native to South America. The word replaces zythum - an ancient Egyptian malt beer - as the OED's final entry.

Zyzzyva

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/

Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical weevils often found in palm trees in South America. According to the OED, the word should be pronounced Ziziva. 

The word, which will now become the final listed among the 826,000 entries in the English language according to the OED, has previously appeared in a number of other dictionaries and will now finally receive recognition.

Yas

http://metro.co.uk/2017/

And other new words have been added, including cringey, bronde and yas.

Aquafaba, n.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

Culinary:

The culinary world always serves up a feast of new terminology, and the latest spread is no disappointment. The new menu ranges from the healthy - such as superfruit, a term used to refer to fruits considered to be particularly beneficial—to the markedly less healthy - such as shoestring fries, also known as shoestring potatoes, which are French fries sliced extremely thinly. If you order the Cuban sandwich frita (from the feminine of Spanish frito meaning ‘fried’), you’ll find a handful of these fries in addition to seasoned pork and beef. Should you require something a little more vegan, perhaps you’ll be tempted by aquafaba, a substitute for egg whites used in vegan cooking, with a name that translates from Latin to ‘water-bean’. This name is a reference to the substance’s origins as the water in which chickpeas, or other pulses, have been cooked. Other words 

4Freecycle, n.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

The Environment:

With certain foods (such as courgettes) becoming less available in the UK due to poor crops, the environment has been on everyone’s mind here, though likely it weighs heavier on the minds of climate refugees—this term refers to those forced to leave their home due to the effects of climate change rendering it unsafe or uninhabitable. More words

Flyboarding, n.

http://www.flyboardqt.com/

Sports:

One of the latest water sports that’s defined by our online dictionary is flyboarding, in which a person travels through the air—in an act that looks suspiciously like flying—using a board propelled by jets of water. Granted, the flyboard is attached to a jet ski, but this is a good-sized step closer to the forms of transport I’ve always expected the 21^st century to offer us.

To skitch, v.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

Thrill-seekers on the hunt for a way of levelling up their commute might choose to skitch: this word is a blend of skate or ski and hitch, and refers to the activity of ‘hitching’ onto a motor vehicle while riding a bike, skateboard, etc. so as to travel at greater speeds, not always giving the driver any warning of your intentions. Possibly not the safest way... More words

New vocabulary OED

 Picture: Shutterstock/Ella Byworth

http://metro.co.uk/2017/

Other new entries:

Meet-cute, n.

https://findarichhusband.files.wordpress.com/

meet-cute (noun):(in a film or television programme) an amusing or charming first encounter between two characters that leads to the development of a romantic relationship between them.

In romantic comedies and Disney movies, the protagonists tend to meet in the most adorable of ways.

Hackfest, n.

http://www.thedenveregotist.com/

Hackfest, noun: an event dedicated to sharing information about computer programming. Make sure you’ve understood the invite though, because hackfest can also refer to a period of frenzied violence. In this sense, it differs…

web tablet

http://images.pcworld.com/

web tablet, noun: new computing tool.  With the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad in 2010 now both used in the classroom, education began to change. For good!

Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo.

Scratch, noun: a free programming language and online community where students can create their own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Eminem, rapper

credits: Christopher Polk/ AFP

http://www.lefigaro.fr/

Stan, noun: an obsessed fan. Ten years later, Stan enters in OED. You don't know why? Read here

Well, it's a long list! See a full list of new words, subentries, and senses added in this update.

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• Resources: 
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• New feature:  Interactive surfing timeline
• Explore the OED interactive surfing timeline to see when surfing words entered the English language. 

Resources online: Students

• Word origines

• World Lists

• Language questions

• Quizzes

*Don't forget to explore my post English Dictionaries Oxford & Collins (January 2017.

Education:

Young people are probably the most creative agents for new words because they’re not held back by convention, for sure.

‘Young people are the real artists of the language and a dictionary should reflect that."

David Swarbrick, managing director at Chambers, 2015

Our students suprises us every day with new words. They often are the new 'linguistics' of the XXI century.

Without young people and new technology, languages would be 'death languages'. 

If so, no excuse for students! They don't appreciate to use the dictionary. But dictionaries are imperative resources to understan what they are reading or writing.

It's a vast and very useful educational tool for students, in this case OED, to learn and understand the English language, English literature, history, law, and many other subjects.

The dictionary encourages knowledge, curiosity and vocabulary skills.

Teachers can place holder sheets practices to be used by younger students according to their learning level. 

There are interesting resources to practice the English language.

Be stan of a dictionary (native language and foreign languages. And don't skitch...

Note: The digital resources and educational tools published on this blog are my own free choice. I don't do endorsements or advertising.

G-Souto

16.07.2017

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