lunes, 23 de abril de 2012
World Book and Copyright DAY, 23 April
Theme for 2012: Books and Translation
23 April is a symbolic date for world literature for on this date in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.
It was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity. In this respect, UNESCO created both the World Book and Copyright Day and the UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.
The year 2012 also marks the 80th anniversary of the Index Translationum. This international bibliography of translation provides a unique tool for the monitoring of translation flows in the world. UNESCO will celebrate this anniversary by organizing a debate on this instrument.
SOURCE UN
ELA CENTRO DE IDIOMAS
SAN PEDRO DE ALCÁNTARA
Shakespeare William
Shakespeare Day
Do you know that...?
The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare was a popular dramatist. He was born six years after Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) ascended the throne, in the height of the English Renaissance. He found in the theater of London a medium just coming into its own and an audience eager to reward talents of the sort he possessed. He is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history.
Early life
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a wealthy landowner from a neighboring village. His father, John, was a maker of gloves and a trader in farm produce. John also held a number of responsible positions in Stratford's government and served as mayor in 1569.
Though no personal documents survive from Shakespeare's school years, he probably attended the Stratford grammar school and studied the classics, Latin grammar and literature. It is believed that he had to discontinue his education at about thirteen in order to financially help his father. At eighteen he married Ann Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith.
There are no records of Shakespeare's activities between 1585 and 1592. Some have speculated (guessed) that he was a traveling actor or a country schoolmaster. The earliest surviving mention of his career in London, England, is a jealous attack by Robert Greene, a playwright, which indicates that Shakespeare had already established himself in the capital. It is hard to believe that even Shakespeare could have shown the mastery evident in his plays without several years of apprenticeship (the period of time a person works to learn a skill).
Transcript
Ok, so one of the first questions you might ask about William Shakespeare is when was he born and how do we know that fact? But we don’t know precisely when he was born unfortunately because the document we’re looking at here is not the record of Shakespeare’s birth but rather the record of Shakespeare’s baptism. And you can see it entered here by a clerk copying out older records into a new document. You can tell that because the hand-writing is all the same so you can tell all these entries were entered in fact at the same time from older records. But here we have the recording of Shakespeare’s baptism on the 26th of April 1564, and the interesting thing about that of course is that it doesn’t tell us when he was born it only tells us when he was baptised. Our guess then that Shakespeare’s birthday is the 23rd of April comes from the fact that we know it was common practice for children to be baptised between two and four days after the birth. Often depending on how fragile the child seemed if they appeared to be sickly then it was considered risky to take them out down to the church to be baptised and they’d wait hopefully to see whether the child prospered before they did the baptism. So there we have the record of Shakespeare’s baptism later marked by someone else with the three x's. So that’s all the evidence we have about his birth.
Source Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
ELA Centro de Idiomas
San Pedro de Alcántara
viernes, 20 de abril de 2012
The Queen´s Birthday
The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June.
Official celebrations to mark Sovereigns' birthday have often been held on a day other than the actual birthday, particularly when the actual birthday has not been in the summer. King Edward VII, for example, was born on 9 November, but his official birthday was marked throughout his reign in May or June when there was a greater likelihood of good weather for the Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour.
The Queen usually spends her actual birthday privately, but the occasion is marked publicly by gun salutes in central London at midday: a 41 gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21 gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a 62 gun salute at the Tower of London. In 2006, Her Majesty celebrated her 80th Birthday in 2006 with a walkabout in the streets outside of Windsor Castle to meet well-wishers.
On her official birthday, Her Majesty is joined by other members of the Royal Family at the spectacular Trooping the Colour parade which moves between Buckingham Palace, The Mall and Horseguards’ Parade. Find out more about SOURCE http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/TheQueensbirthdays.aspx
jueves, 19 de abril de 2012
Presentación Exámenes Cambridge ESOL
El día de 13 de abril nuestro centro ha tenido el placer de contar con la presencia del representante de Cambridge ESOL para Andalucía el Sr Alex del Nogal, el cual ha brindado una charla a los padres de la importancia que tienen los exámenes con certificación reconocida, como son los Cambrige ESOL en el nuevo sistema educativo Europeo y en el Mundo.
En la misma los padres han podio realizar preguntas acerca de como encarar los exámenes, la metodología que se utiliza en cada nivel, el apoyo que brindan los centros preparadores oficiales, las diferencias con la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, ademas se ha destacado la importancia que tiene para los niños comenzar a edades tempranas el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua.
En la misma los padres han podio realizar preguntas acerca de como encarar los exámenes, la metodología que se utiliza en cada nivel, el apoyo que brindan los centros preparadores oficiales, las diferencias con la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, ademas se ha destacado la importancia que tiene para los niños comenzar a edades tempranas el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua.
