RED NOSE DAY !

 Today is Red Nose Day !!

 Special thanks to Elisa and Léa for their oral presentation and the delicious cakes !!

There’s something a little bit funny about the Beefeaters of the Tower of London today!

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.
The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with sister project Sport Relief. 
  Comic Relief is one of the two high profile telethon events held in the United Kingdom<sup>.


 The Red Nose Day campaign with ONE DIRECTION:
 http://www.rednoseday.com/whats-going-on/one-direction</sup>

HISTORY: VICTORIAN BRITAIN (1837-1901)

Special thanks to Camille bnd Pauline for their oral presentation:

GAME !! walk through a Victorian House!Travel back in time to Victorian London!

Travel back in time to 1870 and help Ruby & Michael look for their missing dog Sam. Have fun !!

http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/learning/walk-through-a-victorian-house/walk-through/

     

Who were the Victorians?
(1837 to 1901)

The Victorian age in British history is named after Queen Victoria, who was Britain's queen from 1837 until 1901.
What was life like for Victorian children? There were big differences in homes, schools, toys and entertainments. No TV, no computers, no central heating, no cars (until the last few years of Victoria's reign). No air travel - unless you went up in a balloon! Many children went to work, not to school.
 

The British Empire

Britain ruled the British Empire. Victoria was Empress of India as well as Queen of Britain, Canada (the biggest country in the Empire) and small countries such as Jamaica. Trade with the Empire helped make Britain rich. Some British children emigrated with their families to new homes in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. Children were taught about the Empire in school.

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The Industrial Revolution changed Britain from a land of small towns, villages and farms into a land of cities, large towns and factories. The population grew from 16 million in 1801 to over 41 million by 1901. Cities grew fast, as people moved from the countryside to work in factories.
 Men, women and children worked in factories, and in coal mines. Factory and mine owners became rich, but most factory and mine workers were poor. They were paid low wages, and lived in unhealthy, overcrowded slums.

                                                       FAMOUS VICTORIANS

 Victoria was born in 1819 in Kensington Palace in London. Her name was Alexandrina Victoria. When Princess Victoria was 18 years old her uncle King William died and she became queen. She was crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1838.  Victoria married her handsome cousin Albert a young prince from Germany. (She had proposed to him). Albert didn't speak English very well and lots of people didn't like him.


 Lord Shaftesbury (1801-1885)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, the eldest son of the 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, was born on 28th April, 1801. He became the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1851.
Lord Shaftesbury was a politician who attempted to improve children's lives during the Victorian times

At the age of 25, he became a member of Parliament. He began to take an interest in the plight of poor children after reading newspaper reports about labour in industry.

1833 He proposed that children should work for a maximum of 10 hours a day

1834 the Factory Act was made law. It was now illegal for children under 9 to be employed in textile factories

1842 Coal Mines Act
No child or woman should work underground

He was also interested in education for working children. He was chairman of the Ragged Schools Union - an organisation that set up over a hundred schools for poor children

  



ALEXANDER  GRAHAM BELL : (1847-1922)

 

He was the inventor of the telephone

CHARLES DARWIN (1809 -1882)
Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. In 1831 he joined a scientific expedition bound for South America and the Pacific Ocean on a sailing ship called The Beagle (1831 - 36). He was to be the ship's naturalist, the expert on plants and animals.
In the Galapagos Islands Darwin noticed how the same species of birds, cut off from centuries on different islands, had developed in quite different ways. This and many other amazing discoveries led him to his theory of 'evolution by natural selection'. This theory lies behind all modern ideas on how different species of living things have become to be the way they are and how they will change in the future.
 
Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Great novelist of the victorian age. His novels were outstandingly popular in his time and are still popular now. His books include stories about thieves, convicts and schoolboys. He wrote about ordinary people and how they lived, about terrible prisons, bad schools and the workhouse. His famous characters include Oliver Twist, Scrooge and David Copperfield.



                                        2012 : DICKENS BICENTENARY !


VISIT THE CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM IN LONDON !!

http://www.dickensmuseum.com/






 Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
     http://www.dickens2012.org/



         
                                                QUIZ                    
 
To revise your lessons , do the following quiz
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz29672121f8500.html

carnival

The 2013 Carnival was a great success !

4 éme 1

4ème 2

FESTIVITY :PANCAKE DAY

12 th February 2013 :HAPPY PANCAKE DAY !!!

In the UK, Shrove Tuesday is also known as Pancake Day (or Pancake Tuesday to some people) because it is the one day of the year when almost everyone eats a pancake.

In 2012 Pancake Day was on Tuesday 21 February        












Special thanks to Pierre- Thèo for his oral presentation on Shrove Tuesday and his delicious cakes !! !

What is Pancake Day?                                   
Pancake Day is the last day before the period which Christians call Lent. It is traditional on this day to eat pancakes.

Why are Pancakes eaten on Shrove Tuesday?
Lent is a time of abstinence, of giving things up. So Shrove Tuesday is the last chance to indulge yourself, and to use up the foods that aren't allowed in Lent. Pancakes are eaten on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent.

When is Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)?

Shrove Tuesday is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday and is therefore the final day before the commencement of  a Christian festival leading up to Easter Sunday (Easter Day).

Shrove Tuesday always falls 47 days before Easter Sunday, so the date varies from year to year and falls between 3 February and 9 March

Traditions in England: The Parliamentary Pancake race

The race, which is contested outside the Houses of Parliament, is held every Shrove Tuesday and sees Lords and MPs from all major parties flipping pancakes around Victoria Gardens, Westminster.

The contest is held to raise awareness for the charity Rehab, which supports people with disabilities, others with brain and spinal injuries and mental health difficulties.

 Watch the video:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8369203/Parliamentary-pancake-race.html

Here is a recipe for pancakes:
 ttp://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/512339

Video !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkvideo/five-minute-food/7220705/Recipe-cinnamon-banana-and-chocolate-pancakes-Five-Minute-Food.html

FESTIVITY: SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY

HAPPY ST VALENTINE'S DAY !!!

 Watch and listen to these two love songs!! 1 - http://www.merpy.com/love/love.html

 QUIZ   

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/World/St-Valentines-Day-Trivia-165669.html

Cupid woke her up and the couple wed in a ceremony attended by the Gods.

 Cupid was the son of Venus the goddess of love and beauty.

 

                          SAINT  VALENTINE'S  DAY                        

                    Who was Saint Valentine ?   

   According to a legend St. Valentine was a priest near Rome in about the year 270 AD  i

  When Claudius II became the emperor he believed that soldiers would be unable to concentrate on fighting if they were married.

 So he banned marriage.

  Valentine defied the emperor and secretly performed marriage ceremonies.

He was sent to prison until he could be executed.
While he was in the dungeon, Father Valentine learned that the jail-keepers daughter was blind and sent for her. He touched her brow and she was immediately granted her sight. It was a miracle!

When the cruel King Claudius,learned of this miracle, he thought it was witchcraft and immediately ordered that Father Valentine's head be chopped off!

On the morning of the execution, February 14, of the year 270, the priest sent a letter to the jail-keepers daughter, whom he had fallen in love with. He signed the letter "From your Valentine". 

That is why people sign their Valentine's Day cards the way they do today.

As Father Valentine was being buried after the exectution, a huge swarm of red and white butterflies appeared and circled over the people at his funeral. They fluttered here and there, and eventually landed upon Father Valentine's coffin. The people looked at the pattern that the butterflies had made when they landed and saw that it was shaped like a big heart. And that is why  the heart is used as a symbol of love today.

                CUPID                                                                                                 

Psyche was a mortal princess, she was so beautiful that Venus was jealous and ordered Cupid to punish the mortal. But instead, Cupid fell deeply in love with her. After a lot of events Psyche died.

Here is an animated video version on history of Valentine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGx7q4O6w2w

                 Valentine's symbols

  Cupid, that boy armed with bow and arrows , has become the most popular of love symbols.

 

 

Cards

Other symbols                                                                                                   

  you can send a love letter                     

   offer a gift