"Etymologies
are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant 600
or 2,000 years ago. Think of it as looking at pictures of your
friends' parents when they were your age. People will continue to use
words as they will, finding wider meanings for old words and coining
new ones to fit new situations. In fact, this list is a testimony to
that process. " (Source: Etymonline.com)
The London Underground (also
known as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public
rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent
counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United
Kingdom.
The Underground has its
origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground
railway. Opened in 1863, it is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith &
City and Metropolitan lines; the first line to operate underground
electric traction trains, the City & South London Railway in
1890, is now part of the Northern line. The network has expanded to
11 lines, that collectively hadle approximately 4,8 million
passengers a day. (Source Wikipedia)
This lesson by TED-Ed
teaches how the London subway system was first developed.
The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) is a historic document that was adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December
1948 (Resolution 217) as a common standard of achievements for all
peoples and all nations. Of the then 58 members of the United
Nations, 48 voted in favor, none against, eight abstained, and two
did not vote.
The Declaration consists of
30 articles affirming an individual's rights which, although not
legally binding in themselves, have been elaborated in subsequent
international treaties, economic transfers, regional human rights
instruments, national constitutions, and other laws.
If you are interested in
human rights education, you will find here the UDHR explained in two
minutes.
This
site produced for NASA's Science Mission Directorate was launched in
october 1998. It strives to be a real-time, living encyclopedia of
robotic exploration of the solar system.
It aims to provide the
public with reliable, accurate, up-to-date information about the
planets, moons, asteroids, comets and everything else in our solar
system. It also provides a complete historical record of deep space
exploration.
Purland
Training is a free English language teaching resource website. It was
created by Matt Purland, an experienced English teacher with over
fourteen years of experience teaching English full-time, in the UK
and abroad.
On
this website you can find books, free worksheets, lesson plans,
infographics, wordsearches, video lessons, games, idioms of the
day...
This
report was produced by the National Center for English Language
Acquisition (NCELA) under U.S. Department of Education (Department)
This tool kit helps U.S. educators and others who work directly with
immigrant students and their families.
It would also be interesting
to develop intercultural communication and competence in our classrooms.
