LISTENING / READING / VOCABULARY (A2-B2) Baz Luhrmann - Wear Sunscreen

ENGLISH LITERATURE- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564- 1616) The Tempest

The Tempest (circa 1611) is one of Shakespeare’s latest plays and it is now regarded as one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It can be considered a comedy with some dark elements. It presents a variety of fascinating characters, of whom we can certainly highlight Prospero, with his memorable final speech, his magic and his books. The play reflects the language of Shakespeare's time, to which he was himself a great contributor. 

I 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZ091CEgNU 

II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xYzRsQBn_M 

III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWa_uhtj0Fk 

The future of education?

"Innovation never comes from established institutions"

                                                    Eric Emerson Schmidt (Google Executive Chairman).

https://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/key-media-pieces/v/khan-academy--the-future-of-education

AMERICAN LITERATURE- WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)

This is a classic poem (and probably the best known one) from Leaves of Grass (first published in 1855), which is one of the most influential books in contemporary poetry. It was written by one of the great founding fathers of American Literature.

 
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3p5PI6cnxI

LISTENING / READING - ISLE OF HOPE, ISLE OF TEARS

Sean Keane singing the story of Annie Moore, an Irish girl from County Cork who was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through the famous Ellis Island facility.

ISLE OF HOPE, ISLE OF TEARS

(Composed by Brendan Graham)

Sean Keane

Also recorded by: Andy Cooney; Dolores Keane;

Anthony Kearns; Ronan Tynan.

On the first day on January,

Eighteen ninety-two,

They opened Ellis Island and they let

The people through.

And the first to cross the threshold

Of that isle of hope and tears,

Was Annie Moore from Ireland

With all her fifteen years.

CHORUS:

Isle of hope, isle of tears,

Isle of freedom, isle of fears,

But it's not the isle you left behind.

That isle of hunger, isle of pain,

Isle you'll never see again

But the isle of home is always on your mind.

In a little bag she carried

All her past and history,

And her dreams for the future

In the land of liberty.

And courage is the passport

When your old world disappears

But there's no future in the past

When you're fifteen years

Chorus

When they closed down Ellis Island

In nineteen fourty-three,

Seventeen million people

Had come there for sanctuary.

And in Springtime when I came here

And I stepped onto it's piers,

I thought of how it must have been

When you're fifteen years.

Chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp12N73ZWBA