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Did you know that?

Our Earth is suffering the pains inflicted by the human beings in the last 60 years
See the film and think about the environment around you and reflect. You can leave your comment.

Here is the link where you can click on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

A tag cloud about spoken texts

Tag clouds are a way of communicating about concepts using a visive apporoach and accordng to the use frequency of the tags. Bigger they are shown, more frequently they are used in the contest. It is a new way of learning. Create them while learning and have fun!

The best video

Here is the best video about the 20th anniversary of the Wall Fall in Berlin. We can  also listen to the song Life is beautiful

Il colore della libertà

Nelson Mandela was a South African politician and Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
He was the leader of the struggle against apartheid, a policy which aimed toundermine the rights of citizens of South African blacks and today is considered a hero fighting for freedom. In 1961he was the guide and coordinated a campaign against the army to put an end to political action which went against. He raised money and organized military training but in 1962 he was arrested. The charge included the involvement in the organization of armed action and research to involve other countries against South Africa. In February 1985 he gave up even though he did not want to abandon his fight against the apartheid and said :"What freedom am I being offered while the organisation of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.". After his release on 2 February 1990, he won the Nobel Prize for Peace, was elected President of South Africa and at the end of his office continued the action of supporting the human rights.

by  Angelo 3S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

Listening activity

Click on the link below and leave a comment about what you are going to listen to.
http://patrizia10.podomatic.com/

Nobel Peace Prize 2006

Muhammad Yunus

He was born on 28 June 1940 from a family in the village of Bathua, in a province of British India.

Muhammad Yunus is remembered all the world for his Nobel Peace Prize engaged in the poor men economic in 2006 and he also invented the “Microcredit”, called “Grameen Bank”.

His family was Muslim, his father was a jeweller and his mother was afflicted by psychological illines.

He studied at Chittagong Collegiate School and during his youth he was a good Boy Scout.

In 1957 he enrolled in Economics department of  Dhaka University.

Then, he became research assistant  to the economical researches of Professor Nurul Islam and Rehman Sobhan.

In 1961 he was appointed as lecturer in economics.

In 1976, while he was in a poor men village of Jobra, near his university, he had pity on them and he decided to help them.

So he invented the Grameen Bank designed to borrow some money at poor men.

The Grameen Bank has had a very big success, lending about 5 milliards dollars at five millions of people.

To guarantee the refound, poor men, help each other  joining in groups, called “Solidarity groups”,  where they support each others for the economic progress.

It also offers  loans for little houses .

The Gameen Bank is applied in over twenty developing countries and the ninety per cent of loans are destinated at women; in fact women use this money for their family’s maintenance.

Muhammad Yunus became the director of Grameen Bank in 1983 and he has receveid seventeen prizes since 1978 to 2008.

by Giuseppe and Aurelio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus