Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary

10 things you should know about wikipedia

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Use the words above to complete the 10 facts about Wikipedia. There are three words you don’t need.

                                          

                                  

The word Wikipedia is a combination of wiki and (1)_______________. A wiki is a piece of software that allows multiple writers to edit a Web page. The word comes from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning (2)"_______________". 

Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The original computer (3)_______________ were in San Diego in the United States. The oldest article at the site is the article UuU, created on 16 January 2001. One month earlier, Wales had made a test edit with the text (4)"_______________" By mid-February 2001 there were more than 1,000 articles which rose to 10,000 articles by mid-September. At the beginning of 2011 there were 3,521,809 articles in English and 22,785,152 (5)_______________ in total. There are many non-English Wikipedia sites including versions in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, (6)_______________, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles. Users can contribute anonymously, under a (7)_______________, or with their real identity. The site has 1,766 administrators. They are Wikipedia editors with access to restricted features. They can protect, move, delete and restore pages, and block other (8)_______________. Although the site has received criticism over the years for being unreliable, it is extremely popular. Each month the site receives nearly 78 million (9)_______________.

This year Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th anniversary on January 15, also known as “Wikipedia Day”. In

celebration of Wikipedia's tenth anniversary, (10)_______________ around the world are hosting celebrations. Find out more at http://ten.wikipedia.org

Answer these questions.

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1- Do you ever use Wikipedia?How often?

2- What do you think of it?

3-Have you ever written anything for Wikipedia?

4-How would you describe the site?

Look at the two examples of Wikipedia slogans created to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
5- Can you think of  another slogan? Write your slogan in the space.






















Information from Wikipedia.
Images by David Peters. See more images at http://ten.wikipedia.org
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New Year's Wishes

10th of December - HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nptzg2odTKw&feature=player_embedded#at=49

Did you follow the beat? I did.
Now let's follow the advice at the end of the video and watch more ads about human rights.
But first, ask yourself 'what do I know about this subject? 


1.What are human rights?
2.How many human rights are there?

Now go to http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/index.htm

Watch the video 'What are Human Rights?' 
Take some notes and check your answers...

Click on the ads!' Scroll down a bit and there you have them. Watch some of them or watch them all. These are well done ads about Everyone's Human Rights.

Now, let's GET ACTIVE (top bar, TAKE ACTION). Click and find out things anyone can do for human rights.

Have you already done any of these things? If you have, well done, let's do more; if you haven't, you can start today!

Why don’t you create something: a drawing, a song, a video, a poem or just some lines, about one of the human rights or the subject of human rights in general. 
1, 2, 3 GO! And share it with your peers and teachers. The Future depends on you!

Let's GET UNITED. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7ekMr6v-o&feature=player_embedded

Lennon forever

30th anniversary of Lennon's death

It's 30 years since John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark Chapman in New York on 8 December 1980. 




1- These are all songs written by John Lennon. Complete the titles.


a) I Feel F _ _ _ 
b) In My L _ _ _  
c) Ticket to R _ _ _  
d) All You Need Is L _ _ _  
e) Give Peace a C _ _ _ _ _ 


2- How many other Lennon songs can you name? Follow the link below, to access an interactive exercise in which you can complete lyrics with the titles of his songs. 

 http://www.its-english.com/music/fame/ex2e.asp

Spoooooooky Halloweeeeeen!

The evening of October 31st is an ancient festival. It marked the end of the celtic year, when people wanted to drive away all the evil spirits before the beginning of the new year on November 1st. 

Nowadays, a lot of children dress up as witches or ghosts and go to Halloween parties. They also make lanterns from pumpkins and they go round to their neighbours' houses playing 'Trick OR Treat' (especially in the USA).They knock on the doors and shout, “Trick or treat!” The person in the house then should give the children a treat, like some sweets or chocolates. But if the children don’t get a treat, they play a trick on the person.

In our Trick or Treat quiz you have to choose the correct answer to get a treat. If you don’t choose the correct answer, you get a trick. Can you get more treats than tricks?

aq u i zf o r h a l l o w e e n

1. WHEN IS HALLOWEEN?

a. October 31

b. November 1

2. WHAT DO WITCHES AND EVIL SPIRITS DO ON HALLOWEEN?

a. leave Earth

b. return to Earth

3. WHAT IS THE SYMBOL OF HALLOWEEN?

a. the pumpkin

b. the apple

4. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SYMBOL?

a. to frighten evil spirits

b. to bring food for the winter

5. WHAT DID PEOPLE USE TO EAT ON HALLOWEEN TO PROTECT THEM FROM EVIL

SPIRITS?

a. apples

b. pumpkins

6. WHY DO PEOPLE EAT NUTS ON HALLOWEEN?

a. to live longer

b. to be clever

7. IF YOU GO OUT ON HALLOWEEN, WHAT SHOULD YOU TAKE WITH YOU TO PROTECT YOU FROM SUPERNATURAL BEINGS?

a. a piece of bread with some salt on it

b. a candle and some money

8. IF A GIRL LOOKS IN A MIRROR AND BRUSHES HER HAIR ON HALLOWEEN, WHAT MIGHT SHE SEE?

a. the ghost of an ancestor

b. the reflection of her future husband

9. WHERE DO EVIL SPIRITS MEET AT HALLOWEEN?

a. in cemeteries

b. at crossroads

10. WHY SHOULD YOU SHUT YOUR WINDOWS AND DOORS ON HALLOWEEN?

a. to keep out poltergeists

b. to keep your pets safe inside

11. IN ANCIENT TIMES, WHY DID THE CELTS BUILD FIRES ON THE HILLS?

a. to scare the evil spirits

b. to welcome the souls of the dead

back to their homes

12. THE ROMANS CALLED HALLOWEEN POMONA DAY. WHO WAS POMONA?

a. the goddess of fruits and gardens

b. the devil’s sister

13. WHICH FIESTA IN MEXICO STARTS THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN?

a. the Day of the Dead

b. the Night of the Living Dead

14. WHICH FILM STARTS IN A PLACE CALLED HALLOWEEN TOWN?

a. Halloween

b. The Nightmare Before Christmas

15.WHERE DID HALLOWEEN COME FROM?

a. Ireland

b. America

Issue 109, 
Copyright 2008 , iT’s Magazines , S. L.

Welcome!Already Hungry?Please, be my guest and be creative!

To begin with let's celebrate the World Food Day -16th of October.

Answer these questions.
Make a note of your answers and send them all (7) by posting your blog comment. Don't forget to write your name, class and number!

1. What did you eat yesterday?
2. Do you usually leave food on your plate when you finish eating?
3. Do you check the “best before/use by” dates when you buy food?
4. If you find food in your fridge that has passed its “best before/use by” date, what do you do?

Uniting against hunger becomes real when state and civil society organizations and the private sector work in partnership at all levels to defeat hunger, extreme poverty and malnutrition.

In 2009, the critical threshold of one billion hungry people in the world was reached in part due to soaring food prices and the financial crisis, a “tragic achievement in these modern days", according to FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. On the eve of the hunger summit, Dr Diouf launched an online petition to reflect the moral outrage of the situation. The “1 billion hungry project” reaches out to people through online social media to invite them to sign the anti-hunger petition at www.1billionhungry.org.

On this World Food Day 2010, when there have never been so many hungry people in the world, let us reflect on the future. With willpower, courage and persistence – and many players working together and helping each other – more food can be produced, more sustainably, and get into the mouths of those who need it most.

http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/en/

5-Look at the photograph. Where do you think the picture was taken?

the food fact quiz


6- Choose the correct answer.
    You´ll get the key after sending them to me.   


1. According to the United Nations World Food Programme, in 2009 the number of hungry people in the world reached ______.
a. 500 million
b. 1 billion


2. Over the past year, the number of hungry people has increased by 11 per cent because of ______.
a. the global economic crisis
b. high food prices


3. A study published earlier this year found that 12 million children are at risk of inadequate food in ______.
a. India
b. the United States


4. The food problem will get worse as the world population grows. In 2000, the world population was 6.1 billion people, but the number is expected to reach 9.2 billion by ______.
a. 2025
b. 2050


5. One of the biggest food problems is waste. According to a British government study, families throw away a total of 4.1 million tonnes of good food every year. That’s ______.
a. an eighth of the food they buy
b. a third of the food they buy


6. Commonly wasted types of food in Britain are potatoes, slices of bread, and apples. The food that is bought and then thrown away uneaten in the greatest proportion is ______.
a. salad
b. yoghurt


7. Families aren’t the only people who waste food. Supermarkets throw away food when it reaches its sell-by date or has broken packaging. Most of the food they throw away ends up in landfill sites, where it decomposes into methane, which is a ______.
a. greenhouse gas
b. type of compost


8. Supermarkets also cause waste by demanding “perfect” produce from their suppliers and rejecting fruit and vegetables that don’t look perfect. And their customers like supermarket shelves to ______.
a. always be full
b. only be full when necessary


9. People agree that it’s safe to eat a lot of food after its sell-by date if it smells and tastes all right. As a protest against waste, some people find their food supplies by looking in the bins outside supermarkets. In the United States these protestors are called “dumpster divers”, but in the United Kingdom they're called ______.
a. “freegans”
b. “wasters”


10. According to Tristram Stuart, the author of we can all do something to stop food waste. What will you do the next time you think of throwing away food?
a. I’ll think twice.
b. I’ll throw it away.


IT’S FOR TEACHERS ISSUE 113 © copyright iT’s Magazines S.L. 2009

7- Let's get involved!!!Comment on the issue "Food Waste versus Hunger" and say how you (could) contribute to decrease hunger.