Celebrations Around the World Written by Year 4 morning and afternoon students - 2015 Responsible Teachers: Katia Cristina Castro Santos Popov Andressa Paula Caetano da Costa Design: Vanessa Brites Botaro
Illustration: Pictures taken from the Internet Technical Review: Amanda Priscila Fonseca Lima
Dedication We dedicate our book to the teachers, to the people of our school and
to everyone who likes holidays.
Thanks: We would like to thank Ms. Katia, our parents and our group.
Presentation Learning a language is more than memorizing words and structures, it’s also getting to know a new culture, people’s beliefs, their habits and traditions.
This global awareness is the main road to make kids learn values such as: respect, love and understanding. In the project Celebrations Around the World, students became aware
that people around the globe has different traditions and different ways of celebrating the same festival. We started off by asking questions about our own celebrations. “When
is Carnival celebrated? What do people do? What do people wear? Where do people go? And what do people eat?” Students were acquiring new language structures while talking about their own culture. Then we moved on to other cultures and watched some videos about different traditions, one of them was La Tomatina, in Spain. At this point, students understood that people from abroad do different things from us.
These activities were aimed to develop students’ listening comprehension and to broaden their linguistic repertoire. What do people wear? Well, there are different clothes for different occasions, and we should know that, so let’s talk about them. Students discussed what people should wear in a wedding, in a birthday party and in other occasions too and they also had the chance to be models in our ECCOS Fashion Week. After researching, discussing and analyzing students made a presentation
about a celebration and told us everything we needed to learn about it. We are happy to show here in this book the result of a work that took us to different parts of the world and made us aware of our own culture and
that we can learn a lot about other cultures too. Have fun! Ms. Katia and Ms. Andressa
Authors Year 4 Morning
Year 4 Afternoon
Anderson Costa Cabral Bárbara Simão Medeiros Bruna Borges Raimundo Gustavo de Oliveira Menezes Heloisa Souza Ruivo Isabela Ballielo Oliveira Isabela Fernandes Santana Julia Reis Araujo Lucas Kenji Kurotaki Luther Adamczewski Heide Marco Antonio Ribeiro Miranda ManzoMonteiro Maria Eduarda Patto Fernandes Olivia Sander Bincoleto Raíssa Maria de Souza Almeida Ricardo Crivano Larsen Samira Porto Brandão Victor Moraes Melo
Beatriz Ayumi Ikawa Yamada Caio Hiroshi Nishizawa Eduardo Araujo Toledo Giovanna Gennari Silva Gustavo Thibes Bosco Isabela Oliveira Lisboa Luana Estéfani Mendes Lima Lucas da Silva Godoy Rafael Henrique Poli Rafael Torres Nogueira Camillo Rafael Vilela dos Reis Pereira Raphael Kenichi Lopes Katayama