Macbeth
This drama is one of the great tragedies by William Shakespeare. It is the story of a man who suffered disaster because of too much ambition. The other themes are fate, deception and treachery. The great Scottish general Macbeth on his return from a successful campaign in the north, accompanied by a another general called Banquo, meets three witches who predict that he will one day become king. The seeds of ambitious design are planted and he decides to kill King Duncan. Macbeth's wife agrees to this plan. He then murders Duncan and his wife smears the blood of Duncan on the daggers of the sleeping guards.
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh is a festival city, with 12 different festivals to choose from and 2,500 different events on offer. August is the most action-packed month, demand is high and they recommend booking accommodation at least six months in advance. But you can plan a trip in another time of the year: in Spring you can catch the Edinburgh International Science Festival and the Imaginate Children's festival, in Autumn you can listen to the sounds of the Storytelling Festival and in Winter you can party the end of the year with Edinburgh's Hogmanay, the best New Year's party on earth.
Everybody needs somebody...
Do you remember these lyrics? "Everybody needs somebody, everybody needs somebody to love, someone to love, sweetheart to miss, sugar to kiss, I need you, in the morning, when my soul's on fire, sometimes I feel a little sad inside, when my baby mistreats me, I never, never have a place to hide, I need you". Where do they come from? Read more to know the answer:
Language learning and technology
Language learning has always received a great contribution by technology. Much research has been done to show how language learning is enhanced by the new technologies and the field of foreign or second language acquisition is where the need of more ideas is strongly felt.
CLIL Methodology
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) requires a teaching based on the awareness of the need to teach, in a foreign or second language, relatively complex contents to people who do not speak that language as their mother tongue. The ideal CLIL teacher is graduated and certified to teach both a subject and a foreign language. Given the difficulty of finding this type of teacher, the solution could be the co-teaching, collaboration between content and language teachers or, in higher education, linguistic and methodological formation of teachers of non-language subjects. The methodological component is a key element since we need to know how to teach that particular subject but also how to pay attention to the foreign language with language support activities.