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I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.
Showing posts with label Father's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Father's Day. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Father's Day

Father. Dad. Daddy. Pops. My old Man... whatever you call him, say thank you to your father and share some moments together if you can.

With you I would like to share a moving poem and a TED Talk.


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My father worked with a horse-plough,

His shoulders globed like a full sail strung

Between the shafts and the furrow.

The horses strained at his clicking tongue.


An expert. He would set the wing

And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.

The sod rolled over without breaking.

At the headrig, with a single pluck


Of reins, the sweating team turned round

and back into the land. His eye

Narrowed and angled at the ground,

Mapping the furrow exactly.


I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake,

Fell sometimes on the polished sod;

Sometimes he rode me on his back

Dipping and rising to his plod.


 I wanted to grow up and plough,

To close one eye, stiffen my arm.

All i ever did was follow

In his broad shadow round the farm.


I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,

Yapping alwyas. But today

It is my father who keeps stumbling

Behind me, and will not go away.

Seamus Heaney in One Hundred Years of Poetry For Children

As for the TED Talk I mentioned above, please watch this 5-minute Talk by Ric Elias and think

"Are you being the best parent you can???" 

































































Happy Father's Day :=)









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Saturday, March 19, 2011


          

        









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If Everyone Had a Father Like You
 





If everyone had a father

Who was more like you,

There'd be more laughing, joy and singing;

Fewer people would be blue.
 





There'd be much more understanding;

Crime and hate could not prevail.

We'd all be so contented,

We wouldn't need a jail.
 





If everyone had a father

Who was more like you,

The whole world would be blessed,

Just as I am blessed with you.
 













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