9 mai - Journée de l'Europe

Le 9 mai 1950, Robert Schuman présentait sa proposition relative à une organisation de l'Europe, indispensable au maintien de relations pacifiques.

Cette proposition, connue sous le nom de "déclaration Schuman", est considérée comme l'acte de naissance de l'Union européenne.

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Jouez: À la découverte de l'Europe!


On  9th of May 1950, after the Second World War, Robert Schumman put forward a suggestion towards the creation of a peaceful European Union called "the Schumman Declaration" considered the birth certificate of the European Union.
1. Try to find out more about this date.
2. European Awareness: how many countries belong to the European Union nowadays? how many countries use the euro as their currency? The division between Northern and Southern Europe and Eastern and Western Europe? Important capital cities in Europe? countries and nationalities, for example, Norway_ Norwegian, Sweden-Swedish, etc? migrations? why is Switzerland not a member of EU? why are Norway or the UK not in the euro? what is the agenda 2000 and agenda 2020? what are the main enviromental problems affecting EU? European Arts in the globalized world, such as painting, literature, sculpture, graffiti, etc? 

Labour Day. First of May / 1er mai - La fête du travail

All over the world May 1st marks the celebration of the workers' movement.We are going to put forward some suggestions to be implemented at different levels:

1.Find out about the origin of that date.
2. Search for more information related to the International workers' movement: first, second, third...internationals.
3.Compare the song "the International" in the Spanish and English versions.
4.Look up the concepts of Anarchism, Communism, Socialism, and modern utopias.
5.Debate: Does Child labour exploitation exist in our 21st century society? What other types of exploitation can you identify in our present day society?
6.Watch short film Kony 2012. Find out what Wikipedia says about that film. Try to draw your own conclusions.
7. Project: Art and design: draw a symbol to represent labour day bearing in mind all the images previously seen to celebrate that event.
8. Acronyms example ILO (International Labour Organization) = OIT (Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Guess what the following acronyms mean: WHO, UNESCO, FAO, UNO, EU, BBC, SAS, BFBS, GPS, UFO, LASER, RADAR, etc.

Le premier mai est un jour férié, c'est la fête du travail. Traditionnellement ce jour est consacré aux défilés des syndicats dans les grandes villes. C'est aussi un jour de fête pour le muguet, car la tradition populaire veut qu'on offre un brin de muguet comme porte bonheur.

L'origine de cette tradition date de 1561, année où le roi Charles IX décida d’en offrir à toutes les dames de la cour. Comme il en avait reçu à cette même date, l’idée lui plût et c’est lui qui lança cette bonne habitude !

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