Elements4life by andré freitas https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life André Freitas en-us 2018-01-15 11:37:35 UTC 2018-01-17 14:46:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Earth Song andrefsfreitas2 https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222078301 What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things that you said
We were to gain
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said were yours and mine
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores
Aah, ooh
What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores
Aah, ooh
Aah, ooh
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I…
 
 
Michael Jackson

]]> 2018-01-17 14:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222078301 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834 andrefsfreitas2 https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222079049 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Argument 
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country
towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the
tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that
befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own
Country.
PART I 
It is an ancient Mariner, 
And he stoppeth one of three. 
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, 
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? 
The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, 
And I am next of kin; 
The guests are met, the feast is set: 
May'st hear the merry din.' 
He holds him with his skinny hand, 
'There was a ship,' quoth he. 
'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' 
Eftsoons his hand dropt he. 
He holds him with his glittering eye— 
The Wedding-Guest stood still, 
And listens like a three years' child: 

The Mariner hath his will. 
The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: 
He cannot choose but hear; 
And thus spake on that ancient man, 
The bright-eyed Mariner. 
'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, 
Merrily did we drop 
Below the kirk, below the hill, 
Below the lighthouse top. 
The Sun came up upon the left, 
Out of the sea came he! 
And he shone bright, and on the right 
Went down into the sea. 
Higher and higher every day, 
Till over the mast at noon—' 
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, 
For he heard the loud bassoon. 
The bride hath paced into the hall, 
Red as a rose is she; 
Nodding their heads before her goes 
The merry minstrelsy. 
The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, 
Yet he cannot choose but hear; 
And thus spake on that ancient man, 
The bright-eyed Mariner. 
And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he 
Was tyrannous and strong: 
He struck with his o'ertaking wings, 
And chased us south along. 
With sloping masts and dipping prow, 
As who pursued with yell and blow 
Still treads the shadow of his foe, 
And forward bends his head, 
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, 
And southward aye we fled. 
And now there came both mist and snow, 
And it grew wondrous cold: 
And ice, mast-high, came floating by, 
As green as emerald. 

And through the drifts the snowy clifts 
Did send a dismal sheen: 
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— 
The ice was all between. 
The ice was here, the ice was there, 
The ice was all around: 
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 
Like noises in a swound! 
At length did cross an Albatross, 
Thorough the fog it came; 
As if it had been a Christian soul, 
We hailed it in God's name. 
It ate the food it ne'er had eat, 
And round and round it flew. 
The ice did split with a thunder-fit; 
The helmsman steered us through! 
And a good south wind sprung up behind; 
The Albatross did follow, 
And every day, for food or play, 
Came to the mariner's hollo! 
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, 
It perched for vespers nine; 
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, 
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.' 
'God save thee, ancient Mariner! 
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— 
Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow 
I shot the ALBATROSS.]]> 2018-01-17 14:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222079049 World water day andrefsfreitas2 https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222079499 Humanity needs water, and every drop is precious. On March 22nd, World Water Day
is a day to celebrate water and make a difference for people who do not have the water
they need.
We all need water
Did you know that in the UK every person uses about 150 litres of water every day and
most of the water we use is to flush the toilet? Let’s take a minute to think about the
water we use. The human body is 60% water and we need to drink lots of water to be
healthy. When we are thirsty we just go to the kitchen and fill a glass with clean water.
We also need water for cooking. Imagine trying to cook pasta or rice without water! We
have toilets in our houses and when we want to brush our teeth or have a shower, we
use the bathroom. We use water indirectly too. Farmers, who produce the food we eat,
use water to make the plants grow. When we turn on a light or switch on a TV or a
computer we use energy and we need water to produce this energy.

The truth about water
The truth is that we are lucky enough to have clean water whenever we want, but this
is not the case for many people around the world. Did you know that around 750 million
people do not have clean water to drink? That’s around 1 in 10 people in the world.
And did you know that 2.5 billion people do not have clean toilets? That’s about 1 in 3
people in the world.

But what does this mean?
If we drink dirty water or we can’t wash our hands when we go to the toilet, we can
catch diseases from the bacteria and become ill. Every year over 500,000 children die
from diarrhoea from dirty water. That’s around 1,400 children every day! In Ghana,
80% of all diseases are from dirty water, in Nigeria 70% of people don’t have toilets
and in Nicaragua, 80% of people don’t have clean drinking water. Also, in some
countries children walk many kilometres every day to get water and sometimes the
water isn’t even clean! If children walk many hours a day to get water, they can’t go to
school so they don’t learn how to read or write and don’t get an education.

Water for everyone
In 1993 the United Nations decided that March 22nd is the World Day for Water. On
this day every year, countries around the world hold events to educate people about
the problems of dirty water and that clean water is something that everyone should
have around the world. People organise events to raise money and this money helps
countries like Nigeria or Nicaragua get clean water to its people so that children don’t
die from diarrhoea and so that they can go to school.

For World Water Day, some people in the UK walk, run or cycle 10km, others climb
mountains or even jump from an aeroplane and skydive to the ground. At one school
children between the ages of 10 and 15 walk 6km with 6 litres of water so they can see
how it feels to walk a long distance carrying heavy bottles of water. People give them
money to do these things and all the money helps get clean water to as many people
as possible around the world.

British Council
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read- uk/world-water- day]]> 2018-01-17 14:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222079499 Fire and Ice andrefsfreitas2 https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222079949 Fire And Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Poem by Robert Frost]]> 2018-01-17 14:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/andrefsfreitas2/elements4life/wish/222079949