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May this holiday season fill your hearts with love, joy and countless precious memories.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!🎄

Although the closing ceremony of Summer Olimpic Games 2024 🇫🇷 was just few days ago, we still have some interesting facts for you:)

- This year, breakdancing competition marked the sport's official debut in the program of summer Olimpics in Paris 🗼- no other dance sport discipline has previously been included. Gone sports: karate.

- For LA 2028 Olimipics, baseball, softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, and squash were approved;

- Unusual sports that once part of the Games are: Solo synchronized swimming, tandem bicycle, tug of war, hot-air ballooning and a swimming obstacle race as well as artistic competitions (1912-1948) - painting, sculpturing, architecture, writing and singing!

📌 Word to remember and use:
💥B-Girl/ B-boy (Bgirl/Bboy) - a female/male break dancer
💥BREAKING - short for breakdancing
💥TUG OF WAR - a competition in which two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope, each trying to pull the other team over a line between them

Read about the differences between hip-hop and breaking - not obvious and for sure good to know:)

Have a great day!
Aldona and Kasia

Learn about 5 big missunderstandings about breakdance and hip-hop. There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings when people try to explain the differences between breakdance and hip-hop dance. Here's five of the most common of them.

“Alone we go faster, but together we go further”
Did you know that the strange Olympic mascots have been a tradition since 1968?

In Paris phryges are based on a symbol of freedom throughout French history. The motto of the Olympic Phryge and Paralympic Phryge is: “Alone we go faster, but together we go further,”
La Maison du Chocolat has the honour to produce official olympic chocolate Phryge - have a look on that paserpiece! 😋

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Some more interesting facts about Olympic Games in Paris
Did you know that:

- The Iconic Olympics and Paralympics Poster designs combined in one piece was drawn by Ugo Gattoni, a French illustrator?

Since the Stockholm Games in 1912, the Olympics Organizing Committee has commissioned a poster design. It is meant to showcase the symbols of the host country and illustrates the spirit of what the competition represents.

Have a great day!

Paris 2024 - The Iconic Posters of Paris 2024 Official website of the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Today is the great Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris! 🇫🇷 Here are few interesting facts about:
💥 This is the Centenary of the Olympic Games in France and 3rd in history (1900; 1924; 2024).

💥 For the 1st time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium. The parade of athletes will be held on the river Seine with boats for each national delegation.

💥 Games will be held not only in Paris but around the nation - e.g. Surfing will take place on Tahiti, part of French Polynesia, 9,500 miles from Paris!
Watch the video about the history of the Olympic Games and prepare for the amazing Paris show!

📌Word to remember and use:

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN - if people are able and determined, they will recover from any difficulties or problems and be successful. You can replace `man' with `woman' or with another word referring to a person.

The ancient origins of the Olympics - Armand D'Angour How did the Olympics become the greatest show of sporting excellence on Earth? Dig into the history and evolution of the global event.--Thousands of years in...

Did you know that:
💥your brain has about 100 billion neurons, more or less as many stars as in the Milky Way galaxy?
💥the signals in your neurons can travel at the same speed as Formula 1 cars (~100 m/s or 360 km/h)🏎️
💥Your brain is hyper-efficient, running on just 20 watts of power - which is enough to power a small light bulb! 💡
A computer, by contrast, needs 65–250 W, and for a computer to simulate the 100 trillion connections of the human brain in real-time, it would need 12 gigawatts – around 600 million times the power!

Today we celebrate dedicated to ! Have a look at what you can do on everyday basis to keep a healthy brain!

📌Word to remember and use:
PREVENTION - the act of stopping ⛔️ something from happening or of stopping someone from doing something. 🏎️

Do you know what AGEISM is?

- It refers to HOW WE THINK (stereotypes), FEEL (prejudice) and ACT (discrimination) towards others or ourselves based on age.

- It imposes powerful barriers and has profound negative consequences on older adults’ health and well-being;

- It is everywhere, it is harmful, but can be combated by law policy, educational activities and intergenerational interventions.

Watch the video below. Think what kind of activities you could initiate, engage/participate in to activate your local community? Please share with us your ideas.

15TH JUNE World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WHO)

Global Campaign to Combat Ageism - #AWorld4AllAges This film takes you on a journey through experiences of ageism across the life course, showing how ageism affects everyone, everywhere. The film encourages u...

“Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.”
– Bill Copeland, Australian athlete

What do you think it means?
- Be yourself and enjoy it as it is?
- Be yourself and just let other things be?
- Use your shell to protect yourself?

Happy 🐢

Did you know that: 🤔
1. Turtles actually make a sound, even though they do not have vocal chords.
2. Tortoises orbited the moon before astronauts did, in the Soviet space probe Zond 5.
3. They don’t have ears – but can perceive low-pitched sounds.
4. They are nearly as old as the dinosaurs, with examples going back to over 200 million years ago.
5. They can see color and have a preference for red, orange, and yellow.
(source: www.thequotablecoach.com)

📸: Philip Waller

Working at the beach, poolside or in the mountains? 🌊 🏖
It is not a dream anymore! Workation - home office abroad or remote working on vacation - has become more and more popular!

Listen to the dialogues and find out more about the new trend!

❗Word to remember and use:
PORTMONTEAU - a word or part of a word made by combining the spellings and meanings of two or more other words or word parts (such as smog from smoke and fog)

BBC Learning English - The English We Speak / Workation A phrase to describe an experimental project.

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Radosnego, wiosennego nastroju, serdecznych spotkań w gronie rodziny i wśród przyjaciół.
Długich spacerów i czasu ze sobą. Zatrzymania.
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