ENEP's English Department

Merry Christmas from your English teachers! 🎉🎄🎅

We hope you're having a wonderful time with your loved ones. 🥳

We are citizens of the world. We have more things in common than we have differences. For centuries, distances have been made shorter, to the point we don't know how peoples who didn't coexist at the same time, sometimes have incredible resemblances. Look at the maypole dance from Great Britain, dating from 1350-1400AD, it was practiced in Rome, and Germany. Nowadays practiced as Midsommerfest in Sweden (Scandinavia), "El baile del cordón" in Spain - which probably brought it to the Yucatan Peninsula where it became part of our regional dances - and it can also be found in other countries. like India. The world is interconnected, and language is our best tool to reach out to other cultures. 🌍🌎🌏

2019 Moving Up Day - Maypole Dance The Maypole Dance is performed every year by Rising 7th grade students as a culmination to the last day of school and end of the school year. The Maypole, wh...

To all our students interested in the 2024 International Mobility Program of our state ✈:

Please fill in the form on https://bit.ly/enepmovi24 before Monday August 14th to start your process of application backed by our school.

*Only applicants who complete the form will be allowed to continue with their application process, and get documents issued by our institution.

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A todos nuestros estudiantes interesados en el Programa de Movilidad Internacional 2024 ✈:

Se les convoca a llenar el formulario alojado en https://bit.ly/enepmovi24 antes del lunes 14 de agosto del año en curso, para iniciar con su proceso de aplicación a la convocatoria.

*El llenado de este cuestionario se considera fundamental para continuar con su proceso de solicitud de documentos expedidos por nuestra institución.

Last Saturday students from 8th semester and some of us, your teachers, had the opportunity to take the TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test): Young Learners, in order to certify our skills as language teachers for young children. 📝✅

We were grateful for this opportunity, and we're looking very much forward to the results of this certification process! 🤓

We want to start the new semester with a positive note:

We are very happy to share with you the pictures of the 5th (now 6th) semester students from English B2.1 delivering the money raised on our first Ecological Bazaar!

All the profits from the bazaar were donated to a dog shelter and helped to pay the bills for the treatments of two furry friends!
Thank you all for coming to support this activity, and hopefully we will see more ENEP students making a difference in their consumption habits and helping those in need!

Congratulations to the organizing group and thank you again! 👏🐕🌟

Last week we were very happy to deliver our students' Christmas cards to the non-profit organization Yucatan Giving Outreach.

We're all very proud of the students' creativity and of their desire to contribute to such a noble cause, as the cards will be delivered to people in shelters by Yucatan Giving Outreach, along with Christmas presents as part of their "Toys for Joys" program.

Thank you so much for all your support! And a Merry Christmas in advance! 🧑‍🎄🎅🎄🎁

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍽🎉

We were very happy to celebrate this American tradition at school during the last week! We hope you all had a great time and had the opportunity to share what you're thankful for. 😊

Check this link for information about Fulbright Scholarship at the Mérida English Library

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Today is the 248th birthday of our Northern neighbour, the USA. Learn more about their independence and what people do to celebrate: https://youtu.be/fFnItnVlWws

Independence Day History | The Fourth of July A fun English language video lesson to learn all about the history of Independence Day or also known as the 4th of July (Forth of July) . A great way to lear...

On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday.
The next year, a Spokane, Washington, woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910.
However, it was not until 1972 that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United States.
Today, the day honoring fathers is celebrated in the United States on the third Sunday of June.
https://time.com/4811771/fathers-day-origins-history/?jwsource=cl

How the Radical '60s and '70s Helped Make Father's Day a National Holiday Father's Day only became a nationally recognized observance in 1972

Mother's Day in the US
In the US, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May each year.
The idea started in America when a woman called Anna Jarvis held a small memorial service for her own mother on 12 May 1907.
Soon after, most places in America were observing the day and in 1914, the US president made it a national holiday, celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
https://youtu.be/k64ttIyUFvs

History of Mother's Day | History Find out about the ancient roots and modern history of Mother's Day, which is celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the United States.Subscribe for more ...

2nd semester students also did a wonderful job yesterday during our last day of Easter Egg Hunting!🔎🥚

Thank you so much for all the effort and creativity you all put in painting your Easter eggs! 🐰👏👏

Some more pictures of our First Easter Egg Hunt! 🔎🥚
All 4th and 6th semester students did a wonderful job! 🐰✨

Here are some pictures of 6th and 4th semester who participated in our First Easter Egg Hunt!!
Thank you all. Your eggs have been wonderful.

Today we kick off our Easter Egg Hunt! 🐇🥚🔎

6th semester students be ready to join in on the fun after recess! 🏃‍♀️🕵️‍♀️

Easter is the most important Christian festival of the years - it's when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.Many Christians usually spend time at church in thought, prayer and celebration of Jesus Christ's life, and may get together with friends and family for a special meal. There are also some more modern traditions to mark Easter which are very common - such as Easter eggs, the Easter bunny and chocolate.
But where do these modern traditions come from?Originally, eating eggs was not allowed by church leaders during the week leading up to Easter (known as Holy Week). So any eggs laid that week were saved and decorated to make them Holy Week eggs, that were then given to children as gifts.
What's the Easter Bunny then?
The story of the Easter Bunny is thought to have become common in the 19th Century.
Rabbits usually give birth to a big litter of babies (called kittens), so they became a symbol of new life.
Legend has it that the Easter Bunny lays, decorates and hides eggs as they are also a symbol of new life.
This is why some children might enjoy Easter egg hunts as part of the festival.
https://youtu.be/6WGzybXeycs

The story of the Easter bunny l GMA Digital While Easter is a Christian holiday, there is no mention of an Easter bunny in the Bible. So, how did an egg-laying hare become so synonymous with a deeply r...

Nature keeps amazing us... this rare, old footage of the London BBC proves it so...
https://youtu.be/QwDwRsfUj6Y

Lirpa Loof The 80s BBC1 Sunday night TV show That's Life introduced the world to the very rare animal the Lirpa Loof.

Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, and every year on the 17th of March Irish people all over the world have a huge celebration in his honor.
He was born in Wales which is just across the sea from Ireland. It was the Year 373, and the Romans still ruled that part of the world.
Many of the people in Wales and Ireland were Druids who worshiped the Sun and other aspects of nature. But Patrick was a Christian. When Patrick was 16 years old he was walking along the beach when some pirates seized him. They took him to Ireland and sold him as a slave, where he worked in the fields.
One day he heard God telling him to escape and he ran down to the sea where he found a ship waiting to take him home.
When he was grown up, he heard a voice calling on him to return to Ireland and to tell people there about Christianity, which is what he did.
Patrick travelled the length and breadth of Ireland and had many adventures while he spread his message.
Quite often the druid priests were very angry with him for telling their followers to change their religion and his life was always in great danger.
Ireland is a very rainy country and the fields are emerald green. One of the most common plants that grows among the grass is the Shamrock. it's like a small clover with three leaves. St. Patrick used to pick up the Shamrock and explained that the three leaves were the three aspects of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
St. Patrick is also famous for driving all the snakes into the sea so that to this day there are no snakes lurking in the beautiful green grass of Ireland.
The Shamrock and the snakes are the most famous stories about St. Patrick.
https://youtu.be/MqO0O8O8Gmk

Saint Patrick's Day Animated History Saint Patrick's Day is the largest Irish celebration in the world and this video explains the history of this famous saint's daySaint Patrick was born in Wal...

Today we congratulate six of our students who will be traveling abroad as part of our state's 2022 International Mobility Program! ✈️🌎

We're all very proud of you, girls! And we wish the best of luck to you during your time abroad! 🎉🎉👏👏

Many of us celebrate Valentine's Day, but do we know what is behind that celebration? Take 5 minutes and find out!
https://youtu.be/JdKZepHMFWE

Saint Valentine's Day Animated History The History Of Saint Valentine's Day2000 years ago, the most powerful army in the world belonged to the Romans. Soldiers wanted to get married and set up fa...

Loved it!

Short Biographies 3rd-semester students, A1.2 English level, wrote some important information about writers, educators, and other important people that have greatly influenced education.

To all our students interested in this mobility program:

Don't miss the chance to study in a foreign country and fill in the form on https://bit.ly/enepmovi22 before Saturday January 15th! 📝🤓✈️

*Only applicants who complete the form will be allowed to continue with their application process. ❗️

Dear students, we believe you'll find the following call for participation very interesting! Please read it and let us know if you'd like to participate! 🤓📚✈

Invitamos a las y los jóvenes a inscribirse a la convocatoria del Programa de Movilidad Internacional 2022, para estudiantes de Instituciones de Educación Superior de públicas y privadas, donde podrán obtener una beca para tener una estancia de 2 a 3 semanas en el extranjero en alguna universidad sede en o .
Para más información pueden consultar el enlace: https://bit.ly/3snnCTW o comunicarse al correo [email protected]

Merry Christmas!

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Have you ever wondered where the tradition of setting up and decorating a tree for the holidays came from? When did it start? Curl up with a cup of hot cocoa and get in a holiday mood with this interesting video about how, where and when the tradition of the Christmas Tree began
https://www.britannica.com/video/179909/History-Christmas-tree

Learn about the history of Christmas trees Christmas trees have a very long history, though the practice of bringing trees inside and decorating them is more recent.

Let's have some fun with these memes from teacher Lalo's students.