WORLD FAIR TRADE ORGANIZATION

The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), formerly the International Federation of Alternative Traders ("IFAT"), was created in 1989 and is a global association of 324 organizations in over 70 countries.

The WTFO has over 400 member organisations from more than 70 countries spread across five continents. 

10 Principles

WFTO prescribes 10 Principles that Fair Trade Organizations must follow in their day-to-day work and carries out monitoring to ensure these principles are upheld:

1. Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers
2. Transparency and Accountability
3. Fair Trading Practices
4. Payment of a Fair Price
5. Ensuring no Child Labor and Forced Labor
6. Commitment to Non Discrimination, Gender Equity and Freedom of Association
7. Ensuring Good Working Conditions
8. Providing Capacity Building
9. Promoting Fair Trade
10. Respect for the Environment

BODY LANGUAGE

Body language, also known as kinesics, is a type of non-verbal communication in which physical behavior. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

Here you can find some examples:

You can understand if someone is lying by these signs: to blink faster, to swallow more and to avoid eye contact. 
Eye contact is an indication of confidence, interest and honesty. Eye contact is also an important element in flirting, where it may serve to establish and gauge the other's interest in some situations.
Instead running your hands through your hair, especially taking hair away from your face, is often a sign of flirting and openness.  

Playing with hair is not always a good sign, though. Holding hair indicates awkwardness and nervousness but some girls twirl when they are tired, others when they are reading or watching television, and some when they feel nervous.

CLIL- STARRY NIGHT LEGO MOSAIC

VAN GOGH 1889/ HALL 2001

The LEGO mosaic represents a famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh , ★☆the Starry Night☆★ and was created in 2001 by Ed Hall.

 It's 45x36 and it's made completely out of LEGO bricks (1x1). It tooks lots of months and approximately ten thousand bricks to complete. 

                 

  

The creatore Ed Hall wasn't using any glu on his project but only the connectivity of LEGO bricks and three screws to keep the mosaic together on the wall. 

He used many brighting colours of the bricks as red, blue, yellow, green but also white and black.

He spelled out the mosaic "Van Gogh 1889 /Hall 2001" 

JUST AS BEAUTIFUL

'Just as beautiful' is a bi-monthly magazine who offers articles on fashion, cooking and lifestyle and the first one for curvy women (plus size-women). This magazine was launched in October 2010 but it has existed since 2007 and it has many readers. The special thing of the magazine is that they never used traditional thin models and photographs aren't modified.

Sue Thominson, the editor, wants to transmit an important message  promoting the self-acceptance: "you don't need to change your body or be thin to be happy". But the magazine also received bad comments: health experts said it promoted obesity, other said it created a division between thin and plus size-women. To answer, the editor said the magazine published articles on all types of women and it doesn't say thin women are ugly, but they are just as beautiful as fat women.

THE ENVIROMENT

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Green Party all compaigns for a cleaner, healtier and less polluted enviroment.
Greenpeace operates internationally and is able to embarass governaments and large oil companies through feats for a direct action which attract public simpathy. These may include attemps to block the disposal of radioactive waste at sea or to prevent the sitting the new oil rig.

 Friends of the Earth has branches in many qowns and cities and is known especially for local initiatives such as recycling tins and newspaper, opposition to road- building schemes and attemps to raise people's awareness of Green issues. The Green Party in Britain has never won a seat in parliament. Never the less, the Green moviment as a whole has had an influence on the agendas of the major political parties. Both the redactions in the tax paid on lead-free period and the imposition of VAT  on the domestic heating have been presented as policies to help the enviroment. As more of our streets become jammed up with cars and more of our children suffer form asthma, the need for Freener life-style becomes one of the self-interest, not to mention the protection of other species and their habitants.

                             

NETIQUETTE

                           

Netiquette- network (english) + étiquette (french)- means respecting other user's views and displaying common courtesy when posting your views to online discussion group. The basic rules are these:

1. Remember the human.
2. Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.
3. Know where you are in the cyberspace.
4. Make yourself look good online.
5. Share expert knowledge.
6. Help keep flame wars under control.
7. Respect other people's privacy.
8. Don't abuse your power.
9. Be forgiving of the people's mistakes.

Who doesn't follow these rules is isolated from the resources or there's the suspencion of some access services. 
           
                 

DOLPHIN LANGUAGE

Humans may not be the only one to use languages. Scientists think that dolphins also use words and sentences to speak to each other and some new researches show that this communication is similar to our conversations. The sound that dolphins make look like sentences that let dolphins send messages to each other, identify themselves, have relations and do something together. We may be able to understand dolphins language and talk to dolphins in the future. Researches discovered that dolphins had their own language after they recorded two bottlenose dolphins. The dolphins listened to each other and then they replaied. A researcher said that resembles a conversation between two people and that indicates a high level of intelligence in doplhins.