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COVID-19 resource book for young learners

24/5/2020

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Please find below two links for the electronic version of a book regarding COVID-19 addressed to young children.

The author of the book, Manuela Molina, describes her book as an invitation to families and educators to discuss the full range of emotions arising from the recent circumstances after the outbreak of the COVID-19. It is pointed out that the resource does not seek to be a source of scientific information, but rather a tool based on fantasy. The recommendation is to print the material, so that young children can draw on it.


You can access the Greek version of the book here.
For versions of the same book in a variety of languages, please visit the link here.
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Language learning resources in Greek

17/5/2020

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Please find below a list of resources and online tools that can further assist the online teaching of Greek:

1. Through Photodentro (user generated content), the repository of educational resources of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece, you can access e-me for all, an edition of the official version of e-me, where everyone can register. "e-me for all" is a digital educational platform for primary and secondary education that can be used by students, teachers, researchers and educators who do not have access to a Greek School Network account.  Access to the platform is given through user registration.

2. The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth) has made available pdf versions of materials for teaching Greek as a second language. The materials cover topics such as greetings, around the school, family, food, fruit, vegetables, body parts, clothing, weather, animals, house, professions, neighbourhood, means of transport, holidays.  The materials can be accessed through the link here, where you can find pdf files of two books, a guide for teaching the materials, flashcards as well as additional worksheets.

3. All the materials for teaching Greek as a second language developed by the Centre of Intercultural and Migrations Studies (Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, Greece) are still available for free access in the link here.

4. The following educational portal offers online games and activities for the teaching of sounds to Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students: link 1, link 2.

5. StoryWeaver is a platform that provides young students with reading resources in different languages.  Under Read and then Languages, Greek can be chosen and you can access a number of illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in Greek.  The digital platform can be used not only to read a story, but also to create, adapt and translate new stories.
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Happy Mother's Day 2020!

10/5/2020

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Nurse Reading to a Little Girl,
1895,
Mary Cassatt
Source:
https://www.metmuseum.org

Happy Mother's Day to our colleagues, the women teachers who teach and care for other women's children at schools!

Resources in Greek for Mother's Day tasks for Early Stage and Stage 1 students can be found here and here.

Older students can engage with the plethora of themes relating to a mother's life that emerge from the following excerpt of a poem by Greek writer and poet,
Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912-1991).

Excerpt from:

Όλα Είναι Μοναξιά στο Καλέντζι
Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος


Δίχως θέα στο μέλλον,
περπατούσες στα νύχια, γονάτιζες,
αφουγκραζόσουν τον ύπνο μας τα μεσάνυχτα,
μάς έλουζες και μάς χτένιζες,
μάς φορούσες καθαρά ρούχα την Κυριακή,
μάς συνόδευες κάτου στην πόρτα
και μάς κοίταζες άφωνη, ώσπου
μάς έπαιρνε ο ήλιος.

Όλα ήταν για μας.
Για σένα δεν είχε τίποτα ο κόσμος.
Για μας τα λουλούδια κι η θάλασσα,
τα τραγούδια και η Λαμπρή.
Χωρίς δαχτυλίδι στο χέρι,
περιχαρακωμένη στη μοίρα σου,
ψήλωνες μέσα στη μοναξιά σου,
μας μάλωνες με την πίκρα σου.

Κι ενώ τρέχαμε μείς
πιασμένοι απ' τα χέρια
ν' αγκαλιάσουμε τον ορίζοντα, εσύ
έψαχνες για παράθυρα,
σ' ένα σπίτι παράξενο και πικρό, που δεν είχε τίποτε άλλο εκτός
από μια πόρτα να φύγεις.

Μα τα πλοία δεν σε παίρνανε
γιατί είχες τον άνεμο και τη θάλασσα μέσα σου
γιατί είχες μιάν έρημο μέσα σου, δίχως
πουλί και τραγούδι.


Source: Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος, Όλα Είναι Μοναξιά στο Καλέντζι, Η εκλογή μου: Ποιήματα 1933-1991, Ποταμός, 2008.
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Australian Association for Literary Translation – entries open

3/5/2020

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The Australian Association for Literary Translation (AALITRA) now invites entries for the 2020 AALITRA Translation Awards.

The AALITRA Translation Awards aim to acknowledge the wealth of literary translation skills present in the Australian community. Prizes are awarded for a translation of a selected prose text and for a translation of a selected poem, with the focus on a different language each time the prize is offered. In 2020, the focus language is Greek.

Closing date: Friday, 28 May 2020

Entries and enquiries should be sent to

aalitratranslationawards@gmail.com

For more information, including conditions of entry, please see attached announcement or visit the AALITRA website.

The 2020 AALITRA Translation Awards poster is also attached below.



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Distance training program – Routes in Teaching Greek as a Second/Foreign Language

3/5/2020

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The Centre for the Greek Language announces the new period of the distance training program “Routes in Teaching Greek as a Second/Foreign Language” for teachers in Greece and abroad.

The program is a distance training course for teachers of Greek to children and adults in Greece and abroad. The program is implemented entirely on distance mode and consists of 8 modules that focus on the broader and on the more specialised fields of knowledge required for teaching Greek as L2.

Commencement of the course: 14 September 2020
Course duration: 10 months

Registrations are open until 30 June 2020.
You can also register by email at
programma.diadromes@gmail.com

For more information, please visit the link here.

Below you can find attached the recent press release in Greek regarding the program.
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Certificate of Attainment in Greek May 2020 Exams – postponed

3/5/2020

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The Centre for the Greek Language (CGL) in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Sydney Examination Centre for the Certificate of Attainment in Greek (hellenicedu.sydney@gmail.com) have announced the postponement of the Certificate of Attainment in Greek May 2020 exams due to COVID-19.

Regarding the registrations, candidates who have applied and paid the exam fees will be able to participate in the exam when the new exam period is announced, as their application will be automatically transferred. 

Candidates who have applied, but have not yet paid the exam fees, should reapply in the new registration period which is yet to be announced. Candidates who have not yet applied, should wait and apply in the new registration period.

The new registration period and the new exam dates will be announced in due course in the certification website.

For more information, candidates can communicate with the Sydney Examination Centre (hellenicedu.sydney@gmail.com) and can also contact the Department for Greek Language Certification via e-mail (ellinomatheia@komvos.edu.gr).

For the media release regarding the postponement of the May 2020 exams, please visit the link here.
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Welcome to Term 2

3/5/2020

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Dear colleagues,

I trust that you are staying healthy and safe and that your first week back in Term 2 has been a positive one.

There has been a number of missed opportunities for our communication over the months of March and April and I have not been in touch through this platform due to complex circumstances since the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, I did not share through this blog educational ideas for the welcoming of springtime in March in Greece and did not send out photos, wishes and teaching resources for the commemoration of this year’s Greek Independence Day and Feast of the Annunciation of Theotokos on 25 March. I would like to extend now, however, a “Χριστός Ανέστη” wish to all of you for the recent feast of the Orthodox Christian Easter Sunday, and wishes for the double celebration in the Greek tradition of “Πρωτομαγιά”, May Day, and Labour Day, last Friday (i.e. 1 May 2020). I hope May Day, as a day that corresponds with the peak of the flower season in Greece, also brings experiences of renewal to all of us during these unparalleled times.

Take care, I will stay connected!

Kind Regards,
Maria

Dr Maria Harissi
Greek Language Adviser
Learning and Teaching Directorate, NSW Department of Education

Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Athens, Greece
Greek Education Office of Australia and N.Zealand, Melbourne, Australia
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