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Glogster.com is a social network which allows users to create free interactive posters, called glogs, under the motto poster yourself. A glog, short from for graphic blog, is a multimedia interactive image. Aparently, it is just a poster but users may interact with its content. Projet Glogster was founded in 2007, in the United States. Nowadays it is a social network with thousands of registered users, mainly youngsters. The user inserts text, pictures, photos, sound (MP3), videos, special effects and other elements in their glogs in order to create an online multimedia tool. Glogster is based on Flash elements, and the posters may be shared with other people, exported and saved in compatible formats or even published in a wiki or blog. Similarly to Facebook, Glogster allows you to create a profile, a network of friends and you will be able to comment your favourite glogs.

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated tomorrow, March 17th, the saint's religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at the age of 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people. In the centuries following Patrick's death (believed to have been on March 17, 461), the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrain…

If you want to tell everybody about this Irish ancient celebration, you can work out a couple of shamrock badges, mini-bags or bookmarks:

You can also write a limerick (a funny poem with five lines, which usually makes no sense). A limerick starts with, “There once was a …” or “There was a …”. The first two lines and the last one usually have 8 or 9 syllables. The fourth and fifth lines have 5 or 6. Here is an example:
There once was a teacher who was bad. She made all her students very sad. She was always mean. She always wore green. And she even gave tests to her dad.
You can also listen to some traditional Irish sounds:

Or get a bit more modern and listen to:


If you are a food lover, don't forget that your meal won't be complete without corned beef and cabbage. The most important is that you build a meal with a "green" theme: spinach, asparagus, any leafy greens, potatoes or rice with parsley, and a minty green dessert:

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Read here and here at T&L for further information about Pi Day!
And today we also celebrate Einstein's birthday!

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday in Britain, is the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. 'Shrove' stems from old English word 'shrive', meaning 'confess all sins'. It is called Pancake Day because it is the day traditionally for eating pancakes as pancake recipes were a way to use up any stocks of milk, butter and eggs which were forbidden during the abstinence of Lent. The traditional pancake is thin and crepe-like and is eaten sprinkled with sugar and a squeeze of lemon. However, serve as you like with jam, Golden Syrup, honey, chocolate spread, whatever takes your fancy. In some places pancake races are held, where participants run along tossing a pancake as they go.
Another name for Shrove Tuesday is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, so called because of the tradition of eating rich food before fasting for Lent. The famous New Orleans Mardi Gras is celebrated on this day. Here you will find a wide variety of ELT activities on Pancake Day that c…