O Family Album USA e uma serie de videos para o ensino de ingles produzida pela editora MacMillan na decada de 90, que ate hoje e usada por escolas de ingles mundo afora. Sao mais de 20 episodios no estilo novela, so que usando ingles basico present, past e future simple, e outros tempos verbais e vocabulario para iniciantes. Cada episodio tem 3 atos: no comeco de cada ato, o aluno ouve um resuminho do que vai acontecer e o narrador faz uma pergunta, cuja resposta esta na historia.Varios episodios do Family Album estao no YouTube: e um recurso altamente recomendado para quem esta no nivel basico do ingles alem da linguagem ser apropriada, as falas dos personagens sao claras sem perder a naturalidade.Onde encontrar o Family Album: Aqui no Brasil, a serie Family Album USA original pode ser encontrada na Disal. Vejam:Historia do Halloweenhttp://tvig.ig.com.br/variedades/videos-da-internet/historia-de-halloween-e-contada-em-video-stop-motion-8a49800e3a67aaf2013aa36b3afd05dd.html Hello, everybody!This month we celebrate Halloween and it is important to know about the history....enjoy it!Ancient Origins of HalloweenHalloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.On May 13,