I need advice regarding the rules here on this site (wonderful, awesome site). I read and read the rules when I registered, and can īt understand the removal of two powerpoints I published some time ago.

 

One is the song "Imagine" by John Lennon, which took me days to compose, choosing images that would have more or less the same meaning as the lines being sang, and another one called "Very Good" with a suggestiong of 4 slides to be added by the teacher if by chance a pupil delivers a presentation done as a task. Instead of just giving the pupils only the marks, how nice and personal to take the presentations home and add some encouraging slides, with sounds of hands clapping, and other effects. I did it with my students and they were always delighted!

 

When uploading the ppt "Imagine", I added an explanation that that would be the sum up of a whole performance task, let me explain. Here in my country we use to give groups these kind of tasks that contain almost all the standards of the New Curriculum. The song by John Lennon talks about Peace and Love, and is a monumental proposal of harmony between the peoples. It is a "jewel" and in my humble opinion, it MUST be taught to every student in English. My performance task was about this subject, and after eliciting vocabulary for the song, words like "possessions", heaven, dreamer, etc., I asked the various groups to choose 2 lines each group and discuss them, and in addition they would suggest association to those lines, either pictures, other lines in songs, ideas, etc. For example, one of the groups suggested a picture of the Twin Towers together with the line "Nothing to kill or die for" (when I write this it brings tears to my eyes, I swear)...

 

The final lesson on the subject had this presentation as a sum-up, all the kids got a copy. It was such a success....

 

But my main question to you, dear colleagues and administrator of this great site, is why there are so many activities with songs, even other powerpoints, presenting the song and the lyrics, either in the form of worksheets, or activities online, and they were approved. I got two PM īs from administration telling me that my Powerpoints were reported, and I believe someone clicked the "report" button without reading my explanation.

 

I īm sorry for such a long post, but I īm really sad about it. I won īt add exercises to the presentations proving they are ESL activities, as suggested on those PM īs, this kind of addition would spoil them... :-(

 

Thank you!

PS: I am Brazilian, but I live in a country where this kind of message like Lennon īs SHOULD BE KNOWN BY HEART, and who better than us, English teachers, can teach it???

 

"Imagine there īs no heaven
It īs easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there īs no countries
It isn īt hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I īm a dreamer
But I īm not the only one
I hope someday you īll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I īm a dreamer
But I īm not the only one
I hope someday you īll join us
And the world will live as one "

 

Mariethe House, your idea is fantastic, I will think about it.. I īm afraid it might spoil the beauty of the Presentation... thank you anyway!

 

Jayho, I don īt think the images were copyrighted. There weren īt watermarked...

Sometimes the report of a ws or ppt is a mistake and sometimes moderators vote for removal also by mistake. If you don īt agree with the fact of it being removed, I suggest you write a pm to victor, the administrator of the site, explaining all this to him and asking him to restore your powerpoint.

 

I followed your advice (adding slides with explanations), and I īm going to upload it again now. I hope it is ok.... it took me so much time to fix it, it is not simple as it seems

 

Dear coyote.chus, thank you for your words... I just don īt know how to send a PM to the administration, when I found those that said that this work would be removed, I sent a reply, now I understand that probably that PM wasn īt from Victor.... I īm new here...

 

Starrr, my Brazilian colleague, como vai (how are you)? I will send you the copy with much pleasure if this one isn īt approved.. I hope it is....

 

Julia (juliag), your advice was a great one, I put an initial slide explaining what the Presentation is, with a link to some last ones, and then another link to the song. I really hope this will be OK... It īs such a lovely song!!!

 

Kisses to everyone!!!

 

Sylvinha