unlikely : 1. …할 것 같지 않은, 있음직하지 않은2. (일반적인) 예상 밖의3. 믿기 힘든
inundated : 1. 감당 못할 정도로 주다2. 침수시키다
outpouring : 1. (감정의) 분출, 터져 나옴2. (많은 양이 한꺼번에 만들어져) 쏟아져 나옴
elves : elf 의 복수형
confide : 1. (비밀을) 털어놓다
envelope : 봉투 ; 비밀봉투
outburst : 1. (감정의) 폭발2. (특정 활동·태도의) 급격한 증가
module : 1. 모듈, 교과목 단위(특히 영국 대학에서 한 교육 과정의 일부가 되는 단위)2. 모듈(특정 기능을 하는 컴퓨터 시스템이나 프로그램의 단위)3. 모듈, 조립 부품(기계·가구·건물 등을 구성하는 규격화된 부품)
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Letters to Santa show children's pandemic fears
An unlikely source has revealed the pandemic fears of thousands of children across the world - Santa's mailbag. A post office in France that answers mail it receives for Santa has described the concerns children have been expressing about COVID-19. The letters contain the usual requests for Christmas gifts, but many have emotional outpourings that provide an insight into how the coronavirus pandemic is troubling young minds. The post office has been responding to "Dear Santa" letters since 1962. A writer who replies to the notes said: "This year, we really feel their fears - for themselves, their grandparents or their parents. It's what really emerges from their letters. And in every country."
The post office has been inundated with around 12,000 letters per day. It has a team of 60 letter-writing "elves". They say that many children are confiding in Santa and expressing heartfelt fears that perhaps parents are in the dark about. One child wrote: "This year, more than the others, I need magic and to believe in you." Another child slipped a mask inside her envelope for Santa to not spread the virus. A "chief elf" explained the emotional toll on children. She said: "The letters to Santa are a sort of release for them. All this year they have been in lockdowns and have been deprived of school and their grandpas and grandmas....Children are putting into words everything they have felt during this period."
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'pandemic'?
What do you think of the coronavirus pandemic?
How should we tell children about coronavirus?
What do you think of the "Dear Santa" mail service?
What would you ask Santa this year?
What do you imagine children are worried about?
What worried you as a child?
How might coronavirus change children's future?
What would you write to a worried child?
How can we stop children worrying about coronavirus?
Would you write down your heartfelt fears?
What magic would you like to create in the world?
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오늘은 산타에 관한내용인데요 ~
어린이들이 산타한테 코로나바이러스에 관한 자기들의 감정을 다 얘기하고 있다는 그런 내용입니다~!
쌤한테 난 산타 믿은 적이 없다고 하니깐 안믿더라구요 ㅋㅋ
진짜 제 산타에 대한 기억이 .. 유치원에서 산타알바생이 선물 줬던 것으로 기억하는데 다 알고 있었는데 ,,,,,
아 그리고 요즘 필리핀에서는 애들이 학교를 못가서 module을 한다는 거에요
컴퓨터나 핸드폰 가지고 있는 부자들은 영상 수업을 하지만,
대부분 학생들은 module을 한다고 해서 뭐냐고 물어보니 약간 학습지같은 것을 집으로 보내주고
부모님들이 가르쳐주는거라 하더라구요 ! ! ! ! ! ! !
모듈이 저런 뜻도 있는지 몰랐네요 !!! ㅋㅋ
그럼 피곤해서 이만.......
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