2010년 5월 30일 일요일

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z2BVoQV0fA

this video is ghana R&B music video. It looks ilke old fashioned but lyrics is concise and voice is good. the melody is nice

2010년 5월 23일 일요일

Post three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Bv7oDSrsY

In this video, Volunteer English teacher is teaching about conjunction.
the age of students are about 13,14. some of them looks like adult.
teacher's intonation seems Philippine's intonation. so, this class uses Philippinian English.
Ghananian's age starting english is late. because most ghananian are poor, they can't study like us.
I think that the purpose of studying english is same like us : the globalization. and english is ghana's official languege.

2010년 5월 16일 일요일

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Food
Ghana food is most fish, but cereas are used uniformly. The taste is quite stimulating and a taste uses red or spice of a green type very much. generally a fish roasts it and corn is used in most cookings
distinct types of musical instruments
Music
Ghana has many types of traditional and modern music. The sound varies from ethnic group to ethnic group and region to region. Ghana music incorporates several


Dance
Ghana dance is as diverse as its music. Each ethnic group has their own traditional dances and there are different dances for different occasions. There are dances for funerals, celebrations, storytelling, praise and worship etc

Travel tip
As a risk of malaria is large, you take medicine, and you shall inoculate yellow fever prevention before entry to Ghana. you inoculate a tetanus after entry.

Culture
They use traditionally the left hand in toilets. and It is courtesy to not giving a thing to the left hands. they use a fork or a spoon on the latest date, and use tissue paper in toilet.
These habits are changing gradually.

Sports
Football (Soccer) is the most popular sport in the country. The national men's football teams are known as The Black Stars, the Black Satellites and the Black Starlets.Some Ghanaian football players that are recognised on an international level or achieved success in European football are Michael Essien, Abedi Pele and so on.Ghana is also the birth place of World Wrestling Entertainment Wrestler Kofi Kingston (born Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah), who is wrestling on the Smackdown brand. Also is Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong who competed in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The country has also produced quite a few quality boxers such as Azumah Nelson a three time world champion, Nana Yaw Konadu also a three time world champion, Ike Quartey, and Joshua Clottey, who lost his most recent fight to boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.

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Demographic information
population : about 23,740,000.



City Population
Accra
3,963,264
Kumasi
2,604,909
Tamale
390,730
Takoradi
260,651
Tema
229,106
Teshie
154,513
Secondi
153,900
Cape Coast
200,204
Obuasi
147,613
Dunkwa-on-offin
108,482

Religion
Protestantism(63%) Islam(16%) aboriginal religion(21%)

Economy
Ghana produces mainly gold and cacao and exports it. but other industry such as construction, communication etc didn't grow up
Degree of dependence regarding agriculture was high, and inflation occurred.
Ineffective economic policies of past military governments and regional peacekeeping commitments have led to continued inflationary deficit financing, depreciation of the Cedi and rising public discontent with Chana's austerity measures. Even so, Ghana remains one of the more economically sound countries in all of Africa.

Languages
Ghana has 47 ethnic languages

Education
The adult literacy rate in Ghana was 65% in 2007 , with males at 71.% and females at 58.3%. Ghana has a 6-year primary education system beginning at the age of six, and, under the educational reforms implemented in 1987 and reformed in 2007, they pass on to a 3-year junior high school system. At the end of the 3rd year of Junior High, there is a mandatory Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Those continuing must complete the 3-year senior high school (SHS) program and take an admission exam to enter any university or tertiary programme

Climate
Ghana is a country located on the Gulf of Guinea, only a few degrees north of the Equator, therefore giving it a warm climate.There are two main seasons in Ghana; the wet and the dry seasons. Northern Ghana experiences its rainy season from March to November while the south, including the capital Accra, experiences the season from April to Mid-November. Southern Ghana contains evergreen and semideciduous forests consisting of trees such as mahogany, odum and ebony. It also contains much of Ghana's oil palms