Learn English through Stories The Great Fire Of London

History of London in videos!

http://www.visitlondon.com/#pU9P7PkjKLts0Q2G.97

Let's have fun!

Have fun and revise the vocabulary you learnt by doing this crossword!!


http://www.englishmedialab.com/crosswords/household/index.html

Try this puzzle, too!

http://www.esolcourses.com/uk-english/elementary-course/travel-and-holidays/at-the-beach-crossword.html

If you like music, listen to this song and to the activity you will find below!

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/songs/sam-cooke/summertime-gap-fill.html

If you want to send some special summer cards, this link you'll be of great help!


http://www.esolcourses.com/uk-english/elementary-course/travel-and-holidays/postcard-templates/summer-holiday-postcards-template-1.html

Holidays in Britain

Watch this video and learn more about holidays in Britain!!

youtube=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfmlzbXLhLs

Summer holidays!

Summer is here, so enjoy it and do not forget to practise English with this board game!!

Hampton Court Palace

Discover the magnificence of Henry VIII's favourite royal residence. Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the bustling Base Court and marvel at the breath-taking grandeur of Henry's State Rooms. Tickle your taste buds in the vast Tudor kitchens, stroll through over 60 acres of enchanting gardens, lose yourself in the famous maze and appreciate the beauty of one of the greatest palaces on earth.
Creep along the Haunted Gallery and discover another palace, the Baroque Palace, full of intrigue and gossip from the Stuart and Georgian era. Audio guides are included in the palace ticket and costumed tours and talks happen daily, as well as an excellent programme of seasonal events.

Read more at http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/427279-hampton-court-palace#SYmFkz0ePklKvdrh.99

El arenque rojo - part 2

These are some stories behind the pictures you described!!!

                                   

Grammar revision

These are the links with the last 2 activities.

http://www.allthingsgrammar.com/uploads/2/3/2/9/23290220/atg-crossword-presentsimple.pdf

http://www.allthingsgrammar.com/uploads/2/3/2/9/23290220/atg-crossword-pastsimple2.pdf

Spring wordsearch

Do the following wordseaches (do not check for the answers till the last word!!!!!)

difficult

intermediate 

Writing Activity 2

Estés donde estés, cerca de ti hay historias. Muchas historias. Tantas como personas. Pero ¿las vemos? A veces sí. Y en eso consiste este libro. Al principio, la primera vez, solo verás el arenque rojo. Un pretexto para distraerte, un juego, casi una broma. Pero, en el fondo, es tu mirada. 
El arenque eres tú, es cualquiera que mire estas páginas. ¿Quieres intentarlo?

Look at the 3 pictures you have in your 

worksheet.

For each picture, you must:

a. Look at the picture and observe all the details and write all the words that you know.

b. Think about the 6 Ws questions: where, when, how, why, what, who and try to write more about each picture.

c. Write some sentences about the picture and imagine the story behind each of the 3 pictures.

Read aloud in the class some of the descriptions.

Share the stories and comment them with the class.

Writing activity 1 - Spring festivals

TASKS

1. Look information about the festivals above: https://www.tcsworldtravel.com/blog/spring-festivals-around-the-world

1. HOLI FESTIVAL // INDIA
2. SONGKRAN FESTIVAL // THAILAND
3. ST. PATRICK’S DAY // USA
4. CHERRY BLOSSOMS // JAPAN
5. LAS FALLAS // SPAIN 

2. Select the most important pieces of information and fill in the chart below:

Name	Date	Place	Symbols	How people celebrate it	Picture
1.

El arenque rojo - part 1

Try to describe the picture below and invent your own story!!

Clever Maggie

This is Maggie!!

She is a Jack Russell terrier and she does...

Maths!!

Nora, The Piano Cat

She is Nora!!



She likes playing the piano!!

El Museo Frederic Marès

Click here for more information about the museum!!

The Museu Frederic Marès is a unique collecting museum that preserves the collections assembled by its founder, sculptor Frederic Marès (1893-1991), which came to form part of the patrimony of the city of Barcelona through his donation in 1946. Two years later, this museum was inaugurated in a part of the old Royal Palace of the Counts of Barcelona in the heart of the Gothic Quarter. Its original Verger or courtyard garden, still remains intact.

Frederic Marès turned sculpture into something beyond his artistic calling. Throughout his lifetime he amassed an extensive Hispanic sculpture collectionwhich ranged from the ancient world until the 19th century, in which religious polychromed carvings predominated. This now makes up the most uniform section of the museum. Marès also donated part of his own sculptural oeuvre, which is on display in hisLibrary-study.

The Collector's Cabinet is the home to a display of tens of thousands of objects that make up a vast collection of collections that documents past lifestyles and customs, mainly from the 19th century. There you can find amusing, unique items like fans, pipes, clocks, jewellery, photographs, toys, keys, pharmacy bottles and reliquaries, all presented in an intimate atmosphere evoking Marès private universe.

Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

http://www.ripleys.com/

THE ICONIC MR. RIPLEY

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UNBELIEVABLE SINCE 1918!

The foundation of our museum exhibit collection was set by Robert L. Ripley (1890–1949), a cartoonist, explorer, reporter, adventurer, and collector, who traveled to 201 countries in 35 years seeking the odd, the unusual, and the unexplained.

“I have traveled in 201 countries and the strangest thing I saw was man”
Robert L. Ripley

He was nicknamed “The Modern Marco Polo”, and in his endless search for unbelievable stories to draw in his immensely popular newspaper cartoon feature, he acquired hundreds of exotic artifacts from around the world.

Today there are 32 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! attractions in ten countries, dozens of Ripley books, a huge internet web presence, and hundreds of television videos in the company’s archive vaults. 

“BIONs” – short for Believe It or Not – is the word we use at Ripley’s to refer to anything that is unbelievable and worthy to become part of Ripley’s lore and collection.

kahoot time!!

Go here!!

Class Rules

Famous Carnivals

Work in pairs.

Imagine that you go to either the Venice carnival or the Rio de Janeiro carnival, and stay for two or three days.

Write a letter to a friend describing the carnival and the things that you do in the city.

Carnival time!!

It is Carnival time!

Activities:

1. Reading:

Click here!




2.  True or false? 


(a) The carnival tradition began when Christianity arrived. 

(b) Christians eat less during carnival time. 

(c) People try to look different during a carnival.

(d) In Rio de Janeiro, men often dress to look like the opposite sex. 

(e) The Venice carnival lasts less than a week. 

(f) It can be difficult to go to some masked dances in Venice because they are not open to everyone. 

(g) Floats are an important part of the Venice carnival. 

(h) If you go to a masked dance you must wear fancy dress. 

(i) There’s more dancing in the streets in Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans than in Venice. 

(j) Winning a fancy dress competition means that people think you are wearing the best costume. 

(k) If Venice becomes very full during the carnival, they stop people entering the city. 

(l) There are fireworks every day during the Venice festival. 

Exercises on Present Simple - Present Continuous

A

 Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple present or present progressive).

1. Look! He (leave)  the house.
2. Quiet please! I (write)  a test.
3. She usually (walk)  to school.
4. But look! Today she (go)  by bike.
5. Every Sunday we (go)  to see my grandparents.
6. He often (go)  to the cinema.
7. We (play)  Monopoly at the moment.
8. The child seldom (cry) .
9. I (not / do)  anything at the moment.
10. (watch / he)  the news regularly?

B

1. This (be)  Marc.
2. He (wear)  a t-shirt and shorts today.
3. He (eat)  an apple at the moment.
4. Marc (like)  fruits and vegetables.
5. He (eat)  some every day.
6. Marc (know)  that apples (be)  good for his health.

C

1. Today (be)  Betty's birthday.
2. Betty (love)  birthdays.
3. She (be)  always very excited and (wake up)  very early.
4. At six o'clock in the morning, Betty (hear)  a noise.
5. She (get up)  and (go)  into the sitting room.
6. What (go on) ?
7. Look! Betty's cat Carlos (sit)  on the table and he (play)  with Betty's present.

D

1. I (be)  very busy today.
2. At noon I (visit)  my friend Tanya.
3. We (want)  to have lunch together.
4. In the afternoon I (play)  squash with Emily.
5. In the evening, I (meet)  Rob.
6. We (go)  to the cinema.
7. The film (start)  at 8 pm.

E

1. The lesson (start)  at 9 o'clock.
2. He often (wear)  a black cap.
3. I (meet)  my friends in the youth club tonight.
4. My friend (move)  house tomorrow.
5. My birthday (be)  in September.

F

1. When (arrive / the plane) ?
2. (visit / you)  Jane in hospital today?
3. What time (get up / you)  in the mornings?
4. Why (cry / she)  now?
5. (swim / they)  in the pool at the moment?

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro

Video time!!

If you wat to know more about parkour and free running, please watch this video that made these 2 sports famous!

After watchiing it, please, try to find pictures of the famous landmarks and write their names in a special worksheet!!

Jump London is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television.

It later spawned a sequel, Jump Britain that first aired in January 2005. Both feature documentaries were directed by Mike Christie. 

Jump London followed three French traceurs, Sébastien Foucan, Jérôme Ben Aoues, and Johann Vigroux, as they run around many of London's most famous landmarks, including Royal Albert Hall, Shakespeare's Globe Theater, HMS Belfast, and many others.

Sports

This unit is about Sports!!!


Can you name and define these 2 sports??

Modals

In the city - activities

Try do imagine the City of the future!!

You can draw it and later you can explain how you imagine it!!


       

The webcam game

Imagine you have to give details about what is happening right now in a Shopping Centre.

You are working for the Surveillance service and you can watch all the cameras!!

Write about what you are seeing at the moment!

The Machines of the Isle of Nantes

THE GRAND ÉLÉPHANT

"Les Machines de l’île" is a totally unprecedented artistic project. Born from the François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice’s imagination, it is at crossroads of Jules Verne’s "invented worlds", of the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci, and of Nantes’ industrial history, on the exceptional site of the former shipyards.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Uvo2U5nLo

http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/

Books and authors

   

Invented books and authors

Fill in with the information provided or use a book in order to fill in:

Book 1	Book 2	Book 3
You can choose the book! 1. Title of the book 2. Name of the author and search for information about when, where he/she lives/ed and what he/she did/does for a living. 3. Structure of the book 4. Genre	The book is the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. 1. Title of the book: 2. Name of the author and information about when, where he/she lives/ed and what he/she did for a living. 3. Structure of the book 4. Genre	1. Title of the book 2. Name of the author and information about when, where he/she lives/ed and what he/she did for a living. 3. Structure of the book 4. Genre