Christmas is round the corner!

Time flies and the first term is almost over. Christmas is round the corner and we are going to start celebrating it at school. Shall we start?

Activity 1. Watch this video and answer the questions your teacher will ask you in class.

Activity 2. Watch this video and learn some christmas vocabulary

Activity 3. Now play this Christmas game.

Activity 4. Watch this commercial by John Lewis and write what it means to you

Activity 5. Write a Christmas acrostic poem. An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase. Here are some examples:

Now it´s your turn. Choose one christmas word and write your poem. You can even use a templeate from the Internet or design your own. Be creative.

Guy Fawkes

5th November is an important festivity in the Uk because people celebrate the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament on the part of Guy Fawkes and other members in 1605. It is also called the Bonfire Night because bonfires are lit to burn the "Guy" - a kind of dummy that represents Fawkes.

Activity 1. Watch this video about the story of Guy Fawkes.

Activity 2. Watch this video about the celebration of the Bonfire Night in Winchester 

Activity 3. If you have learnt the story of Guy Fawkes, do you dare to play this game?

Activity 4. Learn this poem by heart:

Food glorious food

Activity 1. Listen to the pronounciation of different types of food here and here

Activity 2. Watch this video and answer these questions on your notebook:

1. What do British people eat and drink for breakfast?
2. What do they have for lunch?
3. How long does lunch take?
4. What is the most important meal of the day?
5. What do they usually have for dinner?
6. What are the most popular restaurant serving international food?
7. What do teenagers like to eat?
8. What do teenagers hate?
9. What doesn’t a vegetarian eat?
10. What is the traditional British food they eat outside? How much is it? 

(From the Bilingual Blog IES Albert Einstein)

Activity 3. Watch this video and answer these questions

1. What time do they have breakfast?
2- What time do they have lunch?
3. What do they have for lunch?
4, What do they sometimes have for dinner on Friday evenings?
5. Write 4 things on the shopping list
6. What is their lunch on Sunday?

Activity 4. Play this game

Activity 5. Watch this video and answer the questions here

HALLOWEEN IS NEAR,,,

Halloween is round the corner. We are going to prepare for that ghostly party and do some scary activities.

Activity 1. Go to this link and find the things in the haunted house.

Activity 2. Listen to the song from the film "Nightmare before Halloween"

Activity 3. Create your own monster here

Activity 4. Listen to this story

Activity 5. On your notebook create a monster with magazine cut-outs and describe it.

Ordinal and cardinal numbers

Let´s revise the ordinal numbers:

Watch this video to understand them better:

Finally try this exercise:

http://www.learnenglish.de/games/spelling/Ordinals.swf

Classroom objects, colours, days of the week, months of the year

Let´s start by revising some vocabulary you already know

Exercise 1.  Click on the link below and play the game

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/school-supplies-esl-interactive-vocabulary-crocodile-board-game/


Exercise 2. Listen to the ABC song and then try the game

Click on the link and try this spelling game

http://www.spinandspell.com/game.swf


Exercise 3. Revise the days of the week with this video

Exercise 4. Finally revise the months of the year.

And learn by heart this rhyme

Exercise 5. Write a comment on the blog saying what exercise you liked most.

Welcome back to school

Hi students at IES Cantillana. We all hope you had a great summer and we welcome you to our school again. Enjoy this school year and be ready to learn.
And also our dearest welcome to the students in 1º ESO who are going to participate in the Bilingual programme. I hope you like it and do your best to get great results.