ST. PATRICK'S DAY

 

On March 17th is St Patrick's Day and the world goes green . Hercules Tower wanted to join this day and it was iluminated  in green as the most important buildings in the world.

If you want to know something about Ireland and the celebration of St. Patrick here you can see videos, listen to songs, play games ...

VOCABULARY

About St. Patrick's Day


What do you know about Ireland? Here are some facts .

STORIES AND CHANTS

"St. Patrick's funny story":

St. Patrick' story


Paddymagic the story


Another Paddymagic story: "Have a great day!"

"Clever dog"


"March Chant"

M - a - r - c - h: March, March, March

Unpredictable weather you could say.
Describes this month of lion or lamb days.
We celebrate St. Patrick's Day,
When leprechauns come out to play.
On day seventeen, wear the color green.
Around the 21st, Winter may be at its worst.
But do not despair,
'Cause spring is in the air!

M - a - r - c - h: March, March, March

-"The leprechaun incident":

GAMES

You can play this game if you've already read the book about information of St. patrick's day

Paddy's gold


Lucky clover game

Several learning games



Leprechaun match

Limericks

SONGS AND MUSIC

-Forever friends video : Riverdance

-Funny song

IN IRELAND

Traveling all around Ireland

Celtic game : "Hurling"

Traditional Irish dancing

-Irish flashmob in Sidney

5th GRADERS

This entry is especially for students in grade 5. I will give you things about what we are studying.

Hope you enjoy.

REVIEW  HELLO UNIT  AND UNIT  1

-Go to  LEVEL  1  UNIT  2

UNIT  6 : ANIMALS  

 -Listen and read the story  "The four dragons"

  -Make this  activities to learn about  animals' food.  

 -go to unit  8 to practice  about the past  

UNIT 5 : ON HOLIDAYS
VOCABULARY
Natural disasters and extreme weather (vocabulary video with some parts from actions films) :




Vocabulary activities about natural disasters:
 

Vocabulary activities:

-Places in the countryside: some vocabulary activities:


-More vocabulary activities:


-More countryside activities:



-Learn about CONTINENTS and OCEANS:
 

-Continents and Oceans : vocabulary activites:
 



-Reading a postcard:


GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES : the PAST

-some activities about YESTERDAY and TODAY


-was or were?


-Was, were, wasn't, weren't?



Do all activities

 

 To learn more about the past of verb TO BE go to Lesson A 

Go to UNIT 7

More activities about the past  

TIILY AND THE TSUNAMI

-Click here to read and listen the story


-Activities about the story:



And now watch Tilly and her parents talking about the real story :



_Read this comic about the story:



Watch the video and learn what to do in case of Tsunami:

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

-Listen and read the story "THE FILM STAR"

-Now choose the answers to complete the story

-Here you've got some games to practice about sports and actions:

-Complete the crossword

-Grammar activities

-Activities to practice present continuous:What are they doing?

-What are you doing?

-sports and activities

Watch this video and learn about sports in England:

-This is "Sport at a Heart", the Official London 2012 Olympics film

PLACES IN THE CITY


-Read the story :"In an Inca town"




Listen and read the story :"The Robbery":

- And now you can review the structures we are studying playing with the games below: Hanna's games.

-Crossword

-Complete this text about THE ROBBERY

-To review the directions :

-Listen and match the words to the buildings



-Click on the buildings to review the names


-A little bit of everything : vocabulary, listenings, reading, games...

If you want to practice some pronunciation you can repeat the tongue twister and sing the song

-TONGUE TWISTER


-MY WEEK song

CHRISTMAS SONG

-This is the Christmas song we were singing in the classroom "JINGLE BELL ROCK" as it was in the TV programme "Two and a half men".

HEALTHY FOOD

This is Clara's fruit smoothie : You can taste it and tell me which one do you like the most .:

Clara's fruit smoothie

-Do you like Fruit Smoothies?Do you like to taste a very good one? Watch Lucas from 5ºD making his favourite fruit smoothie:

-CHICKEN SOUP story

-Choose the correct answer

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

During the next weeks we will work on how to describe people. If you want some practice, click on the picture . These activities can help you.

Listen and read the story: Ferdinand's hair



Another game for more practice:



Are you a good detective? Try this game and you'll know:






Describing people : another activitie to practice

more activities :People



Famous people's personal information:Describing famous people




TONGUE TWISTER

Learn and say the tongue twister as fast as you can:

HALLOWEEN SPECIALDo you remember the Monster Mash we were dancing in the class? Here are the videos:

And below you can watch kids learning the steps for the dance in the school.You can practice with them . Enjoy!

"WONDERFUL WORLD" SONG

As I promised you this is the video of the song "Wonderful World" by the singer Sam Cooke.