What time
is it? My dear students at 2nd level are learning the hours (o’clock
and half past). They have been practising how to ask for the time. They say, “Excuse
me, what time is it, please?” and they answer, “It’s …” In this post, you have
two videos about how to tell the hours.
There is an
online tale, which helps them to review the hours and daily activities. They
can read and listen to the text if they choose “page by page” or without text “movie”.
They can
review the time (o’clock, a quarter past, half past, quarter to…) with the
Primary Clock by Cambridge University Press.
Enjoy and
practice at home as many times as you want. Regards, Christopher.
Gonzalo's students (1st level) have been learning and widing their knowledge about "The five senses". They have learnt some vocabulary, such as: see, hear, smell, taste, touch, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or hands. They have done a presentation as a final task, being each pupil the expert in a sense. They enjoyed the experience.
Group presentation "My Senses" transcript.
Hello,
My name is .... and my group is ....
My school is CEIP Las Lomas.
My presentation is my senses.
1. I have five senses.
2. The sense of hear, the sense of see, the sense of smell, the sense of taste and the sense of touch.
3. I hear with my ear.
4. I can hear loud sounds for example a baby crying.
5. I can hear soft sounds for example whispering.
6. I see with my eyes.
7. I can see different colours for example blue.
8. I can see different shapes for example square.
9. I smell with my nose.
10. I can smell good smells for example a flower.
11. I can smell bad smells for example smelly shoes.
12. I taste with my tongue.
13. I can taste sweet flavours for example chocolate.
14. I can taste salty flavours for example pizza.
15. I touch with my skin.
16. I can touch hard things for example a hammer.
17. I can touch soft things for example a teddy bear.
This is the end of my presentation.
Any questions?
Bye bye.
Thanks all the students involved in the project, Gonzalo (their teacher), and Justin (the language assitant), for being so creative and showing us their daily routines in the process of learning new contents.
The project is based on Teddy's Journey around Europe. Teddy will write a diary or create short videos. In each country he will stay for a month. During his stay he will visit students houses, travel with them, help them in their chores, visit their friends and relatives. Teddy will travel, cook, play ant etc. Teddy's Journey will start in Poland, after that he will travel to Lithuania and then continue his journey to another country. And finally he will come back to Poland.
The project's main aim is to make our students learn about different countries in a pleasant way. They will discover the culture,traditions,everyday life of their friends from other countries by exploring the adventures of the Teddy. It's also going to improve students' writing skills as they will have to write down all the adventures Teddy has in their countries. They will practice their English by reading to the stories, communicating with their friends.The project will encourage students to use English in their daily life. It will also improve students' ICT skills.
We'll get a lot of stories presenting Teddy's adventures, which may be used as an authentic material for English lessons. The public TwinSpace will be full with photosfrom different places in Europe. Students will improve their English and writing skills and will be encouraged to speak English in everyday situations. Students will have a knowledge about the countries which were visited by Teddy.
In this post, you can learn and wide the vocabulary refered to musical instruments. The reason of this is due to students at second level are making musical instruments with pop outs and pulses. Some musical instruments are: flute, trumpet, double bass, saxophone, cello, tambourine, guitar, drum, violin, bell, and piano.
I hope you enjoy this video. Remember, just click the picture. Regards, Christopher.
I
am sorry for not uploading new materials since last September, but I have been
very busy for a long time. I have uploaded three videos about bones because it
is Halloween time (next Saturday) and due to my students are learning the names
of the bones.
They have learnt
the following facts:
·Inside our body, there
are many bones.
·We have 206 bones.
·Bones are hard and
rigid.
·Our bones support and protect
our body.
·All the bones form our
skeleton.
·The ulna, radius,
humerus, skull, ribs, spine, pelvis, femur, tibia and fibula are bones.
Remember, just
click the pictures and enjoy. Regards, Christopher.
Here we are again with new videos, activities... In this post, we are going to learn what primary and secondary colours are.
PRIMARY COLOURS: they cannot be made from other colors. Artists create all the other colours by mixing together the primary colors. They are red, blue and yellow.
SECONDARY COLOURS: they are made by mixing two primary colors. Each secondary color is made from the two primary colors closest to it on the color wheel. They are orange (red andyellow), green (blue and yellow) and purple (red and blue).
Here you are a video about primary and secondary colours we watched at school just for fun and learn because they have to colour the famous painting "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo Da Vinci using these colours only. They cannot use pink, grey, black...
Laura, the tutor teacher of 4th level, have found an interesting webpage about wh- questions in which students can practice the main questions in whatever conversation. These help students to establish a great conversation with others. Just click the picture and choose the correct answer. At the end of the exercise, you can check your answer by clicking the "Check your answers" button.
We hope you like them.
Here you are another interesting activity. In this case, it is about the autonomous communitities in our country, Spain.
The reason of this is that our students of 4th level are studying the different communities and capital cities in Spain. Otherwhise, you can practice with other maps related to Europe, Asia, North and South America, Oceania and Africa.
We hope you enjoy and learn as much as students are doing in their lessons with Laura and Catherine. Just click the picture.
We are studying the machines in Natural Science. We know the fact that
there are many machines, such as scissors, vacuum cleaners, spades,
projectors... They are divided into simple and complex machines and they can be
manual or automatic.
We use machines to work, travel and play.
Some machines are simple, such as scissors. Simple machines
are made up of few pieces. They use human energy.
Other machines are complex, such as a bicycle. Complex
machines are made up of many pieces. They use human energy, electricity or
petrol to work.
Computers are complex machines. We use computers to do
many things, for example, to write, to draw, to play games, to watch videos, to
listen to music and to surf the Internet. Computers have many parts, for instance,
the CPU, the screen, the keyboard, the mouse, the mouse mat and the printer.
In this post, you have five pictures to different
activities (listening, reading, spelling…). Remember, just click the pictures
and enjoy them.
This week we have started a new didactic unit and new topic: shops and buildings. The title of this unit is "Around town" and students are learning new words related to shops around town, for example, toy shop, sweet shop, clothes shop... and buildings, for instance, school, hospital, cinema, restaurant, house...
In this post, I have uploaded three links to different videos with vocabulary and sentences. Remember, just click the pictures and enjoy them.
Hello again dear students, parents and friends: Here you are some videos and games I found on the Internet. You can review the main facts of materials: if they are flexible, transparent, strong or waterproof, you can group them according to the materials they are made of (metal, glass, iron, wool, wood, paper, plastic...) and learn the three R's (reduce, reuse and recycle). Each country recycles in a different way but with the same aim "the three R's". Here, in Spain, we use different bins for each material. For example, we recycle at school using different coloured bins: The blue bin is for paper and cardboard. The yellow bin is for plastic and metal. The green bin is for glass.
The black bin is for organic. In Peppa's video, you can appreciate that they use red for paper, blue for cans and green for glass.
I hope it will be useful for you. Regards, Christopher.
Today is World Book Day or World
Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World
Book Days) is a yearly event on April 23, organized by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright.
In the United Kingdom, the day is recognised on the first Thursday in March. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April
1995.
MAIN
FIGURES: SHAKESPEARE AND CERVANTES
Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564
and he died on 23 April 1616. He was an English poet, playwright,
and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and
the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three
children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he
began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing
company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's
Men. Shakespeare died on 23 April
1616, at the age of 52.
Miguel
de Cervantes Saavedra was born on 29 September 1547 and he died on 22 April 1616. He is known as Cervantes. He was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. To celebrate this
day, Cervantes's Don Quixote is read during a two-day
"readathon" and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize is presented
by the Spanish king in Alcalá de Henares.
I always promote reading in class and at home. It is the best way you can learn, travel to different places and sceneries, be a wizard, a prince, a magician or the character you want. The best present you can have for a special day like today is a book. A book is your friend and it never abandon you. Read a book when you are tired, before going to bed, when you wait for the bus, when you are alone at home, when it is raining, when you are happy... These are my tips for you dear student, parent or friend. Keep on reading. Do not do it for just 30 minutes, but for all your life.
Today is St George’s Day. This is a special one for people in
many different countries.
St. George’s Day is on 23 April. It is England’s national day.
St. George is the patron saint of England. His emblem, a red cross on a white
background, is the flag of England, and part of the British flag. By tradition,
23 April is the day for a red rose in the button hole, the national
flower.
There are two versions of the legend at this juncture: the
first one involves people getting tired of no member of the royal family being
sent and therefore decide that the princess should be sent to the Dragon; while
the second version says that one day a princess was chosen by drawing lots to accompany
the lamb. Anyway, on the way to the cave of the dragon, the princess found a
gentleman or knight of the name George and he slew the dragon by stabbing his
sword into it and rescued her. From the blood that flowed from the body of the
monster was born a red rose which the gentleman handed to the princess.
The king offered the gentleman all the riches imaginable but
he preferred that the riches be allocated to the inhabitants of the kingdom. In
addition, a church was built in his name, from which flowed miraculous water
that was able to heal the sick.
I have chosen three videos about the legend (there are
many versions) from the Internet. We (my students and I) have watched two of
them and they loved at all. Just click the pictures and enjoy as much as they
have. Regards, Christopher.
This post is about materials (plastic, wood, metal, glass, cotton, paper and leather). Students know the fact that objects are made of different materials and have different properties. This is the reason why I have chosen these videos. Remember, just click the pictures.
Hello again: Here you are some games (memory games, pictionaries, readings...) I have found while surfing the Internet. I recommend you to watch the videos I have uploaded before, because it is the best way you can put into practice your knowledge about this topic.
There is an
online tale, which helps them to review the hours and daily activities. They
can read and listen to the text if they choose “page by page” or without text “movie”.
