Notting Hill Carnival

The Londoners celebrate Carnival too ... but only in August! Every year crowds of people come together in the Notting Hill streets for two days of parades, dancing, food and plenty of festival fun. Notting Hill Carnival is London's most famous street party. The first day of the carnival (Sunday) is Children’s Day. Children and family groups are encouraged to join the party and participate in special competitions. The second day (Monday) is a bank holiday (=feriado) and people dance to the sounds of hip-hop beats, reggae and modern dance hits in a colourful parade.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR...

St Valentine's Day is a special day for lovers. You can make a Valentine's Day card for a friend or for someone you love a lot. Follow the example:

Dear..........,

I'm happy that you are my friend because..........

My favourite thing about you is ..........

I always wanted to tell you that ..........

What I'll always remember about you is ..........

I never thanked you for ..........

With love from your friend,

..................

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

School life

This lesson will give you the opportunity to find out more about school life in Britain. The following website is a good starting point

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/education/index.html

Visit it and answer these questions:

1.What different types of schools do you have in England?

2.What does a school look like in England? Name some of the rooms. (Virtual Tour)

3.Do children in England wear a school uniform?

4.What is life like in a Secondary School?

timetable
8.30 -
9.00 / 10.00 -
11.00-11.20 -
11.20/ 12.30 -
1.30 -2.10 -
2.10 -
3.10

5.What subjects are taught in a Secondary School?

Love song for Valentine's day!

Fun time!

Cool Britain: British kids have fun in the snow!

It’s snowing in Britain! London has 17cm of snow! For London kids it’s a big surprise! It doesn’t normally snow in London.

But snow can be a problem, too! Because of the snow, 6000 schools can’t open. With no school, kids can build snowmen, throw snowballs and go sledging.
“It’s like another country. We don’t have this much snow in London!” says Rebekah, a girl from England.

Do you usually have snow in your country?
What do you do when it snows?

You're my valentine

Nobody knows very much about St. Valentine. One story is that he was murdered by Roman soldiers in the third century A.D. because he was a Christian. He gave a poor girl some money before he died and so other Christians called him the saint of love.
Valentine's Day, or St Valentine's Day, is celebrated every year on 14 February. It's the day when people show their affection for another person (or people!) by sending anonymous cards, flowers or chocolates with messages of love.

And you? Who do you secretly fancy?Is there someone you like but you're too shy to tell them how you feel? Have you got a special friend to whom you would like to send a love message (Valentine)? Write your Valentine text here! You don' need to sign it! Let's see how romantic you really are!

I've got a pen

My pen is blue

I've got a love

My love is you!

Beckham is back!

Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Real Madrid – they are all David Beckham’s football clubs. Now David Beckham has a new club – AC Milan!
Beckham plays in America, for a team called LA Galaxy. But he is playing for AC Milan for two months.
LA Galaxy is not a very good team. People in America do not like football very much. Now Beckham is with a good team, in Italy where people love football! How does he feel? He says, “I’m nervous. AC Milan has some very good players”.
Beckham hopes to play for England in the 2010 World Cup. He is 33 now and he says he wants to play football until he is 40 – but in Europe or America?

Who is your favourite football team?
Would you like to live in Europe or America? Why?

Source: Mary Glasgow Magazines

Prepositions of place

Watch the video and learn where the rabbit is.

Students' homework -Daily Routine

I get up at 7.30. I brush my teeth, have a shower and then I have breakfast. At a 7.45 I go to school by car. I arrive at school at 8 o'clock and go to the school library. At 8.30 I have classes.

I have lunch in the school canteen at ten to midday. At 5.15pm I leave school and go home.I arrive home at 6.30pm and do the homework.

I have dinner at 7.30pm and after that I brush my teeth. At 9.00pm I go to bed to have a break.

Mauro (No.19,7thE)

Every day I get up at 7.30. I have breakfast in the kitchen. I go to the bathroom where I brush my teeth and wash my face. I get dressed at 7.50. I leave home at 8 o'clock and go to school by car with my mother and brother. I have classes in the morning and afternoon.

Usually I have lunch at home. At 2.00pm I go back to classes. At 5.15pm, when classes finish, I go back home. I have tea and then I do my homework in the study.

On Wednesdays and Saturdays I go to the Music Academy, where I have classes of transversal flute. On Thursdays and Tuesdays I have handball training: it begins at 5.30pm and ends at 7.00pm. At the weekends I have handball games.

Sara (No.20, 7thF)

The White House

This is Obama´s new home: it has got 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 chimneys, 3 lifts, a theatre and a beautiful garden. Not bad!!

Yes we can!

Tomorrow will be a historic day for the U.S.A.. Barack Obama will be the first African American President, in a country where the majority of black Americans are descendent of plantation slaves (escravos) and race (raça) is still a open wound (ferida aberta). Barack ("blessed" in Kenyan) is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.

The Queen's house

Would you like to live in a house with 600 rooms, 78 bathrooms, a cinema, a swimming pool and a post office?
This is the Queen's London home, Buckingham Palace. The Queen has four other palaces in Britain, but this is her most famous home. If the Queen's flag is flying outside the palace, it means that the Queen is at home. If you are in London between August and October, you can go inside Buckingham Palace. You can see the State dining room, ballroom and the Queen's gallery with all her paintings. But you can't see all of the rooms. The palace is too big!

Inside an English house

What is it like inside an English house? Click on the following webpage and read a report by a 10-year-old boy.

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/house.html

Typical English Houses

Revision of the house!

Click on the following webpage and revise the parts of the house. Have fun!

www.angles365.com/classroom/fitxers/3r/house/myhouse.swf

Present Tenses

This school year you have learnt the Present Simple and the Present Continuous. Now read these sentences about David Beckham and then the explanation and try to understand the difference.

Use the Present Simple to talk about routines and facts. ( He plays football.)

Use the Present Continuous to talk about actions happening now, at the moment. ( He is running.)

Classes are back!!!

Hi, guys! Next Monday classes will start again. Yeah.. that's true... Christmas holidays are finishing and I hope you still remember what you learnt last term. Here you have two exercises to practise. See you on Monday!