HUMAN AND ANIMALS SENSES

 

Receptors are sensory structures which detect external and internal stimuli. In animals, the SENSE ORGANS are the receptors.
Play this game and find out some facts about living things senses. You will be asked questions on which you will receive feedback. Correct answer are rewarded and if all the six questions are answered correctly, a bonus question appears.

ACTIVITY 1: What happens if all six questions are answered correctly?

ACTIVITY 2: Which animals can you see when you answers the six questions?

ACTIVITY 3: Write one of your favourite answer.

Thriller

November 30th 2012 was the 30th anniversary of the release of arguably the best pop album ever! "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. The record has sold millions of copies worldwide and includes brilliant hits like "Beat it" or "Billie Jean". However, if everybody remembers that album today is because Michael Jackson made a series of movie-like videos that marked the beginning of new era in the history of videoclips. We enjoyed the songs very much, but we adored the videos!! The best one is, as everybody knows, "Thriller". It is impossible to describe how good it is. Just sit back and enjoy it!

Click on the picture

Did you like the video? What do you prefer, the song or the video?

Why don't you tell me about your favourite types of music? Or when do you listen to music?

Leave your comments below.

LITERATURA VAMPÍRICA

A pesar de boom de novelas vampíricas de los últimos años, el vampiro, en litertura, goza de una larga vida. Está presente en la mitología egipcia, griega y romana pero no será hasta bien entrado el siglo XIX cuando aparezca la fiebre vampírica en Europa con títulos como La novia muerta, El misterio de Ken o Camila. Pero, sin duda, el gran hito será Drácula de Bram Stoker en 1897 y que conoces bien por el tratamiento que hemos dado, en clase, a la obra. El fénomeno de los últimos tiempos ha sido, no obstante, la saga Crepúsculo de Stephanie Meyer que, como sabrás,  ha estrenado su último film en unos días.Visiona el siguiente vídeo y contesta a las cuestiones que te planteamos:

1. ¿A quién van a denunciar por, supuestamente, haber cometido un crimen?
2. ¿Quién persigue a los Cullen?
3. ¿A quiénes pretendían los Cullen encontrar al principio de su búsqueda?
4. ¿Quién es la niña que aparece en el tráiler? 

Before Christ (-) and Anno Domini (+)

Emperor Augustus was born on the 23rd of September in 63 B.C. (this means Before Christ).

Thus, his first birthday was on the 23rd of September in 62 B.C. ... (1 year after)

... his 10th birthday was on the 23rd of September in 53 B.C. ... (10 years after)

... his 60th birthday was on the 23rd of September in 3 B.C. ... (60 years after)

... so his 70th birthday was on the 23rd of September in 7 A.D. (this is Anno Domini) ...

... and he died on the 19th of August in 14 A.D. while he was still... ¿75?

(you can read it on the wikipedia english article about him)
 
His age at death should have been 76 instead of 75, shouldn't it?

... There is something here that does not fit with dates. What is wrong with the reasoning above?

LA JOURNÉE DE SABRINE

SABRINE ET SES ACTIVITÉS

Si tu passes une journée avec cette jeune fille tu pourras apprendre à reconnaître la prononctiation et l´ortographe du vocabulaire sur les activités quotidiennes et l´heure.D´une façon ludique tu peux apprendre à te débrouiller(desenvolver)dans ces différentes situations de communication à l´oral et à l´ écrit.
Bon courage!!Cliquez par ici pou les faire.

MY GREAT FAMILY!

Family relationships are an important part of our lives, from birth of children, to weddings, to our old age. There are different types of families, big or small, traditional or modern, and there´s something special in any of them. Everydody has got a favourite relative. However, learning to get along with everyone is sometimes a challenge.

Let's revise the vocabulary learnt by doing this activity. Then write a description of your family, including what they do for a living, if they are married or not, how well you get along with each member, who is your favourite, how often you meet, what you ususally do together, any interesting fact...

You are also going to practise your speaking and tell your partners about your family in the classroom next week.

FIGHT BACTERIA

Hello everybody!

Do you know BACTERIA?. They are anywhere and they can be harmful. But don´t worry. We are safe because I know 5 famous FOOD DETECTIVES and they will help us to fight bacteria. I´m going to introduce them:

- FRIDGE: She fights BAC by keeping food cold.

- SLICK: He fights BAC by washing your hands.

- THERMY: She fights BAC by cooking good.

- IMABASIN: He fights BAC by washing things.

- PT: He fights BAC by wiping up spills and drying fruit and vegetables.





They need your help to solve some cases and fight BACTERIA!!! Here you have the 4 cases. Solve them and do the red activities:

CASE 1: THE CASE OF THE BAC THAT KEPT GROWING.

How can we kill bacterias?

CASE 2: THE CASE OF THE GOOD FOOD GONE BAD.

Write 5 ways to keep food from going bad.

CASE 3: THE CASE OF THE FILTHY FINGERS.

When should you wash your hands?

CASE 4: THE CASE OF THE KID WHO KNEW ENOUGH.
Make signs and stickers for your house. You don´t need to print them.

CLICK HERE AND GOOD LUCK!!!

QUE C´EST BEAU PARIS!!

Voilà de belles photos de Paris.Connaissez vous ces lieux?Décrivez ce que vous voyez dans chaque image.

English Afternoon Tea

Here are some of the pictures we took yesterday when we were enjoying a special afternoon tea. Did you like it? Well, I know that tea is not your favourite drink, but at least, you know how it tastes now. Leave your comments here.

                                                                            Pictures

The secret message of the Scribe.

A sculpture of a sitting scribe.

As you know, the ancient egiptians used a special writting, the hieroglyphics. For them, they were sacred, symbols related with the gods. Only scribes and priests knew how to read and write them, so for the rest of the egiptians, the hieroglyphics were secret messages written in temples and tombs walls.

The scribes used a special paper to write in: the papyrus. The papyrus is a plant which grow on the Nile's  riversides. 

A typical papyrus plant near the Nile.

There are so many that the egyptians used it, after cut the plant, extend and prepare the leaves with some natural products. Then they could writte over the papyrus sheet like this: 

But... How can we know what the egyptians wanted to say? Thanks to the Rosetta Stone: This is a fragment of basaltic stone with the same text written three times in three different scripts: hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek. It's important because, using ancient greek as the basis, we are capable to use this fragment to understand the hieroglyphs of the Ancient Egyptians.

Activities:

Investigate: 

Who discovered the Rosetta Stone and when? 

Why did they put this name?

Who decoded the Rosetta Stone? 

How  long did it take to decode the Rosetta Stone?

You can find information HERE and HERE

A treasure had been hidden in your class, but you will find it only if you decoded this secret egyptian message: 

To achieve it you can use this translator English- Egyptian. Good luck!

Choose your mascot

Here are your 5 mascots. They all look great. But we can only have one. Which one do you like best?
Write a comment about your favourite mascot and explain why you like it. You can write only one comment. Be fair!

LEARN ABOUT ROCKS

It is not easy to identified rocks because there are so many kids of them. But here you have an interactive game where you can test a variety of rocks in terms of their properties.

You will work with 4 characteristics which are used to help identify rocks. You have to click the arrows to choose a rock. Then you have to put it into the tester and click the four levels to test the rock and see:

1.- if it wear well (if it is not easily damage)
2.- if it is permeable (if water penetrates into its pores)
3.- if it splits (if it breaks easily)
4.- if it floats (if it doesn´t sink to the bottom of the jar)

You can also click on the magnifying glass to find out more about the rocks and click the speaker to hear the words read aloud.

PLAY

EXERCISES:
1.- Place each rock into the tester and click each levers.
2.- Which rocks wear well?
3.- Which rocks are permeable?
4.- Which rocks splits?
5.- Which rocks floats?
6.- Chose your favourite rock and write what is it commonly used for.

At the Box Office

DES ACTIVITÉS

VOICI DES ACTIVITÉS POUR REVISER UN PEU LE FRANÇAIS.

J´ ESPÈRE QUE ÇA VOUS FERA DU BIEN.

CLIQUEZ ICI POR LES FAIRE.

BON COURAGE!

Trip to the river

Here are the photos from the school trip. Did you like the activity? Leave your comments here.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is gone, but the essence of love is still in the air. If you are love-struck or have a crush on somebody, you will enjoy the follwing presentation.

Seven Wonders of the ancient  and new world!

Hello there boys and girls!
In the Antiquity, greeks historians selected several monuments around the known world. They thought that these marvelous buildings were the summum of the human expresion and art. Some of them disappeared a long time ago, for example: 

• The colossus of Rhodes  

• The lighthouse of Alexandria

Other ones remain throught centuries, for example:

• The pyramid of Gizah

We are doing a special activity in class about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but you have to know that, nowadays, a lot of artists, historians, philosophers, etc... think that there are another Seven Wonders of actual world......

1. Are you capable to find the New Seven Wonders? Find out each one if you can and write something about them.
2. Which other wonders, monuments or buildings that you know do you include to this list?

You can find the New Seven Wonders of the world here

See you in class!

LA MITOLOGÍA Y EL AMOR

En clase, hemos estudiado la definición de mito y hemos leído el origen y la historia de algunos de ellos. Por otro lado, como ya sabéis, el 14 de febrero se celebra el Día de San Valentín. Estos dos hechos tienen una relación muy próxima porque:

1. ¿Recuerdas el nombre griego del dios del amor?
2. ¿Y el romano?
3. ¿Son diferentes? ¿Por qué?
4. Nombra otro mito y explica por qué te atrae su historia.

Money makes the world go round

The British currency is the pound sterling. The sign for the pound is . In the United Kingdom, they don't use the Euro. The pound is divided into 100 pence. The singular of pence is penny. The symbol for the penny is "p". 50p is often pronounced "fifty pee" rather than "fifty pence".

There are coins and banknotes. Click here to see the coins and here to see the notes. Read the information and answer these questions:

1. Which king or queen appears on one side of the coins?
2. Which coin shows a lion?
3. How many coins are there?
4. Is there a 100 note?
5. What is the slang (colloquial) name for a pound?

Now play a game to see if you can use pounds and pence. What are you going to buy?

Celebrity Interviews

LET`S LEARN ABOUT WATER!

Hi! I´m water-efficiency hero FLO!

As you know, water is essential for all living things and we often treat it like there is an infinite supply. It's time to get educated about the value of water and how you can protect this important natural resource.
I have a very important mission: I need you to learn and teach people how to save and protect water. Do you want to help me, please?. Are you ready?

WHY SAVE WATER?

Do you know that water is a limited resource? I am going to explain you why in the following page, so read it and answer the questions.

"Why save water"
1.- What percentage of all the water on the Earth can be used by people?

SIMPLE WAYS TO SAVE WATER.

Now we are going to learn some simple ways to save water. Go to this page: "Simple way to save water", and do the exercise.
2.- Write down the 5 simple ways of saving water that you have learned.

OUR MISSION: PLAY THE GAME!

Now, we are ready!!! We are going to work together and save water. How are we going to do it?. With a funny game!!. But the problem is there are 4 water-wasting monsters that can kill us, so you will have to avoid them. The instructions are:
- Move me through the water pipes.
- Answer the water efficiency questions.
- Avoid water-wasting monsters.

Play the GAME and answer these two questions.
3.- What is the name of your favourite water-wasting monster and why is he wasting water?

4.- What was your score?

GOOD LUCK AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!