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!!