THE OTHER PAIR

- video + activities

23rd April: ST. GEORGE (PATRON SAINT OF ENGLAND)

George and the Dragon

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/george-and-the-dragon

GAMES

- Transportation (using logic in English)
- Friendship quiz
- Different games
- bbc games
- what is it?

EASTER AROUND THE WORLD

EASTER TRADITIONS AROUND THE WORLD

Easter symbols: https://quizlet.com/_38l8bd

Which of the things mentioned above are common in your Easter holidays?

Easter Week begins with Palm Sunday and culminates in weekend commemorations of Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, and in some countries Easter Monday. Around the world, different cultures or countries have their own traditions to celebrate the Easter holiday.

1) BERMUDA: Bermudians celebrate Good Friday by flying home-made kites, eating codfish cakes, and eating hot cross buns. The tradition is said to have begun when a local teacher from the British Army had difficulty explaining Christ’s ascension to Heaven to his Sunday school class. He made a kite, traditionally shaped like a cross, to illustrate the Ascension.

2) NORWAY: Norwegians have an interesting tradition for the season known for “Easter-Crime” or Paaskekrim. At this time of year, many around the country read mystery books or watch the televised crime detective series on national television. Many families escape up to the mountains for the vacation week.

3) NORTHWESTERN EUROPE: Large bonfires, called Easter Fires, are lit on Easter Sunday and Monday. The most common explanation for the origin of the Easter Fires, that Easter is a time when spring becomes victorious over winter and the fires were to chase the darkness of winter away. Today, however, the meaning of the fires is simply to bring communities together. The nights are festive with heavy consumption of gin, lager, and snacks.

4) SWEDEN: Easter is celebrated with meals of eggs, herring, and Jansson’s Temptation (potato, onion and pickled sardines baked in cream). The most interesting tradition to come out of Sweden is that in the days leading up to Easter Sunday, children dress up as Easter witches, wearing old clothes and red cheeks. Traveling from home to home in their neighborhoods, the children trade paintings and drawings for sweets. 

5) HAITI: In Haiti, Holy Week is marked by colorful parades and traditional music played on bamboo trumpets, maracas, drums, even coffee cans. The holiday is a mixture of Catholic and Voodoo traditions. Voodoo believers bring goat heads and other parts, as offerings to the spirits, during a ceremony in Souvenance village, Haiti. 

6) WASHINGTON, DC: For 130 years, the White House has hosted the Easter Egg Roll on its South Lawn. The main activity involves rolling a colored hard-boiled egg with a large serving spoon, but now the event boasts many more amusements, like musical groups, an egg hunt, sports and crafts.

7) SPAIN: Easter processions are common in central and southern Spain, but Seville’s Semana Santa, or Holy Week festival, is one of the most impressive. Lavish floats, adorned with candles and religious statues, sail through the streets, accompanied by marching bands and crowds of worshippers who have come to see the dramatic event. But it’s the masked penitents or nazarenos that are perhaps the strangest looking members of the procession, dressed in habits with pointed hoods.

Are these statements True or False?

1. Easter day is always on a Sunday.

2. Easter is on the same date every year.

3. Easter eggs symbolise rebirth.

4. Lent lasts for the 50 days before Easter.

5. The Easter rabbit is a symbol of fertility.

6. The name Easter comes from an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess, Eostre.

Password: Day of Andalucia

A	Moorish Palace
B	The name of a football team
C	City where carnival is very popular
D	Hill of sand in some beaches
E	The Imperial ___________ is an amazing bird
F	Traditional dance
G	Name of a river that runs through Seville
H	Typical food
I	Roman ruins in Seville
J	Province where olives are produced
K	How many tomatoes are there in a “salmorejo”?
L	Endangered animal that lives in Doñana
M	The most important monument in Córdoba
N	In the coat of arms of Seville
Ñ	(Contains Ñ) National Park in Andalucía
O	Olives produce it
P	Famous painter who was born in Málaga
Q	informal way to call somebody
R	Columbus stayed here
S	Typical dance
T	Name of a river that runs through Huelva
U	(Contains U) Black animal with horns
V	(Contains V) Place where you can go skiing
W	One of the colours of our flag
X	(Contains X) Autonomous region next to Andalucia
Y	(Contains Y) Name of a popular Duchess
Z	Village in the province of Huelva

St. Valentine's Day

1) Writing a love poem

Roses are red;

Violets are blue;

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you!

The rules

Here are the rules for creating your own “Roses are Red” Valentine’s Day poem:

§  The second line has to rhyme with the fourth line

§  The first line should start ‘Roses are red’

§  The second should either follow the format noun-’is/are’-adjective* or ‘And so is…noun’

§  The third line should always follow the format noun-’is/are’-adjective

§  The last line should start with ‘And’ or ‘But’

2) Think of as many pairs of objects which normally go together. Make a long list of as many as you can. Then write your own version of this poem.

Without you

 I’m like a street with no name

 I’m like a ship without sea

 or a firework without flame.

Without you

I’m like a duck on dry land,

for whatever I do

you always understand!

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

What do you know about Greek Mythology?
Watch the video and complete the chart about Greek Mythology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCm8W5RZes

Name	God/ Goddess of	family / love	his symbol / bird /animals	weapons
_________	rain / law / order /thunder / fate	his _________	eagle	scepter / _________
Hera	_______, childbirth, ___________ and empire	Zeus’ wife	pomegranate lotus-staff ____________
Poseidon	sea, ___________, droughts and ______________	Zeus’ __________	horses and ___________	trident
Hades	underworld and ____________	Zeus’ brother Persephone
__________	war, violence and civil order		vulpture venomous ___________	bronze-tipped spear
Apollo	music, __________, archery and healing	Zeus’ __________ with his lover Leto	lyre	bow and _________
Aphrodite	love and beauty		_____________	___________ / myrtle wreath / scallop shell
___________	_________ and lustful desires	son of Aphrodite and ___________		___________ / arrow / kisses
Athena	wisdom, warfare and handicrafts		___________ / olive tree	spear / shield
Hermes	travel and trade	son of _________ and Maia
___________	celebration, drunkenness and pleasure		cup full of ___________

Read the text about Daphne and Apollo and answer the questions:

Daphne and Apollo

      Daphne was an independent young huntress. Her father, the river god Peneus, wished her to marry and have children, but all Daphne wanted was to hunt alone in the deep woods, enjoying her freedom.

     

     
One day Apollo saw her. She was beautiful and Apollo started running after the nymph but Daphne was an excellent runner. He cried out, "Do not fear, stop and find out who I am. I love you!" But Daphne flew on, even more frightened than before. She knew she could never outrun Apollo, but she was determined to resist to the end. She could almost feel Apollo's breath on the back of her neck when she saw her father's river ahead of her. She screamed to him, "Help me father, help me." At these words a dragging numbness came over her, and her feet seemed rooted in the earth. Bark was enclosing her body, and leaves were sprouting from her arms. She had been changed into a laurel tree.

     Apollo sadly watched the transformation as he held her in his arms. "Oh, lovely tree, you will always be mine. I will give you the gift of eternal life. Your leaves will always be green”. Poets also write that Apollo took a limb from one of her branches and made a musical instrument, the guitar.

     Another version of Apollo's instant love for Daphne was the cause of a trick played by Cupid who struck Apollo with one of his golden arrows when he first saw the nymph, and her with a lead arrow when she noticed his advancement.

1. Who was Daphne's father?

1. a)      Peneus
2. b)      Apollo
3. c)       Artemis
4. d)      Cupid

2. Who was the Lord of Delphi?

1. a)      Peneus
2. b)      Artemis
3. c)       Apollo
4. d)      Cupid

3. What was Daphne changed into?

1. a)      A guitar
2. b)      A golden arrow
3. c)       A wreath
4. d)      A laurel tree

4. Who was responsible for Daphne's change?

1. a)      Artemis
2. b)      Apollo
3. c)       Peneus
4. d)      Cupid

5. Who was Peneus?

1. a)      A river god
2. b)      The Lord of Delphi
3. c)       A follower of Artemis
4. d)      The god of love

MARTIN LUTHER KING'S DAY

It is celebrated on the third Monday of January each year.

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BOYCOTT	CIVIL	DISCRIMINATION
DREAM	JUSTICE	LEADERSHIP
MINISTER	NONVIOLENCE	PEACE
PROTEST	RACIAL	RIGHTS
SEGREGATION	SPEECH	STRUGGLE

PEACE DAY

Learn the vocabulary related to war and peace: https://quizlet.com/_2z3aa8

Listen to the song and complete the exercises: https://youtu.be/I8g76B64vw4

MADNESS (by Calum and Alma)

1) Complete the lines with the words you hear in the chorus:

I'm feeling like I __________ do

there is ___________ that compares to you

it's ___________ me whenever I fight

to get away from these sad ____________.

2) Choose the right option:

I walked out through the streets / seats going downtown and I can see the faces / races of these people in those cases / places do they have a life...

Do they have soul / goal...

no

3) Match the beginning of the lines with the right endings.

1__  2__ 3__ 4__  

1. It looks like	A) has nightmares.
2. If somebody	B) now people don't rely.
3. I just can't believe what I'm seeing through my eyes	C) Singing out loud.
4. There's some people crying right now crying right now.	D) they don't care.

4) Sing the chorus. (x 2)

5) Order the lines in the stanza: 1__  2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__

A) To try to change the world.

B) There is only war and sadness I just can't believe. How we made all this madness

C) I turn on the TV.

D) I want to change the rules I want to change the school cause I'm not in the mood and why we should complain.

E) When there's people screaming right now, screaming right no, crying right now.

F) I'm expressing myself cause I'm rapping again and why the hell people don't make an attempt.

6) Sing the chorus. (x 2)

7) Unscramble the words:

Is there any chance to make it one more miet? ________________

To veil without wars...  ________________

And nobody has to die I wanna change the guns and  I wanna change the bombs

To live in a lowrd where the pain is gone. _____________

I just can't believe what I'm seeing through my seey now people don't rely there is some people crying right now, crying right now, singing out loud.­­­­­­­­­­­­ _______________

8) Sing the chorus. (x 2)

I'm feeling like I never do

I'm feeling like I never do

Christmas is coming soon

Christmas book: vocabulary, reading, listening
Vocabulary matching 1
Vocabulary exercises 2
Video: The Chrismas Gift Experiment

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving Day

Pre-watching exercises:

0) Find the words:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OvmfHtO9y9UsGsAxW2sRBl0gFqDpmtQl/view?usp=drive_link

1) Order the sentences to learn some important facts about Thanksgiving Day:

1. is / Thanksgiving Day / in the United States / a national holiday / celebrated /.

2. celebrated / thanks / It / was / to give / originally / for the harvest.

3. celebrated / on the fourth / Thanksgiving / of November / is / Thursday.

4. and sharing a meal / Thanksgiving  / with family and friends / centers / on cooking / celebration / . 

5. eat / on Thanksgiving / Nearly  / 90 percent of Americans /  turkey.

2) Watch the video and answer the questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUYJ9fMiGg

1. When did the Pilgrims arrive in USA?

2. What was the name of the ship?

3. Where did the Pilgrims come from?

4. Where did they settle?

5. What season were they in?

6. Did any native American speak English?

7. Who helped the settlers?

8. What did they celebrate at the end of the season?

3) What would you eat in a Thanksgiving dinner?

I would eat...

4) What are you thankful for?