HELPING PEOPLE - YEAR 6, UNIT 6

What chores do you do at home every day?

Let's learn some vocabulary and let's try also with some grammar.

Do you know these words?
Try both activities. Keep special attention on the second one. It is a listening activity!

Pirates go to school!

Try this interactive board game and have fun with school objects.

Learning about Castelló in English: La Panderola

LONDON TOUR

London Eye (Author: Laura Rovira)

In previous posts, we have been learning about London markets, such as Camden Market. Of course, shopping is not the only interisting thing you can do in London. This is a great city with lots of attactions suitable for evarybody, from museums to parks, victorian bulidings to contemporary ones, ethnic neighboroughoods to cosmopolite streets... Every street has something special to show us...

Just in case you cannot visit this city in person, let's describe some of its main attracions:

• Museums: Most of them are free, so you cannot miss them! For example, the British Museum where you can visit fantastic exhibitions about human history. If you like modern or contemporary art, visit the Tate galleries. In both cases, they will not deceive you. Other interesting museums, specially for youg people, are the Science Museum and de Natural Sience Museu. They are one next to the other, so you can spend a whole day visiting both museums.
• Parks: I really love London Parks! They are enormous open places, with lots of vegetation, playgrounds, lakes... You can rest there, or you can practice sports, or even you can have a picnic for lunch! Dont't miss Hyde Park, St. James Park, The Regent's Park or Kensington Gardens.
• Unforgetables: If you travel London, a must is the visit to Buckingham Palace. If you arive on time, do not miss the Change of Guards. Other places which you should visit are Picadilly Circus, the Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament or Trafalgar Square. If that is not enough London for you, you can jump into the London Eye and enjoy the views of the whole city. You will not forget the experience!

 Here you have a perfect resume of what can you visit in London:

Now, it is time to work. What about doing a listening acttivity about london. First, print the worksheet. Ready? Now you cas listen to the audio and chose the correct answers:

Do you have problems to understand it? Do not worry! You can print the tapescript too and try to do it again. Enjoy this London Tour!

Around the world...

English is an international language. There are lots of English-speaking countries, as we saw some weeks ago. Here we have a video about touristic destinations all around the world. The video is in Spanish but it shows images of very interesting cities. Do you know in which of these places they speak English as the official language? I am sure you can. You can find more information in the Anglosphere post.

HALLOWEEN

Yesterday, on October 31st, millions of people around the world celebrated the Halloween night. This is not a Spanish tradition; instead we celebrate today, on November 1st, the Christian festivity of All Saints. Nowadays, some Spanish people also celebrate Hallooween. As in other western countries, this celebration has spread around the world mainly through American films and television. However, this is not originally an American tradition. In fact, it comes from ancient Celtic traditions.
Halloween symbols are known all over the world, but do you really know where they come from? Come and see...

The Anglosphere

You have heard lots of times that English is very important. It is not only because you have to pass some exams al school or because your parents want you to get crazy with a strange foreign language... Have you ever thought about how many English speakers are there in the world? Do you know in which countries can you communicate in English? These questions (and lots more) are part of the ANGLOSPHERE. This a neologism (a new word) that refers to the group of countries where English is the main native language or even to the countries of the world in which the English language and cultural values predominate. Thus, we know that there are some countries in which English is the official language and also the language of the majority (dark blue countries in the map below). It means 436,574,289 people. However, the most interesting fact is that this language is also official (not the majority one) in other 53 countries all over the world (light blue in the map), and it means lots and lots of millions of English speakers... Is this not the perfect excuse to learn this language?

To learn more (PDF)