People and professions

  WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?      WHAT DID THE DO?

        1.    Robin Hood

        2.       The Beatles

        3.       Sherlock Holmes

        4.       Orlando Bloom

        5.       Alexander Fleming

        6.       Mr. Bean

        7.       William Shakespeare

        8.       Henry VIII



      a.       It is a British comedy television series.

b.      He was King of England.

c.       He was an English hero.

d.      He was a Scottish scientist.
e.      They were born in Liverpool.
f.        He is an actor.
g.       He is a fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
h.      He was a writer.

 I. He specializes in solving unusual cases using his extraordinary powers of observation and "deduction".
II. He became famous playing Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
III. Rowan Atkinson is the name of the actor who plays this helpless character.
IV. The legend says that he stole from the rich to give to the poor.
 V.  Some of his famous plays are “Romeo and Juliet” and ”Hamlet”. 
VI.   He was the second monarch of the House of Tudor.
VII.  He discovered the mold Penicillium.
VIII. They were one of the most influential music groups of the rock era.

Countries in the U.K. Word Search

Can you find the names of the countries and the cities in the U.K.?
CLIK HERE TO DO THIS EXERCISE.

Countries in the U.K.

How much do you know about the countries and cities in the U.K.?
Complete these sentences using:

Cardiff  -  Belfast  - Kingdom  - Edinburgh  - Scotland  - London  - Twelve -  four
There are _____ countries in the United Kingdom.
The countries are Northern Ireland, _____, England and Wales.
The capital or Northern Ireland is  _____. 
The capital of Scotland is _____ .
The capital of England is _____ .
And the capital of Wales is _____ .
London is the biggest  city in the United _____ .
_____  million people live in and around London.

In the city - Vocabulary

DO YOU LIKE CROSSWORDS?

To practise the vocabulary about the city (Unit 5) , you can CLIK HERE and try to do the crossword. It is very easy.

In the city

Look at this picture and complete the sentences using   there is – there isn´t  - there are – there aren´t

         1. …………… a  cathedral
       2. …………… a river
       3. …………… lots of houses
       4. …………… a cinema
       5. …………… any cars
       6. …………… a castle
       7. ………….. a very big market
       8. …………… lots of fruits and vegetables
       9. …………… any museums
      10. ………….. lots of people

We are the world

"WE ARE THE WORLD"

1. It is a song written by American musicians Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

2. In 1985 it was recorded by USA FOR AFRICA to benefit famine relief in Africa.

3. In January 2010 it was re-recorded to help benefit Haiti (It was stuck by a magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake).

4. The song was recorded in fourteen and a half hours by over eighty artists on February 1, and was released on February 12, 2010, during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

5. The song was also recorded in Spanish by a Latin supergroup and was named Somos el mundo.  The song was directed by Emilio Estefan  and his wife, Gloria Estefan. 

Here is the song. Enjoy it !!

What are you wearing today?

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING TODAY?

Here you can find a video about clothes and colours.

Here you have  another one about how dress for the weather.

A snake´s favourite lesson

JOKE 2

What's a snake's favourite subject at school?

CLUE: Think of the sound that snakes make.

Never say never

Do you like Justin Bieber? I suppose so. Listen to the song as much as possible. Enjoy it!!

My secret team

RIDDLE 9

Where Does Wednesday come after Thursday?

Strange as it may seem, there is a place where Wednesday always comes after Thursday. Where is it?

HAVE YOU GOT A SECRET?

Listen and watch this story. Can you answer the questions at the bottom ?

SPACESHIPS

        JOKE 1
    

        Where do astronauts leave their spaceships?







A joke is something that is funny. Try to find a funny answer to this question .

Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

Riddle 8

What gets wetter the more it dries?


Seguimos trabajando con los adjetivos. Aquí tienes dos direcciones en las que podrás encontrar ejercicios.

Choose the correct form

 World Records, by Víctor Gayol

Colours of the wind (Pocahontas)

Esta canción es muy fácil. Es lenta y con un vocabulario sencillo.

Beauty and the Beast

Aquí os dejo otra canción. Espero que os guste.

SPIES

Be careful!!  ONE SPY   but   TWO  SPIES

JAMES BOND is a famous spy.
How much do you know about him?

Can you complete these sentences using these words?
CASINO - SEAN -  IAN - DOCTOR - BRITISH

1. James Bond was created by the writer ______ Fleming.
2. The character works for the ________ Secret Service.
3. The first book was called ________ Royal.
4. The first film was __________ No.
5. The actor __________ Connery played James Bond in this film.

Present continuous exercises

Riddle 7      -      at WORDS

What word doesn't belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?


 

Vamos a practicar con el presente continuo. Aquí tienes algunos ejercicios:

Matching exercise

Match pictures and sentences

Form sentences

Choose: Affirmative/negative

Adjectives

RIDDLE 6

What animal can fly higher than a house? 

En la Unit 3 trabajamos con los adjetivos en sus grados comparativo y superlativo. En la Unit 4 volvemos a trabajar con ellos. Puedes afianzar tus conocimientos sobre ellos haciendo CLIK AQUI.

To be - Exercises

RIDDLE 5   -      MONTHS

Some months have thirty days while others have thirty-one.

What month has got twenty-eight days?

Aquí teneis varios enlaces para poder practicar con el verbo TO BE . La única manera de aprenderlo bien es haciendo muchos ejercicios. Estos son muy sencillos.

Match verbs and subjects

Elige la forma correcta

Escribe la forma correcta

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

Aquí os dejo otra canción. Esta es muy fácil y muy cantada por cualquier equipo cuando es campeón.

PRESENTE CONTINUO

RIDDLE 4

We have legs but cannot walk . WHAT ARE WE?

CLUE: there are a lot of them at school.




¿Dominas ya el verbo TO BE?. Ahora lo vamos a utilizar junto a otro verbo al que le vamos a añadir la terminación -ING siempre que queramos hablar de las cosas que estamos haciendo o que están ocurriendo en el momento en que hablamos. Visita esta página y podrás practicar.

SONGS

Las canciones son muy importantes para mejorar cualquier idioma. Lo importante no es entender la letra sino aprender la pronunicación de las palabras y el ritmo y entonación de las frases.
Escuchadla cuantas más veces mejor. Espero que os guste.

SPACE



The eight planets of the solar system - In order from the sun they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto which used to be the 9th planet is now classed as a dwarf (= very small).

1. The solar system is around 4.6 billion years old. The solar system is in the galaxy known as "the milky way".A galaxy is a group of millions of stars.
2. All stars are round but they are not the same colour and size.There are blue, white, yellow, orange and red stars. Old stars are red. The sun is a yellow star. The sun is by far the largest object in the solar system.
3. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the small rocky planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are the gas giants.
4. Comets are icy bodies from the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud which enter the inner solar system. The effects of solar winds and radiation vaporizes the ice creating a thin atmosphere around them. Occasionally they will develop a tail.
5. Halley´s comet (named for Edmund Halley)  is the most famous comet in the world. It appears every 76 years. In 1986 it was seen from The Earth. 

Do you know the answers to these questions?

a. What colour are stars when they are new?

b. When will Halley´s comet be visible again?

Riddle 3 - IN SPACE

                       There are five
                       letters in this name
   The first is in cup
   but not in up
              The second is in fox
              but not in fax
                         The third is in mine
                         but not in fine
                                    The fourth is in bed
                                    but not in bad
                                               The fifth is in trunk
                                               but not in drunk
                                                                        W H A T    I S   I T ?

THERE IS / THERE ARE

RIDDLE 2          -          NIGHT  VISION

What can you see more easily in the dark than in the daylight?

CLUE: La respuesta se encuentra en el vocabulario que hemos aprendido en el tema 4. 

THERE IS - THERE ARE

Para poder contar lo que hay en el espacio , necesitaremos conocer la estructura THERE IS y THERE ARE, en sus formas afirmativa, negativa e interrogativa.  AQUÍ encontrarás todo lo que necesites saber.

Verbo TO BE

RIDDLE 1       -     COUNT THEM  

Jim's house is the fourth from the top of the street and the fifth from the bottom. How many houses are there in the row? 

 ¿Sabes la respuesta? 

Verbo TO BE 

Aqui encontrarás un repaso sencillo a las formas afirmativa, negativa e interrogativa del verbo TO BE. Hay videos y ejercicios.