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.

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

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.

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?

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.