MULTIMEDIA GRAMMAR GLOSARY
Link above
MULTIMEDIA GRAMMAR GLOSARY
ENJOY THE ACTIVITIES
Learn the alphabet. Use your keyboard. Type the missing letters and listen.
ALPHABET
s the word on the basketball a common noun, a proper noun, or not a noun? Click on the label above the basket to tell what the word is.
NOUNS
Make a horse for the carousel. Choose a subject, a verb, and a sentence ending that make sense. Click the gears to change the words.
SENTENCES
How much do you know about butterflies? Do you know they begin their lives as caterpillars? You can find out more about butterflies.
BUTTERFLY
s the word on the basketball a common noun, a proper noun, or not a noun? Click on the label above the basket to tell what the word is.
Make a horse for the carousel. Choose a subject, a verb, and a sentence ending that make sense. Click the gears to change the words.
How much do you know about butterflies? Do you know they begin their lives as caterpillars? You can find out more about butterflies.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO , Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies
José de Sousa Saramago, born November 16, 1922- died June 18 2010 was a Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist.
Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. He lived on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Saramago was born into a family of landless peasants in Azinhaga, Portugal, a small village in the province of Ribatejo some hundred kilometers north-east of Lisbon.
Saramago married Ilda Reis in 1944. Their only child, Violante, was born in 1947. Since 1988, Saramago has been married to the Spanish journalist Pilar del Río, who is the official translator of his books into Spanish.
José Saramago was in his mid-fifties before he had international success; his novel Baltasar and Blimunda
brought him an international readership. This novel won the Portuguese PEN Club Award.
Saramago has been a member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1969, as well as an atheist and self-described pessimist. His views have aroused considerable controversy in Portugal, especially after the publication of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.
Saramago uses for his works fantastic scenarios. In his 1986 novel, The Stone Raft, the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the rest of Europe and sails about the Atlantic Ocean. In his 1995 novel, Blindness, an entire country is stricken with a mysterious plague called “white blindness”.
OUR SCHOOL TRIP TO GIBRALTAR
Last Thursday a group of 36 students , 2 English teachers and our American assistant, Nick, went on a school trip to Gibraltar. They left at 7 in the morning and arrived there about 10. On the way , they stopped to have breakfast and rest for a while.
As soon as they got to the Main square , most of the students together with Nichola, climbed up the mountains to watch the astonshing views of the Atlantic Sea and a bit of Africa and , of course , the main touristic attraction in the place: the naughty monkeys ( they are said to take your belongins away). As it was very hot , they decided to come down and start doing their English project.
They found "the little town" very akward about the language they listened to: some words in a perfect British English accent mixed with pure andalusian ones. It sounded funny.
They went, of course, shopping and bought some trainers, one of them bought a big glass for his father´s birthday , T-shirts, monkey toys, chocolate, biscuits....
Gibraltarian are very friendly as they are used to deal with lots of people . Being a strategic place and a British colony is very attractive to visit . Besides things like chocolates, perfumes, are said to be cheaper.
For the students It is very interesting because they can listen to people speaking the language they are learning at school and somehow watch the way of life of English people.
HISTORY: THE FIFA WORLD CUP
The FIFA World Cup, also called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II.
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s).
During the 18 tournaments that have been held, seven nations have won the title. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. Italy, the current champions, have won four titles, and Germany are next with three titles. The other former champions are Uruguay, winners of the inaugural tournament, and Argentina, with two titles each, and England and France, with one title each.
The World Cup is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, where an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 World Cup held in Germany.[1] The next World Cup will be held in South Africa, between 11 June and 11 July 2010, and the 2014 World Cup will be held in Brazil.
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)