Saturday, 7 December 2013

Gramma/Use of english ...

An easy riddle:


“It is very small. It hasn´t got scales. It is agile. It has got 4 legs. It hasn´t got a peak. It has got a large tail. It has got small ears. It has got whiskers. It likes cheese. It is afraid of cats. It lives in …”

Does a computer have something similar among its components?
Let's see.
Click on this link and listen to this funny song. Listen again while you read it here.
In this song  the verb  have / have got appears many times. Do you know the difference?
This summary can help you:




You can practice a short conversation with your partner. Let him know what things have you got in your room. Does he have the same things than you or different ones?



Inspiration

Speaking/writing

Here you have a Mixed-up sentence exercise to help you to inspire.
Try to get as many sentences as possible from the following activity. Use them as the beginning for a new short story for other children. Work in pairs, discuss with your classmate how to follow this story and turn into famous novelists.  When you finish we would like to read your story so, please, take note of your new tale. One of you will also have to read it aloud in class. Don't forget an attractive title for it.



You can also access the activity from here.

Friday, 6 December 2013

Can you sing?

Listening/reading/writing

There are a lot of versions of this song. It tells about cats.
Listen to this song while you try to fill in the gaps of this activity.



New words

Time for spelling new vocabulary

writing/reading/spelling

Please, access this presentation to practice some vocabulary from the story.

Slides Presentation:
You can dowload the original file for this presentation:
Option 1. pptx format (Power Point
Option 2. odp format (Open Office)

Word seach:

Resolve the following word search, locate some words that appear in the puss and boots story. 
After that, look for them in the puss and boots story from the previous entry blog. Can you get their meaning from it? Dictionary can also help you.




Download documents:

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Little stories for little people


Reading/writing
Once upon a time .... a cat wearing fantastic boots ...

Read the story here and answer the following questions using a word processor:


1, Where does a miller work?
2.- What did the miller leave to his youngest son when he died?
3.- What did puss in boots give the king as a present from the Marquis of Carabas?
4.- Why did the cat push the miller’s son to the river?
5.- Did the princess like the Marquis of Carabas?
6.- What did the ogre turns into?
7.- Why did the cat ask the ogre to turn into a mouse?

You can also copy the puss in boots image and enjoy coloring it.