Things to Do

Don't forget to do some English during the Christmas and New Year holiday! Here are some useful links for you to use:

British Council Learn English Christmas Activities. There are some nice things to do here.

Patricia Pérez Miguel's wonderful blogs to help you learn:

The English You Need
and
Visual English, which also has some nice Christmas things on it.

And of course, it's always worth checking the Rome Metrozine for things to read and do.

Wild Christmas Homework

Click on your wild animal on the WWF Amazing Animals Page, and write between 5 and 10 questions about it.

Carolina: Snow Leopard
Alex: Dolphin
Pedro: Giant Panda
Inês: Turtle
Joana: Tiger
João: Rhino

Leonor L: Mountain Gorilla
Leonor S: Orang-utan

Wildlife on WWF UK

Here's something to look at related to the unit on the environment. Click Here and do this activity:

How many species of elephant are there?

Elephants get bigger the older they are. True or false?

How many muscles are there in an elephant's trunk?

Only male elephants have tusks. True or false?

Male elephants usually live alone. True or false?

How long is an elephant pregnancy? How long is a human pregnancy? Wow!

What's the biggest threat to elephants? How do you think we can help to stop this?

If you have time, pick another animal on the WWF Amazing Animals page, and write some questions for it.

Test Revision

Remember, this week you have a little more test material to do. This week we'll be looking especially at comparative and superlative adjectives (see page 17 in your student's book). This should be revision from last year, so look at your book and lesson notes from last year, too. Here are some links to help you practice this language:

Link One - Comparatives

Link Two - Comparatives

Link Three - Superlatives

Comparative and Superlative Quiz

Patricia Pérez Miguel, a teacher from Buenos Aires, put some notes on her blog, The English you Need, to help her students with comparative and superlative adjectives. There are some nice games linked from here, too. Click here to go to Patricia's blog.

Play Games with Birds

There are some cool games on the RSPB Kids website. Click here to design your own bird and put it on a new planet, and feed the fussy birds at the Woodlands restaurant. Great fun!

Homework from 15th November

Hi everyone. First of all, well done for your work in the computer room yesterday. Some of the information you needed was quite difficult to find!

The homework for this weekend was:

Page 19 of the Student's book. This should be revision, and it will help you with some new work next week.

Page 17 of the Student's book, exeercise 10 (c) - write a story about an invention. To help you with this, you can use these links on the internet:

Famous Inventions A-Z

Wikipedia

Google

Use Alex's story as a model. You can write about anything you like, but remember it should be an invention, not a discovery!

Finally, remember that next week is test week! So you should do some revision of the work we have done up to now this term.

Grangeton

Look at what happens at one primary school in England! The school has become a town... with a university! And a Mayor!

Go to the town's (the school's?) website. Click here: Grangeton

Click on Media Teams to see the students TV, Radio and Newspaper. Look at the Museum and see what you can buy in the Shops! Click on Buddies and see the children doing first aid.

Can you answer these questions?

What's the school Motto?
What language do you think they speak in the Language Café?

Ah! HERE's the school's website! Click here: http://www.grangeton.com/

At Grange School, every Friday morning, the children don't have lessons. They have a University in school, and they choose which workshop to go to! Click on the yellow 'University' button on the right, and then choose 'Workshops Offered'. What would you like to do?

See if you can find the pictures of the Summer Fair 2005. They're in 'Archives'. The man getting wet is the Headteacher!

Guy Fawkes

This isn't homework! There wasn't a homework from the YLZone blog, because the website I wanted to use closed down! :(

These links are for our class on Tuesday November 6th. You can look at them before the class if you like.

Guy Fawkes History

Bonfire Night in England

Fireworks

Edenbridgetown

Big YL-d Read

Two weeks ago you all borrowed a book from the library. Try to finish your book this week if you can, because NEXT week, we're going to go to the library to start the Big Wild Read! Have a look at the Big Wild Read website to get an idea of what we're going to do.

Answer these questions about the book you borrowed two weeks ago:

What is the book about?

What do I like about my book?

What DON'T I like about my book?

What's it like? Interesting, exciting, boring...?

How easy or difficult is it?

Would I recommend it to one of my classmates?

Weekend Homework

Hi, Class! Don't forget, this weekend, as well as your Workbook homework, have another look at the People Pages on the Rome MetroZine. Is there anything else you want to add to the paragraph you wrote about yourself in class?
Answer these questions, and add the information to the paragraph you wrote.

What's your favourite website? Why?
What's your favourite television programme?
Who's your favourite celebrity?
Where in the world would you most like to go? Why?
Where in the world would you least like to go? Why?

Rome MetroZine

Don't forget to look at the Rome MetroZine! Have a look at the website, and write down three things you find interesting.

http://www.britishcouncil.it/students/rome/index.htm

Robert Ballard

Next week, we're going to read about Robert Ballard. Look at this information about Robert Ballard on the National Geographic site.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers-program/eir/rballard.html

See how much you understand.

Can you answer these questions?

Which famous shipwreck did he find?

How many deep sea missions has he been on?

How many students does his Jason programme reach?

Who presented him with an award in 2003?

Welcome!

Welcome to the new Student Zone for Young Learners! Enjoy!