All Students: Homework 28th and 29th November

Room of Eight and English CLF, you have an activity on Saint Andrew's day underneath this post.

Breiner students (Room of Eight) please remember to post your 'good weekend things' this weekend!

I've also posted a link to the 'Grange Hill' video we saw in class, and the 'Grange Hill' website!

Have a nice weekend!

Saint Andrew's Day (CLF and Room of Eight Students)

November 30th is Saint Andrew’s Day. It is Scotland’s National day.

Look at this page and answer the questions:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/months/andrew.html

1 Of which countries is Saint Andrew the patron saint?
2 Who was Saint Andrew?
3 Which flower is the emblem of Scotland?
4 What kind of markets open in Scotland on Saint Andrew’s Day?
5 What musical instrument is especially popular on Saint Andrew’s Day?

Now look at this page and answer the rest of the questions:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/CUSTOMS/questions/britain/scotland.htm

6 How many islands has Scotland got? How many islands have people living on them?
7 What might you find if you go to Loch Ness?
8 What have Arthur Conan Doyle, Sean Connery and Annie Lennox got in common?
9 What did Edinburgh have before any other city in the world?
10 What have Edinburgh and Rome got in common?

Grange Hill

Here's the link to the episode of 'Grange Hill' we watched in class. If you found it difficult, watch again now you have the answers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCGR9QzxpQo

And THIS is the official Grange Hill website.
http://www.grangehill.com/

School Words - CLF!

Here is the list of school words that the English CLF class thought of!

A	Art, apple, algebra, absence, (be absent), assembly
B	Biography, books, biology, Boys’ Toilet, break, bicycle shed
C	Computer room, classroom, coffee bar, canteen, corridor, copy, colour, chess
D	Desk, drama, diagram, date, diet, dine, dining room, difficult,
E	English, evaluation, exercise, extra point,
F	French, film, folder, fault, flute, free lessons
G	Gym, geography, geology, gymnastics,
H	History, Head-teacher, headmaster, headmistress, home-time, homework, Hitachi
I	Information technology, information, internet, I.T.,
J	Janitor
K	Key, keyboard,
L	Languages, Language Lab, Library, listening, laboratory,
M	Maths, map, meeting, music, music room, morning mass, morning assembly
N	Nurse, notebook, notepad,
O	Office, open day,
P	Prefect, playground, playtime, pencil, pen, punishment, pencil case, pencil sharpener, penalty, P.E., physics, private school, public school, principal, paper, pay, piano
Q	Quidditch, Queen’s Visit,
R	Rugby, rules, recorder, rubber, ruler, room, refill, read,
S	School, staffroom, science, study, state school, scissors, subjects, sick bay, Stanley knife
T	Teacher, toilet, technical drawing, table,
U	Uniform,
V	Violence,
W	Work, window, windows,
X	Xylophone,
Y	YL-Zone, yard, young people,
Z	zoology

School Words YA2.1-17TT

Here are all the words we thought of to do with school! I've put this on 'Room of Eight', too! If you think of more words to do with school, add them to the list on 'Room of Eight'!

A	ALGEBRA, ARITHMETIC,
B	B0OK, BAG, BIOLOGY, BREAK,
C	CHAIR, CHEMISTRY, CANTEEN, CHESS
D	DICTIONARY, DUMBLEDORE, DRAWERS (gavetas), DRAWING (desenho)
E	ENGLISH, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,
F	FRENCH, FORM TEACHER, FRIENDS
G	GEOGRAPHY, GARDEN
H	HISTORY, HEAD TEACHER
I	ITALIAN, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,
J	JANITOR,
K	KITCHEN
L	LIBRARY, LANGUAGES, LITERATURE
M	MATHS, MUSIC, MUSIC ROOM
N	NOTEBOOK
O	O’ CLOCK, OLD STUDENTS,
P	PLAYGROUND, PHYSICAL EDUCATION (P.E.)
Q	QUEUES IN THE CANTEEN! QUIDDITCH, QUEEN’S VISIT
R	RUBBER, RULES, RULER, READ, RECORDER
S	SCIENCE, SPANISH, SPELLING, SCISSORS, STUDY, STUDY AREA,
T	TABLE, TECHNICAL DRAWING, TOURNAMENTS, TEACHERS,
U	URDU,
V	VISUAL EDUCATION, VOLLEYBALL,
W	WATER, WIFI ZONE
X	XYLOPHONE
Y	YAWN,
Z	ZOOLOGY, WIFI ZONE

Wallace and Gromit

Here are some of the words from 'A Close Shave'. Can you remember what they all mean? Use a dictionary to find out if you can't remember!

knitting
porridge
embarrassed
single file

We also learned two expressions to use instead of 'meu Deus'!

"Blimey!"
or, if you're a bit angry:
"For Heaven's sake!"

Surfing Dolphins

If you are enjoying the story 'Maisie and the Dolphin', or even if you just like dolphins, you will enjoy these two videos about Dolphins.

Surfing Dolphins

Deep Thinking Dolphins

Dolphins are cool!