Pancake Day

Pancake Day in the UK is another name for Shrove Tuesday. It is celebrated as Carnival and Mardi Gras elsewhere in the world. It will be held on 4th March 2014.

Read a Pancake day text at Macmillan site:

Memorise the quantity of each ingredient, then stir and cook the pancakes in this interactive game:

 Enjoy Peppa Pig video about Pancakes:

Decorate your room

Have fun decorating your room at angles365 site:

Here is a picture of a boy's bedroom. Can you paint the things in the room the right colours? Listen and paint it at British Council site:

Try to label everything in this bedroom:

Comparative adjectives

Play comparatives games and have fun while you learn:

Revise comparatives:

Here you have another game at games to learn English:

Altamira caves reopen for a day

Altamira caves have briefly opened to the public, for the first time in 12 years.The caves were closed in 2002 to protect the paintings from microbiological damage.Five lucky people were chosen to admire the Ice Age paintings of bison, bulls and other animals.

Programa de inmersión lingüística 2014

Se convocan ayudas para participar en un Programa de Inmersión Lingüística en Inglés para el verano 2014. Está destinado al alumnado del último ciclo de la Educación Primaria y del primer ciclo de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. 
INSTRUCCIONES
La solicitud debe ser cumplimentada en la sede electrónica del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, apartado “Trámites y servicios”:

 http://www.mecd.gob.es

               

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What does the fox say?

A funny Norwegian  music video about the mysterious fox, wondering what sound it makes...no one knows.

Cartoon version:

Bembo's zoo

See how letters come to life and move to make each animal's name:

Interactive resources about animals

Find quizes, drag and drop activities, videos or interactive stories about animals at RSPCA education site:

Animal quiz

Try the quiz at Kidsplanet site:

Another quiz at englishforum site.For each animal, answer the question "What animal is it?" by completing the sentence "It's -- ."

President for a day!

Presidents' Day is a national holiday in the United States and is also officially known as Washington's Birthday. It is celebrated on the third Monday of February, which next falls on 17th February 2014.

Type some key words in this story at National Geographic site. Then click "read" to hear about your day as the USA President:

Valentine's day Math games

 Are you good at Maths?

Happy Valentine's day

Find out about the story of  St. Valentine:

 
Listen to some love songs:

 
Listen to this beautiful song "You've got a friend" performanced by four incredible voices:

Visit the Tate modern art gallery

Tate modern is an art gallery housing the UK's collection of modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day:

Play games, watch films, upload your art online or create new masterpieces at Tate kids:

Find the missing building

Read the sentences and click on the map to find the missing building:

Places in town and prepositions of place:

My favourite clothes

Read the story

What do you wear?

British money

The British currency is the pound sterling.  Money comes in pounds and pence. Practice listening for numbers with the money maze at British Council site:

Ryan's got some money and he wants to buy some toys. Can you help him give the right money to the assistant?

Click on the notes you need to pay for the items in the shop:

Drag items into the bag on the counter until you calculate you have spent as much as possible without going over the total:

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day falls on February 2. The groundhog, also known as the woodchuck or marmot, is believed to make weather predictions.
Read the legend of Groundhog Day and try the quiz:

Dress the groundhog for a fantastic day!

Here you have a video in which Peep and his friends help a young groundhog find her shadow:

Chinese New year quiz

How much do you know of Chinese New Year celebration? Try the quiz:

Have a look at this slideshow and find more information:

Chinese New Year 2014

Chinese New Year is the biggest event in Chinese world. Listen to a girl telling us about why she likes Chinese New Year and what she does at this time:

Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year for 15 days until Chinese Lantern Festival. Make your lantern and print it if you want:

2014 is the Green Horse Year. Horse is one of Chinese favorite animals. It provides lots of services to human. Horse can run very swiftly and provide the ride for people. It was a good transportation to bring people to their destination. 

Have fun at activity village site:

Clean and green: recycling

Do you recycle the rubbish from your house?
Play the game at British Council site and put the rubbish in the correct bin.

Discover the Romans

Learn about ancient Romans at the BBC site:

Dig it up:

Visit the National Museums Scotland site and discover the Romans.
1. Build a Roman fort:

2. Equip the gladiator to fight in the Roman arena:

3. What did the Roman soldiers wear?

Learn about the Romans in Spain

Romans introduced many things in Spain. Click on the picture and learn about it:

The Artist's toolkit

At  artsconnected site you can explore the tools visual artists use like line, colour or balance to create visual art:

Van Gogh's style

This is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. It's Vincent's bedroom at Arles.

Try to describe the picture by using there is and there are at eslgo.com:

Click here to learn more about Vincent Van Gogh at The Metropolitan Museum site:

Click on the picture if you want to colour online his room at Arles:

People of the past: Egyptians

Discover the Egyptians through games and adventures at the National Museums Scotland site.
Dress like an Egyptian queen or a craftsman and learn about Egyptian clothing.

Emoticons

Do you understand what the different emoticons mean?

   
Match the people to their phones:

Find more fun games about  telecommunications designs at connected-earth site.

Long ago and now

Life was different when our grandparents were children. Things have changed...

MLK- The king and his dream

Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated next on 20th January 2014 in USA. He was a leader of the civil rights movement in 1960s America.

Watch a video about him and learn about the youngest  man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

See old MLK resources.

Fun with clothes

Practise words for clothes in these games.
1.Find the right clothes for teddy:

2. Revise vocabulary about clothes:

3.Dress the teddy:

4.Select the right outfit to match the weather conditions shown in the window: