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:

Check your grammar: have got

Watch Oliver and Alfie preparing to have their own ‘Master Chef’ competition at home.

As you watch the video, look at the examples of have got. They are in red in the subtitles. Click here for the trancript.

Finally, do the grammar exercises to check you understand, and can use, have got correctly:

1. Have got, multiple choice.(interactive)

2.-Have got, ordering.(interactive)

3. Correct the mistakes in the sentences. (interactive)

4. Download exercises.

"Master Chef" competition at home

Watch a video about Oliver and Alfie at British Council teens site.
They both love watching cooking programmes on TV. Just for fun, they are preparing to have their own ‘Master Chef’ competition at home.

There is/ there are

Complete the sentences with there is, there isn't, there are or there aren't:

1.Here you have more activities to practise There is/There are at Adele's site:

2. There is or there are?
3. There is/There are
4. Click on the words in the correct order

Find the technology

Learn computer vocabulary by looking through the messy room at abcya site.After you locate the object, select the best definition that describes that object:

Irregular verbs song, Max the cat

Here you have some videos to practise the irregular verbs through music with Max the cat:

Three Kings Day celebration

January the 5th is the most awaited night for children in Spain. We are celebrating the coming of the Three Kings and waiting to receive our presents.
Children go to bed early and put their clean shoes by the window to get their presents. Only a few naughty kids will get a piece of coal(made of sugar).
And enjoy your delicious Kings cake(roscón).
Click on the picture to watch a video about this delicious dessert: