Vocabulary:Countries, Nationalities and Food

Here you have got the vocabulary from Unit 2. In this unit, you will learn the names of some countries and their nationalities  as well as vocabulary related to food.
Vocabulary 2

Audio material.1st year of ESO.

Click here to download the audio material of each lesson from Burlington Books webpage

Halloween is coming to class and you have to be ready!

     

                   In Britain and the USA, the 31st of October is an important date in the calendar, especially for young children. It is the night of Halloween. The name comes from “All Hallows Eve” .The word ‘hallow’ means ‘holy, saint‘ and ‘eve’ means ‘the day or night before an important day’ so it is the day before 1^st November.

               

  Before Christianity, the first of November (All Saints’ Day) was the first day of the year. At this time, many people believed that bad spirits of the dead revisited their homes. They also believed that other evil spirits like witches and demons were free, too. For this reason they were scared and stayed at home.

	However, nowadays it is a different story. Today children have lots of fun on Halloween. They dress up as witches, devils, black cats, skeletons, vampires or other scary characters.
	With the help of their parents, children make lanterns out of pumpkins (also called jack o’ lanterns)

To make a pumpkin lantern you cut out the insides and then cut out two eyes, a nose and a mouth in one side

of the pumpkin. Next, you put a candle inside the pumpkin and light it. Now you have a jack o’ lantern; you can make the faces as frightening as you like!

           

Small groups of children dressed up as witches, black cats, etc go into the street and knock on people’s doors. When a person opens the door, the children say “Trick or Treat?” Most people usually say “Treat” and give the children some sweets or small change (some money). However, if someone says “Trick”, then the children do something bad, for example, they put dirty water on the windows or car, ring the doorbell and run away, repeatedly knock on the window or throw flour on the floor... Water guns are very popular, too.

       

            After spending the night Trick-or-Treating, the children go back home to eat the sweets. Sometimes, groups of friends have parties, where they eat food in the form of Halloween shapes, and play Halloween games. One game is called “Bobbing for Apples”. In this game you have to pick up an apple with your mouth from a bowl of water, with your hands behind your back (you can’t use your hands!). It’s very difficult and you get a wet face but you have a great time!

Practice Halloween vocabulary with this video

Vocabulary:Body and Adj of Description and Personality.

Here you have got the vocabulary from Unit 1.In this unit, you will learn the parts of the body, adjectives of description and adjectives of personality.

Vocabulary 1

Go on revising vocabulary from Unit 1 with these videos:

                                                             

Saxon genitive

Click here to revise The Saxon Genitive
and click  here to go on practising it with The Simpsons

To Be/Have

Click here to check and practice with the verb to "Be" and  "Have got"

A funny joke!

And The winners are.....

 It has been hard, but we finally have the winners of our front cover notebook contest, and the winners are.......

                                             

Congratulations!!!

                                                       
 1ºA/B: Lucía  Díaz                                                                     

                                                                         

                                                                                          1ºC/D : Lucía González