Sunday, February 28, 2010

HAPPY ST. DAVID´S DAY!


Monday 1st March is St David's Day, the national day of Wales. To celebrate this day most schools in Wales hold a school concert or eistedfodd with singing, music, poetry and dance. Women, especially young girls, dress up in a Welsh national costume. Welsh people often wear a daffodil or leek, the traditional symbols of Wales.

DID YOU KNOW?
The place with the longest name in the world is in Wales.It´s Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
which means
The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave.

ACTIVITIES
QUIZ: Wales

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

PRESIDENT´S DAY

President´s Day (also known as Washington´s birthday) is a United States national holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February to honor two of the most important presidents in the history of this country, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, whose birthdays are Feb. 22 and Feb.12 respectively. This year President´s Day fell on Monday,February 15th.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

PRESENT PERFECT


Aquí os dejo una serie de enlaces a otras páginas web en las que podréis hacer ejercicios online para practicar el "Present Perfect". También podéis acceder a ellas desde www.alfonsolopez.es

Isabel´s site: Form and use - with activities.
Activity 1: Statements
(www.englisch-hilfen.de)
Activity 2: Have or has? (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 3: Positive sentences (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 4: Negative sentences (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 5: Questions (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 6: Questions with interrogative particles (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 7: Sentences with "never" (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 8: Positive, negative and questions (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 9: Exercise on the text "Loch Ness" (www.ego4u.com)
Activity 10: A lot of online exercises to practise the Present Perfect(www.englishexercises.org)
Activity 11: For / Since (www.englishexercises.org)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

GROUNDHOD DAY (2)



Groundhog Phil, the most famous groundhog in the United Stated, sees his shadow and predicts six more weeks of winter.

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Monday, February 1, 2010

GROUNDHOG DAY


Groundhog Day is a traditional festival celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2, midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.
In traditional weather lore, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and cannot see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow because the weather is bright and clear, it will be frightened and run back into its hole, and the winter will continue for six more weeks.
America´s most famous groundhog,Punxsutawney Phil, live in Punxsutawney,Pennsylvania, USA.

QUIZ (a4esl.org)