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23rd April

It's Saint George's Day -England's national day,
but on April, 23rd. we should also remember

Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare:
Lots of previous years' resources on the W. Shakespeare Label

Surely you know the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet:
But...how well? Try these quizzes
Everything about Romeo & Juliet
 Which other plays of his do you know?
Here are some useful links to help you:
Video Sparks notes
To be or not To Be - Hamlet's soliloquy
Shakespeare on shmoop!
Sonnets
Have you read any of them? Why not start today?
You can find all his plays here:
The Complete works of William Shakespeare
Today and everyday...:

Best student’s April Fools prank on professor ever?

A group of college students banded together to pull off possibly
 the greatest April Fools’ Day prank ever.
Dr. Stephen Barrows is an associate professor of economics
in his second semester at Aquinas College.
 The prank was inspired by Barrows’ seemingly harsh cell phone policy.
The video starts with a message:
“Our professor has a policy that if your phone rings in class,
you must answer it on speakerphone.”
So the students started brainstorming a way to prank the professor...
and this is what happened:

More here

Where were you an hour ago?

Unit 7 practice for 1st. ESO:

On Clicknlearn Go to:

1ºESO -> Intermediate -> My Town & Where is
and 2º ESO -> Easy -> Shops, In the park, Sports, The street

And more practice:

This year's entry on Place Prepositions and Places in town

Previous years' entries on (There) was/were: 1, 2

And here's one of my favourite bands singing

"And she was" :) (released in 1985!)

Suffixes

After Adjective suffixes, it's time for Noun Suffixes:

Revise some Suffixes for the different Parts of Speech

and practise them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Prefixes and Suffixes games: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

A song with some suffixes. Can you find them?:

Summary of what you've learnt ;) 

Places in town

 

Revise vocabulary on the "Around town" Label and Place Prepositions

More about Places in town:

Pictures: 1, 2, 3

Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6 ,7, 8, 9, 10, New York city places, 11

Listen: 1, 2, 3, 4

Prepositions:

Pictures: 1, 2, 3

Practise prepositions of place and direction: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,  8, 9

What places can you see in this video of Edinburgh?:

If I get a scholarship, ...

These are the grants for Galician students this year:

All the info on the Portal Edu Xunta 

And 1º Bac. , we are going to do some work today:

1st) Write your piece of news here,

 then download or capture the image and publish it on your blog

2nd) Practise 

Connectors

Modal Verbs

Conditionals

on these previous entries

April Fool's Day

Here we are again on April,1st or

"April Fool's Day"

1st.  task today:

Write a cartoon or an anecdote

with pranks that you played or were played on you...or invent one!

Then, you can see this previous entry and

Explore The Museum of Hoaxes

Watch some pranks:
How do people react when they realize they've been fooled?

Watch this playlist:

Whatever you do...remember to find a reason to smile :)

Connectors

We've seen a lot of connectors this year.

Here they are on this previous entry and, of course,
a lot more activities, etc on the "Connectors" Label

More pictures for self-learning: 1, 2, 3

Rewrite with different connectors: 1, 2, 3, 4

Two Result connectors:

 So vs. such (a) ... that

So/Such exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Learn from songs:

You're so vain - Carly Simon

(It's such a) Perfect Day - Lou Reed:

What other songs using Connectors can you think of?