Columbus song!

Listen, learn and sing this song. It's about Christopher Columbus, the famous sailor.

Happy Easter! (II)

And here you can read this song.

Happy Easter! (I)

Color (American English) = Colour (British English)

Happy New Year!

This year there is a new student at school. His name is Renat. He's ten years old and he comes from Lithuania but he speaks Russian.

Привет!

Меня зовут Renat.

Мне десять лет.

С новым годом!

Hi! My name is Renat. I'm ten years old. Happy New Year!

You can hear the same text by a "Russian" speaker (a computer)

You can use this tool here.

And here is an image from Russia. 

Games for Christmas

Here you can find games for Christmas.

This one is more difficult. You have to light up the Christmas tree, connecting all the wires and bulbs.
Merry Christmas!

Silent Night, Holy Night

Christmas is here

You can find a lot of Christmas characters...
Image: http://www.inthehoopdesigns.com

But there is a very famous one in the United States, the Grinch. This is a male humanoide creature with bright green fur. He doesn't like Christmas. His dog is Max. You can see a famous movie (The Grinch, 2000).
In this link the song and lyrics.


1.- In this activity you can play a game with some of these characters.

2.- The second link is a funny performance with the thumbs of your hand. You can listen to several Christmas songs.

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Here is a video with "The Grinch song"

Merry Christmas... and a Happy New Year!

Read and click and play and have fun with this new online activity.

1.- Here you can play to decorate a Christmas tree. 

Try different kinds of trees... Choose snow flakes, snow on the branches... Put on baubles (shiny glass bauble for Christmas tree), tinsel, presents, a candle, a star, a bell...

2.- Now play here "Noughts and crosses". 

If you like here you have another place to play this game.

This is called "tic-tac-toe", also spelled "tick tack toe" in the United States.

It's a pencil and paper game for two players.

OXO is most often played by young children like you...

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Send a Christmas card

You can use this page to send a Christmas card to a friend (or yourself).

1.- Choose (Elige una de las tarjetas)
2.- Click on SEND.
3.- You need your friend:
       - Name (To)
       - E-mail (correo electrónico)
And your e.mail (tu propio correo o el de un adulto) and your name (From)
4.- You write all these on this picture:

You can write in Spanish. Santa can speak Spanish too!
Puedes escribir tu mensaje en inglés o español, Papá Noel también habla en nuestro idioma.
5.- Click on SEND, or CHANGE if you need.

That's all.

Your friend will  get a card from you.

Try with your own e-mail.

Puedes probar a enviarte una tarjeta a tu misma dirección de correo. Así la verás en tu buzón.

Advent calendar

You are still on time... Visit this link every day and open the door.

Oh, Christmas tree

This Christmas carol is for students in the second level.

Rudolph

This is a video with the Christmas carol for students in the first level.

Do you know Jack O'Lantern?

It's a Halloween story. The story of Stingy Jack...
      - Easy version
      - Whole story
      - Spanish translation

A game. Listen and click on the Halloween picture-costume they ARE NOT talking about.



What do you know?




The story in a Japanese video.

More Halloween activities

Oxford University Press has sent a link with more activities for this Festival.

It's for teachers... but try it if you want.

Song 1. Second Level.

This rhyme is 'Five little pumpkins'.

Carve a pumpkin... into a Jack O'Lantern.

Play these online games. Choose Number 1, o Number 2.

Jack O'Lantern

Is Halloween out? Are Saints cool?

Halloween is a word from “all hallow’s even” (evening), that is, the night before All Hallow’s Day (All Saint’s Day, November 1st). Later the spelling “Hallowe’en” was frequently used. Hallow even, without ‘v’, became Halloween.

Halloween has become synonymous with candy, costumes, scary stuff, witches, ghosts and pumpkins. You know those words.

But things are changing… holy “Halloween” is coming back. So, are you going to wear a St Patrick, St Agnes, St Francis of Assisi, St Anthony or St Helen costume?

You can play "Night of light" instead of boring "Halloween"!

Columbus day... October 12.

What's the true story of Christopher Columbus?
I like this one:



In the United States Columbus Day is celebrated this month on the second Monday of October . It commemorates the landing of Columbus in the Bahamas on October 12th, 1492.

San Mateo!, San Mateo!...

Roberto (Segundo B):
- How do you say 'vaquilla' in English?

Teacher:
- Oh, er, uh... Calf?... I don't know!

And the answer is: heifer.