Holidays and Festivals!

Week 1^st – 3^rd April

Hello my dear students!

We finished talking about detective stories and robberies and we continued using the past tense to talk about HOLIDAYS!!!

We read and answered questions about a holiday in Rome. And you told me about other holidays you had had.

On holiday you can go sightseeing, go to restaurants, go to the beach, sunbathe, buy souvenirs, go to museums, see shows and, of course, relax!

We listened to a dialogue in a souvenir shop.  Do you buy souvenirs when you go on holiday? What souvenirs do you buy?

We learnt some vocabulary related to geography.

Have you ever seen the bloom of the cherry trees in the Jerte valley?

Would you like to visit the Niagara waterfalls?

Which is the longest river in Spain?

A hill is lower than a mountain.

A forest is a group of trees.

A lake is a body of water surrounded by land.

An island is land surrounded by water.

An ocean is bigger than the sea.

A stream is a narrow current of water.

We reviewed ordinal numbers and dates and read about famous festivals.

The Tomatina takes place (happens) on the last Wednesday in August, in Buñol, Spain.People throw tomatoes.

Carnevale d’Ivrea takes place in Italy, in January (the exact date changes each year). People that take part (participate) in this festival, throw oranges at each other.

Songkran is a Thai (from Thailand) water festival that takes place on 13^th  April. People throw water at each other.

Remember:

Don’t forget to use ordinal numbers for the dates.

1^st first                     4^th fourth          7^th seventh      10^th tenth

2^nd second              5^th fifth              8^th eighth      11^th eleventh

3^rd third                    6^th sixth            9^th ninth        12^th twelfth    etc.

20^th twentieth         21^st twenty-first      22^nd twenty-second    23^rd twenty-third etc.

       21^st     December 1984                           or December      21^st 1984

(the)      (of)                (nineteen eighty-four)                      (the)

Revise ordinal numbers and dates using this link.

You want to know about Easter traditions in the UK? Here's a link!

Easter