AMAJONIA ENGLISH.: enero 2023

martes, 31 de enero de 2023

Jobs. 3rd grade B. List of today.

1.- TEACHER

2.- DOCTOR

3.- POLICEWOMAN.

4.- NURSE

5.- DRIVER

6.- CASHIER

7.- FARMER

8.- ASTRONOMER

9.- WAITER

10.- CHEFF

11.- OFFICER

12.- MUSICIAN

13.- FIREFIGHTER / FIREMAN / FIREWOMAN.

14.- ASTRONAUT.

15.- SHOEMAKER.

16.- CARPENTER.

17.- BAKER.

18.- ARCHEOLOGIST.

19.- DRESSMAKER.

20.- PHYSIOTHERAPIST.

21.- VET

22.- HAIRDRESSER

23.- DENTIST

24 .- SINGER

25.- DANCER

26.- PILOT

27.- CLOWN

28.- ARTIST

29.- COOK

30.- FISHERMAN

31.- POSTMAN

32.- BUTCHER

33.- PLUMBER.

34.- ELECTRICIAN.

35.- BUILDER

36.- ARCHITECT

37.- ENGINEER

38.- CLEANER

39.- MECHANIC

40.- LIBRARIAN

jueves, 26 de enero de 2023

Escape from Rulton. Text for tomorrow's exam. 5th grade A.

This is a gift for good students. Tomorrow, in the exam, this text will appear. Good luck to all!!

In 2020 I stole a Van Gogh painting, but the police caught me. I was condemned, and I have to stay in the jail 20 years and one day. Too much time for me. I remember how the judge hit the table with his hammer. My lawyer looked me and said: "I'm sorry, lad". I was jailed in Rulton, the safest prison in the world. Today I waste my time in a small and stinky cell, sharing the space with a thug and with the snitch of the jail.

The prison? I can define it as a dark, sad and grey pit. High brick walls covered with razor wire; a wire fence which surrounds the yard and iron bars in every window or door. My cell is closed with bolt and lock. The wardens show me the key, making fun of me. But they don't know that I have the last laugh. I've secretly dug a tunnel under my bed, and this night I will sneak away. At 3 o'clock I'll crawl along the hole, arriving beyond the prison walls at 3.20. There, a car will pick me up. My intention is to travel to Nepal, where I'm going to hide myself some months. Later, I will start a new life in Moscow, Rusia.

miércoles, 25 de enero de 2023

Prisons and crime word roulette. 5th grade A.

I have prepared a word roulette about prisons and crime. Doing it you can train how to write the vocabulary related to this topic. You will also train your reading comprehension. I have expent a full hour doing it; so I hope you play it.

Prisons and crime word roulette

lunes, 23 de enero de 2023

Types of crime. 5th grade A.

I have prepared a new online activity about crimes. Do it and learn the vocabulary. Perhaps in the exam...

Types of crime

viernes, 20 de enero de 2023

Listening. 5th grade A. Crime and punishment.

Next week we will listen to this video. You know; maybe it will appear in the exam.

jueves, 19 de enero de 2023

Prisons and Punishment. 5th grade A.

I am going to let here some online activities related to the actual topic. I hope they help you study:

Prisons (drag and drop)

We have also to learn some new words related to crime. Here they go:

ARSON: crime which consist in to set fire to something willfully. The person who does it is called as ARSONIST or INCENDIARY.

BLACKMAIL: crime which consist in to ask for money in order to not reveal some information. The person who does it is called BLACKMAILER

BURGLARY: crime which consist in to enter a hose for stealing. The person who does it is called BURGLAR.

CREDIT CARD FRAUD: it does not need explanation.

DRUG DEALING: crime which consist in to sell drugs. The person who does it is a DRUG DEALER.

FORGERY: crime which consist in to falsify some item for selling it. The person who does it is a FORGER.

IDENTITY THEFT: crime which consist in to steal the identity of a person for different purposes.

KIDNAPPING (mainly for children) or HIJACKING (for adult people): crime which consist in to take someone away against his will. The KIDNAPPERS or HIJACKERS usually ask for money in order to free the kidnapped person.

MUGGING: crime which consist in to assault someone in the street for stealing money, jewels... The person who does it is a MUGGER.

PICKPOCKETING: crime which consist in to steal to people, but without violence. The person who does it is a PICKPOCKET

SHOPLIFTING: crime which consist in to steal from a shop covertly. The person who does it is a SHOPLIFTER

SMUGGLING: crime which consist in to introduce in a country some kind of goods secretly, normally for not paying taxes. The person who does it is a SMUGGLER.

SPEEDING: crime which consist in to drive too fast by roads and highways.

VANDALISM: crime which consist in to destroy urban furniture, stadiums, hotels... for fun. The person who does it is a VANDAL.

After this, if we have time, we will try to do a couple of online activities:

TYPOLOGY OF CRIMES

Definitions of crimes

miércoles, 18 de enero de 2023

Mythological beings. 3rd grade A and B.

3rd grade B has finished the topic about mythological beings; so here I let some online resources for studying:

Mythological beings drag and drop.

Mythological beings definitions We will do this one at class. However, if you want to try it by your own, go ahead.

Word roulette about mythological beings Do not do this at home. There are some words you do not know. Better at class.

3rd grade A shoud not do these activities until we finish the topic.

lunes, 16 de enero de 2023

Escape from Alcatraz. 5th grade A.

Alcatraz island and prison.

Alcatraz is (or was) a high security prison in the USA; concretely in the bay of San Francisco. It is located on an island, very far from the shore (about 3 kilometres) The water is usually cold (between 4 and 18 º C, depending on the time of year). This prison became very famous because three prisoners could ran away from there. Their names: Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris. The escape from Alcatraz took place in 1962, and from the very moment in which happened it became one of the most legendary escapes in History. Here we will explain how this could happen.

Frank Morris Clarence Anglin John Anglin.
STEP 1: To be in prison.

For escaping a prison, first you have to be inside there. Anglin Brothers (John and Clarence) were bank robbers. Frank Morris also was bank robber. They have tried to escape from many other prisons; for this reason they were locked in Alcatraz: a place from were was tecnically imposible to flee. Well. Tecnically.

STEP 2: To draw up a plan.

The genius at work was Frank Morris. He was a very smart person, and he drew up an amazing plan, which I detail here:

Fake heads used for deceiving guards.
To make tunnels from the cells to the roof of the prison. This is something that the prisoners did with spoons and metal scraps stolen from different places of the jail.
To make puppets for deceiving prison guards. Once out of their cells, the prisoners needed to deceive guards, making them think that they were still sleeping on their beds. For this they created paper puppets at human size. They even used human hair in order to make them more realistic.
To make a raft, oars and lifejackets. Once with accesss to the roof of the prison, they built up a makeshift workshop. There they made a raft and lifejackets with rubber raincoats stolen from other prisoners. They carefully stitched and sealed those raincoats, making them waterproof.
To make a pump for inflating the raft and the lifejackets. Frank morris, once more, had a brilliant idea. He modified a concertina (a type of acordion) in order to make a pump. With it they could inflate the raft and the lifejackets quickly.

STEP 3: To escape.

Frank Morris cell. Under the
wash basin, the hole.

June, the 11th. The sun is setting in San Francisco bay. Prisoners have dinner in the common hall, and then they go to their beds. When everybody is sleeping, Fran Morris and the Anglin brothers start their plan. First they place the puppets in their beds. Then they escape by the tunnel, digged in a ventilation grid under the wash basin. Before leaving, they put a false grid painted in cardboard, for deceiving the prison guards.

At 10:00 the three prisoners reach the roof of the prision. There they take the lifejackets, the raft and the oars. Then, they climb down by a 15 meters pipe, they cut through the wire fence and they reach the water.

STEP 4: To not be caught again.

One of the lifejackets found at the shore.

Next morning the prisoners get up. Well, not all the prisoners. There are three convicts who seem to be still asleep. Guards enter the cells and discover the puppets. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers have escape! The alarm rings and an intensive manhunt starts. The police looks for the prisoners in all San Francisco bay and surroundings; but they never found them. They only found some of their rubber equipment in Angel Island; but nothing more. The official version: they three men drowned in the water. The reality: their bodies were never found. So, we do not know if they survived. But one thing is crystal clear: Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers escaped from the safest prison in all the USA.