Going to. 5th grade B.

 

An online activity for studying "going to":

Going to activity

Prepositions. 1st and 3rd grades.

Some stuff about prepositions:

Prepositions I

Prepositions II

Prepositions III

Animal body parts + review of animals. 1st grade.

These last three weeks we are going to learn about animal body parts. Do not play this worksheet at home. We will do it at class.

Animal body parts

Bike parts crossword. 5th grade A.

Today I'm in a good mood; so I have prepared this crossword. Who knows... Maybe it will appear in the exam. Please, try not to memorize it. The key is to understand what you read in the definitions.

Bike parts (easy)

Bike parts. 5th grade A.

Here we go with the drag and drop activity for reviewing the vocabulary related to bikes:

Bike vocabulary.

Flowers. 3rd grade A.

And the quiz:

Flowers quiz

Plants. My flower garden. Listening for 3rd grade A.

This listening will also appear at the exam. The second part of the video is subtitled. On Friday we will work it at class.

Plants. 3rd grade A.

Here you have the worksheet for the exam:

Plants and trees and flowers

Titanic online game. 5th grade A.

Today at class we will play this online game about the Titanic. A graphic adventure.

Titanic online game

Titanic main theme. 5th grade A.

 

Tomato Factories. 5th grade B.

In Santa Amalia we have two great tomato factories: Tomalia and Tomates del Guadiana. Both them process fresh tomatoes, transforming them in concentrated tomato. What happens inside is something amazing: and in this report we are going to know about it:

Tractor pulling a tomato trailer.

Step 1: from the fields to the factory.

Tractors and trucks bring continuously tomato from surrounding fields. Speed is important: once a tomato has been collected, it starts to lose quality and weight. The trailers wait in the factory parking until they are called for unloading.

Step 2:unloading.

Fresh tomatoes are unloaded in big pools, full of water. From there, their travel along the factory starts.

Conveyer belt.

Step 3: washing and sorting.

Tomatoes are driven by a conveyer belt towards the chopping area. At this point they are washed; also rotten and green tomatoes are discarded. Later, they are chopped

Step 4: juice extraction.

Once tomatoes are chopped, it is time to extract the juice. This is done by means of a machine called "screw juicer" (see photo). The idea: to extract the maximum of water for preserving the tomato.

Screw Juicer

Step 5: Sterilization. 

Once the tomato paste is almost with no water, is time to sterilizate. The concentrated tomato is heat over 100 Cº, killing all possible bacteria. 

Step 6: cooling and aseptic filling.

The final step. Tomato is cooled and then introduced in barrels, protected by a plastic bag. All barrels you can see out of the factory are filled with tomato paste, ready for being exported all over the world.

Farming. 5th grade B.

Here I let you some stuff related to farming:

Farming worksheet

And a listening we will do today at class:

Titanic. Text for the exam. 5th grade A.

RMS Titanic.

What was the Titanic?

It was the biggest, strongest, safest and fastest ship in its time. It was 269 meters long (three football pitches); 28 meters width (like the lenght of three of our classes); and 53 meters heigh (like two towers of our town church). Its maximum velocity: 40 km per hour (very fast for a ship) Its buliders said that it couldn't sink. They were wrong.

When and where was it built?

It was built in Belfast, Northem Ireland. It was finished in 1912 (111 years ago)

Who was travelling on it?

A lot of people: 696 were crew (sailors, cleaners, cooks...) and 2.344 passengers. There were three different classes for passengers:

• A first class for rich people.
• A second class for not very poor people.
• A third class for poor people.

Titanic sinking.

What happened with it?

It sank on April, the 14th, 1912, during its first journey across the North Atlantic Ocean. At midnight the Titanic collided against an iceberg. two hours later it sunk.

How many people died?

1.517 persons died. Some of them drowned; but the majority because the hypothermia (the cold death) Furthermore, there weren't enough lifeboats for everyone. A complete dissaster. 

Parts of a tree. 3rd grade A.

A very short activity for learning the parts of a tree. Remember: 

Roots = feet.

Trunk = body.

Branches = arms.

Leaves = fingers.

Parts of a tree

And thorn, which is not in the worksheet:

Ocean and sailing. 5th grade A.

Here I will let some activities for studying the vocabulary related to the last topic we have learnt: ocean and sailing:

Sailing I

Sailing II

Sailing III

And a quiz we will do at class today:

Titanic quiz game

Trip to Mérida. 3rd grade. The Roman Theathre.

Merida's Roman Theathre

Next Wednesday we will visit Merida's Roman theatre and amphitheathre. Two great constructions from about 2000 years before today. Here we are going to learn something about the theathre.

Merida's Roman Theathre.

Merida's Roman Theathre is one of the best preserved theathres from ancient Roman world. It could hold up 5000 people. There, ancient Greek and Roman dramas were played. Its parts were the following ones:

• Stage: where actors played the dramas. It represented the facade of a palace, adorned with marbles, columns and sculptures of Roman gods, godesses and Emperors.

• Orchestra: a half circle just in front of the stage, where musicians played their part in the drama.

And then, the spaces for people (spectators)

• Lower stand: a space for rich people, the best place for watching the drama.

• Medium stand: where normal people (usually men) sat.

• Upper stand: a place reserved for women and children.