Bamboozles.

We are definitively falling in love with this online game. So, I am going to let here some Bamboozles about different topics, for these days of review. Possibly I will add some more very soon.

Halloween

Transports

Places in town

General knowledge I

Science

Christmas 2024. Bank of resources. All grades.

I want to let here some activities for these last days before Christmas holidays. It will be our bank of resources:

Alphabetic wheel Christmas

Christmas quiz (with time limit)

Christmas quiz (without limit of time)

Christmas anagrams

Chrismtas hangman

Christmas memory game

Visual riddle (images appearing on the screen)

Spot the difference

Baamboozle (a crazy game)

House furniture. 4th grade B.

Tomorrow we will deal with this test. It is a good training for the exam; so I recomend you to try it at home.

Test about furniture

Crossword for the exam. 6th grade A. Animal body parts

 Crossword. Animal body parts.

Animal body parts. 6th grade A.

Here we go with resoruces for studying the topic "animal body parts".

Animal body parts and skin patterns

Activity I. Gruffalo

Activity II. Cat body parts.

Memory game I

Memory game II

What am I? Animals 

Animal body parts gameboard

Animal body parts quiz

The Solar System. Listening. 5th grade B.

Rockin' around the Christmas tree. 6th grade A.

Well, Christmas again. As voted, here we go with the carol you chose. Start learning it. Tomorrow, first rehearse.

The life of a star. 5th grades.

Recently, at class, many of you asked me about stars. How are they born? How do they produce energy? How do they die? In this report I will try to answer all these questions shortly:

1.- How are they born?

The birth of a star is something very mysterious. It happens inside a giant nebulae. A nebulae is a great mass of hydrogen. In accordance with scientists and astronomers, in the birth of a star the hydrogen atoms begin to stick together, becoming into a bigger and bigger ball. Finally, when the ball is big enough, there is an ignition: the mass of hydrogen, due gravity forces, starts a fusion process. Thus, the star is just born.

2.- How do stars produce energy?

As said before, a star is born just when gravity heats the hydrogen, initializing a fusion process. And what is a fusion process? Well, fusion is a type of nuclear energy. It takes place when two similar atoms stick together, becoming a different one. In a star, the fusion is based on hydrogen: two hydrogen atoms become into one helium atom. During this process a great amount of energy is released. Energy that we perceive in form of light, heat and other type of radiation.

3.- How does a start die?

The amount of hydrogen which a star has is finite. So, when this hydrogen is over, theoretically the start should die, like a candle. But instead of this, the star becomes stubborn. "Don't I have hydrogen? Let's fusionate helium". And the helium fusion begins. However, this type of fusion is not as efficient as hydrogen. So in the process the star makes up for it by growing. Then the helium also runs out. But the stubborn start refuses to stop, fusionating now Beryllium. Then, Carbon; then, Magnesium. Meanwhile, the growing process continues. At one point the star cannot grow any more. Now only two things can happen:

a) If the star is very big, it collapses, and then bursts in a huge explosion (a supernova). 

b) If the start is medium size (like our Sun), the growing process ends in the releasing of hot matter.

In both cases the only remaining thing is the core of the star. If the star is big, the core is a neutron star. If the star is medium size, or small, the remaining thing is a white dwarf star.

In the following video, a recreation of the end of our Sun. Do not worry; in accordance with scientist, this will not happen tomorrow. At least, 5.000.000.000 years remaining.

Professions. 6th grade B. Video.

Watch this video and try to find out the professions of these people. On Wednesday the 20th we will watch it at class. And who knows; maybe at the exam...

Grammar. 5th grades.

The moment has come. Let's start with some grammar:

Which, who, that

Object pronouns

Prepositions. 4th grade B. Online game.

Today at class we were dealing with prepositions.I suggest you to play this game. It will be good for you:

Prepositions game.

Football. A football story. 4rd grade A.

 

AI talking assistance. 5th and 6th grades.

I have been looking for an AI tool adequate to school, and I think I have found one. 

AI Learning English

I suggest to not play it by your own. It can be difficult.

Your Halloween stories 2024. The Woman at the station. Japanesse story.

This story took place in Japan.

A girl is suffering bullying at the train station. Her classmates look at her and run towards her. The girl is close to the train tracks. They push her and she falls just when a train is comming. The train kills her, cutting off her legs. The legend says that if some day you enter in the bathrooms of that station, the girl asks you the following question:

                "Where are my legs?"

If your answer is correct, she smiles you and then vanishes. If your answer is not correct, she chases you for killing you. 

Halloween 2024. 4th grades.

Here I let all you need for studying Halloween:

Worksheet I

Worsheet II

Varied resources

Halloween characters test

Crossword

This is an online game we will play at class:

Hugo's house of horrors.

Also the story "Too much candy"

Finally, a couple of alphabetic wheels:

Alphabetic wheels

Your Halloween stories. The yellow ribbon. Carla García Herrera. 5th grade B.

Halloween tests. 6th grade A.

I have created these two tests for studying Halloween. Although it is for 6th grade A, if you belong to other grades you can also play them. 

Halloween test I

Halloween test II

Halloween stories. Story by Julia from 6th grade B.

Children born on a full moon day can see the ghosts of dead people. And I was born on a full moon day...

When I was a little girl (about eight years old) I told my friends that I have seen a person whose face could not be seen.

My friends said it was a joke. But I told them it was true.

Some weeks later the face started to appear. It was my grandfather Faustino.

But when I grew up (more or less at 9 years old) I didn't see him anymore.

Halloween stories. Story by Daniela V. from 6th grade B.

The boogeyman in my sister's house.

Since my sister is married and has a child, she decided to by a new house; a bigger one. This new house had three levels. The first one was like a garage, whereby you entered. Then, upstairs, it was the second level. You opened the door and there was the livingroom, the kitchen, the bathroom and a bedroom. You went upstaris again and there were three rooms. 

But the story I'm about to tell happened on the second floor...

One day, in the livingroom, my nephew looked at the door which leads to the garage and started to cry. My aunty tried everything to calm him down, but nothing. "What's going on with this little child?" She asked herself. From that day, the baby could not be in the livingroom, neither close to that door.

But the thing does not stop here. Some days later a little cousin of me come to my sister's house. And the same thing exactly happend: the child froze looking at the same door and crying again. And not only these two babies: all little children coming home got very scared with that door.

Seeing that, my sister decide to call a medium (a person who sees things that normal people don't). That person came and very soon she pointed at the door. She said "There is something wrong with that door. Something or someone who doesn't like you being here. If I were you, I would leave inmediately"

The day after my sister put the house on sale. They abandoned the building and never came again.

Later we knew about the boogeymans: evil spirits which sometimes break into houses. Only little children can see them. Maybe that was what the medium saw... in the door which leads to the garage.

A two new alphabetic wheels for Halloween.

Doing my research, this morning I have found two new Halloween alphabetic wheels. Today possibly we will play them at class.

Alphabetic Wheel I

Alphabetic Wheel II

Ghost stories by old pupils. Spooky spooky.

Some years ago some chidren told me these stories, based on true facts. I hope you'll enjoy them:

Story number 1. The ghost beside the cradle.

My mum told me this story. When I was a baby I slept in a cradle. One day my mother pass by the corridor and look inside my room. It was night. There, a dark shape was standing next to my cradle. My mum cried, trying to waking up my father. But my father couldn't. The shadow slowly vanished and didn't come anymore.

Story number 2. The blinking doll.

Once my sister and me were playing with dolls. It was night. We were looking at the doll when suddenly she blinked, looking at us. We ran away from there. 

Story number 3. The shadow on the swing.

4 o'clock at night. I was awake, in my bedroon at my country house. I listened to the swing at the garden. It was moving by itself. When I looked by the window I saw a shape, like a child, swinging. Then the child vanished. In a recording from a security camera the shadow appears. What was it? We don't know.

Story number 4. The tall man in the corridor.

I was playing Fortnite at 2 o'clock, at night. I stopped playing and I looked at the corridor. There a tall and slender figure was walking towards me. Fortunately, it vanished. Curiously I was playing with a friend. He also saw the tall and slender figure, but in his own house. What was it? We don't know.

Airport and planes. 5th grade B

Here you have a test activity for studying. Considering that our next exam will be a typing test, it seems a good idea to do it at home. 

Airport and planes test question type.

Natural disasters video. 5th grade A.

Physical appearance. 4th grades A and B. Full resources.

On this link you will have direct access to all about physical appearance in the blog. Do not do everything (there is a lot) Choose the activities you like the most. Study... and have fun!

Matching activity.

Harry Potter physical appearance

Varied worksheets about physical appearance

Describing people tiny tap

Test physical appearance

Famous people physical appearance

Crossword

Physical appearance alphabetic wheel

The Lady of the Well. Test type for Halloween. 5th grades.

The lady of the well test.

The other day, at 5th grade, we told the story of "The Lady of the well". I have prepared a test for checking your comprehension level. Today we will deal with it at class.

At the airport. Drag and drop activity + video. 5th grade B.

At the airport drag and drop activity.

And the video. Every day we will watch a part

We we'll also deal with this one. At the customs:

And finally, an alphabetic wheel.

Alphabetical wheel airport

Harry Potter activities.

This year our school main theme is "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone". From English subject, from time to time, we will work some stuff related to Harry Potter. Let's start:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone Quiz (first part of the story)

Hunting and fishing. 5th grade B.

Some activities for preparing the exam "Hunting and fishing"

Hunting and fishing (crossword)

Hunting and fishing (worksheet)

We will also watch also this video. It's going to be important for the exam:

Money. Text. 5h grade A. London urban legend.

Jimmy was a poor man. He had never had nothing but his hands. He lived under a bridge, next to King Cross station. He liked to watch people entering the banks, getting money from the ATMs, paying at the restaurants... Many times he thought "One day I'll be rich. I'll enter the banks, I'll pay with cheques, I'll use credit cards, I'll buy diamonds and emeralds..."But later he got disappointed, telling to himself: "How am I going to be rich? Money doesn't grow on trees.

One day, walking by Hide Park, he looked at one bush tree and he saw a lotto ticket tangled on its branches. He checked the date and he discovered that the draw was that night, he picked up it, he put it inside his pocket and he kept walking. Next day, checking the lotto combination on a newspaper, he discoverd that he has won 1.000.000 Pounds. He thought: "Humm... Perhaps, indeed, money can grow on trees".

Money. 5th grade A.

Here we go with all you need for studying the topic "Money":

Money. Online activity.

Also this video. We will watch it at class. Do not try at home. 

And because the exam is going to be a bit difficult, I let here the crossword, for if you want to study it:

Crossword money 

Good luck!

Extra stuff:

Worksheet I (couple discussing about shopping)

A football story. 6th grade A.

Other video. I am not sure about which one I am going to use at the exam. So, we'll watch both them:

My secret team. 6th grade A.

This is a video I recently found. We will watch it at class, and maybe is going to be an important part in your next English exam.

Sleep and football. 6th grade A.

A few decades ago, professional footballers spent their nights partying. Now, they are much more aware of the benefits of a good night’s sleep.

Gradually, club managers began to pay more attention to scientific sleep research, and for good reason. In 2011, sleep specialist Cheri Mah discovered that increasing sleep to 8-10 hours per night massively increased the speed and shot accuracy of players. Other research shows that a single night of inadequate sleep can increase the risk of injury, and 64 hours of bad sleep reduces strength, power and balance, and can even cause the body to eat its own muscles!

Consequently, managers started trying to improve their players’ sleep. Southampton Football Club’s manager Alek Gross, for example, forbade his players from consuming caffeine, sugar or fatty foods, which prevent sleep, in the evenings. Instead, they were given milky protein drinks which made them tired. 

Manchester City player Sergio Aguero, for example, was finding it hard to sleep because his muscular body prevented his legs from closing when he lay on his side. He got a new mattress which matched his height and weight, thus keeping his neck and back aligned in the night.

James Milner from Manchester City found it hard to sleep after evening games, so would play computer games into the early hours. As a result, he was too tired to train the following morning. Setting a routine with a late bedtime, early rise and afternoon nap helped to fix this problem.

Whereas in the past, playing after a party and a few hours’ sleep was seen as a badge of honour, a good sleep is now considered an essential part of performance.

Idioms. 5th grades.

Recently I have found an interesting game about idioms. Let's see if you understand them

Idioms.

4th grades. Review of what we learnt in 1st grade.

When I was your teacher, in 1st grade, I taught you some animals' vocabulary. Next week we will review it. Meanwhile, you can start working at home with these three online worksheets. Let's see how much score you can get!!!

Animals I

Animals II

Animals III

Also some new games you'll love, for class competitions:

Guess the wild animal

Animal Quiz

The gruffalo

Cat body parts

What can these animals do?

Animal body parts memory game

Animal body parts memory game II

Animals. 6th grade B.

A review from past year, related to animals. Soon I will upload material about animal body parts. Meanwhile, you can start with this old stuff:

Animals I

Animals II

Animals III

Animal mistery game

Ordering letters

And finally other type of worsheets:

Animal descriptions I

Animal descriptions II

Animals true or false

Choose the correct animal

Word roulette about animals ( I )

World roulette about animals II (pictures)

Bank of resoruces. 18/06/24. Games.

Categories of words

Guess the word

About animals

Unscramble

Quizzes

Spot the difference

Odd one out

Additon Challenge

True or false. Grab the ball.

True or false statements.

100 true or false statements

Graphic adventures in English.

A graphic adventure is a type of videogame in which you have to solve puzzles in order to achieve the main goal. They were very popular in the late 90s.

Recently I have found a website where all those classic graphic adventures are for free. You can play them online. They are a funny way of learning English.

Free graphic adventures.

Escape Rooms.

These final days we are going to deal with some escape rooms. You can try by your own; at class we will play some of them:

Escape Rooms

End of academic year 23 - 24. Varied grammar resources.

Comparative / superlative.

Some / any

go, do, play

Talking wheel.

Role play. Open the boxes.

Role play boxes.

Grammar resources. All grades.

I am going to let here a selection of grammar exercises for these last days of school. Every day we will do some of them.

Posseive adjectives (my, yours, her, etc)

Personal pronouns

Object pronouns

New speaking wheel

 New speaking wheel

Role plays. 6th grade A.

Last weeks we are acting out some role plays. I have found this resource for working them most systematically. Let's see today:

Role plays deck of cards.

House furniture. 6th grade A.

Here we go with some activities for studying house furniture:

Label the house

Parts of a house

Parts of the house with text

There is / there are

Bathroom and kitchen vocabulary

And a couple of drag and drop activities, based on the picture dictionary I gave you:

House and furniture I

House and furniture II

Also an alphabetical wheel

Furniture alphabetical wheel

Natural disasters which can hit us. Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and forest fires.

When talking about natural disasters, one question springs quickcly. Could be possible THAT disaster in our town, Santa Amalia, or in a place were we go on vacations? Let's try to answer these questions.

EARTHQUAKES.

In Spain earthquakes are not so frequent. At least in our region. Earthquakes are produced when two tectonic plates collide with each other. If you look at the image on the right, all red points indicate locations where earthquakes have been produced. The worst area is the east of Andalusia and the strait of Gibraltar. However... I want you looking at the red circle, in the Atlantic ocean. On that area we have "San Vicente's tectonic fault": a place where two tectonic plates are colliding. This location is a "hot point", being able of producing catastrophic earthquakes; like the one which destroyed Lisbon in 1755. Spain was also affected by that earthquake: many towers, houses, churches and castles were damaged on that fatidic year. Experts consider that every 300 - 400 years S. Vicente's fault suffers a strong sismic event. So, do the math...

TSUNAMIS.

Because of all said before, you'll probably guess that Tsunamis can occur in our coasts. In the map of the right you can see the tsunamis we had in Spain in the last 500 years. In purple, the biggest one: the Lisbon tsunami, produced by Lisbon earthquake. That tsunami devastated Portuguese and Spanish coasts. A wave of 15 meters high stroke Huelva and Cádiz, killing 1200 people. 

The most recent tsunami (2003) affected Balearic islands. A wave of 1 meter high arrived there, destroying some boats and small ships.

FLOODS.

In Santa Amalia we know what a flood is. From time to time water spreads over the neighbourhoods of "La Mesta" and "Valdehornillos avenue". Why? Well, there is a very simple and evident explanation. This area, before, was a natural pool. Look at these two sky images. The first, from 1956, is an old one. You can see a dark stain surrounded by a red line. That was "La Mesta" pool: a shallow lake. 

Santa Amalia's aerial view. 1956

Look now at this second one. It is a satellite image. On it you can see that the old pool has been covered by houses and streets. What happened? Well, let's say that in the 60's the person in charge decided to drain the lake without studying the hidrography of the area. Nor draining system, neither proper sewers. An absolutely botch job. The consequence: when it rains a lot, the lake wants to recover its territory, raising up and flooding all the area.

Actual satellite image.

FOREST FIRES.

San Isidro's hill satellite image.

Every few years we also have a forest fire here, in Santa Amalia. Concretely in our only local natural space: San Isidro's hill. On the picture at the right you can see the area which always burns: the south east slope. The causes have been varied: imprudences, intentional fires, lightning storms... The thing is that, from time to time, some more holm oak trees die because of the fire. Climatic change does not help: every year summers are hotter and dryer; and winters usually don't bring enough water.

Natural disasters. 6th grade B. Videos.

And an alphabetical wheel:

Natural disasters alphabetical wheel

Olympic games. 5th grade A.

As voted, here we go with our new topic: olympic games.

General olympic sports

Also the list of Olympic summer sports:

Inside athletics, we have many categories:

Olympic games text (and test)

The Olympic torch. (Text with blanks)

Quiz about Olympic Games

Olympic games vocabulary test

Crossword

And finally, as usually, the picture dictionary in a drag and drop activity:

Olympics drag and drop activity

Olympic games Alphabetic wheel

Things at home. 4th grade B. Exam's review.

Let's go with all you need to know for the exam we will do next Monday. Things at home:

Online worksheet. Things at home

Test type activity (very important for the exam) We will do it at class tomorrow.

With these two things you can start studying.

Medieval myths I: The Pied Piper of Hammelin. 6th grade A.

Hammelin, Germany.

Hamelin, Germany. 12th century. There is a plague of rats. Nobody knows how to repel them from town. The rodents are becoming a big problem: the eat people's food, they bite children, they transmit deseases...

One day a misterious flutist arrives to the town. He talks to the mayor and he promises he can take all the rats out of Hamelin. He demands 100 gold coins for the job. The mayor accepts, promising the flutist he will be paid after the job.

The flutist followed by rats.

The flutist goes to the town square and starts to play a beautiful melody with his flute. Magically, all the rats come to the square and stand quiet, looking at him and listenting to his music. Then, the flutist starts walking, and the rats follow him. They walk down the street, crossing the wall gate and going into the forest. People is amazed. ¡The rats are gone! There is a big party, and everybody is happy.

The flutist, followed by children.

One year later the flutist returns to the town, dirty and tired. He looks like if coming from a large, large journey. Everybody thanks him his labour. The flutist goes to the town hall and talks to the mayor, asking for his 100 gold coins. But the mayor... Refuses to pay him!! Very angry, the flutist leaves, promising revenge.

The kitchen of the devil.

That same day, at night, when everybody is sleeping, a mysterious melody sounds in the darkness. Nobody worried about it. "Some musician rehearsing with his instrument", they think. But next morning, when Hamelin awakes... All children have dissapeared!! People in town despair. They organize a big search, looking for their kids. But they do not appear. Finally, in the mountain of Ith, far far away, they find one of the children. He is crying, sitting on a rock. He has got a sprain on his ankle, so he cannot walk. When they ask him about the others, the children only says: "I want to go with him. With the flutist. I want to walk with him. Do you listen his beautiful music? Take me with him!!"

The citizens of Hamelin are horrified. The flutist had bewitched and kidnapped their children!! The poor one of the sprain is safe only because he couldn't follow the march. They explore the mountain several days looking for their kids, but they didn't find anything. Finally they give up, returning to the town. They never saw their beloved children again.

Mountain of Ith.

Nowadays people still say that if you go the mountain of Ith at night and you put your ear on the "kitchen of the devil", sometimes you can listen to a mysterious melody and the laughs and cries of many children...