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

 Crossword. Animal body parts.

Universe and Solar System. Crossword for the exam.

 Universe and Solar System Crossword.

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

Things at home. 4th grade B.

Here we go with a bank of resources for studying the things at home:

Things at home. Teacher's worksheet I

Things at home. Teacher's worksheet II

And other ones, for if you want to study a bit more.

Label the house

Parts of a house

Parts of the house. Text

Prepositions

There is / There are

There is / There are II

There is / There are III

There is / There are IV

Things at home

Things at home. Test type.

Also a couple of listenings. One of them will appear at the exam. Do not worry: we will work them at class next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Countries and Nationalities. 4th grade A.

4th Grade A voted that we are going to learn about countries and nationalities. So, here we go.

Countries and Nationalities I

Countries and nationalities II

Countries and nationalities III

And one very advanced, for if you want to learn a bit more:

All European countries

I also let here the countries and nationalities we have learnt in this topic:

SPAIN - SPANISH

PORTUGAL - PORTUGUESE

MOROCCO - MOROCCAN

ITALY - ITALIAN

FRANCE - FRENCH

GERMANY - GERMAN

AUSTRALIA - AUSTRALIAN

RUSSIA - RUSSIAN.

JAPAN - JAPANESSE

CHINA - CHINESSE

MEXICO - MEXICAN

ARGENTINA - ARGENTINEAN

EGYPT - EGYPTIAN

INDIA - HINDI

UNITED KINGDOM (UK) Composed by England, Scotland, Wales and Northerm Ireland.

USA - AMERICAN.

This video will be also important:

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.

Dangerous jobs. 6th grade B.

Today, before games, we will read a bit. Concretely we are going to learn about the five more dangerous jobs in the world, in accordance with statistics:

5.- Venom milker.

This job consist in to get poison from venomous animals. The poison is used for making the antidote, which can save your life if, for example, a cobra has bitten you. Needless to say that this job is dangerous.

4.- Ice road trucker.

In some cold countries, like Sweden, Canada or Russia, rivers and lakes get frozen when winter comes. The ice is so thick that it can endure the weight of big trucks and trailers. However, from time to time the ice breaks, and well... In that case it is not nice to be inside a truck cabin. 

3.- Sulphur miner.

Miner is one of the most dangerous professions. And even more if you have to climb a volcano for extracting sulphur rocks. These people usually die young because of toxic gas released from hot cracks.

2.- Landmine remover.

During war it is common to bury mines for protecting determined areas. It is the so called "mine field". Then, when war is over, it is necessary to remove these mines. Here takes place the profession of "Landmine remover": a guy which, with a metal detector, goes here and fro looking for these deadly weapons.

1.- Lumberjack (woodcutter). 

In big forest areas from Brazil, USA, Canada... we find people who work as lumberjacks. Their mission: to cut down and extract from forest very big logs. Every year dozens of these workers die crushed by the weight of giant logs. They also work with very dangerous tools: axes, chainsaws, heavy machinery, cranes, stell wires...

Are we alone in the universe? 5th grades.

The Earth is a little blue marble floating on the space, with very favorable conditions for life: water, atmosphere, magnetic field, oxygen... Out of here, life seems impossible: extrem hot over 5000º, or extrem cold ( - 273º); solar storms, radiation... Very hard conditions indeed. However, we do not know if there is (or not) life out of our plantet. Let's see some arguments in favor and against the existence of aliens:

In favor: Universe is very wide, even vast. So big that cannot be conceived by our human minds. Billions of galaxyies with billions of stars, many of them surrounded by dozens of planets... Why not possible that in one of those plantes life could arise?

Against: If there is life out of the Earth, How is that no Alien has come to say hello?

In favor: They haven't say hello because we are not enough important for them. If you meet an ant, "would you try to communicate with it?"

Against: Life, as we know it, is a complex thing which needs a lot of requirements for arising: water, carbon, oxygen... It is not very common to find all these elements together in a planet.

Gliese 667cc, a possibly habitable planet

In favor: As said before, the universe is very very vast. NASA is constantly finding planets defined as "habitable": this means that in those planets there is water, athmosphere with oxygen, etc.

Against: Let's assume that there is intelligent life out of the Earth. Here comes the problem of distance. The closet star to our Solar System is Alpha Centauri, which is 415.900.000.000.000 km far. And this is the closest one. Imagine the distance which an alien had to cover from remote areas of Universe. It would take hundred of years to travel from one to other habitable planet.

In favor: Alien's technology could be more advance than ours. Maybe they have found a way for travelling great distances very fast; for example, curving the space - time line.

The discussion could be eternal. What do you think? In favor or aganist the existence of aliens?

The universe. 5th grades.

Here I let you a couple of online activities for studying. The first one is about general elements of the Universe; and the second is about the planets in our Solar System.

General elements of the Universe.

The solar system (without asteroid belt)

Note: in the second link there is a video. Do not watch it, watch the version I let you here:

And also an on line test:

Universe and Solar System test

Football. A football story. 4rd grade A.

 

Football. 4th grade A.

Well, let's go. Here we have some online games for reviewing football vocabulary:

Football vocabulary I

Football vocabulary II

Football positions (not for the exam, but for taking a look)

Also the online worksheet, based on our photocopy:

Football activity online

And a very difficult alphabet wheel I recently found. I do not know if we will deal with it at class.

Football alphabetic wheel

Professions. 6th grade B. 2024

First session:

Teacher

Physiotherapist

Biologist

Criminologist

Police officer

Electrician

Doctor

Nurse

Vet

Janitor

Model

Hairdresser

Barber

Archeologist

Psycologist

Difficult ones:

Plumber: person who fixes (repairs) things related to water: pipes, taps, toilets, etc.

Firefighter: person who puts out fires. Also helps people in dangerous situations.

Janitor: person in charge of a building: cleaning, fixing things, even gardening...

Second session.

DETECTIVE

STEWARDESS

FLIGHT ATTENDANT

PILOT

WAITER / WAITRESS

CHEF / COOKER

FARMER

PHARMACIST

ATTENDANT

PAINTER

WORKER

HACKER

CARPENTER

PEDIATRICIAN

HUNTER

DENTIST

OCULIST

ASTRONAUT

MAYOR

ASSISTANT

INFLUENCER

SELLER

BABY SITTER

GAMER

MUSICIAN

SINGER

BUTCHER

FISHMONGER

DANCER

WRITER

CLEANER

SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

SURGEON

DRIVER 

SCIENTIST

BUSINESSWOMAN, BUSINESSMAN

ACTOR / ACTRESS

GOLDSMITH

BLACKSMITH

SHOEMAKER

DRESSMAKER / TAYLOR

FACTORY WORKER

WOODCUTTER / LUMBERJACK

PROFESSOR

LAWYER / ATTORNEY

JUDGE

MINER

POSTMAN

GROCERER

JOURNALIST

At this alphabetic wheel we will find professions we already know, and others which are unknown. Maybe for a team competition:

Alphabetic wheel about professions

Also some worksheets:

Jobs I

Jobs II

Jobs III

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.