English Monkey Paradise

Good afternoon! As with every unit, we cannot forget about our songs!. This song is about stereotypes. It makes me so happy I want to sing Everybody tells me what to be and it doesn't make any sense. I turn the T.V. on and I see that everybody looks the same. I am bored of tough sportsmen. I am bored of supermodel girls. Everybody tells me what to be and it doesn't make any sense. (Chorus) But when I look through my window and I look at every boy and girl, I see what real people looks like, it makes so happy that I want to sing. I am a bit sad. There is only one song left in the year!

Good afternoon! We did two very interesting things today: we got a storyteller to visit us and we reversed a tale. This is the story our storyteller told us: A long time ago, the raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept hidden by a selfish old chief. So the raven turned himself into a leaf and floated on the river where the chief's daughter came for water. She drank the leaf and became pregnant. She gave birth to a boy, who was the raven in disguise. The baby cried and cried until the chief gave him the ball of light to play with. As soon as he had the light, the raven turned back into himself. The raven carried the light into the sky. From then on, we no longer lived in darkness. Of course, there were questions: What was the ball of light?. [Answer] The ball of light was the Sun. Who kept the ball hidden?. [Answer] The selfish old chief. ...

p>Good afternoon! How many stereotypes can you see in the picture above? I will give you a hint: colours can be stereotypes too! Anyway, we have made great progress today with our final task. As you can see, there are many stereotypes in stories and stereotypes are bad! Fortunately we are going to keep on looking for them and rewriting the stories! Speaking of writing, here is the exercise we did today: These are your options : travel search character fortune adventure magic Did Hercules [Answer] travel to Andalusia?. Yes he did!. He separated the Gibraltar Strait. Was does Harry Potter [Answer] search for in the first book?. The Sorcerer's Stone. The Leprechaun's pot of gold is worth a [Answer] fortune . Cloudskipper is a [Answer] character from an Australian tale. Merlin was a wizard with powerful [Answer] magic . Simbad likes danger and [Answer] adventure . What mor...

Good afternoon! Today we looked into secret Australian stories. I wanted to put here the text, the questions and the video , so you can study the new vocabulary. Enjoy! When you were small your parents told you tales before you went to sleep. You enjoyed nice dreams and learned how to be brave. Now you read books and watch films. These adventures teach you new things and make you smarter. Other people have their stories, books and films. But Australian aboriginal people are quite different. They don't have T.V. or books, but they have a lot of perfect stories they tell their children. These stories are called “The Dreamtime”. The Dreamtime stories are very, very old. Children and parents enjoy them and have been telling them for a very long time. When an adult told a story to a child, the child told it to others and everybody learned it. Dreamtime stories are full of magic and wisdom. Their character are hunters, animals and nature. With stories, children learn a...

Good afternoon! Nice practice today. Did you know about the Leprechauns? They are part of Ireland's folklore. As you know, these little people hide pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. What if you could find it? That is part of what we did today! Just in case, I would like to remind you of today's sentences: I travelled to _____ and searched for _____.While I was there I found a Leprechaun and its pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. With the gold I _____. Do you want to know my example? I travelled to Blarney's Castle in Ireland and searched for a place to sleep . While I was there I found a Leprechaun and its pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. With the gold I built a new gym for the school . And now that we are at it. Do you know of any Andalusian creature like the Leprechauns?

Good afternoon! Now that we are so near the end of the course we should think about what we are going to read this summer. That is exactly what Sally did in the text we listened to today!. You can find the questions and answers below, as always. This is Sally. Can you guess what she likes the most?. Adventure! Sally visited a website about adventure films, but she didn't like what she found. She likes good books too, so she went to the bookshop. She visited the 'kids' section. She found books she read when she was quite little. 'I want something more interesting..', she said, 'I can ask the shopkeeper. He will help me'. 'Madam, do you know of any good adventure books please?'. The shopkeeper said to her 'You look like a quite smart girl. Do you know Arabian Nights?. Lots of adventure, mystery and brave characters!'. The book was very large. 'Books I read last summer were smaller and cheaper. This mu...

Good afternoon! First of all, good job with the treasure hunt!. This one was a bit different but it almost was like playing an adventure video-game, right?. Let us review the solution: Group 1 : This one was easy: just click on all the times the word "a" had to be changed to "but" to open the door. Once you discovered the hidden text it said to tell the password "4235" to your partners and they will give you yours. Arrange the letter they give you and you have "PAC", your password! Match the pictures and texts to obtain the letter "O". Group 2 : Did you recognise the person this text was about? That's right, Billy Mitchell. Did you look in your booklets for a very important date?. Yes, 1999!. You need the password "4235" from group 1. In return you get a letter "A" for them. Fill in the gaps to obtain the letter "V". Group 3 : Why are some words written in red?. Wh...

Here is the song for this unit! After singing it a couple of times we will not forget how to use "but", right? I put the first half here. The second half is all yours. Will you remind to send it to me so I can put it here? Going to the arcades I can't do my favourite things alone but I than do them with my friends. When we are done with our homework we meet and do many things. I like fun, soccer and games. I like to read books and poems. I like films of adventure and mistery but I don't like the T.V. (Chorus) But above everything I like to spend time with my friends. We like to go to the arcades and we like to play video-games. See you next session!

Good afternoon! Surprise, not one, but two people came to visit today!. I enjoyed all the things they had to tell us... Did you know that making video games was very difficult until very recently? Did you expect that a person would work just in a very particular aspect of a game? I always thought everybody did a little of everything but... Anyway, our friends gave us some good ideas for the decalogue. Why don't we put them to use?

p>Good afternoon! First, something very important, do not forget that we will get a visit next session!. Our guest is a professional game designer! Remember Yoshiro Kimura? Well, exactly the same job!. Isn't that exciting? We have been writing some questions in class today but if you can come up with more at home it will be great! Second, I am sorry about the connection problems in the videocall. At least we got to ask a few questions. Did you write up the answers? We will need them for the final task! Here is the solution for today's fill in the gaps exercise: These are your options : like but arcade professional scores team Fill in the gaps: I don’t like team sports very much [Answer] but I like board games like chess. Sue is a [Answer] professional video-game player. Do you [Answer] like video-games?. Yes, I do. Billy Mitchell played Pac-Man in the [Answer] arcade . He got really good [Answer]...

Good afternoon! We did two interviews today, but there was a catch. We read one and listened to the other!. Here you have the the text, the questions and also the solution to the listening exercise! Sue is a professional video-game player . We interviewed her during a pause in a marathon last Sunday: - Interviewer : Sue, what is your favourite video-game?. - Sue : It is a game called “Planet discovery”. It is about finding trasure. I think it’s beautiful!. - Interviewer : Do you like competitive video-games?. - Sue : I don't like competitive video-games but I like competitive sports. - Interviewer : So you can play sports as well?. - Sue : Yes. I can play soccer, basketball, water polo and specially handball. - Interviewer : What else do you like to do?. - Sue : I like being with my family and my friends but I don’t like being indoors. When I have free time I like to be outdoors. I think it's healthy. - Interviewer : What can you say about your profession?. ...

Good afternoon! Today we reviewed how to say things we like and dislike and how to say things we can and can't do. The new thing is that we learned to connect it all with the word "but"! We are going to be using that a lot!.

Good afternoon! Did you think we would work on video games? No? That's the thing about English: it will always surprise you! This is the text we read today about the Pac-Man champion and the questions we did in class: Billy Mitchell was born in the U.S.A. The first video game he played was Donkey-Kong. He liked it so much he decided to become a professional video game player. Video-game sports didn’t exist in 1977. Billy worked in a kitchen and in the afternoon he played video games at the arcade. One afternoon a new game appeared. The name of the game was Pac-Man. Billy loved Pac-Man and played every afternoon. He tought it was very exciting!. One day he got a very high score. He wanted to become a professional. Billy participated in many Pac-Man competitions. In 1999 he got the best score. Nobody had done that before and he felt a lot of joy. Billy plays many video-games marathons but he also works in his kitchen and has a family. Answer the ...