English Monkey Paradise

Good afternoon! Next session we will be celebrating World Environment Day! We are doing a recycling workshop during recess and will be doing some activities for parents in the afternoon. I hope you can come!

Good afternoon! I just wanted to remind you that I put the tales our E-Twinning peers sent us in the classroom wall. Check them out!

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...