October 31st is Halloween. Do you celebrate Halloween where you live? If
so, what do you do? If not, what do you know about this spooky day?
Happy Halloween!
Here you have a forum to write down your experience.
History of Halloween
A number of people believe that this tradition began thousands of years ago with the Celts. The Celtic people celebrated New Year’s Day on November 1st and, to protect themselves against the winter, they organised activities to scare off evil spirits the night of October 31st.
This is one version; however, some people believe that Halloween has a shorter history.
Why do people wear costumes for Halloween?
Wearing costumes for Halloween began hundreds of years ago. Many people believed that ghosts roamed the streets the night before All Saint’s Day so they wore masks and costumes to keep evil spirits away. In the past, aside from wearing masks, people used to also place bowls of food on their doorsteps to make sure ghosts and spirits didn’t enter in their houses.
Here are we have a presentation the introduce this tradition. Enjoy it!
Hello everyone!
We are very happy to tell you that last Saturday we attended to the University of Lleida with a poster of the activities we usually do in the English class.
It was a challenge! Thanks to everybody who helps to make it possible everyday!
6th level learners would like to show you different famous people from history. We have discovered why they were so important and why they have become famous from history so far. Do you want to know it? So, here you have the oral presentations.
The book's description: The chameleon's life was not very exciting until the day it discovered it could change not only its color but its shape and size,too. When it saw the wonderful animals in the zoo, it immediately wanted to be like them -- and ended up like all of them at once -- with hilarious results.
Here you have a video to watch it related to the Mixed-Up Chamaleon. Enjoy it!
We can say that this story is about a chameleon who isn’t happy with himself and wants to be like everyone else. With each new animal he meets, he takes on features of that animal until in the end, he realizes he is much happier just being a chameleon…
And here you have a presentation with audio to get to know much better this story:
We are going to appear on “Banyetes Club” the following Saturdays on TV Lleida at 9 am in the morning and we are going to learn and revise new words related to different topics.
LOOK AT OUR CALENDAR:
- 18th February: pupils of Cicle Mitjà: At the market! (vocabulary related to clothes)
- 25th February: pupils of Cicle Mitjà: What's the weather like? (vocabulary related to weather)
- 3rd March: pupils of Cicle Mitjà: I'm hungry! (vocabulary related to food)
- 10th March: pupils of Cicle Superior: We are in Russia (vocabulary related to winter and a song)
- 17th March: pupil's of Cicle Inicial: The farm animal’s song (animals and their sounds)
The Gruffalo is a children's book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, that tells the story of a mouse's walk in the woods. The book has sold over 10.5 million copies, has won several prizes for children's literature, and has been developed into plays on both the West End and Broadway. The protagonist of The Gruffalo is a mouse. The story of the mouse's walk through the woods unfolds in two phases; in both, the mouse uses cunning to evade danger.
Click on the image to discover more things about Gruffalo!Games and interactive activities, too.
On his way the mouse encounters several dangerous animals (a fox, an owl, and a snake). Each of these animals, clearly intending to eat the mouse, invites him back to their home for a meal. The cunning mouse declines each offer. To dissuade further advances, he tells each animal that he has plans to dine with his friend, a gruffalo, whose favourite food happens to be the relevant animal, and describes the features of the gruffalo's monstrous anatomy. Frightened that the gruffalo might eat it, each animal flees. Knowing the gruffalo to be fictional, the mouse gloats thus:
Silly old fox/owl/snake, doesn't he know? there's no such thing as a gruffalo!
After being quit of the last animal, the mouse is shocked to encounter a real gruffalo – with all the frightening features the mouse thought that he was inventing. The gruffalo threatens to eat the mouse, but again the mouse is cunning: he tells the gruffalo that he, the mouse, is the scariest animal in the forest. Laughing, the gruffalo agrees to follow the mouse as he demonstrates how feared he is. The two walk through the forest, encountering in turn the animals that had earlier menaced the mouse. Each is terrified by the sight of the pair and runs off – and each time the gruffalo becomes more impressed with the mouse's apparent toughness. Exploiting this, the mouse threatens to eat the gruffalo, which flees.
The story is based on a traditional Chinese folk tale of a fox that borrows the terror of a tiger. Donaldson was unable to think of rhymes for "tiger" so invented one for "know" instead.
Here you have a video and a powerpoint presentation to get to know more about the Gruffalo's story. Ready, Steady, Go!
Hello everyone! The following Wednesday, 22nd February the pupils of the school Camps Elisis are going to watch a theater play called Robin Hood by Eina d'Escola.