Santa Claus is real

 

You may think of Santa as living at the North Pole. But this Santa Claus lives in the USA. Is he real? Watch the video to find out!

Black Friday

The retail bonanza known as Black Friday is now an integral part of many Thanksgiving celebrations, but this holiday tradition has darker roots than you might imagine. After the video and the quiz perhaps you would like to know its real history thanks to History Channel.

Scholastic: First Thanksgiving

Enter the Scholastic web page and learn about the First Thanksgiving; you can learn a lot of things about this period!

Voyage on the Mayflower has two parts for students to explore. The first part is an interactive map of the journey across the Atlantic Ocean. You can click on placemarks on the map to read and hear about the journey. The second part of the Voyage on the Mayflower takes you "inside" the Mayflower to see and hear about the parts of the ship.

Daily Life is a comparison of the lifestyles of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. You can click through each aspect of daily life to see a comparison of housing, clothing, food, chores, school, and games.

 

Finally, Scholastic has partnered with Plimoth Plantation to produce three video tours of Plimoth Plantation, a Wampanoag homesite, and a Pilgrim homesite.

After that try to do this quiz and check how much do you know about this celebration:

The History of The First Thanksgiving Day

Celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada, Thanksgiving is a national holiday! In this video you will learn The History of The First Thanksgiving Day. I hope you will enjoy it!

Could you be a zero-waste person?

How much rubbish do you throw away each day? Lauren Singer studied environmental science and decided to change her lifestyle to try and produce less waste. She's now known as 'zero waste girl'!

What have Ancient Greece and The X Factor got in common?

What have Ancient Greece and The X Factor got in common? 

Watch Sophia's new video to learn all about the history of voting. 

A day in the life of a 10-year-old in Roman Britain

Did you know that Britain was once Roman? 

Watch Eric in this video as he imagines what life was like in Roman times.

Don't dream It's over

If you want to listen and watch them  try this link

Silent sounds

A day around London

As we cannot travel to London this year, join Molly for an exciting trip to the UK's capital, London!

And if you want to check how much you know about HP, try some quizzes.

Trinity Exams

Nos próximos días confirmaremos as datas dos exames que serán probablemente na segunda semana de decembro. Máis información:

Modelos de exames e guías ISE I (B1), ISE II (B2) e ISE III (C1)

Inside London’s 900-Year-Old Secret Garden

London is full of green spaces, but there is one many people walk by on a daily basis, unaware of its existence. A serene hideaway, it’s tucked within the remains of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, a church that was bombed during World War II. Visit this sweet spot.

Zombies at School?

 

 After the outbreak of a deadly virus, Sawston Village College has become a school for both humans and zombies. With danger lurking around every corridor, expert survivor Geoff Peng offers his top 5 tips for surviving Zombie School and getting those all important GCSEs.

Do you know how to make questions?

This video is about questions and question words.

NOTE!!!

Watch this video, pay attention to the Look and learn section and do the test below to revise how to do questions. Remember always:

Present tenses and Past tenses

This video is about present simple and present continuous. 

Present simple is used to talk about fixed actions or rutines:

• We usually go to the cinema to see a comedy on Fridays. 
• We eat pizza and we drink lemonade.

We use present continuous to talk about actions in progress now:

• We aren't watching a comedy, we are watching a cartoon
• We aren't eating pizza, we are eating burguers and chips, we are drinking milk

This video is about past simple and past continuous

• Some days ago Sam and Anna were talking when I went into the kitchen
• The day before yesterday we were having dinner when the phone rang

NOTE!!!

Watch these videos, pay attention to the Look and learn section and do the test below to revise tenses

Pronunciation chart and app to download

Click on the image 

When you enter the English File web page, you can click on each icon to hear the sound. 

Download the EF Pronunciation App from the App Store or Google Play to:

• hear words and sentences containing these sounds
• record and listen to yourself saying the words and sentences
• play a Practice game

English Sounds Pronunciation Chart based on an original idea and design by Paul Seligson and Carmen Dolz.