Halloween Traditions

• What do you know about Halloween traditions? - Read the text here to find out!

• And what about the origins of Halloween? How did Halloween start?

 

• People usually watch horror movies or read and tell mystery stories and spooky tales? Do you fancy this type of stories? 

• Watch a short video story, for kids (when you tell a story or read aloud try to read with expression and emotion / intonation)
  
  
• (8th grade students) Visit the Padlet to record your stories: Halloweens Stories1 and Halloween stories 2

Saint Valentine's Day

 Let's celebrate Valentin'e Day with stories, poems or rhymes and songs. Send cards to the people you love. Sing inspiration on the words below.

• Listen to a classic love song, from Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E. Then write your own acrostic poem about love.

          

• Many other love songs have nice lyrics so you can learn the language of love: adjectives, hyperboles  or exaggerations ("yours until the rivers all run dry ... until I die"), possessives (my, yours, mine) and comparisons or metaphors.

       >  In "Baby I'm yours" (cover by Arctic Monkeys) notice how big this love is.

• Also watch a cute commercial with a beautiful message here (Reading inspires kids)
• And why not writing a love letter / card (a Valentine) to someone special?

• And do you know the story of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare? Read and watch it on the following sites:  LearnEnglishTeens or LearnEnglish Kids

• If you want a modern version of the story, you can watch Romeo+Juliet, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. See the trailer below.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

 

• Do some self-check exercises (positive/negative sentences) here and here (advanced)
• Do other exercises with correction (PDF - All Things Grammar)
• Also do some interactive worksheets: Liveworksheet 1; Liveworksheet 2; Liveworksheet 3, Liveworksheet 4 (easy: for/since)