Idiom of the month

 

The end of the term is close, and you nailed it! Let's see what this mean:

Idiom:

Nailed it!

Meaning:

Do something very successfully

Examples:

I was worried about my test, but I nailed it!

Congratulations, dear, you nailed it!

Sending e-mails

 

Hello everybody!

Next weekend is going to be a really long one, you will have to send me an e-mail in which you explain what you have done, remember the rules for e-mails:

• From: your e-mail address
• To: my e-mail address
• Subject: what the e-mail is about
• Body message:
• Greeting (hello, hi, good morning...)
• Body: the main part, where you write your text, the information you want to transmit
• Closing (say goodbye)
• Sign: your name

I hope to get your e-mails

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Thanksgiving

 

Today is the fourth Thursday of November and in some countries like the USA it a special day, they celebrate Thanksgiving day.

Now I will let you more information about it, in the end, you will have two activities to do:

Thanksgiving 

Thanksgiving Day is a day for people in the US to give thanks for what they have. Families and friends get together for a meal, which traditionally includes a roast turkey, stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, cranberry sauce, gravy, and pumpkin pie. 

In some cities and towns, there are parades during Thanksgiving weekend. In most areas, these festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. 

Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States since 1863. There are claims that the first Thanksgiving Day was held in the city of El Paso, Texas, in 1598. Another early event was held in 1619 in the Virginia Colony. Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. 

However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast. 

In the second half of the 1600s, thanksgivings after the harvest became more common and started to become annual events. However, they were celebrated on different days in different communities, and in some places, there were more than one thanksgiving each year. George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789.

Source: timeanddate.com

Activities:

1. Answer in a document the following questions, save them as a .pdf and send this file to my educa.madrid.org email

• When does it happen?
• Where does it happen?
• Why does it happen?
• What happens?
• Importan symbols and their meanings.

2. On a piece of paper draw something related to Thanksgiving and write and complete the sentence: I give thanks for... You must bring the draw on Monday.

Remember, remember how to be safer

 

Practicing pronunciation

 

Hello everybody, are you ready?

We've been practicing pronunciation in class with the speaking assistants, know is time to record yourselves saying the following questions. Remember to send the audio file to the educamadrid email.

Questions to be recorded:

• Do you like decorating cakes?
• Are you OK?
• What are you going to do?
• Have you ever eaten frogs' legs?
• When did you go to the party?
• Who was eating snails?

Remember the rule before you record yourself:

When we ask a Yes / No question, the intonation rises at the end of the sentence. 

When we ask a Wh question, the intonation falls at the end of the sentence. 

Reading activity

 

In this activity, you will have to read the following test and later answer the question in the Google Forms below.

Bees in danger

There are more than 19,000 species of bees around the world. Bees are insects which can fly. Some bees, like honeybees, live in colonies. Other, solitary bees live alone.

Honeybees live in nests or hives. A colony has one queen bee, a few male drone bees, and lots of female workers. Inside the colony, each bee has its own job to do. The drones fertilize the queen so that she can produce eggs, and the queen lays eggs. The worker bees collect pollen and nectar from plants.

Bees are important for humans. They produce honey for us to eat, and wax to make candles and furniture polish. More importantly, they are pollinators. They carry pollen from one plant to another so that the plants can produce fruit.

The problem is that bees are in danger. They are losing their habitats and some farming chemicals are making them ill. If bees become extinct, many other plants and animals will disappear, too.

It is important to protect bees. We can help by giving bees space to live in our gardens and parks. And we must reduce the chemicals we use in our agriculture. If bees disappear, it is bad news for everybody.

Idiom of the Month

First idiom of the year: 

BREAK A LEG

Meaning:

Break a leg, it is an idiom that means Good luck! It is used to wish someone luck especially before a performance.

Example sentence:

I know you can do it! Break a leg!

You all look great in your costumes! Break a leg!

I hope you break a leg on your exam tomorrow.

Synonyms:

• Good luck
• Best wishes
• All the best!
• Best of luck