ANIMALS

 

We divide animals in two categories:

1. VERTEBRATES: They have got a spine (or backbone)
2. INVERTEBRATES: They haven't got a spine (or backbone)
   
   

FIRST CATEGORY: VERTEBRATES

 

We classify the vertebrate animals in 5 different groups:

mammals,  reptiles,  birds,  fish  and  amphibian

SECOND CATEGORY: INVERTEBRATES

ANIMAL BODY PARTS

ANIMALS VERSUS HUMANS

Are we really so different from them?? What do you think?

HUMAN BEINGS are also animals:

What type of animals??

VERTEBRATES and MAMMALS

ANIMAL SONGS

ANIMALS IN THE JUNGLE SONGS

Walking in the jungle, by SUPER SIMPLE SONGS

Walking through the jungle, by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (Big Surprise! 1)

STORY TIME

- OWEN AND MZEE: A STORY ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

A REAL STORY OF GOOD FRIENDS

- ADIKA THE HEDGEHOG

- THE MONSTER UP THE HILL

HAVE YOU SEEN MY CAT? Story by Eric Carle

-THE END-

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

These are the planets in our SOLAR SYSTEM

Sing the Solar System song!

The Sun is a star in the Solar System.

The Earth orbits the Sun.

 

And the moon orbits the Earth

QUEEN

THIS IS ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE ROCK BANDS...

And here you can listen to some QUEEN famous songs.

It's a kind of Magic! Do you want to sing this song? (Magic Cultural week 2013)

 It's a kind of magic, with lyrics

Official video, Queen 

TONGUE TWISTERS

Here you can practice four TONGUE TWISTERS:

1. Rubber baby buggy bumpers

2. She sells seashells by the seashore

3. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

4. Peter Piper picked a pock of pickled peppers

MEANS OF TRANSPORT

Forms of transport / Ways of transport / Types of transport

Now we are going to divide them in three different groups: 
LAND, AIR AND WATER transportation.
 Sing the Transportation song by Peter Weatherall

LAND TRANSPORTATION - EXAMPLES:
-The car

-The bus 

Here you can sing this song: THE WHEELS ON THE BUS
(by BAREFOOT BOOKS songs)

AIR TRANSPORTATION 

-Parts of the AIRCRAFT AND EXAMPLESAIR ways of transport

The supersonic plane (CONCORDE)

-The hot air balloon

WATER TRANSPORTATION - EXAMPLES:

OTHER TRANSPORTATION SONGS

(Thanks to Barefoot Books songs. We love all of your songs! My students enjoy singing them!) 

We all go travelling by

The Journey Home from Grandpa's

Driving my Tractor

GRAMMAR: PAST SIMPLE TENSE

 

GRAMMAR

THE PAST SIMPLE FORMS:

     AFFIRMATIVE / POSITIVE / STATEMENT
     NEGATIVE
     INTERROGATIVE / QUESTION
     SHORT ANSWERS

WE DIVIDE VERBS IN TWO GROUPS:

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR

REGULAR VERBS (FORMATION)

REGULAR VERBS (EXAMPLES)

IRREGULAR VERBS (LIST)

IRREGULAR VERBS (EXAMPLES)

PAST WORDS AND PHRASES / EXPRESSIONS THAT WE USE WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE PAST (PAST SIMPLE TENSE)

NOW YOU CAN WATCH A VIDEO WHERE PEOPLE ARE USING THIS TENSE

IT'S TIME TO SING A SONG!! 

Do you know Mr. Morton?

That's a nice using many verbs in the Past Simple tense. And it's also a very effective way of learning how to build sentences (Subject + Predicates + ...).

1, 2, 3... Look at me! 1, 2, 3... Listen to me! (Silence, please)

WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT'S THE TIME?

 

Good Morning! I'm Norman! (From Muzzy videos)

What time is it? It's three o'clock. It's time to play guitar...