What is Poppy Day?

Poppy - Wikipedia

Poppy Day or Remembrance Day (in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom) is a day to remember people who fought and died in wars. It is on November 11th to remember the end of World War I on that day with Armistice with Germany in 1918.

Remembrance Day was started in 1919 by King George V from the United Kingdom. On the same day, other countries also have days to remember war and soldiers. There is Veteran's Day in the United States, and Armistice Day in France, Belgium, New Zealand and other countries.

Traditions

Poppies are often worn on Remembrance Day, and a few days before

There are some things that people do on Remembrance Day. One is having two minutes of silence at 11:00 AM. It is at 11:00 AM because that is when World War I ended. At a ceremony for Remembrance Day, before the two minutes of silence, a song called "The Last Post" is played on a bugle (or sometimes a trumpet). At the end of the silence, the bugle plays a song called "Reveille."

People often bring wreaths made of poppies to Remembrance Day ceremonies. The wreaths honor people who have died in wars.

In many countries, many people wear a fake poppy on Remembrance Day, and for a few days before. The poppy is a symbol to show that they remember the wars, and the soldiers who fought in them. Poppies were chosen to be a symbol because they often grew in battlefields, after the soldiers stopped fighting there.

Adapted from Simple Wikipedia

Subject / Object Questions

Subject object questions from Ana Arias Castro

SOME MORE EXERCISES:

• exercise 1

25 years of the Berlin Wall

four zones after WW2 - picture from Wikipedia

The Berlin Wall,  Berliner Mauer in German, separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It separated the eastern half from the western half. For manay it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was about 168 km (104 miles) long.It was built to prevent people from escaping from the eastern half of Berlin.

After the WW2 ended Germany was divided into four zones, one for each of the main Allied countries: France, United Kingdom, the USA and the Soviet Union. Berlin, its capital, was also divided into 4 zones even though it was inside the Soviet zone. 

In 1949 the British, French and American zones became the Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany and the Soviet part became the German Democratic Republic. As Germans living in the Soviet part of the city tried to escape a wall was built, the Berlin Wall.

Berlin Wall - picture from Wikipedia

The German Democratic Republic was isolated from the rest of the country and it had a communist regime. In the 1980s eastern, communist countries faced collapse and the opposition of people. In October 1989 mass demonstrations against the government in East Germany began.

Eventually, the Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.

READ MORE:

• Simple Wikipedia (easy texts for CLIL students)
• Wikipedia in English
• BBC: videos and audio files

USA midterm elections

President Obama-picture from Wikipedia

• General elections in the USA take place every four years: 2008, 2012, 2016...
• They take place on a Tuesday between the 2nd and the 8th of November.
• Sometimes other elections also take place: federal, local, etc.
• In these elections:
• A New President and Vice President of the United States of America is elected for four years (a term) or he/she might be re-elected for a second term.
• The President is not elected directly but by an Electoral College. Voters choose these member of the Electoral College and these, in turn, vote for the President.
• Presidential candidates are selected by their respective party's national conventions in the summer of hte election year.
• The two main parties are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
• This year there have been midterm elections.
• In the middle of each term (2010, 2014...)  midterm eletions take place.
• In midterm elections voters choose:
• Members of the House of Representatives and  Senators
• Governors of 34 out of the 50 states
• In some states, officers to state legislatures are also chosen.

Exercises for 3º PDC - unit 2

Possessive adjectives

• possessives - exercise 1
• possessives - exercise 2
  
• possessives - exercise 3
• possessives - exercise 4
• possessives - exercise 5
• possessives - exercise 6

Plural of Nouns

• plural - exercise 1
• plural - exercise 2: exceptions
• plural - exercise 3: irregular forms
• plural - exercise 4

Jobs

• Vocabulary about jobs
• exercise about jobs 1
• exercise about jobs 2
• exercise  3

Article:

• a / an - exercise 1
• a / an - exercise 2
• a / an - exercise 3
• a / an - exercise 4
• a / an - exercise 5

Demonstratives:

• This, that, these, those
• This / that / these / those -2
• Write these sentences in the plural
• exercise 4

Food - eTwinning project

This is our last activity about FOOD:

At the restaurant2 3-4 from Ana Arias Castro

How to write a recipe from Ana Arias Castro

Vocabulary

Past simple and past continuous (or progressive)

Past simple is often used for past events in a past time. Most stories are told using this tense and it is often used together with past continuous.

Past continuous or past progressive is one of the tenses we are going to study this year.

The following chart summarises the most important aspects you'll have to learn about both of them:

USES:

• Past simple is used to tell about past event or stories:
• We went to Ireland and there we met your sister.
• My parents spent a weekend in Coruña but they didn't go to the port.
• When did they release the film? Last Friday?
• Past continuous is often used to talk about what was happening at a specific time in the past (talking about memories...)
• We were watching the film at lunch time.
• Two past continuous tenses can be used to talk about long, simultaneous actions in the past:
• We were studying while the dogs were barking in the yard.
• Both tenses are used to talk about something that happened at one point (in the past simple) while a longer action was taking place (in the past continuous). In this use, the clause referring to the longer action, is often introduced by while or as; or, alternatively, the shorter action clauses is introduced by when:
• We weren't watching the film when my sister rang.
• They found the lost key as they were having a walk along the river.
• Myrtle broke here leg while she was exercising in the park.

EXERCISES:

• Past continuous 1
• Past contunuous 2 - statements
• Past continuous 3 - statements
• Past continuous 4 - negative
• Past continuous 5 - questions
• Past continuous 6 questions
• Past continuous use
• Past simple versus past continuous 1
• Past simple versus past continuous 2
• Past simple versus past continuous 3
• Past simple versus past continuous 4
• Past simple versus past continuous 5
• Past simple boy (from www.isabelperez.com)
• Lady past continuous (from www.isabelperez.com)
• Choose the right tense exercise (perfect-english-grammar.com)
• Revision exercise for unit 2 (past simple / past continuous / jobs / questions)
• Shakira's life (past simple exercise)

song: I don't like Mondays

LYRICS



The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home

And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoot

The whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
Her mother feels so shocked, father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl

Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need, oh, ohoho

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoot

The whole day down, down, down
Shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
And school's out early and soon we be learning
And the lesson today is how to die

And then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
With the problems and the hows and whys
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die, ohoho

And the silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload, oh
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home

And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why) I don't like, I don't like
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays

Tell me why I don't like, I don't like
(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
Tell me why I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoot

The whole day down
(Ooohooohooo, ooohooohooo
Ooohooohooo)