Maths Challenge (Reto Matemático)

Luis takes chess lessons every five days, and Mario every four. Today (Thursday), they have took lessons together. When will they meet again?

Luis toma lecciones de ajedrez cada cinco días, y Mario cada cuatro. Hoy (jueves) han tomado las lecciones juntos ¿Cuándo se volverán a encontrar?

NICE TRIAL!

Today we have started to practise Lennon's song "Happy Xmas". Good job! It sounds fantastic. I think we can do a good performance. Let's go!!

Vocabulary:

practise: ensayar
performance: actuación.

Fighting against climatic change.

We are going to sow a "mini forest" in our school. But you can do much more for our planet:

1.- Use the car only when it is necessary.

2.- Swich off the electrodomestics when you aren't using them.

3.- Separate your rubbish: plastic, paper, glass...

4.- Don't waste water: use only what you need.

5.- Heating at home: regulate your heating at 18 degrees.

Vocabulary: 

sow: plantar

rubbish: basura

waste: malgastar

heating: calefacción

A present for tomorrow.

Tomorrow we've got a Maths exam. Here I let you the final excercise, the most difficult one.

Complete this series:

3, 6, 30, 870...

Good luck!

Some mathematics.

Today Belinda told me that in the blog there is only English, English and English. It's true; so I give you a mathematical series to rack your brains:

Can you complete this series?

111 = 2
123 = 7
823 = 14
567 = ?

              THE ARCTIC FOX.

             

The arctic fox is one of the most beautiful animals in the world. He lives in arctic areas (Alaska, norh of Russia, north of Canada and coasts of Greenland) He can weather very cold temperatures and terrible winter storms. He eats small animals (mice, lemmings and some insects), sea birds and fish. Arctic foxes are very intelligent and adaptable. Actually they are in danger, as a consequence of climatic change. Perhaps he will dissapear in only twenty years.

Vocabulary:

• beautiful: bonito
• world: mundo
• can weather: puede aguantar
• mice: ratones
• danger: peligro
• change: cambio
• perhaps: quizá

The three pigs.

This is the story that we have written at class. Can you remember it?:

"Once upon a time there were three little pigs. They were drinking in a lake. Suddenly, a fierce wolf attacked them. But the wolf died because he was vegetarian. Finally, the three pigs were happy forever"

Vocabulary:

1. Once upon a time: érase una vez.
2. there were: había
3. Fierce: fiero
4. were: verbo to be en pasado. Se traduce como estaban, estuvieron, eran o fueron (para segunda persona del singular y para primera, segunda y tercera del plural)
5. was: verbo to be en pasado. Se traduce como era, fue, estaba o estuvo (sólo para primera y tercera persona del singular)

Verbo to be en presente:

I am

you are

he is 

she is 

it is

we are

you are 

they are.

Verbo to be en pasado (equivale a los tiempos españoles de pretérito imperfecto y pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de los verbos ser y estar)

I was

you were

he was

she was

it was

we were

you were

they were.

I see you tomorrow!!

This is the "famous" list of animals that I use at class. Now you can learn it!

I will upload more photocopies in the future. Now, if you loose one of them, you can print it from this blog.

Vocabulary of today.

Today the class was focused on materials. Here you have the full list with new words (in red)

Stone, paper, metal, iron, steel, clay, felt, silk, wood, wool, gold, silver, limestone, granite, basalt, cork, plastic, pottery (ceramic), plasticine, thread, leather, marble, glass, brick, straw, plaster, cooper, tin, lead, bronze, platinum, diamond, emerald, ruby, brass.

clay: arcilla    
basalt: basalto    
pottery: cerámica (cacharros)    
leather: cuero    
marble: mármol
brick: ladrillo  
cooper: cobre    
tin: estaño                                
lead: plomo      
brass: latón.

Christmas song.

As you know, this year we are going to sing a beautiful song composed by J. Lennon: "war is over" Here we go with an adapted version:

So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas (war is over)
For weak and for strong (if you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (war is over)
The world is so wrong (now)
And so happy Xmas (war is over)
For black and for white (if you want it)
For yellow and red ones (war is over)
Let's stop all the fight (now)

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear