A year with our language assistant. Thanks Elena!

Shrove Tuesday

In this presentation, Elena, our language assistant talks about a typical day in England: Shrove Tuesday and its traditional pancakes.

Pancake Day

Pancake Day is celebrated in some countries, such as, England, on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
People celebrate this holiday by eating pancakes. It is very popular too, on this day, to promise to give something up during Lent, something you like a lot or that you have to try hard to give it up.







Today, in the English session, Elena has shown us, through a motivating activity, how to make pancakes.








You can see here some pictures that show you not only the ingredients but also the steps you have to follow to make them yourself.

At the end of the session, thanks to Cinta, the student that is training as a teacher here in our school, we have been able to taste the delicious pancakes and to celebrate the success of such a nice activity.
You can watch the video below to see how much we have enjoyed it.

Pictures


Pancake day by Slidely Slideshow

A song

Christmas in England

Bonfire Night

Talking with Elena about Bonfire Night, an English tradition.

Thunders, cannons and a kite

Listening and reading a story. Thank you Elena.

           

  

The earthquake in L'Aquila

Our language assistant, Elena, read us a story about the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, in 2009. Then, the students have made questions to each other related to this event, like what magnitude it had on the Richter scale, how many victims there were or how many people were left homeless. Here you can see some example of this practice.

Halloween a primer