OUR BEST TREASURE...

What would we do without them? :)

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE WORD "TICK"?

I like the fact that some words in any language can´t have an accurate translation into other languages. That happens for example with the Galician word "enxebre"...
Something enxebre is ... traditional... ? well, yes, it is, but... it means something else ... you can´t get the inner meaning unless you are a native speaker or you can have a very good example of the word in a very specific context.

Other words are easier to translate but you would need more than one word to do it. As an example, " a tick" or " to tick". In English, when you listen to those words , you just do the action but when my students ask me what they mean I have to say: "to tick is to write this sign". And I draw it on the blackboard. You can´t use just one word to translate it. If you look it up in the dictionary it says: tick: marca... but... what kind of "marca"?

I have always liked this sign: "listen and tick", "tick the words you hear", "tick or cross"... That´s why I dedicate this post to one of my favourite English signs :)

WHY ARGUE WITH SOMEONE WHO´S ALWAYS RIGHT?

ENGLISH TRADITIONAL BREAKFAST

I am still wondering how English people can have all this food for breakfast... I love English traditions but I wouldn´t swap my toasts and white coffee for the traditional English breakfast!
It looks lovely though! If you want to try it, just click on the link below and shoulders to the wheel!
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-traditional-full-english-breakfast

THE GINGERBREAD MAN

This is a great story that everybody knows and nobody tells. If it's told well, it can make a BIG hit at a student storytelling assembly.

USEFUL LINKS:
http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/gingerbread/load.htm?f&n=main
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/gingerbread/index.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/thematic/gingerbread/index.htm
http://cfschools.net/schools/ch/heazak/ginger/ginger.html
http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/gingerbread-man/index.htm
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/gingerbread/felt.htm
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/gingerbread/sequencing.htm
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/stories/gingerbread.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/colour/gingerbreadman.shtml?page9

GINGERBREAD

Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavors are ginger and raw sugar.

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-gingerbread-men-cookies

IT FINALLY HAPPENED...

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”— Proverb

WHAT´S THE TIME, MR. WOLF?

What's the time, Mr Wolf? is a form of tag played in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the English-speaking Caribbean. In the United States it may be called "What time is it, Mr Fox?" .
It bears some resemblance to Red light, green light and Dahrumasan ga koronda.

I've no idea why this game works, but it does - kids find it exciting and fun!

Click on the link below to see how to play this fun chasing game:

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-play-whats-the-time-mr-wolf

USEFUL LINKS:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/party_games_and_activities.htm

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/welsh/

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-time.htm

SLIPPERY FISH / I AM A PIZZA

Thiese are cute rhymes and the kids love them. They are on the Charlotte Diamond CD " Ten Carrot Diamond".



USEFUL LINKS:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/charlottediamond/octopusslipperyfish.htm
http://www.charlottediamond.com/music/soylyrics.htm