Today students asked each other the question: What´s your mother´s last name? And how do you spell it?
We practiced questions in Past Simple, like: Did you wash your hair yesterday?


Then we started to prepare our Christmas play. Roles were given, students highlighted their lines and we read the play.


Here is the script: please learn your lines.

A Christmas Adventure

Dominic Streames © 2006

Elves:

1.     Santa: .......................

2.     Elf 1: .........................

3.     Elf 2: .........................

Robbers:

4.                 Billy: ...................

5.                 Tommy: ..............

Family:

6.                 Child 1: ...............

7.                 Child 2: ...............

Scene 1   The North Pole

(enter 2 or 3 children who stand at the front of the stage and say “Scene 1 The North Pole“ then exit)

(Enter elves, singing a typical Christmas song, Jingle Bells, or We wish you a merry Christmas etc)

Elves:                    Hello everyone.

Audience:           Hello.

Elves:                    How are you today?

Audience.           Fine, thank you. And you?

Elves:                    Fine thank you. We are elves.

Elf 1:                      We are small.

Elf 2:                      We are happy.

Elf 1:                      We are strong.

Elf 2:                      We help Santa.

Elves:                    We are  .............. Santa´s elves!

Elf 1:                      We make the presents.

Elf 2:                      We put the presents in boxes.

Elf 1:                      We wrap the presents.

Elf 2:                      We put the presents on Santa´s sleigh.

 (Enter Santa)

Santa:                   Ho, ho, ho! Hello everyone.

Audience:           Hello.

Santa:                   What’s my name? (Asking the audience)

Santa:                   Yes, my name is Santa. I like good boys and girls. I don´t like bad boys and girls. Are you bad?

Audience:           No!!

Santa:                   Are you good?

Audience:           Yes!!!

Elves:                    What time is it?

Santa:                   It’s Ch ristmas time. Let’s go.

(Exit elves and San

Scene 2 In a house in (insert name of town)

(enter 2 or 3 children who stand at the front of the stage and say “Scene 2 In a house in ……“ then exit)

(enter childen)

Child 1,2:             Hello everyone.

Child 1:                 It’s Christmas time.

Child 2:                 Do you like Christmas?

Child 1:                 Yes, I do.             Do you like Christmas?

Child2:                  Yes, I do.

Children:             Do you like Christmas? (Asking the audience)

Child 1:                 I’m very tired.

Child 2:                 Me, too I’m very tired.

Child 1:                 What time is it?

Child 2:                 It’s twelve o´clock.  Time for bed.

 (They all go to sleep on the stage at the side. Enter Santa and his elves tiptoeimg quietly)        

Santa:                   Put the presents under the tree.

(They all sing quietly, whispering)

Under the tree

Under the tree

Put the presents under the tree

(repeat)

(Exit everyone and enter robbers)

Robbers:             Hello everyone.

Billy:                      My name is Billy

! We are robbers We are robbers Yes, we are We are robbers We are robbers Yes, we are We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers We are robbers Yes, weeeee     arrrrrre!

Tommy:               My name is Tommy.

Robbers:             We are .... robbers!

Sing/Chantto the tune of “If you´re happy and you know it”

                                 

Billy:                      We are strong.

Tommy:               We are fast.

Billy:                      We are clever.

Tommy:               I am bad.

Billy:                      No, I am bad.

Tommy:               No, I am bad.

Billy:                      You? Ha, ha, ha. I am bad.

Tommy:               You? Ha, ha, ha. I am bad.

(Everyone starts shouting “I am bad” etc)

Billy:                      Quiet! I am bad .. and you  ....

Tommy:               Yes?

Billy:                      Are an idiot! come on!

Tommy:               Look! presents!              

Billy:                      Put the presents in the bag.

(They all sing quietly, whispering)

In the bag

In the bag

Put the presents in the bag

                                                     (Repeat)

(Tommy is going to sneeze)

Tommy:               Ah……ah…..ah…..

Billy:                      Shhhh!!!!!!!

Tommy:               Ah……ah…..ah…..

Billy:                      Shhhh!!!!!!!

Billy:                      Achoo!

(The noise wakes the children up)

Chidren:              Aaaaahhhh!!!

Children.             Who are you?

Robbers:             Ha, ha, ha. we are fast, we are strong, we are .......robbers!

Children:             Oh no!

(Enter Santa and the elves while they are saying this and they creep up behind them)

(Santa and the elves poke them with their fingers to get their attention)

Robbers:             Yes? (Turning round to see who it is)

Santa , Elves:     Merry Christmas!

(And Santa and the elves hit the robbers over the head and knock them out and then everyone sings the final songï Sung to the tune of  “Santa Clause is coming to town.”ð)

Everyone sings:                                              He is happy

He isn’t sad

He is good.

He isn’t  bad.

Santa, Santa is our friend.

He is happy

He isn’t sad

He is good.

He isn’t  bad.

Santa, Santa ....... is ....... our ........... frieeeeeeeeend!

Everyone.           The end.

HELP PARENTS! 

Please remind your children to spend 5 o 10 minutes doing their English homework.

Come on boys and girls! When you put time into something it becomes more interesting. This is your last opportunity to print the illustrations for you paper on Your Hobby.

Yesterday we started the lesson with the question: How many grandparents do you have? Grandparents is the word we use to talk about both our grandfathers and our grandmothers, so we may have 4 or 3 or 2 grandparents, or we may have only 1 grandparent or none.

We reviewed the flashcards for actions and then the teacher asked the students 10 questions in the past simple tense:  Did you buy some candy yesterday?

Later students were interviewing each other about things they did yesterday or things that happened yesterday.

We started a new unit. It is about holidays, things we do during our holidays, places where we go for holidays.

New words: beach, seaside, mountains, sunbathe, snowboard, ski, sea, sand, make sandcastles, sightseeing, take photographs, travel, towel. 

Students had to describe 3 pictures of people on their holidays. 

  Homework: again, bring those printed pictures to stick on your paper about your hobby.

Also: find 3 postcards and write where is the place we can see on the postcard and who went there for holidays.

Example:

This is San Marcos´square in Venice. I was there with my daughter in the summer of 2010.

Only two students did their homework. The other ones said they had not remember.

WELL, DON´T FORGET IT THIS TIME.
                                      NEXT LESSON I EXPECT EVERYBODY to bring the illustrations for the Hobby.

Today students were practicing saying dates: they said when is their birthday and the birthday of a family member.

We continue studying the past simple. We were studying actions like: get up, get dressed - got up, got dressed, have - had, eat - ate, drink - drank, catch - caught, run - ran (all irregular verbs) and other ones that are regular verbs: wash - washed, play - played, talk - talked, help - helped, carry - carried, brush -brushed.

Students had to write questions and answers for their project: My hobby. Most students found it difficult. Only one finished it. We we´ll finish it next week.

For homework you need to write some questions like this:

Do you wash your face everyday? ( In present simple, using do as an auxiliary )

Where did you buy yourT-shirt? (In the Past Simple, using did as an auxiliary)

When do you play the piano? ( In present simple, using do as an auxiliary )

Who do you go swimming with?  (A question with a preposition at the end. In Spanish we put it at the beginning: ¿Con quien ...?

Hello 6th graders, it was a very good first hour.

We started the lesson asking the questions: What year were you born? (I was born in 2000) and Where are you from? I am from Leganés.

2 students ( better than last week) had done their homework well and read it, one student had not understood and the other 3 had not done it. I hope next week is better.

Teacher explained how to make the Past Simple tense. Remember:

Irregular verbs: you have to study the past form. Example: buy/ bought, eat/ate, drink/drank, speak/spoke.

Regular verbs: you need to add the particle  -ed to the verb. Examples: want/wanted, walk/walked, play/played.

To make questions, instead of do you have to put did. A question in the present is: do you make breakfast everyday? A question in the past is: did you make breakfast yesterday?

Students did exercises from book: first, they asked a partner some questions about their hobby, then they wrote down answers. In the second exercised students read aloud some sentences and matched them with an activity.

For the Olympic Games students were divided in two teams. Unfortunately they were talking so loud we did not even finished the game, which was about picking a questions from a bag and answer it or ask partners for help.

Scores
Player 2   3
Player 3   3
Player 4   3.5
Player 5   3.5
Player 6   3
Player 7   3.5

Remember you need to think of 5 questions for your project. And you need to print some pictures to illustrate your project.

My example is
What´s your hobby?   I like roller skating.
Do you have roller skates? Yes, I do.
Where are they? They are in my bedroom, on a shelf.
Where did you buy them? I bought them in a sport supplies shop.
Where do you rollerskate? I rollerskate in the Retiro Park.
When do you rollerskate? I rollerskate every Saturday afternoon.
Do you like it very much? Oh yes! I do, I love it.