The Vikings are coming!

As you know, the vikings were an ancient people from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) who travelled over Europe when nobody dares to move from his land or little village.

They were courageus and rude warriors, but intrepid explorers and brave sailors too.

They sailed from coast to coast, sometimes robbering rich monasteries, but many times knowing differents places, trading with a lot of villages, setting up settlements all over Europe, and even beyond...

See this map: over the year 1000, one viking captain, Leif Eriksson, traveled with his men from Groenland to Terranova in North America!! Being by this way the first european that saw America (almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus).

If you want to learn more about this brave and amazing people you can visit this page.

Now, answer the questions. You can look for the needed information in the same page:

1. See the map, what was the name the vikings used for the new territories they discovered in North America?

2. How were the vikings ships? You can read this

3. What can you tell me about the daily life of the vikings? You can find information here

4. The vikings had a pagan and politheist religion, what was it like? You can answer reading this

5. What the vikings left behind? How can we know about them and their adventures? See this

Now, we can find the vikings in cinema

Or even in comics!

One more thing... the vikings never wear HORNS!

LA CONSTITUCIÓN ESPAÑOLA

España es un país formado por muchos pueblos y muchas gentes. En 1.978 todos decidieron escribir cómo tenemos que comportarnos entre nosotros y con las gentes de otros países. Con todo lo que escribieron hicieron un libro que todos los españoles tenemos que conocer. Ese libro es la Constitución. En ella, se reflejan los derechos y los deberes de los ciudadanos españoles, así como nuestras libertades, límites territoriales, bandera, etc. Seguro que en clase, habéis tratado el tema y ahora repasaremos algunos de sus aspectos de una forma amena. Por ello, te proponemos las siguientes actividades:

1. Aprende más sobre La Carta Magna con el juego de la Constitución.
   
2. Utiliza tu imaginación y apunta un derecho o un deber que, bajo tu criterio, debería incluirse en una Constitución ficticia. Ahí va mi propuesta:

Todo el mundo tiene derecho a leer un buen libro, así como, el deber de recomendarlo a sus amigos/as.

BLACK FRIDAY

The day after Thanksgiving Day is called Black Friday in the USA. It's considered the beginning of the Christmas shopping.  Black Friday has been the busiest shopping day for the last 6 or 7 years.

  

A lot of retailers open very early (3 or 4 am) offering fantastic sales in order to kick off the shopping season.

There are so many people queuing for hours to get the best bargain that sometimes you may find it absolutely chaotic to take advantage of Black Firday sales. Some bargain hunting even camp out  overnight in order to secure a good place at the queue.

While the word "black" often has a negative connotation, here it alludes to profitability which is noted in black ink (loses are noted in red).

Questions:

1. If you have understood everything you'll be able to give a definition for the following words:

    retailer, sale, bargain, profit.

2. Do you remember when Thanksgiving Day is celebrated?

3. When was Black Friday 2011?

4. Do we have in Spain any shopping days named after colours?

5. When do people in Spain queue for hours?

6. Why do people in Spain camp out overnight?

7. For what reason would you queue for hours or camp out overnight?

Animals special adaptation

How can animals live
in such different places in the world?

Animals live everywhere on Earth. Some places on Earth are very hot and some are very cold. Some places on Earth have a lot of water and plants, and other places have very little water and few plants. Animals can live in many different places in the world because they have special adaptations to the area they live in. Each adaptation has been produced by evolution. This means that the adaptations have developed over many generations.

Look at this web: ANIMALS ADAPTATION. Read about the adaptations of all the animals on the left column, chose one, and make a summary about how can it survive in its environment.

Do you know any other animal adaptation that is not in this web?

REGISTROS LINGÜÍSTICOS

Hemos estudiado en clase, los diferentes niveles de lengua: culto o formal, coloquial y vulgar; incluso, habéis dramatizado delante de vuestros compañeros situaciones adaptadas a cada situación comunicativa. Para que no se os olvide, visionad la secuencia de la serie Aída y contesta a las siguientes cuestiones:

1. Determina el registro lingüístico que están utilizando los actores en su diálogo.
2. Señala, al menos, cuatro ejemplos de dicho registro que observes en él.
   

Les habitudes de Jean.

Salut! Voici un exercice pour pratiquer le français. J'espère que vous le ferez sans problèmes.
Vous pouvez le corriger après l'avoir fait.

Cliquez ici pour se diriger à l'exercice.

La deuxième partie, il faut parler d'une journée habituelle. Vous devez le faire ici (minimum: utilisez dix verbes au présent).

Time Travelling to Middle Age

Hi there boys and girls!

Have you seen the film "Back to the Future"? It's about a young boy like anyone of you, Marty, but with a special friend: a crazy scientist, Doc, who has just invented a Time Machine... and he put it in a Delorean! For the testing travel, the car-time machine must reach 88 miles per hour (about 120 km. per hour). Doc sent his faithful dog Einstein into the past... and it returned to the present without problem.

Now, imagine you are Marty and you can travel to the Middle Age. Your Social Science teacher wants you to do a special activity about tournaments in the middle ages. You must look for adequate clothes so anyone in the past feel anything strange about you... What will you wear?
Besides, you have to describe how the knights fought,

And how many types of tournaments there were

What do you think? It was a funny hobby? or it was dangerous and useless?

If you were a medieval knight, would you partipate in a tournament?

You can see a full armoured knight here

You have a lot of information about tournaments here

You must harry, you only have a few hours until the Delorean loses its energy to return to the future!