Spanish rivers (Social Sciences Unit 1)

Spanish mountains (Social Science Unit 1)

English Grammar Review Unit 1

PAST SIMPLE

I went to the cinema ✔️
You went to the cinema ✔️
He/She went to the cinema ✔️
We went to the cinema ✔️
You went to the cinema ✔️
They went to the cinema ✔️

I didn´t go to the cinema ✖️
You didn´t go to the cinema. ✖️
He/She didn´t go to the cinema.  ✖️
We didn´t go to the cinema. ✖️
You didn´t go to the cinema. ✖️
They didn´t go to the cinema. ✖️

Did I go to the cinema?❓
Did you go to the cinema? ❓
Did he/she go to the cinema?❓
Did we go to the cinema?❓
Did you go to the cinema?❓
Did they go to the cinema? ❓

IMPORTANT: You MUST know the regular and irregular verbs. 

 - Past simple activities.

PAST CONTINUOUS

I was going to the cinema.✔️
You were going to the cinema.✔️
He/She was going to the cinema.✔️
We were going to to cinema. ✔️
You were going to the cinema.✔️
They were going to the cinema. ✔️

I wasn´t going to the cinema. ✖️
You weren´t going to the cinema. ✖️
He/She wasn´t going to the cinema. ✖️
We weren´t going to the cinema. ✖️
You weren´t going to the cinema. ✖️
They weren´t going to the cinema. ✖️

Was I going to the cinema? ❓
Were you going to the cinema? ❓
Was he/she going to the cinema? ❓
Were we going to the cinema? ❓
Were you going to the cinema? ❓
Were they going to the cinema? ❓

IMPORTANT: You MUST know the different forms of the verb TO BE. 

-  Past continuous activities

PAST PERFECT

I have gone to school ✔️
You have gone to school.✔️
He/She has gone to school. ✔️
We have gone to school. ✔️
You have gone to school. ✔️
They have gone to school. ✔️

I haven´t gone to school ✖️
You haven´t gone to school. ✖️
He/She hasn´t gone to school. ✖️
We haven´t gone to school. ✖️
You haven´t gone to school. ✖️
They haven´t gone to school. ✖️

Have I gone to school? ❓
Have you gone to school? ❓
Has he/she gone to school? ❓
Have we gone to school? ❓
Have you gone to school? ❓
Have they gone to school? ❓

IMPORTANT: 

• You MUST know the different forms of the verb TO HAVE and the participles (3rd column)
• You can se I´ve and She´s. That also means I have, she has... They are called contractions. 
• We can see YET, NEVER, EVER, ALREADY in the past perfect. 

I have already gone to school. 
I´ve never gone to school. 
I haven´t gone to school yet. 
Have you ever gone to school?

 -  Past Perfect activities.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

I have been going to school.✔️
You have been going to school. ✔️
He/she has been going to school. ✔️
We have been going to school. ✔️
You have been going to school. ✔️
They have been going to school. ✔️

I haven´t been going to school. ✖️
You haven´t been going to school. ✖️
He/she hasn´t been going to school. ✖️
We haven´t been going to school. ✖️
You haven´t been going to school. ✖️
They haven´t been going to school. ✖️

Have I been going to school. ❓
Have you been going to school. ❓
Has he/she been going to school. ❓
Have we been going to school. ❓
Have you been going to school. ❓
Have they been going to school. ❓

 -   Present Perfect Continuous activities

Natural Sciences Unit 1

How your eyes work (sense of sight):

How your ears work (sense of hearing): 

How your nose work (sense of smell):

How your tongue works (sense of taste):

Also, check out Padlet!

English Games

Irregular verbs:

http://www.aventurasdeaprendizaje.es/bubbleverbs1/

Making sentences:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/bubbles-english/

Identify the verbs in a sentence:

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/identifying-verbs-in-sentences.html

The nervous system

Find out more about your amazing brain!

Present Perfect. Already/Yet

Present perfect sentences for extra practice!

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/present_perfect_already_yet.htm

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-17320.php

Too easy? Try doing these!

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/intermediate-grammar/just-yet-still-already

Yet

‘Yet’ is used to talk about something which is expected to happen. It means ‘at any time up to now’. It is used in questions and negatives.

• Have you finished your homework yet? The speaker expects that the homework will be finished.
• I haven’t finished it yet. I’ll do it after dinner.

‘Yet’ usually comes at the end of the sentence.

Already

‘Already’ is used to say that something has happened early – or earlier than it might have happened.

• I’ve already spent my salary and it’s two weeks before pay day.
• The train’s already left! What are we going to do?

‘Already’ usually comes in mid-position.

More information on Padlet: 

How can I get a good mark?

I want a good mark in English, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. What can I do? Read the two GUIDELINES posted on Padlet!

Vocabulary 1 (Basic vocabulary)

PET and KET

Some of you want to start practicing for KET and PET exams, so here is something you can start with:

- Look at the vocabulary list.
- Listen to some tips for the exam and practice your listening skills.
- Take an online test!

How? Go to my Padlet and click on the different links:

Telling time

Can you tell the time in English? Here are some explanations, videos and games as a review.

Videos:

Games:

Bang on Time Read the time and stop the clock just in time! You can adjust the hand speed to make it easier or more difficult.

Play a word game to learn and practise time vocabulary.

Gamestolearnenglish - Clock

WELCOME BACK!

Welcome back!

And welcome to a very special year: 6th grade.

In the blog I will post resources, vocabulary, videos... Check it out regularly!

Remember: if you are looking for a specific content, topic or subject you can look for it by using the labels ("etiquetas") on the right.

Ready to learn?

Mar.

The End

Heat and light

English test unit 6- Tuesday, 5th of June

What do you have to know? 

• Questions with "how + adjective": How big is it? How beautiful are they?
• Passive voice in present: object + is/are + verb (participle) + (by subject). The piano is played by my mum. Some pictures are taken.
• Passive voice in past simple: object + was/were + verb (participle) + (by subject). Harry Potter books were written by J.K. Rowling. 
• Passive voice questions: wh- + is/are/was/were + object +verb (participle)? Where was the mobile phone invented? When was this book written?
• Questions with WHO: who + verb (active) + object? Who wrote this book? 
• Vocabulary about technology and inventions: computer, hot-air balloon, keyboard, mobile pone, radio, satellite, steam train, toothbrush, underground, Wheel.
• Writing: describe a process in passive voice- how can you make a craft with recycled materials?
• 50 Irregular verbs: 

be - was/were- been

become - became - become

begin - began - begun

bite - bit - bitten

blow - blew - blown

break - broke - broken

build - built - built

buy - bought - bought

catch- caught - caught

coose - chose- chosen

come - came - come

cut - cut- cut

do - did - done

draw - drew - drawn

drink- drank - drunk

drive - drove - driven

eat - ate- eaten

feel - felt - felt

fall- fell - fallen

fly - flew - flown

forget - forgot- forgotten

give - gave - given

go - went - gone

gro - grew - grown

hang - hung - hung

have - had - had

hide - hid - hidden

hit - hit - hit

hold - held - held

keep - kept - kept

leave - left - left

let - let - let

make - made - made

meet - met - met

pay - paid - paid

put - put - put

read - read - read

ring- rang - rung

say - said - said

see - saw - seen

sell - sold - sold

speak - spoke - spoken

steal - stole - stolen

swim - swam - swum

take - took - taken

teach - taught - taught

tell - told - told

think - thought. thought

wake - woke - woken

win - won - won

write - wrote- written

PASSIVE GAME

GAME IRREGULAR VERBS PAST

GAME IRREGULAR VERBS PARTICIPLE

MEMORY IRREGULAR VERBS

CRUCIGRAMA IRREGULAR VERBS PARTICIPLE

SENTENCES PARTICIPLE

Proyectos seleccionados para DrawingED

Green Water from TRD Nejapa on Vimeo.
Transportes Pro from TRD Nejapa on Vimeo.

Feria Expositiva

Alba Pallín Molina de Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Natural Science Test unit 4: Thursday, 24th May

What do you have to know? 

• Definition of energy: Energy is the ability to do work. Energy can´t be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. 
• Forms of energy: Mechanical (kinetic or potential), chemical, thermal, light, electrical, nuclear. You have to know examples and definition of these forms of energy. 
• Common energy transformations: Cars and other means of transport (chemical- into kinetic and thermal), electric drills (electrizal- into thermal, light and kinetic), solar panels (light- into electrical) or food (calories). 
• Sources of energy: Renewable (they are not limited) like hydrolectric, wind, solar or biofuels. And non-renewable (they are limited) like petroleum, natural gas, coal or uranium. You have to explain these sources.
• Environment: Explain the problems that the non-renewable sources cause to the environment (acid rain, global warming, pollution). What are the three Rs? Explain them and give examples. 

This video is long, but it´s perfect to review all the contents.

Prosolar

Prosolar from Alba Pallín Molina

Polipájaro

Polipájaro de Alba Pallín Molina

Recicla Team

Recicla Team de Alba Pallín Molina

MMA

MMA from Alba Pallín Molina

Gotas Salvavidas

Gotas salvavidas from Alba Pallín Molina

Green Water

Green water from Alba Pallín Molina

Transportes pro

Transportes pro from Alba Pallín Molina

Ecochapas

Ecochapas from Alba Pallín Molina

Pijama party

Pijama party from Concepción Molina Sánchez on Vimeo.

Forms of energy

We are ready for the next unit! In this unit we are going to study different forms of energy. But, what is energy? It is the ability to do work. This video will help you to understand it better! 

English test unit 5: Tuesday, 8th May

What do you have to know?

• Comparative (-er than or more than) and superlative (the -est or the most).
• Irregular adjectives: good- better- the best/ bad- worse- the worst/ far- further-the furthest/Little-less- the least/.
• Equality: as + adjective + as
• Quantifiers: uncountable- much/ a lot of / a little. Countable- many/ a lot of / a few.
• Quantifiers: too much/ too many/ enough. 
• Use of: There is/ there are. 
• Adjectives: bad, beautiful, cheap, clean, cold, dirty, expensive, fast, good, high, hot, large, noisy, old, pollutes, quiet, short, slow, spectacular, strong, tall, weak, young. 
• Writing: Write about the advantages and disadvantages of living in the city or in the countryside. 

Much/many

Much/many2

Too

Too/ enough exercise

Comparative

Comparative2

Comparative3

Festival

No hemos conseguido ninguna grabación del día del festival, pero tenemos una del día del ensayo general. Si alguien dispone de un vídeo del día del festival agradeceríamos mucho que nos lo facilitaseis a través de un pendrive. ¡Muchas gracias! 

Comparative and superlative

Information and games

Game

Game

History projects

Social Science test Unit 6

What do yo have to know?

• Beginning and end of the Early Modern Age. 
• Catholic monarchs: who were them?, what did they do?, what is the Spanish Inquisition?
• Age of discovery: why is is called like this?, who were the most famous conquistadors?,and explorers?, what did they do?
• Hapsburg: who were Juana and Philip?, name the 5 kings from the Hapsburg dinasty, where was the territory dominated by Carlos I ?, what were the reasons for the end of the Hapsburg dinasty?
• Golden Age: name the most important artists of this period and their most important paintings. Name three important writers. 
• Bourbons: what is the war of the Spanish Succession?, what did Felipe V do?, what did Carlos III do? 

La mazurca de las sombrillas

English Unit 4 test: 15th March

What do you have to know? 

• Circus vocabulary: clown, juggle, make-up, stilts, swing, tightrope, trapeze, unicycle.
• Music vocabulary: blues, classical, country, hip-hop, jazz, rock.
• Irregular verbs: go, be, eat, find, fly, learn, ride, win, write, swim, feel, fall, do, buy, meet, begin, make, see, have, 
• Past Simple: affirmative, negative, questions. 
• Present Perfect Simple: affirmative, negative, questions (ever). 
• Already, yet, just, since, for. 
• Writing: Write about the places you want to go or you have already been to. You have to use already and yet. 

Present perfect: exercises and examples

Present perfect game

Present perfect: never, ever practise

Questions Present perfect- past simple

Already and yet

Past Simple: exercises and examples

Past Simple game

¡¡¡¡Carnaval!!!!!!

St. Valentine´s day

Sant Valentine´s day from Alba Pallín Molina on Vimeo.

Spain in the Middle Ages (test: Tuesday, 27th February)

What do I have to know?

• Beginning and end of the Middle Ages 5th-15th centuries (Roman empire fall-discovery of America).
• Visigoths: 507 A.D. visigoths conquered the Peninsula creating the kingdom of Toledo. They were a Germanic tribe. Religion, language and economy (farmers). 
• Muslims: 711 A.D. muslims defeated visigoths in the Battle of Guadalete. They came from the North of Africa. They were and emirate (dependent) and the became a caliphate (independent) with Abderramán III. Religión (Islam), cities (mosques, souk, alcazaba). Economy (merchants/irrigated farming). Monuments (Mezquita de Córdoba, Alhambra de Granada).
• Christians: Three society groups- clergy, nobles and peasants. New jobs (blacksmiths, artisans and millers). 722 A.D. Battle of Covadonga (Don Pelayo)- Kingdom of Asturias. Reconquista (8th-15th centuries): important conquests- Toledo, Jaén, Islas Baleares, Córdoba, Valencia, Sevilla, Granada (1492). 

English test unit 3 (Tuesday, 13th February)

What do I have to know?

1. Future: will and won´t (predictions and last minute decisions), might (uncertain plans and possibility in the future), to be + going to (plans and predictions with an evidence) and present continuous (arrangements).
2. Numbers: Write large numbers (million, thousand, hundred).
3. Vocabulary: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Júpiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, stars, astronaut.
4. Writing: The house of the future.

 Future game

Going to game

will/going to games

Present Continuous (future) information and games

Writing numbers

Writing numbers 2

Fotos del primer trimestre

NAVIDAD2 from Alba Pallín Molina on Vimeo.

Unit 2 test: Tuesday 23th January

What do I have to know?

• The five kingdoms: animals, plants, monerans, fungi and protista.
• Vertebrate animals: mammals, reptiles, fish, birds and amphibians. (Examples and characteristics- body, respiration, extremities and reproduction.
• Invertebrate animals: molluscs, echinoderms, coelenterates, annelids, porífera and arthropods. (Examples and characteristics- body, respiration and reproduction.
• Plants: difference between seed plants and non-seed plants. Difference between angiosperms and gimnosperms. Examples of non-seed plants: ferns (spores are in the fronds) and mosses (rhizoids, spores are in capsules).
• Fungi: mushrooms, yeast and mould. Body (three parts), reproduction and nutrition.  
• Monerans: Unicellular (some have a tail), nutrition and reproduction. 
• Protista: Algae and protozoa. Reproductiona and nutrition. 

The following videos can be difficult and they have extra information, however they can be helpful to understand the unit.

Vertebrate animals

Patinaje sobre hielo

¡Nos encantó la excursión a patinar sobre hielo!

Todos patinamos juntos y compartimos momentos muy divertidos.

 Echamos mucho de menos a algunos alumnos que no pudieron ir, pero lo importante es que habrá muchas más ocasiones para salir de excursión juntos y que en 5º de primaria ¡somos un equipo!

VID_20171221_110100 from Alba Pallín Molina on Vimeo.