Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Storytime (Infant Education, 1st and 2nd levels)

Hi, everybody!

The most interesting stories:

1. "The little mermaid"


2. "The milkmaid and her pail"


3. "The tortoise and the hare"

4. "The ugly ducking"


5. "The cat in boots"


6. "The three little pigs"



7. "The lion and the mouse"



8. "The Gingerbread Man"




Friday, March 27, 2020

IDIOMS



An expression that typically expresses a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase is called IDIOMS. 

If you go to the USA or the UK, you'll encounter folks who use figure of speech in communicating. To give examples, let's look on the examples below.


APPLE OF THE EYE- refers to someone very precious or dear
That boy from the 5th level is apple of (my) eye.

BREAK A LEG- do your best
I heard you have a handball match this coming Wednesday. Break a leg while you're ar it!

LIVE AND LEARN - Make a mistake. 
In life,you are always faced with circumstances. Sometimes, you live and learn.

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN -That's true, I agree.
Living here in Spain particularly in Basauri is best thing ever! 
Clayton: You can say that again!

WHEN PIGS FLY- something that will never happen.
Williams will only keep quiet when pigs fly.

THAT'S NOT ON!- unacceptable
This is a modern version of an even more British-sounding idiom, “that’s not cricket.”

NOT MY CUP OF TEA- not enjoyable/unlikable 
Playing rugby is not my cup of tea. 

PIECE OF CAKE- refers to something that is easy to do.
Boiling an egg is a piece of cake





Sunny weather

Who wouldn't want and enjoy the sunny weather? Like, going outside to meet your friends, Going out with your family to have picnic, doing sports, flying a kite, and other sort? Clearly this is the most enjoyable weather of all.

Sunny weather days are days when there exists very little or no clouds at all in the sky. Usually, we experience more sunny days during summer when the days are warmer.

Windy

Wind is basically just more than moving air. It  blows at different speeds and move in all different directions. It is the best weather to gon on sports particularly paragliding, and parasailing but you have to consider the force of the wind. It shouldn't be too strong because if yes, you have to say goodbye and postpone your activity for a time being.

But how does it move?

WHY WE HAVE WIND

The sun provides light and heat to the earth. But it doesn’t give the same amounts of light and heat to the entire surface of the earth. There are two types of air, warm air and cool air. In physics, warm air weighs less and lighter than cool air. As warm air goes up in the atmosphere,it pushes up through the cold air thus, this movement is what we call wind. 

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THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WINDS

Weather forecasters named different types or sources of wind. Here as follows:

Windstorm:strong gusts of wind with no rain in them.

Wind gusts: Are sudden bursts of wind and you normally experience them whenever you hear your door or windows banging through—making it move much quicker than it would have otherwise.

Jet stream: A fast-moving ribbon of air between two air masses with very different temperatures. The jet streams always move west to east because of the earth’s constant rotation.

Trade winds: Air blowing toward the Equator. Trade winds are always blowing and are always warm.

Prevailing winds: The air is almost always moving—at least a little bit. This movement is called a prevailing (on-going) wind.


SCHOOL (5th and 6th grades)

We miss going to school😥 but, do you want to learn interesting facts about schools in Britain?





Some questions for you:


  • Do you wear a school uniform in Kareaga-Goikoa?
  • Do they use computers at school?
  • What do they do after lunch?
  • Do you like their school?

LET'S PLAY WITH TIGER!


Wednesday, March 25, 2020

EDUCLAN

Hi, everybody! How are you?

We want to show you an interesting website/programme that can be useful to learn music, maths, science and... English!

https://www.rtve.es/educlan/









Monday, March 23, 2020

ARTICLES 'A' AND 'AN'

What is an article?  Like adjectives, articles modify nouns.
English has two articles: THE and A/AN. the word THE is used to refer to specific or particular nouns; a/an is used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns. We call:
the = definite article
a/an = indefinite article
Let's try to put it this way, if I say, "Let's read the book," I mean that book, a specific book.
Let's read the book about Peter Pan
If I say, "Let's read a book," I mean any book (for instance whatever book you can find on your bookshelf or anywhere else) rather than a specific book mentioned above.
Let's read a book which is on the Library.
Here's another way. The word THE is used to refer to a specific or particular member of a group. For example, "I just saw the students of 5th level student of Kareaga dancing on the street." There are many students there in that school but only one particular batch is there on the street. Therefore, we use the.

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT


What are Prepositions of movement?
They are the words that we use to show the change of place/position to another place/position. 
Mainly, these are accompanied with verbs of motion and are found after the verb.

Example:
I turned my back to the audience.
He looked straight into his green eyes.
The boy jumped off the box like a frog

Friday, March 20, 2020

Rain

What is rain?

They are the biproduct of the process evaporation and condensation which in turn would lead to precipitation.

clouds

Clouds

The appearance of clouds look white due to the sunlight from above reflecting from them. Like a mirror does. If the cloud is very thick and heavy, the sunlight is scattered from above and the clouds look grey or black. 

Fun fact:
There are lots of clouds which can be found in the atmosphere and these are 
  • High-level clouds (5-13 km): cirrocumulus, cirrus, and cirrostratus.
  • Mid-level clouds (2-7 km): altocumulus, altostratus, and nimbostratus.
  • Low-level clouds (0-2 km): stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and stratocumulus.

lightning


Lighting

Lightning is a very bright flash of electricity that happens in a thunderstorm.
The flash is actually a spark that crosses the gap between two clouds or between a cloud and the earth.
The spark is caused by a negative charge of electricity in the clouds meeting a positive charge of electricity in the falling raindrops.