Let´s watch The Rainbow fish and sing Rainbow songs...!!! Pre- School students.

Let´s watch this beautiful story about the rainbow fish, who gives us a lesson abot frienship...!!!

Let´s sing the rainbow songs...!!!

I can sing a rainbow...!!!

And review some numbers:

Take care.

Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Sending a message to Rachel...!!! Grade 1 and Grade 2 students.

Dear all,
Since the older students are writing an interview to Rachel, I suggest you to draw something for her and if you want, you can write her something as a message too. I´ll post it in the English blog together with the interview...!!!


Can you sing this song? Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see...???
Enjoy this video:

Take care.
Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Interviewing Rachel...!!! Grades 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Dear students,
First of all, I ´d like to Thank you for all the good work you are doing during this confinement time...!!!
Secondly, I suggest you another activity. Would you like to interview Rachel? You can send me your questions, so that I can send Rachel a selection.
Finally, as soon as she answers us, I can post the full interview to Rachel in the blog.
It may be very an interested and real English activity and you can review how to make questions.
You can either use a Yes/ No Question or a Wh- Question.
Let´s review some examples of both types:

Examples of Yes/ No Questions:

Do you like reading?
Do you live near the sea?
Can you play the ukelele?

Examples of Wh - Questions:

What´s your favorite movie?
Where do you spend the confinement?
When are you coming back?
How are you?
How often do you play ukelele?
Why are you learning Spanish?
...

I also remind you the links, where you can read the interviews the RÍA students made to our previous Assistant teachers:

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2011/06/interviewing-camille-risch.html?m=0

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2013/06/grade-4-5-and-6-interviewing-brenna.html?m=0

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2014/06/grade-5-students-interviewing-kimberly.html?m=0

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2015/05/interviewing-keith-le-matti.html?m=0

Enjoy the activity and Take care.

Stay tune, since there´s more to come.

Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Let´s review Present Continuous with this song...!!!

If you want to review Present Continuous, you can watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm3btxd7af8

• Remember that the following verbs can´t be used in the continuous form: be, want, cost, need, belong, like, hate, love, dislike, fear, envy, etc.
• Other verbs have a different meaning, depending on if they are used either in the Present Simple or Continuous form.

EG. 

You look tired. (You seem tired).

They are looking through the window. (with their eyes).

Celebrating Shakespeare´birth today on April 23rd...!!!

Since we celebrate Shakespeare´s birth on April 23rd, I´d like to share with you some videos for kids of some of his main plays.

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/william-shakespeare

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/category/topics/shakespeare

Midsummer Night´s Dream:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/midsummer-nights-dream

Macbeth:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/macbeth

Much Ado About Nothing:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/much-ado-about-nothing


Hamlet:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/hamlet

Twelfth Night:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/twelfth-night

Romeo and Juliet:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/romeo-and-juliet

Enjoy and take care!
Ana.

A World of Recipes 4. Keith Lematti, our former Irish Assitant Teacher´s recipe.

Dear all,
We have more recipes from abroad...!!! Our former Irish Assistant Teacher, who is now working in London, agreed to send us a recipe...!!! I Thank him for joining us in this task..!!!
Do you remember him? He has written a message, for you in Spanish and he has also cooked a delicious recipe, he wants to share it with you. Next, I post both his message and the recipe with the pictures:

‘Hola chic@s de Ria De Vigo. Os echo de menos mucho. Estoy triste que no he podido volver a visitar España por mucho tiempo, pero espero que eatais todos bien y seguros en este tiempo que es muy difícil. Seguro que voy a volver a veros cuando se puede viajar poque echo de menos mucho a Galicia.
Espero que disfrutais de esta receta, aunque no es increiblemente saludable, un treat un dia cada mes no esta mal.’


‘K+V’s fried chicken’ Recipe:

Ingredients:
700-1000 grams of chicken wings
100g of breadcrumbs
ground black pepper
Corn starch
Chillie powder
3 eggs
100ml semi-skinned milk
Garlic powder
Salt

Pre-cooking preparation
-marinate the chicken in salt, pepper, garlic powder and chillie powder. Leave in the fridge for an hour before cooking at least.

Cooking method
-heat a pan filled with oil on medium heat
-mix milk and eggs together in a bowl and have this ready near the chicken
-coat the chicken in flour first, and then dip in the mixed eggs/milk
-then coat the chicken with a layer of breadcrumbs to make it nice and crunchy
-if the oil is sizzling, you can start putting the coated chicken in
-cook each chicken wing for 4 minutes on each side

After cooking
-Leave to cool down a bit for a minute per piece some paper towels, so you can drain the excess oil

Very Young Learners. Grade 1 and Pre-School.

Hello!
I hope you are great!
Let´s watch the video entitled The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle!

Can you name the food the caterpillar eats?

Can you sing these songs?

Walking through the jungle. What can you see?

Old MacDonnal had a farm:

More animal songs by Mapple Leave. Enjoy!:

 

Grade 2. Let´s watch the video "Giraffes can´t dance."

Hope you are keeping well!
Let´s watch this video entitled "Giraffes can dance".

I suggest you some activities:

1. Can you name the animals that appear in the story?
2. Can you name the dances each animal does?
3. Are there any more actions?
4. What emotions are expressed by the animals?
5. Can you describe the giraffe?
6. Remember that you can say: It´s tall. or It has got a long neck. 
7. You can send me the answers to my email

Celebrating Book Day. A scene of Much Ado About Nothing being represented at London Shakespeare´s Globe..

Since we celebrate Book Day today, I´d like to share with you a scene of one of my favourite Shakespeare´s comedies Much Ado About Nothing.

Remember that it is thought that Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23rd, 1616.

Enjoy this scene at London Shakespeare´s Globe!

Grade 3. Celebrating Book Day, let´s read a story: A Squash and a Squeeze.

Let´s celebrate Book Day by reading  a story. I suggest to read A Squash and a Squeeze...!!!

Next is the video. Enjoy it...!!!

I suggest some activities about the story in the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j1ah2482cBZorMNxnYiSNxSPYU_JKjIW/view?usp=sharing


Besides, you can also send me the description and a drawing of your favourite pet.

Remember you can use these structures:

It has got...wings /four legs / fins / a long tail, etc.

It is...big/ small/ short/ long, etc.


Finally, there is some vocabulary in the following links you may need review to describe your favourite pet:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/animal-body-parts-1

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/animal-body-parts-2

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/describing-1

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/describing-2

Primary Grade 4. Listening. Robin Hood.

Hi eveyone,

Hope you are all great!

You can watch and review Robin Hood story in the following link:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/robin-hood

Can you watch this video and answer these questions? You can send me your answer to my email.

1. Is Robin Hood a real character or was he invented?
2. What does he enjoy doing?
3. What are his main skills?
4. What is he like? (¿Cómo es él?)
5. Where does he live?
6. Who are his friends?
7. Why is Robin Hood famous for?
8. Who is Robin Hood enemy?
9. Could he catch Robin Hood?
10. Is Robin Hood a hero nowdays.

I also suggest you to describe a friend and send me your description.

You can review adjectives in the following link. They may be useful to describe either Robin Hood or a friend:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/adjectives


The deadline for these activities is next Thusday, April 30 2020.


Finally, there´s another video, which may help too:

Take care!
Best
Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Primary Grade 5 WRITING ACTIVITY.

Hi!
Hope you are keeping healthy!

I suggest you to write a composition about your childhood. It can begin like that:

When I was a child, I...

Remember to review the Simple Past, both of Regular and Irregular Verbs.

In the following links there are some examples, as well as activities to review the Simple Past:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/past-simple-sentences


https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/past-simple-verb-be

Take care.

Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Primary Grade 6 Writing activity: Interviewing a famous person.

Hi!
I suggest this activity for Grade 6 students. Could you write an interview to a famous person? You can write an interview to a famous person, who appears in the previous video called "Some good news..."
Remember to use Wh - Questions:
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
Who?
How?
How often?
How much?
How many?...

You have some information to review how to ask questions in the Past:

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/past-simple-questions

And next, I´d like to share with you the interviews of the RÍA students to our former American Assistan Teachers that have been published in the English blog some years ago. I hope this will help you to write your interview to the famous person you choose:

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2011/06/interviewing-camille-risch.html?m=0

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2013/06/grade-4-5-and-6-interviewing-brenna.html?m=0

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2014/06/grade-5-students-interviewing-kimberly.html?m=0

http://learningenglishinriadevigo.blogspot.com/2015/05/interviewing-keith-le-matti.html?m=0


Take care.
Ana.

Let´s watch NASA Astronauts sharing Some Good News...!!!

Dear students,
Hope you are all fine.
I suggest this activity for Grade 5 and Grade 6 Primary students.
Please, watch this video and answer the following questions:

IMPORTANT:

Remember that you DON´T NEED TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING...!!!

Just try to GET the GLOBAL IDEA and try to ANSWER THE QUESTIONS...!!!


Questions:

1. Can you mention some heroes, who are working during this confinement?
2. How many people have recovered from coronavirus this week?
3. Can you say some more good news?
4. How much money has raised CAPTAIN TOM for the National Health Service (NHS)?
5. What are the good news from space?
6. How do the astronauts spend their time on space?
7. Are they coming back soon?
8. Who informs about the weather?
9. What´s the weather like?
10. What do the kids miss more than anything else during this confinement?

Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

A World of Recipes 3. Rachel´s recipe and her message to the CEIP PLURILINGÜE RÍA DE VIGO students...!!!

Hi again..!!! Though Rachel has gone back home to the USA, she keeps in touch and has sent us some pictures, a message to CEIP PLURILINGÜE RÍA DE VGO students, as well as a delicious recipe. We miss her a lot and hope to see her soon..!!! Rachel, you are always welcome here...!!!
So, kids, if you want to draw and write a message to her in English, please send it to me to my email and I can post it in the English blog, so she can see it...!!! I challenge you to cook Rachel´s recipe "Mini cheese cakes"...!!! If you cook it, you can send me the picture of the cheese cakes and I can post it here...!!! I am sure that Rachel will love it too...!!!
Next, I post her message, her pictures, her video and also her recipe:
Regards.
Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Hi Kids! I hope you are all healthy and staying busy! Last week I flew back to California to be with my family. Right now I am in quarantine for 14 days in Kings Beach, a town near Lake Tahoe. During the day I read, snowshoe, and cook. I hope you all keep sending recipes to the English blog—I need some new ideas of foods to make!
I miss you all a lot, take care!

Rachel

Mini cheese cakes recipe:

Crust Ingredients:
1&1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (I crushed sweet digestive cookies from El Corte Inglés, which worked just as well)
3 Tablespoons brown sugar
5 tablespoons melted unsalted butter

Cheesecake Filling Ingredients:
8 ounces (or 225 grams) cream cheese
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350F (175C). Line a 12-cup muffin pan with muffin liners. In order to make the crust, stir together the graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, and melted butter. Distribute the mixture evenly into each muffin liner and press to compact.
Next, it’s time to make the filling. Mix the cream cheese with a mixer or by hand until smooth and fluffy. Mix in the sour cream. Then add in the egg, sugar, and vanilla. For best results use ingredients that are at room temperature.
Distribute the filling into each liner. Bake for 16-20 minutes. Cool completely and refrigerate.
Mini cheesecakes can be served plain or topped with jam or berries.
Optional: add 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder to the filling to make chocolate cheesecake.

A World of Recipes 2. Students´recipes...!!!

Hi!
I hope you are all well.
Thank you for all your recipes. They are awesome...!!! Congratulations...!!! Well done...!!!
I´m posting some of the students´recipes. Stay tuned, since I´ll post more soon.
Take care!
Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Please, tick on the following links, and tell me what you see..!!! Enjoy the meals...!!!
Almond cake:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dN1Z6Gd5rkSLSgwvLPcOM5BwRDmLEj02/view?usp=sharing

Minced meat:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uh7kqL8Dpv37EELXt58_8Ui_CgLpcSOz/view?usp=sharing

RECIPE OF ROASTED STRAWBWEERY AND CREAM PIE:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BoqieU0ASB0ccS7OZ_R5cPTZ-BsgQvox/view?usp=sharing

The following recipes are delicious too...!!! Yummy...Yummy...!!!


HOME BREAD RECIPE.

Ingredients:

330 ml of water

A teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of sugar

500 grams of wheat flour

1 egg, and

1 portion of baking powder

Poor the water joint with salt and the sugar in a big bowl. Then poor the flour like a mountain. Make a hole in the middle of the flour mountain and crack the egg in the hole with the baking powder.

Now, it is the time to dirt your hands. Start mixing all the ingredients. Mix it very well with your hands and not fear if it seems sticky at the beginning.

Once the mix is ready, put it into a new bowl and leave it in that place for 30 or 45 minutes. The mass will grow.

Meanwhile, set the oven to 180 degrees.

Afterwards, it is time to roll the mass and make the form of bread.

Put it in the oven and after 45 minutes, it is ready.

CARROTS SPONGE CAKE

INGREDIENTS

4 Lager Carrots

1 Orange

200grams of sugar

300grams of flour

120mm  of sunflower oil

1 envelope of yeast

3 eggs

Elaboration

1 Peel the carrots

2 Mash the carrots

3 Toss the eggs beat it

4 Add the sugar and beat them again

5 Scratch the orange and pour it on the ingredients.

6 Then, add the oil, flour and yeast to beat

7 Then put it in the oven to heat it at 150 degrees for 40 minutes

Corn wheat 125 gr.

Milik 200 mL.

1 egg

Olive oil 1 spoon

Salt

Butter 

STEPS:

Mix the ingredients in a bowl with a fork. Let the mixture rest four half an hour. Put a pan with a bit of butter. Then, take a small amount of the mixture and put it in the pan forming a thin layer. When 

it starts to release, turn it back. In a minute, the filloa is ready. Repeat the operation with all the mixture. 

You can fill the filloa with nutella, sugar or jam.

                                                     CAKE ( Recipe )

Ingredients:

-         4 eggs

-         1 yogurt of lemon  about 125g

-         3 glasses  of yogurt with flour

-         2 glasses of yogurt with sugar

-         1 glasses of yogurt with oil

-         16g of yeast

-         Butter  for to grease the mould

Preparation:

1)Preheat  the oven about  180º

2)Now you have to separate the clear and the yolk

3)Put the yolks in a bowl with the more ingredients

4)After  beating  the clear you must mixt the ingredients all

5)Now spreat  in the mould  the butter

6)Put the mixt in the mould

7)Put in the oven an wait about 35 minutes

Grandma´s cake:

• Cookies.
• Pastry cream.
• 1/2 litre milk.
• 40 gr. flour.
• 125 gr. sugar.
• 2 yolks.
• Lemond peel.

"Roscón de Pascua"

Ingredients:

3oo gr of gluten free flour.
50 ml of water.
50 ml of milk.
1 envelope of yeast.
100 gr of sugar.
50 gr of butter.
2 eggs.
Lemon zest.
And beaten egg, sugar and water to decorate.

4th. Put it back in the oven for 1 or two hours.
5th. Remove it from the oven and shape it like a huge circle.
Finally, heat it at 200 Degrees Celsious for 20 minutes, and "TACHAN..TACHAN..." Guess what happened...!!!

POTATO OMELETTE

    INGREDIENT:

   8 potatoes

   6 eggs

   Olive oil

   Salt

INSTRUCTIONS:

Peel the potatoes and cut them into slices.

In a frying pan add olive oil, when it has reached temperature, add the potatoes and let them cook.

Meanwhile, in a bowl we crack the eggs and beat well with a pinch of salt.

When the potatoes are golden and ready mix with the egg.      

We take another frying pan with a little oil heat is and add all the mixture.

We wait until it begins to curdle and separate from the pan and then we put a plate on top and turn it over.

We add another bit of oil and let it cook a little more.

Mmm, ñam, ñam…..  

Yummy… Yummy…                                                                               

  How good and delicious is it…!!!

  I hope you like it…!!!

     

Suggestions for Young Learners: Writing a letter for a friend about your confinement...!!!

Dear students,
How are you? I hope that you and your family are fine. Hopefully, this situation will be over soon and you may see your friends soon. In the meantime, I´d like to suggest you an activity: Could you write a letter to a friend telling him or her about your experience during your confinement?
Next, I am going to post some useful links about verbs, adjectives and conjunctions, you may need for your letter. They include puzzles, scrambled games, make up word game online and the hang man game, so that you can learn or review them easily by playing.
This is an activity for Grade 5 and Grade 6. Also to any student who is interested in learning about writing letters. I challenge Grade 4 to write the letter as well...!!! You can do it too..!!!
Please, send me your letters to my email as soon as you can, so that I can correct them.
Take care.
Best.
Ana.

Steps to write a letter to a friend:

First, your address should be written on the upper right of the page, with the date beneath it.

Then, we can greet saying: "Dear..., " "Hello...." "Hi..."

Next, we can write the first paragraph. You can say.."Thank you for your letter" or "How are you?. I hope you are fine".

In the second paragraph, you can explain your experience during your confinement. Talk about the situation. What are you doing?

In the third paragraph, You can ask him or her about their experience or any other question like: what are you doing? What did you do?

Later on, you can use any of these expressions:
"I look forward to hearing back from you".
"Hope to see you soon."
"Keep in touch."

Finally, we can say:
"Best wishes".
or
"Sincerely".
or
"Love"
or
"Regard"

And we write our name, right at the end...!!!


Links:

To review verbs:
https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/verbs/verbs-vocabulary-word-search-puzzle-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/verbs/learn-verbs-vocabulary-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/verbs/verbs-vocabulary-word-scramble-game-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/verbs/verbs-vocabulary-word-search-puzzle-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/verbs/verbs-vocabulary-make-up-word-game-in-english-online/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/verbs/verbs-vocabulary-wetman-hangman-game-in-english-online/

Irregular verbs:

https://www.english-learn-online.com/category/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/irregular-verbs-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/english-irregular-verbs-word-scramble-game/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/category/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/irregular-verbs-make-up-word-game-in-english-online/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/irregular-verbs-wetman-hangman-game-in-english-online/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs/irregular-verbs-word-search-puzzle-in-english-online/#

Adjectives:

https://www.english-learn-online.com/category/vocabulary/adjectives/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/adjectives/learn-adjectives-vocabulary-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/adjectives/adjectives-vocabulary-word-scramble-game-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/adjectives/adjectives-vocabulary-make-up-word-game-in-english-online/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/adjectives/adjectives-vocabulary-wetman-hangman-game-in-english-online/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/adjectives/adjectives-vocabulary-word-search-puzzle-in-english/

Conjunctions:

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/conjunctions/learn-conjunctions-vocabulary-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/conjunctions/conjunctions-vocabulary-word-scramble-game-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/conjunctions/conjunctions-vocabulary-word-search-puzzle-in-english/

You can pick some links and review vocabulary.

Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.

Suggestions for Very Young Learners...!!!

Hello...!!! How are you? I hope you are all fine...!!!

This story is very interested to review fruit. Enjoy the story...!!!

Next, you can sing a song you love...!!!

And also..

And another funny song:

Finally, I suggest these links to review food vocabulary:

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/foods/learn-foods-vocabulary-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/fruits/learn-fruits-vocabulary-in-english/

https://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/vegetables/learn-vegetables-vocabulary-in-english/

Enjoy and take care...!!!

Best wishes...!!!

Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey.