April Fools' Day – the language of jokes and tricks

Read this interesting article about April Fool's Day on Cambridge Dictionary About Words Blog.

Do read the comments after the post!

It's Carnival

Try these Oxford activities and enjoy them.

Speaking & Listening

Dictionary

What is Love?

Select 2 Sentences and 2 Pictures and be ready to explain why you chose them next Tue. or Thurs. with Tim. 

Fall In Love With 14 Captivating Valentine’s Day Words

Idioms for Halloween

It makes my flesh crawl... 

🎃 Halloween Celebration Invitation! 👻(By AaEoiCt)

As Halloween — a celebration that is becoming more and more popular in our country — approaches, we’re excited to share our contribution to this festive occasion and invite you to take part as well!

We’d love for you to send us your own creative addition by sharing any of the following:
🕸️ How you celebrate Halloween
🕷️ A photo of a costume you’ve worn
🕯️ A verse or phrase in the language you’re studying
🎭 Information about the origins of this celebration or how it’s adapted in different cultures

Anything related to the night of October 31st that you’d like to share will become part of our Halloween collage!

As usual, all contributions will be displayed on our school bulletin board and/or on our social media pages.

Thank you in advance 

for your participation and creativity! 💫

Boxing Day

Do you know what Boxing Day is? If you want to learn, visit this website and do the activities.

Valentine’s Day KEY

1 1 myth 2 residents 3 gifts 4 music 5 countries 6 friendship 7 three 8 boyfriend 9 world 10 name 

2 1E 2C 3B 4D 5A

Guy Fawkes Night KEY

1 The first official Guy Fawkes Night celebration took place in London on the 5 th of November 1606, exactly a year after the failed Gunpowder Plot.

2 1 gather 2 light 3 put 4 stay 5 put 6 found 7 arrested 8 takes 9 put 10 represented

3 Ss’ own answers

C1 Guy Fawkes Night

Learn about Guy Fawkes Night with this activity. [KEY tomorrow]

Listening Comprehension Activity

Halloween Contests

This week the Week of Fear begins in our EOI 👻. We propose a couple of contests for all departments: Scary Fun Food and Fun Pumpkins, whose bases to participate are here: Food and Pumpkins. Students who enter the contests can give their teacher their creations, which will be showed on the table for that purpose at the hall. 

The calendar with cultural activities for this quarter is also available on our website. 

C1 Grandparents' Day KEY

KEY Grandparents' Day

1 → 1 spend   2 telling   3 give   4 meal   5 originated               6 impact   7 raise   8 missed   9 signed   10 place

2 → 1 D   2 B   3 A

C1 Grandparents' Day

In the UK this day has been celebrated on the first Sunday in October since 2008. Do this activity to commemorate it! (Just 1 and 2)

KEY next Tuesday

The coronation of King Charles and tourism

Activity from Natalialzam. Do the cloze and answer the questions.

May Day

May Day

Valentine's Day around the World

Read this activity to learn traditions from several parts of the world for this day. [Key Tomorrow]

C1 Guy Fawkes Day (Tomorrow)

Guy Fawkes Activity

The Ghost Glossary

The Difference Between Ghosts, Ghouls, Goblins, And More (From Dictionary.com)

Welcome, ye of the living, to the macabre menagerie of spooky spirits and eerie entities. Here you’ll find ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and all manner of supernatural terrors.

Halloween

Learn a bit about Halloween!

Halloween Idioms

Webquest: Halloween | Onestopenglish: This spooky webquest includes activities on popular Halloween traditions, global celebrations and terrifying tales.

World Book Day + St. George's Day

Read and learn about history of the day, why this day was chosen (and not other), the day by the numbers, day activities, facts about reading... and much more on World Book Day

Remember it is St. George's Day as well, important day for the English!

Worldbookday.com

Think of the book (fiction or non-fiction) you would recommend your classmates, the one you have enjoyed most in your life. Try to convince them to read it giving your reasons (in just 2 mins.) We'll be doing this activity in class with Wesley next week!

Your intonation will be key to convince everyone!!!

How did April 1 Become “April Fools' Day”?

How Did April 1 Become “April Fools' Day”?