HALLOWEEN

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HALLOWEEN? CLICK HERE FOR A TEXT ON THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN AND THEN CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING WITH THE SHORT QUIZ BELOW.
History of Halloween

IN TOWN

Are you studying 1º ESO?
Watch this video and complete the activities below.
A. Tick the places in town that you hear.
toy shop ....                      church ....
post-office ....                  bakery ....
gas station ....                  dentist´s .... 
hairdresser´s ....               town hall ....
chemist´s ....                    butcher´s ....
school ....                         hospital ....
library ....                         park ....
bus station ....                  swimming-pool ....
grocery store ....              tourist information centre ....
B. Now answer these questions:
1. What is Mr O´Hara doing now?
2. What can you do at the post-office?
3. What does Peter sell in his shop?
4. Where´s the church?
5. When does Mr O´Hara go to church?
6. What is opposite the gas station?
7. Who lives near the library?
8. What will Ana cook for John´s birthday?
C. Now it´s your turn! Prepare a similar dialogue with one of your classmates and role play it to the class.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (1955-1968)

ACTIVITY 1. How much do you know about the Civil Rights Movement? Choose the correct answer.

1. The Civil Rights Movement took place between:

a) 1940-1955

b) 1955-1968

c) 1968-1982

2. What is the meaning of the term “racial segregation”?

a) it is the separation of different racial groups in daily life

b) it is a war between different racial groups

c) it is when different racial groups live together in the same neighbourhood

3. Who were the three American Presidents in power during that  period?

a) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower

b) Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

c) Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

4. Who were the main black leaders in the Civil Rights Movement?

a) Benjamin Banneker and Sojourner Truth

b) Harriet Jacobs and Alexander Crummel

c) Martin Luther King and Malcom X

5. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading non-violent civil rights demonstrations?

a) Martin Luther King

b) Malcom X

c) Shirley Chisholm

ACTIVITY 2. Look at the pictures below They are Civil Rights Movement Leaders. Match each Picture with their names.

1. Malcom X

2. Rosa Parks

3. Martin Luther King

4. W.E.B. Du Bois

ACTIVITY 3. VOCABULARY. Match the words/expressions below with their definitions.

1. DEMONSTRATION
2. BOYCOTT

3. RACIAL SEGREGATION

4. DISENFRANCHISEMENT

5. EXPLOITATION

6. VIOLENCE

7. LAWSUIT

8. SITS-IN

9. SOCIAL EQUALITY

10. EQUAL RIGHTS

A. When public facilities and government services such as education were divided into separate "white" and "colored" domains. Characteristically, those for colored were underfunded and of inferior quality.

B. Increased economic oppression of blacks, Latinos, and Asians, denial of economic opportunities, and widespread employment discrimination.

C. When white Democrats regained power, they passed laws that made voter registration more inaccessible to blacks. Black voters were forced off the voting rolls. The number of African American voters dropped dramatically, and they no longer were able to elect representatives

D. Individual, police, organizational, and mass racial aggressions to blacks.

E. An expresion of protest as a means of coercion by which you abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with something.

F. An action or a suit brought before a court, as to recover a right or redress a grievance.

G.It is a social state of affairs in which all people have the same status in a certain respect, at the very least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, the extent of property rights as well as the access to education, health care and other social securities.

H. A political rally or protest.

I. The concept that every person is to be treated equally by the law

J. An occupation of a building etc by protesters

ACTIVITY 4. Watch the following video, and answer the questions below:

The Civil Rights Movement

Ø What are equal rights?

Ø What violent scenes did you see?

Ø How does the author feel about these situations?

Ø Why was Emmet Till killed?

Ø Why did thousands of children marched in Birmingham?

Ø What happened to freedom riders?

Ø What good things resulted from the Civil Rights Movement?

Ø What feelings do the heroes and heroines of the Civil Rights Movement inspire in the author?

Ø Which of the following things did you see in the video?

1. demonstration
2. boycott

3. racial segregation

4. disenfranchisement

5. exploitation

6. violence

7. lawsuit

8. sits-in

9. social equality

10. equal rights

ST. VALENTINE´S DAY QUIZ

Feeling romantic? Why don´t you take this Valentine´s Day quiz?
Click below to complete the activity online:
St. Valentine´s Day quiz

THE GIRL WHO SILENCED THE WORLD

Watch this moving and inspirational video and answer the questions suggested below:
1. What does ECO stand for?
2. Why is she afraid of going out in the sun?
3. Why is she afraid of breathing?
4. Where is she from?
5. Where is the conference taking place?

THANKSGIVING WEBQUEST

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the USA. It is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November. In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday traces its origins to the year 1621, when a group of settlers celebrated a feast in Plymouth.

Do you want to learn more about this American tradition? Take a look at this page Thanksgiving webquest and answer the questions suggested below.

THE VOYAGE ON THE MAYFLOWER

1. When did the journey take place? ………………………………………………

2. Where did they sail from? ………………………………………………

3. How many Pilgrims were taken to America? …………………………………………

DAILY LIFE

4. In what season did the pilgrims arrive to America? …………………………………

5. Who were the Wampanoag? ………………………………………………

6. Where did the Wampanoags families live? ……………………………………………

7. What did the Wampanoags use for blankets? …………………………………………

8. Until what age did pilgrim boys and girls wear dresses? ……………………………

9. What was Wampanoag jewellery made from? ……………………………………..

10. What was the typical Pilgrim dinner? ………………………………………………

11. Who taught Pilgrim children? ………………………………………………

12. What was the most important lesson for pilgrims? ………………………………

13. What was the most important thing to learn by a Wampanoag boy?

………………………………………………

THE THANKSGIVING FEAST

14. What does the Thanksgiving national holiday celebrate? …………………………………………………………………………………..

15 What had the Pilgrims built after 10 months in America?

…………………………………………………………………………………

16. What did the Wampanoag bring to the feast? ………………………………………

17. Did the first Thanksgiving feast last for one day? ……………………………….