Mystery Skype

Hi!

We had fun playing Mystery Skype with other kids from around the world: Spain, France and Israel!

See us engaged with our different roles:

                                         THINK TANK: Google Researchers and Questions Managers   




                                                  KEEPERS OF THE CLUES

                                                                 GEOGRAPHERS

COMMUNICATORS

GREETERS

We introduced ourselves, talked and sang together:

This is part of the recording of our call with Israel:

We kept a log book:

These are the presentations we sent to our new friends:



And these are the presentations we received:

The school in Israel:

Israel

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I really liked playing Mystery Skype!

Bye,

Clare - the Witch

Get ready for a new project!

Hi everyone!

Vi ho già anticipato che sto lavorando ad una nuova misteriosa idea...: preparatevi anche voi imparando le parole presentate nei video. We're going to have fun!





Have a look at this map of the world:

Now you can join in the song:


 Bye,

 Clare - the Witch

Com'è grande il mondo!

Clicca sull'immagine e scopri quali sono i continenti:

Il prossimo gioco è piu' difficile, ma prova a farlo: imparerai dove sono i Paesi europei.

Il gioco che segue è veramente difficile: dovete velocemente trovare la città richiesta, mettete alla prova i vostri genitori!

Com'è andata??

Bye,

 Clare - the Witch

The World

Hi!

Look at this beautiful coloured map of the world, click on a marker and choose the name of the continent:

Clare - the Witch

Intercultura

London

Hello, everyone!
Have a look at this presentation of London: I hope you like it.
Please notice that, when we watched the presentation in class, in slide 2 you could click and go to Google Earth to find London, in slide 3 you could click and find European countries and their capital cities on the map.
Well, these links are not active in the following presentation.

If you want to download Google Earth go to http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
If you want to go to the map of slide 3, click http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm
If you want to hear the British hymn we heard at slide 9, click on http://www.ddripandelli.it/ourworld/queen.htm
If you want to hear Big Ben chime we heard at slide 11, click on http://www.champsclock.com/download/big%20ben%20-%20tower%20of%20london!!s.mp3


If you are a teacher, you can go to my page at the top of the screen FOR EFL TEACHERS: LONDON - CLIL PROJECT.
Bye,

Clare - the Witch

What's the weather like?

Hello, everybody!

What's your favourite weather? My favourite weather is stormy, of course: I like to fly on my broomstick in a stormy sky! I'm very romantic! And yours? Click here and vote:

Scroll down a bit and find a video on weather - a bit slow and boring, but useful.

Here match the pictures and the phrases:

 Listen to the weather forecast and drag the weather symbol to the flag of the Country on the right - you have to be quick: in case you are not... click Play sound and you can listen to the speaker again.

A weather maze:

First review the vocabulary clicking Review, then play Game 1 or Game 2 (listening only exercise):

Match words and pictures:

An easy picture test for you:

Now try this quiz on weather - I warn you, you might find some words you don't know, but do try to think and answer!

And now play hangman:

      Well, now I'be better go: it's spring, the weather  is sunny and warm, so I can take my broom and..... WHOOSH! off I fly!

Clare - the Witch

Our new friends from INTERCULTURA - AFS

Hello, everyone!
   This week we met new interesting friends, coming from different countries of the world:

They are attending the school year in the south of Italy through the association INTERCULTURA, but they spent this week in Saronno. 

On Wednesday afternoon they came to our school, Pizzigoni Primary School, and met the children of the fifth year, who interviewed them and made posters and wrote essays about this experience.

This is what we did:

Intercultura AFS

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The children enjoyed this afternoon very much: they were really very excited and happy to meet the foreign students and asked them many questions.

This experience was emotionally powerful and helped the children to think about prejudices and sterotypes and to try to overcome them.

                     Intercultura is looking for hosting families for the next school year: have a look at their site http://www.intercultura.it/Homepage/  - having a brother or sister coming from the other side of the world is bound to be an exciting experience for your children!

And don't worry about your house: if Ian, from Guatemala, put up with living in my witch's cavern, your house will surely be OK!

Bye!

 Clare - the Witch

Black or White

Hi!

Watch the video of Michael Jackson's song BLACK OR WHITE:



Did you like it? Let me know, please!
I hope you watched carefully: try this quiz

Black Or White - Micheal Jackson

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IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE BLACK OR WHITE!

(If you're a teacher, have a look at the page at the top of the blog FOR EFL TEACHER: MIX, where I put some worksheets to revise the world landmarks)

Clare - the Witch

Challenge: Homes Around the World

Hello, everybody!

Look at the smiling faces of the winners of the Challenge: Homes Around the World.

Gaia, Jasmine and Alessandro are holding their prizes and wearing their Union Jack Medal. They have been very clever and they answered the challenge questions:

1. What’s the name of the people who live in houses made of snow or ice? 

2. Who lived in tents made with wooden poles and animal skin?

3. Where do the majority of people in Australia live? 

4. What are many homes in Finland made of?

5. What are nomadic houses in Northern China called?

6. Where do the majority of people in Hong Kong live?

The answers to these questions can be find in the post "Homes around the world".

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!

Bye,     

 Clare - the Witch

My family comes from...

Hello, everyone!
             click on these maps of the world and see the different countries our families come from!
This map is about class 3B; click on it so that you can read it.

These are our flags:

ITALY

MOROCCO

IRAN

SPAIN

ECUADOR

And this map is about class 3C; click on it so that you can read it.

Look at the beautiful flags of our Countries:

ITALY

AZERBAIJAN

GERMANY

ECUADOR

TUNISIA

PAKISTAN

ROMANIA

PERU

ETHIOPIA

If you like flags, click here and see more flags of the world:

Are you very very good at matching flags and Countries? Try this difficult game:

Wow! Too difficult for me...

Good night,

  Clare - the Witch