Welcome!

Welcome to my new pupils of class 1B and 1C and their parents!

Dear parents, if you wish to help your children learn English, have a look at this link:

In the next link, you'll find activities connected to the text we're using at school:

Bye bye!

 Clare - the Witch

Bye bye, Quinta B!

Hi, everyone!!

You've grown older: you finished primary school and it's now time to leave your poor old witch...

And remember: the blog is still there, when you want to dive into the past!

Bye,

Clare - the Witch

Second Reading Challenge

Hi, everyone!
   How are you? I bet you're very sad because school in Italy finished some days ago...: I know - you miss your favourite witch!
During one of our last school afternoons we had our fantastic

2ND READING CHALLENGE 

All four teams in the class were really good at the challenge, so that I gave everybody this award:

The challenge questions concern Roald Dahl life: he was a writer we appreciate very much, don't we? Many of his books were in our school library.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL PLAYERS!!

and many thanks to TEACHING IDEAS.CO.UK for Roald Dahl's fact cards!!

Bye,

Clare - the Witch

P.S. If you're a teacher, go to the page FOR EFL TEACHERS: MIX at the top of the screen to download worksheets of the activity

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

Johnny B. Goode

Hi, everyone!

Thanks to Caterina, who is learning to play this beautiful song by Chuck Berry on her guitar, we watched this video today, taken from the film "Back to the Future", starring Michael J.Fox

Click on the guitar to print the song lyrics:

Bye,

 Clare - the Witch

La guerra di Piero

Hello, everyone.
We read a poem taken from the great song by the Italian singer and songwriter Fabrizio De André at school last week. Listen to the song and sing along:



Click the poppy if you want to print the song lyrics:

Bye,

Clare - the Witch