Summer time

Write a list of plans for the summer holidays!
Discuss it with your classmates!

Limericks

5 TIPS FOR WRITING A LIMERICK

http://www.powerpoetry.org/actions/5-tips-writing-limerick

A limerick poem is a short, funny (goofy!) poem that’s quick and easy to write. Here are some tips to get you started writing one — and some limericks from our Power Poets for inspiration:

1. Where’d it Come From? Well, no one knows for sure but most people believe that the term “limerick” came from either the city or County of Limerick in Ireland. The English poet Edward Lear popularized the limerick form, but he didn’t create the term “limerick.”
2. Nonsense makes Sense. Limerick poems are also called “nonsense” poems because they tell a story that is blunt and humorous with quirky or vulgar words that don’t necessarily make sense. Feel free to make up your own words (Shakespeare did it all the time!) just as long as their meaning is implied.
3. First Impressions are Important. The first line sets up the character(s) and setting of the poem so the reader knows right away who/what the story is about.
4. Line and Rhyme. Only five lines long, limerick poems have an AABBA rhyme scheme, which means the first, second, and last lines rhyme while the third and fourth lines rhyme. Pretty simple, right?  
5. Make it Bouncy.  Musicality plays a huge role in limerick poems, as they have a bouncy tune when read out loud. The first two lines have eight beats while the third and fourth have six, and the last line again has eight. Many children’s nursery rhymes are limericks because their bouncy rhythm makes them easy to recite. Remember “Hickory Dickory Dock?” Yup, that’s a limerick.

There Once Was a Man from Nantucket
Anonymous

There once was a man from Nantucket

Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

http://www.rhymezone.com/

http://montseroquetenglish.blogspot.com.es/p/blog-page.html

http://www.slideshare.net/strawberryqueenj/how-to-write-a-limerick?next_slideshow=1

USEFUL DICTIONARIES

These are some useful dictionaries for you to use when you write a text or when you simply want to learn a new word!


LONGMAN DICTIONARY

CAMBRIDGE

The Great Fire of London

This is a very interesting story and this audio book about the The Great Fire of London teaches you more on the history of a city you would like to visit: LONDON.

If you want to discover more about LONDON, please click here.

Improving Writing

Writing is not easy, but it is not so difficult either.

So, why not learning how to write properly?!

Look at these 2 presentations about the city of London.

LONDON 1

LONDON 2


Compare them and find grammar errors or simply wrong information about the city.

Discuss it with your class and tell your classmates how you can improve your writing.

Write a list of tips!!

Past Continuous

Activity link here.

Past Simple notes

WILD WEATHER

Unit 3 is about WILD WEATHER!

Let's play!
Write words with 3, 4 and 5 letters related to the weather.

More activities:

This is quite challenging!

and this one is quite easy!!


ps: don't forget!

You have some homework to do!!!

You are supposed to choose a city from the list - Sydney, Tokyo, New york, Madrid, London and Athens - and you have to look for information about it and to write a short presentation.

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HAPPY 2016!!