HAPPY HALLOWEEN

HAPPY

Hi children!!!
Did you have a good holiday?
Now it's time to come back to school again...
But let's be happy and start the new school year with a smile and this song: HAPPY
Do tou know it?
Yes, it's very famous, you probably have listened to it during the summer.
SO, LET'S BE HAPPY!

CHRISTIAN THE LION

 In 1969, John Rendall Ace Berg saw a lion cub for sale in Harrods.
The little lion was sad and alone in a small cage, so John and Ace
bought it and took it home. They called the lion Christian.
Bur Christian grew bigger and bigger and they took it to Africa.
Some years later, John and Ace travelled to Kenya to visit Christian
and... see what happened!

DIAN FOSSEY

Dian Fossey was born in San Francisco, California in 1932. She was an excellent student and she was interested in animals since she was a little girl.
She worked on a farm and loved her work with the animals  but she wanted to see more of the world and its wildlife.
A friend of hers travelled to Africa and brought a lot of pictures and interesting stories. When she saw the photos and heard the stories she decided that she wanted to go to Africa.
She arrived in Kenya in 1963 and John Alexander, a british hunter, was her guide.
She met the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey and he told her about Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees in Tanzania. Diane Fossey visited Jane in the Gombe Reserved and learnt about her
research methods with chimpanzees.
Later she travelled to the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda where she observed and studied gorillas. Some local people and hunters were taking baby gorillas to sell them and they were killing the mothers and other big gorillas to sell parts of their bodies.
She worked very hard to protect them, she lived with them and loved them, but finally she was murdered in 1985. There were many theories about her murder but it was never resolved.

SIGNS

This film tells us the story of a family living
on a farm that finds mysterious crop circles
in their fields.
The father wants to protect his family because
 something terrible may happen...

BOLLYWOOD

WHAT'S BOLLYWOOD?

 

Bollywood films are usually love stories with

a hero, a bad person and a funny person. The actors 

and actresses wear colourful clothes. They are usually attractive and they can sing and dance.

ENGLISH CALENDAR 2012

Would you like to have your own English Calendar?

Click HERE, print it and learn a lot of vocabulary:


January: Shops
February: Colours
March: Materials
April: TV
May:The City
June: Money
July: Playground
August: Theatre
September: School Subjects
October: Halloween
November: Weather
December: Sweets

If you want to know a different story about Santa, watch this video:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Enjoy Halloween with this song.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BLUE WHALES?

The blue whale is the biggest animal in the world.
What do you know about it?

Test yourself:

.- Is it a fish?
.- Can it breathe under the water?
.- What kind of food does it eat?
.- How many teeth has it got?

To check your answers watch this video: click here. (It's American English).

KATY PERRY " FIREWORK "

Katy Perry is an American singer. One of her most famous songs is FIREWORK. It's is considered as the most important song for her.

The song was commercially successful, reaching the top spot on twenty charts around the world.

The song tells you about being yourself and not being afraid to express who you really are.

Here you can listen to it and sing the song following the lyrics.

A FANTASTIC VIDEO

Do you want to see a funny video?
I hope you like it

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

On Monday 14th we saw the play 'Around the World in 80 Days'.
We want to know if you liked the story or not, if it was easy or difficult to understand, if you'd like to see a similar play next year...
Please send us your comments!
Some children joined the actors and took part in the story: Martin and Imanol travelled by ship; Ania was an elephant; Lander, Enzo, Oihana and Goizane danced in India; and Iker... he disappeared in China!!!

Do you know what a Lipdub is?

A Lipdub is a type of video in which a group of people sing (but only moving their lips) and dance while listening to a song with its original audio. It has become very popular in You Tube.

Here you can see one of these, made by some preschoolers in England. They perform one of the best known songs of the british band Madness: "Our House".
I hope you like it and, if you want to sing it with them, look at the lyrics below.



' OUR HOUSE'

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Father wears his Sunday best

Mother's tired she needs a rest

The kids are playing up downstairs

Sister's sighing in her sleep

Brother's got a date to keep

He can't hang around

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house in the middle of our

Our house is our castle and our keep

Our house in the middle of..

.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Our house it has a crowd

Ther's always something happening

And it's usually quite loud

Our mum she's so house-proud

Nothing ever slows her down

And a mess is not allowed

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our

Our house, in the middle of our street

(something tells you)

(that you've got to get away from it)

Our house, in the middle of our

----MUSIC----

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our

Father wears his Sunday best

Mother's tired she needs a rest

The kids are playing up downstairs

Sister's sighing in her sleep

Brother's got a date to keep

He can't hang around

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house...

MILEY CYRUS IN ROCK IN RIO

Miley Cyrus was at the Rock in Rio festival in Madrid on Sunday 6 June.
The singer, who recently presented a new single called "Can't Be Tamed",
showed her great style on the stage in front of 36,000 persons.

The surprise came when she sang "When I look at you"
and David Bisbal joined the show.

People didn't know that David was going to be there and the astonished spectators witnessed the first ocassion on which they both sang this song in concert.

WHEN I LOOK AT YOU (LYRICS)

Everybody needs inspiration

Everybody needs a song

A beautiful melody when the night's so long

'Cause there is no guarantee that life is easy

Yeah, when my world is falling apart

When there is no light to break up the dark

That's when I, I, I look at you

When the waves are flooding the shore

And I can't find my way home anymore

That's when I, I, I look at you

When I look at you, I see forgiveness, I see the truth

You love me for who I am like the stars hold the moon

Right there where they belong

And I know I'm not alone

Yeah, when my world is falling apart

When there's no light to break up the dark

That's when I, I, I look at you

When the waves are flooding the shore

And I can't find my way home anymore

That's when I, I, I look at you

You appear just like a dream to me

Just like a kaleidoscope colors that prove to me

All I need, every breath that I breath

Don't ya know, you're beautiful

Yeah, yeah

When the waves are flooding the shore

And I can't find my way home anymore

That's when I, I, I look at you

I look at you

Yeah, yeah, oh, oh

You appear just like a dream to me.

LENKA. THE SHOW

A new song and a new video.

Do you know this song? You can listen to it in a commercial on TV.

Lenka is an Australian singer, dancer and TV actress. She is very famous in her country, and now she is well known all over the world because her song THE SHOW has become very popular.





As always, you can sing this song following the lyrics. Enjoy it!


THE SHOW by LENKA

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried

And I don't know why

Slow it down

Make it stop

Or else my heart is going to pop

'Cause it's too much

Yeah, it's a lot

To be something I´m not

I'm a fool

Out of love

'Cause I just can't get enough

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried

And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared but I don't show it

I can't figure it out

It's bringing me down I know

I've got to let it go

And just enjoy the show

The sun is hot

In the sky

Just like a giant spotlight

The people follow the sign

And synchronize in time

It's a joke

Nobody knows

They've got a ticket to that show

Yeah

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried

And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared but I don' show it

I can't figure it out

It's bringing me down I know

I've got to let it go

And just enjoy the show

Just enjoy the show

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried

And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared but I don't show it

I can't figure it out

It's bringing me down I know

I've got to let it go

And just enjoy the show

dum de dum

dudum de dum

Just enjoy the show

dudum de dum

dudum de dum

Just enjoy the show

I want my money back (3)

Just enjoy the show

I want my money back (3)

Just enjoy the show

A NEW FILM: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

This is the story of Hiccup, a viking boy who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Hiccup is trained to be a dragon fighter, but one day he knows a very special dragon and they become friends, but then...

If you want to know how the story ends, you can see it at the cinema on March 26.

SONG: LEMON TREE

'Lemon Tree' is a song by German pop band 'Fool´s Garden' and it became very popular in 1996.
You can sing and listen to this song following the lyrics in this video.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MOVIE

A Christmas Carol is a novel written by the English writer Charles Dickens.

The book was first published on 19 December 1843 and it was very succesful.

It tells the story of Mr Scrooge, who is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas on Christmas Eve.

The Ghosts show him the misery of several families and what will happen in the future if he

doesn't change.

Mr Scrooge becomes a different man, trating the others with generosity and compassion.

THE MOVIE

On Christmas holidays you can see this film at the cinema.

If you do so, please write to tell us if you liked or not . OK?

In this video you can see some sequences of the film. A bit scaring isn't it?