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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!
Happy Halloween
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! :P
Our song for Halloween!
Our competition: the winner is…
Hi! Here is the solution for our first competition:
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I have been to the Stadium in Milan several times
I was a very good student
I don’t like dancing
I started teaching 13 years ago
In my flat there are two bedrooms.
No one found all the five lies, but Edoardo found 4/5.
Congratulations to Edoardo! You will a smaller prize anyway
Next competition at the end of November!
Prince George’s Official Christening Photos
This is the Middleton family in one of the photos, with Auntie Pippa standing between Prince Harry and her brother James.
Let’s practice some vocabulary with a game (click here and here)
Competition (gara)
Hi! Read the following facts about me. There are 5 false things! Write a comment indicating the numbers of the wrong things. If you find all the five lies you will win a prize! This contest ends on Monday evening at 8 p.m.
- I love Inter
- I adore cats
- I have never been to the stadium
- I was born in Arzignano
- I have got 2 cats
- I am 38 years old
- I was a bad student
- I can ski
- I can speak English, German, French, Spanish
- I started teaching 10 years ago
- I love sleeping
- My best friend is called Stefania
- I have got a grey car
- I don’t come to school on Thursday
- I like dancing
- I have got blue eyes
- I visited New York in 2009
- I am touchy, sensitive, hard-working.
- In my flat there are three bedrooms.
- My birthday is in February
- Last summer I went on a cruise
- I can’t stand onions or garlic
- My favourite colour is white
- My kitchen is white
- I can’t play the piano
- I like teaching
- I have got a Samsung mobile
- I never play football
- I sometimes go to the cinema at the weekend
- My brother is called Simone
For girls only ;)
Halloween
October 31 is Halloween!
The history of Halloween is not entirely a clear one. Many hundreds of years ago, a people called theCelts lived in Europe and on the British Isles. The Celts believed that the souls of the dead visited Earth on the last day of October. They had a festival in honor of these souls of the dead, and they called it Samhain.
In time, the Roman Empire conquered the Celts and took over some of their beliefs as well. This included Samhain. The Romans combined it with their own festivals. And since the Roman Empire spread across a great part of the known world, the idea that the souls of the dead visited Earth on the last day of October spread far and wide.
Many ideas from the Roman days still survive in the United States and in other Western countries. Halloween is one of them.
But how did we get the name Halloween?
In the 8th Century, the Catholic Church declared November 1 to be All Saints’ Day. The church calendar had a number of days honoring saints already. November 1 was picked to be the day to honor all saints who didn’t already have a day named in their honor.
And the mass that the Catholic Church celebrated on November 1 was called Allhallowmas. This meant “mass of all the hallowed [saintly people.]” It was commonly called “All Hallows’ Day.”
And somewhere along the line, the night before became known as Allhallowe’en, which was short for “evening before All Hallows’ Day.” It was then shortened to what we now call it, Halloween.
One last question: Why do people dress up as ghosts, goblins, vampires, and other scary creatures? The people who started all this Halloween business many years ago believed that if they appeared scary, they would scare away the spirits of the dead who were roaming the earth on All Hallows’ Eve. These people also carried food to the edge of town and left it there, hoping the spirits would eat that food and not come raid the village.
The Story of the Jack-o-Lantern
Jack, it seems, was a bad man. He kept all his money to himself. He wouldn’t help people for all of his life. When Jack died, he wasn’t allowed into Heaven because he was such a miser: a person who wouldn’t share his money.
It seems that Jack also had played tricks on the Devil, who wouldn’t let him into hell, either.
Jack was stuck. He had to walk the earth, holding a lantern, until Judgment Day.
You can download this super fonts!
http://www.dafont.com/it/search.php?q=halloween
or you can play some games
game1 game2 game3 (the witch) game4 (matching) crosswords
Learn some words connected to Halloween
2. Parts of the body
2. What do you look like?
Very important
Hi Everybody! I want to inform you that I will remove posts and comments which are not written in English. Don’t worry if you make mistakes!
Use these sentences:
I don’t understand (non capisco)…
How do you…(come si fa a…)
Can you tell me… (Mi può dire…)
1. All together now
This is the song we learn ed this week
Traditional Music fom the British Isles
3. Letter writing
LETTER WRITING phraseology: some useful expressions to learn which can belp you when you have to write letters.
Here’s one exercise: LETTER 1
1.Animals
PROF
PROF YOU A FER-FECT,
COOL
AND
A BEAUTIFUL
1.Our first doodle song!!! (1BM)
Columbus Day
In the USA and other countries of New World there are a celebration for Christopher Columbus’ arrival in these countries on the October,12. In every part of USA there are big parades and the italian flag flies everywhere.