Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

1) Read the story on this webpage, which has also got beautiful pictures and videos: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/15351828

2) See the plotters here: https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/guy-fawkes-and-gunpowder-plot/

3) See a ‘Guy Figure’ ready to be burnt here:
 https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/guy-fawkes-and-gunpowder-plot/celebrating-guy-fawkes-night/

Read about England and do the online activities

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/england

Read about the UK

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/england

Read the news online!

CNN articles on current affairs with a number of words explained for you. Choose the level of reading difficulty and the topic you prefer, then you are ready to start winning points!

https://en.news/lesson-browser/lesson-store

Description of ''The curious case of Benjamin Button''

 The story of Benjamin Button is very weird. It all started from his birth. He was born an old man! I mean when he was 18 he looked like 42. Anyways, at first his didn't like him, but when the years passed and he was 12 they were good friends. When people saw them in the street they thought that they were brothers. Because when Benjamin was 12 he looked like 50. When Benjamin was 18 and he wanted to go at the Yale College, like his father, the proffesor of his class thought he that he was a crazy man who didn't know who he was and all the children were laughing at him. 

When Benjamin was 20 he had his 1st love in the Shevlin's Country House. He had his 1st dance with her and she told him that she liked men at his age, because she thought he was 50. But Benjamin didn't tell her anything about his real age. And they quickly fell in love. When they got married everyone was making silly stories about Benjamin, but Hildegarde, his wife, didn't believe them, even the true one. She said that she would be married with Benjamin and nothing could change her mind.

In 1880 and 1895 everything went very well mostly with Benjamin's job. He was making a lot of money, because of his ideas. Even Hildegarde's dad was very proud of his daughters husband. As time passed Benjamin was liked by everyone he met and he was more energetic as he grew. But Hildegarde was getting more and more serious. Before fifteen years she wanted to go out all the time. 

Soon, Benjamin and Hildegarde were like two strangers in the same house. Benjamin was invited to every party. He was dancing with the prettiest women and talking to the smartest girls. As Benjamin grew, he was getting younger. In 1904 Hildegarde was living in Italy and Benjamin was living somewhere else with his son, Roscoe, and his other wife. In 1920 Benjamin was in kindergarden and he was able to play with Roscoes' child. He was a baby now, and his life ended happily like a baby!

Read the exciting story you choose!

Practice reading at home by choosing the level of difficulty you wish:

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/graded-reading

E class Homework

1) Read this interesting text and do the reading activities:
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/sites/teens/files/skills_for_the_21st-century_workplace_-_exercises_0.pdf

Leave your answer as a comment below.

2) Watch this video about comparatives and superlatives:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org.cn/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/comparative-superlative-adjectives

3) What is your favourite phrasal verb video?
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/phrasal-verb-videos

Richard Branson on luck and success

Richard Branson on luck and success

Scanning!

Scan the text as quickly as possible and write down:

three tour start times; two prices; two ages and one phone number.

Worksheet Part 1

The murder

• Ronald Adair was murdered in London in the spring.
• Dr.Watson knew that Sherlock Holmes loved to investigate this type of mystery. 

The victim

• Ronald Adair lived with his mother and his sister in London.
• One of Ronald's hobbies was playing cards.
• Ronald's friends were aristocrats and very rich.

 The time of the death

• Ronald came home from the club at 10 o'clock.
• When his mother came home she wanted to say goodnight to Ronald.
• When there was no reply, and because the door was locked on the inside, Ronald's mother asked to open the door by force.
• He was murdered between 22:00 and 23:20 on March 30th 1894.

The clues

1. Adair k was shot in the head. 
2. The crime weapon j was not next to the body.
3. The money was arranged in piles. It locked as if Adair b had been counting his winnings and losses at cards.
4. The money g had not been stolen.
5. On the sheet of paper Adair h had written names and numbers.
6. Mrs Adair could not come into the room because it c had been locked from the inside.
7. The flowers i lay undisturbed. So, no-one f had jumped from the window.
8. Watson was sure no-one d had climbed up the wall because there m were no traces and no drainpipe.
9. The murderer a did not shoot from the window because nobody e had heard a shot.
10. Nothing l was stolen in the room.

New reading competition for D Class!

http://markaki-reading.wikispaces.com/Sherlock+Holmes+and+the+Empty+House

Download the story, check out the new words and start reading!

Computer room time: Jobs

1) Read this text https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/skills-21st-century-workplace and do the two activities under it. What is your score?

2) Now watch this video of "Friends" https://youtu.be/cslyPxzMLWg After that, leave a comment under this post saying what the most important things are when you want to succeed in your job.

You can use http://www.dictionary.com/

Read a mother's letter to Santa

https://ecpestudents.wikispaces.com/Christmas+Time%21

Reading: Christmas customs in the UK

Online activities: Easy and fun!

Linking phrases:

http://www.flo-joe.com/fce/students/writing/linking/index.htm

 

Read an article and do a quiz:

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice

The Picture of Dorian Gray

My best scene is when Dorian Gray stabbed Basil Hallward so far in the book. Because I didn't expect this move from him. He was underhanded and I believe in the future he will repent it.

The book

When Jenny arrived at the grandfather's house, she PROPOSED to her grandfather to visit the museum.Her grandfather answered that a journalist would sleep for one night.When they went to the museum, she remembered a conversation with Helen and Guy. She said that she wanted  to go to the cafe to eat a sandwich. When she arrived to the cafe she saw Helen and a man with short brown hair and a beard. They talked about the shipwreck and the uranium. After the museum they arrived at home. Jenny cooked dinner and her grandfather went to sleep. It was evening when Jenny HEARD a sound from the kitchen's door. It was the journalist who his name is Guy. Her grandfather HEARD the conversation. He went to the kitchen and he spoke with Guy ABOUT the shark rock and the shipwreck. Guy said the he would LEAVE home at 11 o'clock

The Challenge

          After the summer holidays Helen Smith was impatient  to see her friends again.'' I am not excited  about starting the school year'', she thought , '' but going to the swimming pool every day for six weeks is boring. Now I'll be with my friends again.''
      Lisa was waiting for her at the school entrance .''Hi!'' they both shouted happily.
      ''You look fantastic!'' Helen exclaimed.
       ''You too. You are so brown !''said Lisa, smiling, and they put their arms together to compare suntans.
        '' Don't you know that it is dangerous to be in the sun for long time?'' said a voice behind them. It was Bobby , wearing a Los Angeles Lakers T-shirt.
       '' You are only wearing that T-shirt so that everybody knows that you were on holiday in America.'' Helen said. ''That isn't cool.''
         Lisa laughed and Bobby's face became red . ''OK, so I am not cool , but I'll  tell you this ,'' he said. '' Nobody in America wants suntan anymore.'' The girls looked at each other  and smiled.
          ''Are we going to hear 'in America this' and 'in America that' all year?'' Helen asked. '' Because I can tell you, I'm not interested.''
        ''So you don't want to  hear about  my driving licence?'' Bobby said.
         '' Your  what?'' Helen asked.
        '' Don't be ridiculous,'' said Lisa , but Bobby showed them a plastic card with his photograph in one corner.
       '' Maybe it is from Disneyland !'' Helen said. The two girls looked at the card carefully. Across the top , it said, 'US Driving Licence'. It also had Bobby's full name , Robert David leader, and his day of birth on it . I was real!
       ''But you are only 16,'' Lisa insisted.'' You are too young!''
       
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Danger at shark rock

   The story start when Jenny McDonald who live on Manchester,a city in the north of England and she go to the last day before holidays.She is so exited because she will go to France.But her parents can'take go because her brother break his leg.One day she read a letter which was from her grandfather and it say that he want to come on his home,in Kirk island,in Scotland. After a week she went to Scotland by a train to the west coast and with a boat to the Kirk island.When she arrived there she went to her grandfather's home.She went on the beach and she saw a rock like a shark.She see Alex who help her grandfather and she leaved from the beach to grandfather's house.When they arrived there,they eat and went to sleep.

Sherlock Holmes

One night Dr John Watson decided to visit his friend Sherlock Holmes, a great detective. They sat down in front if the fire and talked. 

   '' The postman brought this, '' said Holmes and gave him an anonymous  letter.

The letter said :

   Dear Mr Holmes,

A gentleman wil come to see you tonight. He needs your help with something very serious. The man will wear a mask, so do not be surprised. I know that I can trust you. 

A bit later, the bell rang. Holmes opened the door and he saw a strong and tall man. He wore expensive clothes and he had a black mask on his face. 

   '' Who are you ? '', asked Holmes.                                                                                                          '' I am Count von Kramm, a Bohemia nobleman. I want to speak you alone, please.''                    '' You can trust my friend, '' he replied.

They had a conversation about Count von Karmm's problem.

 "One day I met an opera singer, Irene Alder. I fell in love with her and I also gave her a photograph with me and her. Now I want the photograph back, because I will be in trouble if I don't take it back," said Count con Karmm.

    is continuing...