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Speaking activity: Describing yourself!

What do you look like? How would you describe your personality? And mood? Have a look at the following PowerPoint and choose those adjectives which best describe yourself. Don’t forget to use the verb “To be” and “To have” already studied in class for you to illustrate your description in a meaningful way!

Writing activity: Let your imagination soar!

Let’s be creative! Write a story in which you and your classmates are the main characters of your narrative! You will be able to use a rich variety of nouns and adjectives already studied in class and practice verbs in past tense.

Don’t be panic about the blank piece of paper… you just need to let your imagination soar and follow the tips displayed on the following PowerPoint. You will find useful ideas regarding characters, time and space, as well as the steps you can follow when writing your story. 

Once you have written your story, you will read it aloud in class and both your classmates and teacher will give their opinion about it. Let’s get down to work!

Reading activity: Snow White

 Play the audio story: Snow White


“Mirror, mirror upon the wall, who is the fairest of all?”

The mirror answered:

“You, oh Queen, are the fairest of all,” and the Queen was contented, because she knew the mirror could speak nothing but the truth.

But as time passed on, Little Snow-White grew more and more beautiful, until when she was seven years old, she was as lovely as the bright day, and still more lovely than the Queen herself, so that when the lady one day asked her mirror…

Does this story sound familiar to you? Yes! You guessed it! It’s the story of Snow White, extracted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. The teacher will read this story aloud in class while a wide range of images from different sources of the tale will be projected on the whiteboard for you to watch the pictures and follow the narrative in a meaningful way. Once the teacher has finished, you will be asked to cut the text into different pieces and match them with the images already seen in class. Both the story and the pictures can be found on the following link. When you have finished, play the audio story above and check the order of your text pieces! 

Listening activity: From Head to Toe!

Listen to the following song, which is based on the picture book “From Head to Toe”, by Eric Carle. Try to fill the gaps with nouns (animals and parts of the body), pronouns (I, you, it) and verbs. Can you do it? Of course you can! Give it your best try!

Find the worksheet to undertake this task on the following link. The key answer sheet can also be found in the same document.