Which day is today? Do you know why British people celebrate this day? Watch this video and you will get the answers.
Is there any connection between Guy Fawkes and the Anonymous movement in some protests all over the world? Read this worksheet (done with information from Wikipedia) about this historical character and discuss this topic in class.
We welcomed this course with a Halloween party last Wednesday, 31st October.We started the previous week telling our students about the history of Halloween, auditions of famous Halloween songs in the class of Music and the historical relevance of this event in most of English-speaking countries. Then, we watched a famous horror comedy film (“Beetlejuice” by Tim Burton) and we listened to some songs sung by our language assistant Clark Williams.
At midday, we had a spooky breakfast. As you can see in the photographs, our students made delicious and surprising Halloween cakes.
We also had a Halloween contest and a ghost walk through a haunted corridor in the unknown parts of our building.
We really had a great time!
This is the sequence of activities that we did with 1º and 2º ESO students during that scary day.
We are going to spend the following two days participating in different activities related to Ancient Greece and Rome. They have been made up by all the departments which work with 1ºESO and the collaboration of the department of Greek and Latin. We started decorating the hall of our secondary schools with posters, a big panel, sculptures, etc with images of this topic. We would like to thank Salvador, our maintenance manager, for all his help not only in this activity but in all the decorations we have made during this course. You can see the result.
Then, we have seen “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning thief” a teenagers story based on Greek Mythology which mixes action and fun.
After the film, the students have taken parts in four different workshops:
Greek and Roman Costumes
Greek writing
Making of Laurel wreaths
Caricatures of Greek and Roman characters
And at the end of the day, we have started our Olympic Games in the gym which we will finish on 20th June. And, tomorrow, we will all get dressed with Greek and Roman costumes and celebrate a traditional party.
This is the Spanish leaflet where we show all the activities in detail we are going to do during these end of the term days. We hope everybody will join us celebrating these ancient cultures in amusing ways.
You can watch different tutorials to make your own Greek and Roman costumes. We will help you in class and we will wear them on 20 June in our end-of-the-term party.Remember, it´s only a guide and you can add accesories to these costumes.