Velázquez and Goya

1.     Where was Velázquez born?

2.     In what year?

3.     Name 3 of his famous paintings.

4.     Describe "Las Meninas".

5.     What king did Velázquez paint for?

6.     How many brothers and sisters did Velazquez have?

7.     When and where did Velazquez die?

Check his biography here.

1.     Where was Goya born?

2.     In what year?

3.     Name 3 of his paintings.

4.     Describe “La Familia de Carlos IV”

5.     What king did Goya paint for?

6.     Goya suffered an illness that caused him to lose something, what did he lose?

7.     After the war, Goya began painting dark, surreal paintings, what are these paintings called?

8.     Where and when did Goya die?

Check his biography here.

FOCUS!

What would you have done if you were in their place?
What did they forget?
Why they did not get their objective?
Did you experience something like that? Why?
Is the competition healthy?
What can we do to make it healthy?

TO or -ING FORM

Write correctly these sentences in your notebook.


Daniel´s parents/suggested/move to the UK.

6th grade pupils/ agreed/follow the rules at class.

Álex and his brother/needed/play new games.

Jimena pretended/excited about the news.

Alba/couldn´t/imagine/leave all her friends.

Kamal and Walid/promised/write a long composition.

Carlota/enjoyed/read the new Harry Potter´s book.

Asier/didn´t mind/move house so much!.

Verbs followed by a to-infinitive:

afford
agree
arrange
expect
like
pretend
promise
need
offer
hope
try
want
ask...

Verbs followed by -ing:

avoid
suggest
enjoy
imagine
mind
finish
consider
miss
practise
admit
deny

You can practise more here.

Tolerance

Questions for Comprehension:

Why are the little birds arguing with each other?

How do they behave towards the new bird?

Why don't they want the new bird in their group?

Why does the new bird insist on trying to fit in?

How does their prejudice get them into trouble?

Who gets the last laugh?

The nervous system

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

We will start working more seriously next week and the first unit in our brand new Science book deals with the Nervous system.

Try an experiment using your brain here:

Task: Do not read the words above. Instead, say the COLOR of each word in each column, in a loud voice as fast as you can.


The Stroop Effect, named after John Ridley Stroop, is a demonstration of the reaction time of a task and is often used to illustrate the nature of automatic processing versus conscious visual control. It was first published in 1935 following a series of experiments similar to those outlined above.


The results of the tests showed that most persons tend to say the color of each word for columns 1 and 2 with little problem. Despite the clear instructions however, most persons struggle to say the color of each word in column 3. This difficulty occurs due to semantic interference.

For extension:

Find out more information to create a presentation.

Directions: Log in and visit the following site to answer the questions below.

Your answers should be written in different slides with adding images.

1 - The Brain is the Boss

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/brain_SW.html

Questions:

1. What does the cerebrum do?


2. What does the cerebellum do?


3. What does the brain stem do?


4. Give an example of an involuntary muscle.


5. What does the hypothalamus do and where is it located?

Happy Summer!

These are also the last school days for me. Have a very happy summer!!.

Thank you for your gifts and 5ºB´s card. XXXOOO

See you in September!!!

REYES CATÓLICOS

Create a presentation answering the following:

1.- ¿Cómo reforzaron su poder los Reyes durante el siglo XV?

2.- ¿ Cómo se  llama a este tipo de monarquia ?

3.- ¿ Qué reyes la llevaron  a cabo en España ?

4.- ¿De qué asuntos  se hicieron cargo los Reyes Catolicos ?.- Indica 3

5.- Indica territorios que conquistaron los Reyes Católicos.

6.-¿ Cómo desaparece el reino de Navarra durante el reinado de los Reyes Católicos?.

7.- ¿Quién murió primero?

8.- ¿Dónde reposan los restos de los Reyes Católicos?.

9.- ¿ Quién fue Juana la Loca ?

10.- ¿Quién fue el cardenal Cisneros ?

11.- ¿Dónde se casaron los Reyes Católicos ?

12.- ¿Qué archipiélago agregaron a su reino ?

Links

EARLY MODERN SPAIN

How much do you know about Fernando and Isabel? Click HERE

A PORTRAIT

DRAWING A FACE

Who said that was too much difficult? You did great!. This is only an extract.

   

FRIENDSHIP

 

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Fill in the gaps with the correct information:

You can visit Shakespeare´s biography. You will also find the information HERE.


Shakespeare is England’s most famous playwright and _________   .
His plays are known throughout the world and he introduced up to 300 __________  and dozens of __________into the English language.
 He was born in ______________in the year______. He probably went to the local _______ school, King Edward VI’s School, where he learnt Greek and _______.
 He didn’t go to ___________. In 1582, he married ______________. In total, they had ________ children. He left Stratford to go and live in _________, working as a playwright and ________. He performed many times for Queen ___________.

 Shakespeare’s group built their own theatre called the ________. By now, Shakespeare was very rich. He bought the second __________ house in Stratford and many other properties as investments. He had a good head for business.
 He died in ________, probably of _______. In his will, he left his second best _______ to his wife. Nobody knows for certain why he did this. He is buried in Stratford.

Saint Patrick´s Day

The person who was to become St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Wales about AD 385. His given name was Maewyn.

When he was 16, he was sold into slavery to Ireland where he was a shepherd for 6 years. While in captivity he studied and turned to religion. He escaped slavery and later returned to Ireland as a missionary, determined to convert Ireland to Christianity. He used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. 

Patrick was quite successful at winning converts. And this fact upset the Celtic Druids. Patrick was arrested several times, but escaped each time. He traveled throughout Ireland, establishing monasteries across the country. He also set up schools and churches which would aid him in his conversion of the Irish country to Christianity. 

His mission in Ireland lasted for thirty years. After that time, Patrick retired to County Down. He died on March 17 in AD 461. That day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since. 

Much Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick's Day. Not much of it is actually substantiated. Some of this lore includes the belief that Patrick raised people from the dead. He also is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved into more of a secular holiday. 

One traditional symbol of the day is the shamrock. And this stems from a more bona fide Irish tale that tells how Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity. He used it in his sermons to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity. His followers adopted the custom of wearing a shamrock on his feast day.

The holiday, March 17th, is marked by parades in cities across the United States. The largest of these, held since 1762, is in New York City, and draws more than one million spectators each year. In Ireland, it is a religious holiday similar to Christmas and Easter.

Check how much do you know about St Patrick

ECONOMY

In the following video you will find out about the origins of money.

On this web page you will find a selection of short videos showing how manufactured products such as trainers and guitars are made.

1.Complete the text for revision according to the information you have in the book.

 The system of transforming products from nature into m_______________ products is called the e__________. In the p__________ sector, r_____ m_____________, such as wood and crops, are extracted from nature. The s_____________ sector transforms them into new products in workshops and f____________. The t___________ sector includes activities that provide a s_________, such as transportation and education.

 2. Match the words to their opposites. Then circle the primary sector activities. IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!

dry farming                             coastal fishing

intermediate products            underground mines

 intensive farming                  irrigated farming

deep-sea fishing                     consumer products

 quarries                                 extensive farming