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

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A PORTRAIT

DRAWING A FACE

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