Reading and Vocabulary Activity

This is an activity related to seasons.

Download this funny activity and put in practice your English vocabulary knowledge!

Now, listen this audio and record your personal opinion about seasons; say your favorite season and why.

Speaking Activity

What´s the weather like today in ...?

Imagine that you are the weather man and you are going to speak in the TV News.

Find the weather of one English speaking country through BBC Weather in real time and record your own voice with Goear ICT tool, telling today´s weather and the prediction for one week.

In this activity children will practice about weather vocabulary, the days of the week and they are going to improve their oral skills!

Note: This activity is specially recommended to Second and Third Cycle of Primary Education.

Listening and Writing Activity

Let´s sing together!

Let´s have fun listening this Christmas Carol "Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer"!

You have to do different activities:

* First of all, listen this video carefully and go to this Hotpotatoes link to download the activity. In this activity, there are some gaps with missing words that you have to write to complete the song.

* Second, have you completed the lyrics? 

Now, it´s time to sing! Listen my voice as an example and record yourself singing this Carol and choose another Christmas song! In total, you have to record two songs with your voice. To do this activity, you can use Audacity program and share it in Goear tool.
The objective of this activity is to improve your pronunciation and your oral skills.

* Third, let´s make a Rudolph ornament!

What you have to do is: print this page, draw it on some felt with a marker, cut it, put some cotton inside the toy and sew it! Your Christmas´ornament will be ready to decorate any part of your house!

Listening Activity

It´s time to improve your oral skills!

Download this document and print it to do the next activity.
You are going to listen ten phrases in English and you have to match each phrase with the correct picture.
When you finish, you have to repeat these phrases aloud.

Reading Activity

Snowmen cupcakes

Ingredients:

* 100 g. butter or soft margarine.
* 100 g. golden caster sugar.
* 2 eggs.
* 100 g. self raising flour.
* 1 tsp baking powder.
* 1 tsp vanilla essence.
* Icing sugar for dusting.
* 150 g. ready-to-roll white icing.
* 3 tbsp apricot jam.
* Marshmallows.
* Red fizzy lances for the scarves.
* Tubes of coloured writing icing.
* Sugar baubles (for cake decoration) and edible silver baubles.

Method:

1- Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Place the softened butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and vanilla essence into the bowl of an electric mixter (you can do it by hand if you haven´t got the machine). Breat for a few minutes.

2- Line a bun tin with eight paper cases and divide the mixture between them, filling the cases to about two-third of the way up. Bake for about 20 minutes until the fairy cakes have risen and are lightly golden. Lift the cakes (stil in their paper cases) out of the tins and leave them to cool on a wire rack.

3- Dust a clean work surface with icing sugar and roll out the icing to about 5 mm. Cut out eight circles using a small pastry cutter that is the same size as the top of your cakes. Put the apricot jam into a small dish and stir in one tablespoon of hot water. Brush this over the surface of the cakes and stick the circles of icing on top.

4- To decorate the cakes, use marshmallows for the snowmen´s heads, black writing icing for the eyes, red writing icing for the smiles and sugar baubles for noses (stick them on with a blob of writing icing). Stick the heads on the cakes using a little apricot jam, then stick on the edible silver baubles for buttons. 

5- Wrap fizzy lances around the snowmen´s necks for scarves.

If you want to read more about Christmas cakes go to this link   http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/christmas

Now that you have learned this Cupcake recipe, it´s time to put it in practice! Answer these questions and make your own cake!

Introduction