Printing and stick on the notebook

Here, you can download a Word document for printing and stick on the pupils' exercise books (1st grade)

The orchestra

An orchestra is a group of musicians who play together different instruments. There are 20 kinds of different instruments in an orchestra.

There are four sections or families of instruments in a modern orchestra: 

•         The string section: violins, violas, cellos…
•         The woodwind section: clarinets, flutes…
•         The brass section: trumpets, trombones, tubas…
•         The percussion section: drums, xylophones, triangles…

Ordinal numbers

These are the ordinal numbers:

• Exercise (match the ordinal and the cardinal)

• Writen exercise

• Photocopiable activity

Money

There are different currencies in the world, these are the most important:

• € euro - E.E.C. (European Economic Community).
• $ dollar - U.S.A. (The United States of America).
• £ pound - United Kingdom.

£1 = 100 p.

1 p.= one penny (singular)

2 p.= two pence (plural)

3 p.= three pence (plural)

etc.

The exchange is different each day. Today (11/10/2019) £1 = 1,13 €

PRICES:

You can find prices in different ways: only pounds, only pence or pounds and pence. You say:

• £3 = three pounds
• 0.99 p. = ninety nine pence
• £3.99 = three pounds and ninety nine pence (people say too: three pounds and ninety  nine or three ninety nine).

bills

coins

Partial Solar Eclipse

Today we could see a Partial Solar Eclipse.

It was a Total Solar Eclipse in the Faroe Islands and Svalbard (Norway), and a Partial Solar Eclipse in Europe, northern and eastern Asia and northern and western Africa.

Begins: Friday, March 20th 2015, 9:06

Maximum: Friday, March 20th 2015, 10:10

Ends: Friday, March 20th 2015, 11:20

Duration: 2 hours, 13 minutes.

Do/Does

Do and does are used when we want to ask yes/no questions.

We use do or does depending on the subject. Below are two sentences with two different subjects, she and you.

Does she like sport? Yes, she does.
Do you like sport? Yes, I do.

Do
We use do when the subject is I, you, we or they.

Do I know you?
Do you play football?
Do we go skiing?
Do they collect stamps?

Does
We use does with third person singular pronouns i.e when the subject is he, she or it.

Does he play the violin?
Does she like meat?
Does it run fast?

Exercises about do/does (for 5th level):

• Exercise 1 (choose between do or does)

• Exercise 2 (choose between do or does)

• Exercise 3 (write do or does)

• Exercise 4 (choose between do, does, don't or doesn't)

• Exercise 5 (write do, don't, does, doesn't)

Carving a pumpkin

You can carve a pumpkin on line if you press on the picture:

Computers

Vocabulary about computers:

Possessive adjectives

Possessive adjectives - my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their - modify the noun following it in order to show possession.

Examples:
I'll get my bag.
Is this your luggage?

Possessive adjectives are often confused with possessive pronouns.

Subject Pronouns	I	you	he	she	it	we	you	they
Possessive Adjectives	my	your	his	her	its	our	your	their

(from http://www.myenglishpages.com)

Exercises about possessive adjectives. Use the links below:

• Match the possessives and the pronouns
• Match words with possesive adjectives
• Write the possessive adjectives

Present continuous

As you can see below, there are some exercises you can do about the present continuous:

• Exercises 1 (present continuous affirmative)

• Exercises 2 (present continuous affirmative and negative)