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 Next Thursday we´ll meet Marina with her HARRY POTTER STORYTELLING. Before that let´s have a look at some basic facts of both HOGWARTS and HARRY POTTER himself:         ORIGIN OF HOGWARTS AND THE FOUR HOUSES                      ABC OF HOWARTS (READ ALOUD)                                    HISTORY OF HARRY POTTER   Now you´re ready to colour your ties and do the wordsearch. Which house will be the winner?       HUFFLEPUFF?....GRIFFINDOR?...SLYTHERIN?... or  RAVENCLAW?  it all depends on you.

 Do you know what board game tic-tac-toe is?    You´ve played it sometimes very surely.       It actually is one of the oldest and simplest board games in history.              Read the following information to discover the basic facts of its history.    THE ORIGIN OF TIC-TAC-TOE The origin of this game dates back to ancient Egypt. However the more recorded versión comes from ancient Rome where people played a game called TERNI LAPILLI  using three pebbles at a time.    Thousands of years later, Britain 1858, the first ever recorded mention of the game as we know it today came in a British tabloid. The game there was called KNOTS (0) and CROSSES (X)      About 30 years later, 1891, an American magazine referred to it as a children´s game known as TIC-TAC-TOE, TIT-TAT-TOE in England: where TIT is a slap, TAT is retribution and TOE is three in a row. From then it became a verbal tick becoming tic-tac-toe.           In 1952 tic-tac-toe became the first ever made video game (OX

     "La Catrina" has become one of the most distinctive symbols of Mexican art and culture.          But, do you know anything about its origin.                  Read the following text, watch the videos and then copy the text at the back of the Catrina you´ll make in class.                          HISTORY OF "LA CATRINA"  In Mexico people celebrate the “day of the dead” (“día de los muertos”) on the first days of November. People display altars in their home to remember their dead loved ones and to show appreciation for our lives. They also decorate their homes with skeletions and sugar skulls. The most distinctive symbol of this festivity is “La Catrina” which symbolizes equality between people. The artista and caricaturist José Guadalupe Posada created a female skeleton dressed in the tradition of the early 1900´s. He named it “chickpea skeleton” to critisize the society of that time. It would be Diego Rivera – Frida Kahlo´s husband – in his 15-m