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  Welcome to TASK 3!    Now that you know the basic info related to each boardgame it´s  high time you proved you can play them:    Read with insight and watch out for KEY WORDS. 1.CHESS A. You have to build a tower laying floors of three blocks . Then remove the blocks one at a time taking turns from the middle layers putting them on top . 2.UNO B. Choose red or blue disks . One player at a time places a disk in the grid to make four on a line . 3.PICTIONARY C .Choose a token. Then throw the dices and move your piece on the board. If you fall on a goose or a bridge you can move forward. If you fall on well or gallows you miss turn. If you fall on death you start again. The winner is the firs to get to square 63 . 4.LUDO D .Four red , yellow , blue and green pieces. All at home until one player gets number 5 and starts. The winner is the one that takes its...

  Hi again!   After naming the probably most famous 10 boardgames we´re moving on to see ....        ... WHO CREATED WHICH   In TASK 2 you´ll discover WHO invented these boardgames or, in some cases, their  CULTURE of  origin.     Same as before, connect in your grid the different boardgames (numbers) with the peoples´  NAMES or CULTURES. BOARDGAME NAME(S) / CULTURE and WHEN? 1. UNO A. MERLE ROBBINS in 1971 2 LUDO B. INDIA in 600CE (AD) 3 GOOSE GAME C. THEO and ORA COSTER in 1961 4 JENGA D. ITALIAN lottery game from the 16th century 5 CHESS E.ITALIAN boardgame from the 15th century 6 GUESS WHO F. HOWARD WEXLER and NED STRONGIN in the 1970s 7 BINGO G. EGYPT 1300BC 8 CONNECT 4 H. LESLIE SCOTT early 1970s 9 PICTIONA...

 After so much travelling and sightseeing ... don´t you fancy to relax and enjoy a musical?    London is probably the place in Europe that offers you the widest variety.        Have a look and choose whatever musical you and your family will enjoy seeing.                Write down the following info in your notebook:    MUSICAL NAME:    THEATRE:    ADDRESS:     DATE:                TIME:                PRICE:

       When we Spanish people travel abroad what we mostly miss is real Spanish food.     In this task you will have to match ten Spanish restaurants with something that distinguishes them fron  each ohter.     Enjoy your food!       SPANISH RESTAURANTS IN LONDON 1.  BOQUERIA   2.   BARRAFINA   3.  BRINDISA   4.  CAMINO         5. SALTYARD   6.  TOZINO    7.  JOSÉ   8.  FINO   9. DONOSTIA   10. HISPANIA A.Here you can buy a Spanish Cookbook with their recipes. B.It´s named after a beautiful coastal town in the North of Spain and specializes In pintxos C.This restaurant is the first and only London´s   jamón bodega D.Here you can taste CACHOPO for £23. E.They even have a restaurant in Abu Dhabi F.Their symbol is an acorn. G.Here you can eat Paella de pescado y marisco for 15,90£ per person H.One of thei...

 Happy St. Patrick´s day.     St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. So today we´ll be making two symbols of Ireland.         Follow the steps on these two videos. It´s going to be sooooo easy!!!!                     Children in year 3 we´ll be making a SHAMROCK .                               The LEPRECHAUN will be for their year four schoolmates.                                        Have a very merry St. Patrick´s day!!!!!

 Do you like reading comics? Do you know when comics were created? Watch this and you´ll go back in time to sort it out. Did you know that in Spain we differentiate between comic and tebeo ? We all know films based on comics are big blockbusters nowadays. Examples as  Marvel´s  or DC .  However, there are also examples of Spanish tebeos brought into the screen. Probably the  most famous is ... I hope after this short intro you are going to be able to create your own comic.

     "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 carica...

 Hi and welcome bach to school!!!!!      Do you remember any of the info you saw about Frida Kahlo during the previous course?               No problem.... Watch this video and you´ll do!!                       You can also see some of her most favours works of Art .                                 And now .... visit Frida Kahlo´s museum

  Whenever we talk about British food the first thing that comes to our mind  - and our mouth - is ...  FISH & CHIPS                      The Real History of Fish and Chips       PART I After having been celebrating it on the first Friday in June for some years, this year (2026) National Fish & Chips Day will fall on the 5th of June. Nowadays there are about 10,500 fish & chips shops in the UK serving an staggering number of 167 million meals a year.   The fish and chip Britisn market may be worth £1,2billion On any Friday evening, British takeaway day, 1 in every five orders are fish & chips. The irresistible pairing of fish & chips - let’s not forget a sprinkling of salt and vinegar – has always been considered Britain´s best contibution to international cuisine. But let´s travel back to when it all started:   from the 8th to the 12th centuries, Je...

 After the Romans, many different cultures lived in and influenced what´s nowadays the Bristish culture  and language. When the Roman empire was collapsing the Saxons came in to conquer the island.   Let´s start by knowing about them:            HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE ANGLO SAXON REPORT        HORRIBLE HISTORIES: SMASHING SAXONS. INVASION, INVASION, INVASION          HORRIBLE HISTORIES: SAXONS FEAR OF MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTER       HORRIBLE HISTORIES: SAXON XMAS PRESENTS       HORRIBLE HISTORIES: WORDS WE GET FROM THE SAXONS.               Now it´s time for you to learn more about the Saxons:   THE SAXONS The Romans invaded Britain in 1   . Before them the 2   had been living on the island. The last Roman soldiers left 3   in 410 AD. Without Roman soldiers to defend them, the Britons w...