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Science: Living Things

Remember:

(I) All living things carry out THREE BASIC LIFE PROCESSES:
            - NUTRITION
            - INTERACTION
            - REPRODUCTION

Here you have a video to review and to learn more about these three vital functions.

(II) The ORGANISATION OF LIVING THINGS:

STUDY THIS!

     All living things are composed of basic units called CELLS.

  The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all living things.

1) Unicellular organisms are composed by only one cell (bacteria).
2) Multicellular organisms are composed by many cells (animals and plants).

Animal cells have different parts: membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus and organelles. Besides, plant cells also have a cell wall and chloroplasts.

Watch this videos to learn more about cells:

PLANT CELL AND ANIMAL CELL: STRUCTURE

Learn more about cell organelles

In this link you can find out more about plant and animal cells:

animal and plant cells: virtual tour

Study this!

LEVELS OF ORGANISATION OF LIVING THINGS:

Many CELLS that have a similar job join together to form a TISSUE.

ORGANS are made up of different types of tissues that work together.
SYSTEMS are made up of organs that work together to carry out a function.

All the systems together form the living thing you see.

Watch this video so that you can understand these concepts better:

REVIEW: Comparative adjectives

GRAMMAR

Comparative adjectives and adverbs     (más ……. que)
1-syllable adjs/advs strong big (cvc)	Add –er than stronger than bigger than ¡double consonant!	más fuerte que más grande que
2-syllable adjs ending in -y easy	drop -y, add –ier than easier than	más fácil que
2 or more syllables boring interesting quickly	more + adj/adv + than more boring than more interesting than more quickly than	más aburrido que más interesante que más rápido que
STUDY
IRREGULAR ADJS  good bad	better than worse than	mejor que peor que

Check your knowledge on COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES by completing this online activity. Have fun!

Comparative and superlative adjectives

GRAMMAR

Superlative adjectives     (el/la/los/las más ……. de)
1-syllable adjs strong big (cvc)	The adjective–est in/of The strongest The biggest ¡double consonant!	el más fuerte  el más grande
2-syllable adjs ending in -y easy	drop -y, the adj–iest  in /of the easiest in / of	el más fácil
2 or more syllables boring interesting	The most adjective in/of the most boring in/of the most interesting in/of	el más aburrido el más interesante
STUDY
IRREGULAR ADJS  good bad	the best in /of the worst  in /of	el mejor el peor

Check your knowledge on SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES and review comparative adjectives by completing this online activity. (Thank you Nuria 08 😃) Have fun!

Lovely pets

Let me introduce Aiko the cat and Mr Spock 💕

Indefinite Pronouns

Here you have a selection of exercises related to the topic we are studying in class. I hope you find them helpful. Click the links 😄😄

something, anything, someone, anyone, somewhere, anywhere – Exercise

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somewhere, anywhere, nowhere, everywhere, something, anything, nothing, everything, somebody, anybody, nobody, everybody!

Indefinite pronouns - multiple choice

British Council: a VIDEO with lots of examples of the use of Indefinite Pronouns and links to three activities

A quiz

More activities on the topic             

Gloria Fuertes

ESTA SEMANA CELEBRAMOS EL DÍA DEL LIBRO Y ESTE AÑO, EN EL CENTENARIO DE SU NACIMIENTO, DEDICAMOS ESTA CELEBRACIÓN A GLORIA FUERTES, LA POETA DE LOS NIÑOS

Aquí tenéis información sobre su vida y algunos de sus poemas

 AUTOBIOGRAFÍA por Gloria Fuertes

Gloria Fuertes nació en Madrid
A los dos días de edad,
Pues fue muy laborioso el parto de mi madre
Que si se descuida muere por vivirme.
A los tres años ya sabía leer
Y a los seis ya sabía mis labores.
Yo era buena y delgada,
Alta y algo enferma.
A los nueve años me pilló un carro
Y a los catorce me pilló la guerra;
A los quince se murió mi madre, se fue cuando más falta me hacía.
Aprendí a regatear en las tiendas
Y a ir a los pueblos por zanahorias.
Por entonces empecé con los amores,
-no digo nombres-,
gracias a eso, pude sobrellevar
mi juventud de barrio.
Quise ir a la guerra, para pararla,
Pero me detuvieron a mitad del camino.
Luego me salió una oficina,
Donde trabajo como si fuera tonta,
-pero Dios y el botones saben que no lo soy-.
Escribo por las noches
Y voy al campo mucho.
Todos los míos han muerto hace años
Y estoy más sola que yo misma.
He publicado versos en todos los calendarios,
Escribo en un periódico de niños,
Y quiero comprarme a plazos una flor natural
Como las que le dan a Pemán algunas veces.

GLORIA FUERTES RECITA SU "NOTA BIOGRÁFICA"

CONOCIENDO A GLORIA FUERTES

MUJERES CON HISTORIA: GLORIA FUERTES

CÓMO SE DIBUJA UN INDIO

 UN GLOBO, DOS GLOBOS, TRES GLOBOS (TVE)

Adjectives: online vocabulary activity

Here you have an online activity to learn and review adjectives.

I hope you find it useful 😃😃😃

English Sounds: Pronunciation

Hi students! Have a look at these amazing online resources to learn and practise English pronunciation!!


Click here and learn the pronunciation of the English vowels, consonants and diphthongs:

ENGLISH SOUNDS

Remember that pronouncing English is not simply "reading" what you see in writing as if it was written in Spanish. Some English sounds do not occur in our language. You have to pay attention to these different sounds although the letters to represent them are the same as in Spanish! 

Here you have two different charts with the 12 English vowels and 8 diphthongs:

 
And here you have a chart with the English consonants:

And here you have some awesome videos to learn to pronounce the English sounds: 

PRONUNCIATION TIPS

JOLLY PHONICS ENGLISH SOUNDS

BRITISH COUNCIL: PHONEMIC CHART

PRONUNCIATION OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

  I do hope you find this post useful. I really believe that good pronunciation is the key to better communication in any foreign language.

Present Perfect: online activity

Have a look at this awesome activity and enjoy yourself while studying the PRESENT PERFECT for your exams

Thank you for sharing your work, loveteaching 😄