HALLOWEEN '13

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN?
When and where is it celebrated? It's celebrated in the 31^st October in England.
Why is it celebrated on the 31st October? Because it's the day before All Saints
Is it a religious celebration? No, it is a pagan festival.
What does the word 'Halloween' mean? All Hallows Eve.
Name 2 typical games. Go door to door to collect treats and eat an apple on a stiring or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands
When did it become a dangerous celebration?Why? It became a holliday with a lot of vandalism and the trik-or-triking became a kind of extorcion.
How do people celebrate it today? Theire weare costumes, tirk-or-triking, bonfiers, ghost tours...


HALLOWEEN HISTORY

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.

Originally Halloween was a pagan festival, around the idea of linking the living with the dead, when contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen. Like most pagan festivals, long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.
The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits. Children would go from door to door in disguise as creatures from the underworld to collect treats, mainly fruit, nuts and the like for the festivities. These were used for playing traditional games like eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. Salt might be sprinkled on the visiting children to ward off evil spirits. Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles became a popular part of the festival, which has been adapted to carving pumpkins in America.

The day is often associated with the colours black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films!! 

Oral presentation

Hello my name is Bàrbara and now I'm going to talk about: My dogs.

Let's start:

I have two dogs, one is Luba and the other one is Twiny. First I'm going to introduce you Luba.

Luba is a weimaraner, she is the first pet I've ever had and I love her so much. She's very big and some times scare people but she's so nice. Luba loves laying unther the sun, pleeping, runing, plaing with the people and eat our food, and she hates the water, the glasses, my other dog Twiny and going to the veterinary.

The other dog is Twiny. Twiny is quite difrent than Luba, she's smaller, more hairy and she's a Yorkshire. Twiny loves to eat, walking, sleeping and plaing with my sister and me, specially at night. And she is scared of everything especially of my brother Guillem. She was a Christmas present, I will never forget that day.

So here ends my oral presentation, thanks for your attention!!

 

A dog like Twiny!!

A dog like Luba!!

 

Writing.

Writing.

A lot of people have Facebook, but many people are against.

In mi opinion, Facebook is great. Firstly, because you can watch your friends photos, play games, chat with your friend, look for them... Secondly, if I don't have the homework, I can ask a friend. And finally, I like know about what are my friends doing.

So all in all, I think that it's a good think to have facebook, but with moderation.

Vocabulary

Unit 1: Face to face

Vocabulary: adjectives


friendly - amistós

sensitive - sensible

intelligent - inteligent

ambitious -  ambicuós

determined - determinat

practical - pràctic

sensible - sensat

serious - seriós

curious - curiós

confident - segur de si mateix

active - actiu

innocent - inocent

tolerant - tolerant

intolerant - intolerant

shy - bergonyós

cheerful - feliç

mean - garrepa

generous - generós


Vocabulary: Verbs

smile - somriure

laugh - riure

sulk -emmurriar-se

joke - bromejar

cry - plorar

stare - mirar fixament

chat - parlar

shout -cridar

tease - pendre el pél

hug - abraçar

boast - enganyar

complain - queixar-se

Magazine

ROSA PARKS

Who was Rosa Parks?

Rosa lived in Montgomery in the southern stare of Alabama, USA. she was a respected member of the black community. She worked as a seamstress in a depertment store and took the bus to work every day. Because she was black, she had to sit in a separate secction at the back of the bus.

Rosa says "NO!"

THe 1 December 1955 was an ordinary day for Rosa. She was traveling home work when four white passegers got on the bus. The driver told four black passegers to give up their seats. Three of the passegers did, but Rosa refused. She said "NO!"...