The Farewell Project

As the third classes are about to leave our school I asked them to prepare short clips in which they will present their passions to their peers. Let me share some of them with you all:

Hi everybody!
Class IC prepared some great films in which they were supposed to teach me something interesting that they can do. I must say I found some of those things pretty complicated. See for yourselves.

St Valentine's Day

Leave it to the Brits!

Here is awesome advertisment made by Mini Car Comapany. Only British could do something like this!
Click!

Daniel's hobby

Back in 2009, when I was 8 years old, with the help of my dad, I made my first website. I made it by copying certain website elements, and customizing them. Being only text, it was very primitive and easy to make. In the future, I would like to make an online game written in HTML5.

Reconstruction: http://quatro.kao.pl/daniel-romero/lupa.html

The weather has been playing nasty tricks with us. One day it loos like spring, on another you wake up to see lots of snow covering trees, buszes, fences and roofs of buildings.
The English love talking about the weather beacause in Britain it is  changeable as well. They also have a huge range of expressions and idioms using vocabulary connected with climate and weather conditions. Here you can see a few. What do they mean?

At last a picture of Dominik's robot has reached us ! Here we are. Isn't it intriguing?

Hi all!
How are you in the New Year? Have you made any New Year resolutions? I have but they are top secret.

From today on Class IC will support me in editting this blog, so here is what Dominik has written about a robot he built some time ago.

Two years ago I built a robot. It wasn't very big. I made him using Lego Mindstorm brick set. I couls easily steer him using my phone or my computer. Building a robot from Lego blocks isn't complicated. In the future I"d like to build a robot from scratch, not using Lego.

I used to attach a camera to my robot and I had a lot of fun with it. It was a great experience.

Dominik promised to send us a photo of his robot. We are looking forward to seeing it.

In the meantime here is a link to the story The Crazy Computer for klas I E, who are working on a project connected with it:

http://english.backbyskolan.se/files/2011/11/Crazy-Computer.pdf

Santa Quiz

How about a Santa Quiz today? The first person to answer all the questions  in the comments will get a special prize!!! The deadline is Monday morning!

1. What color is Santa’s suit?

2. Is Santa married?

3. Does he have any children?

4. Where does he live?

5. Who makes all the toys?

6. How does Santa know the children’s wishes?

7. When does Santa give the children presents?

8. How does Santa travel around the world?

9. How many reindeer pull the sleigh?

10. Who is the leader of the reindeer?

11. What’s special about him?

12. Name the other reindeer.

13. What are three things families put on a table for Santa?

14. How does Santa enter the houses?

15. How does he exit?

16. Where does Santa put the presents?

17. Where does Santa park his sleigh?

18. What does Santa say when he laughs?

19. What does Santa give to bad boys and girls?

20. What happens if children see Santa in the house?

Santa Claus Reindeer Ride - Lapland Finland - Father Christmas - Rovaniemi

Has he set off yet?

THANKSGIVING WITH GRACELAND 2014

On Wednesday we were visited by four ladies from the USA and Canada. They are teachers from the School of English Graceland. They prepared worshops on Thanksgiving for us at which we sang songs, participated in a quiz about Thanksgiving and turkeys and did some craftswork. Finally there was a treat of hand-made pumpkin cookies and some Canadian cranberries. Having a chance to meet and talk to native speakers was a very interesting and challenging experience for us! We hope to meet the four ladies again soon!

A wonderful project by four girls from III E

Two weeks ago we discussed The Red Nose Day during our lessons with III E and as a homework the students were supposed to think of an idea of how to raise money during The Red Nose Day.
They had a number of fantastic ideas but the one that we all enjoyed most was "The Red Nose Quiz" prepared by the four girls whose names appear on one of the last slides.
 

Hi! Look what a wonderful Jack-o-Lantern Ola from I C has made!!!

Hi,
As Halloween is coming, I planned for this week practical exercises in making Jack-O-Lanterns. Unfortunately I got sick and we are unable to do it together, so I've decided to put the instructions of how to do it here followed witha little film about it. I hope you will try to use the instructions on your own and bring some photographs of your Jack-O-Lanterns to class.
See you next week.:)

You need: 1 short, sharp knife 1 dessert spoon 1 teaspoon 1 candle or tea-light Plenty of newspaper to protect work surface Large bowl for pumpkin seeds and flesh

Step One: Cut a circular hole around the stalk.

Tilt the point of the knife into the centre of the pumpkin. This will stop the lid from falling in.

Step Two: Scoop out the seeds and any loose flesh using the dessertspoon and the knife if needed.

Step Three: Sketch the face onto your pumpkin. Use a biro so any mistakes can be scrubbed off with a scouring pad or fingernail.

Step Four: Carefully cut out the features. Take small cuts and use a puncturing motion rather than a slicing one.

Step Five:Gently scrape away the flesh on the inside of the face until it is only 1cm thick.

Step Six: Using the knife, mark a circle the size of your candle or tea-light in the centre of the base. Step Seven: Carefully hollow out the marked area with the teaspoon.

Step Eight: Place your candle in the hollow, light it and replace the lid of your jack-o'-lantern.

Congratulations!!!

And the winner is..................... Mikołaj from IE!!!

Congratulations Mikołaj!

Hi!
The first month of the new school year is over and it's time we used our creativity to entertain you.
Class IC has studied some trivia about Breat Britain and created a fascinating quiz for all of you. The winner, that is the first person to send correct answers to all the questions will  get a very good mark in English. Good luck!

How bored I am !

Hi everyone!
It is Sunday afternoon and I,ve just thought that you might feel a bit bored, so perhaps you will have a minute to revise Present Continuous Tense with this little rap?

The first competition in 2014/2015!

Hi everyone!

Perhaps some of you already know this little gentleman, but if not, I would like you to meet Kid President, who will be talking about the words we all should use more often.

I would like you to listen carefully and remember as much as possible. In the next post on Monday I'll let you know what you are supposed to do to win the prize in the competition.

Have fun!

Homeworks for IC and IE - have fun!!!

Hi,
Today IE and IC had their get together lessons during which they introduced themselves to the rest of their class. We had a lot of fun learning new things about our friends. And now the homework:
answer the question in the relevant document:
IE
IC
Have fun with the homework and see you next week!!!

Back to school!

back to school

Hello again,
I haven't written for ages, but it wasn't because I didn't want to, but because I had some technical problems. And in the meantime so many interesting things have happened!!!
First of all, students were away for their school trips, and I got some lovely memories from their trips from them:

School Trip

Our class IG were on the school trip. (19-23 May 2014)

We had beautiful weather. It was sunny all the time. We went to Koninki. We were in “Gorce” mountains. On Tuesday we went on “Turbaczyk” and on Wednesday on “Turbacz”.

In the camp we lived in four-rooms and we had neighbours there. They were fifth-graders. Girls liked to talk with them, but we didn’t. When we saw that they put butter on rail of our balcony, we wanted to show fifth-graders who is the master. We scared them. And we had calm.

In the free time we played football, but when it was dark outside, we played “Heroes of Might and Magic III” on Michal Jurek’s computer.

At the first day we had a karaoke party. Last evening we had a competition. We had to prepare song, dance, advertisement and fashion show. Fell the most in my memory advertisement of “Old Spice” and of socks. We had an advertisement of brick, shampoo, and spray too. After that, we had a disco. But the DJ was terrible. Last night my friends made a “green night” with pyjamas and toothpaste,
but I was sleeping so I didn’t enjoy the “green night” at all.

 We came back on 23 May 2014 at 5:30 pm.

That was Jacek from IG, and this following one was from Kuba from the same class.

My students from IIIF  had a lesson about New Zealand and as a homework, they were supposed to produce collages about the countries they would like to visit. Here is Julka's work:

Students' latest "products"

Two Zuzas from IA decided to produce their own film about how to make Easter eggs. Here it is:

Easter is coming!!!

Hi all!  Have you painted Easter Eggs, yet? If not, here are some fantastic ideas how to make unusual, unique and delightful Easter Eggs in an easy way:

And finally a competition!  If you want to get an excellent mark in English, make a short film / 2-3 min/
in which you will show us how to make beautiful Easter Eggs - just like the ones above. You can work in teams of two or three people and win this precious prize. The deadline is at midnight on 30 April. I am looking forward to your films! Happy Easter!!!

Kasia form IIIF is  going to Poznań to compete in the final  /3rd/ stage of Olimpiada Języka Angielskiego dla Gimnazjalistów. In the 2nd stage, as the oral part of the exam, she was supposed to prepare and record TV news on precisely specified topics. SHE RECEIVED THE MAXIMUM SCORE OF 20 POINTS for the presentation that you can see in this film:

 

Congratulations and good luck in Poznań!!!

Quick Spring Competition

Do you know English words for spring flowers? If your answer is yes, put the names of the flowers in the collage below in the comments. The first person to do it will get a FIVE !!!

St Patrick's Day in Ireland

Hello!
Today is St.Patrick's Day, a national holiday of Ireland. Who was St.Patrick, who is the patron of the Irish? You can learn it from the songs:

or this trailer from a film about St. Patrick:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Today we held a dictation competition and I promised to present the text of the story that you were supposed to write this morning. Here is this lovely presentation with the text:

Great Winter Holidays Competition!

Hi all,
Here are five pairs of pictures which illustrate five different English proverbs. Guess the proverbs and win an excellent mark in English!

One:

Two:

Three:

Four:

Five:

 And meanwhile Miśka from IG has prepared this wonderful comic on Goldilocks and Three Bears :

 Bye for now and have fantastic holidays!!!

Hello,
Long time no see!!! Last week IA and IG talked about one of the most spectacular and inspiring places in the United States, i.e the Niagara Falls. Two Zuzkas from IA prepared beautiful presentations about it and I'm sure you will also want to see them So here they are:

And the other one:

Happy New Year!!!

Hi and Happy New Year!
I hope the new year has begun well for all of you. January 1 is usually connected with some New Year resolutions. We all make them, but we hardly ever stick to them. I'm showing you this short history of New Year resolutions and a film showing how Londom welcomed the New Year 2014.
And what are your New Year resolutions? Mine is to make my students work harder!!! So be careful!