MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

I wish you all Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holidays. Have fun and be grateful.

Happy New Year 2019

CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

Find out how Christmas Traditions and how Christmas is celebrated in different countries and cultures around the world.

Christmas is one of those holidays that just seems to be filled with cheer and wonder. It is a day for fun, love, and happiness. You will learn how to celebrate a secular, religious, kid-friendly or consumer-free Christmas.

FREDDIE MERCURY: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

He was born on 5th September 1946. His birth name was Farrokh Bulsara. He legally changed his name to Freddie Mercury around 1970. He was born in Tanzania. he grew up between Tanzania and India. He moved to England when he was a teenager. He and his family practiced  Zoroastrianism (a monotheist religion). Mercury's vocal cords moved faster than the average person's. He was very shy in his private life. He revealed that he had AIDS just one day before he died. He loved cats and had as many as 10 at one point. He worked as a baggage handler at Heathrow airport.

We are the champions (lyrics)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Lyrics)

TARZAN (FACE TO FACE)

TARZAN (Face to Face).

AUDIOS:

1.Introduction
2.Vocabulary
3.Meet the Characters
4.Plot Synopsis
5.Plot Synopsis: Incorrect Version
6.Dialogue: Tarzan and Jane
7.Dialogue: The Flying Dodo Bird
8.Song: I Wanna Be Like You
9.Song: I'm Tarzan

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE

Because Magret's parents were so poor, Magret didn't learn how to read and write when she was young. This troubled her. She would stay up at night, thinking: Will I ever be able to write my name? Will I ever be able to read?

VAN GOGH TO PICASSO - GUGGENHEIM BILBAO

Drawn from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's Thannhauser Collection, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Thannhauser Legacy features works by impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern masters, including  Paul Cézanne, Edgar, Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. It makes the first occasion that a significant portion of this illustrious collection has been exhibited outside of New York since its arrival at the Guggenheim in New York over fifty years ago.

IMPRESSIONISM

It's an art movement, impressionism originated in 19th-century France as a reaction against the rigid rules of "academic painting" of that time.

Impressionist art is known for its distinctive brush strokes, lighting, colours, and everyday subjects.

The Laundry - Édouard Manet	Self-portrait - Edgar Degas
The Water Lilies - Claude Monet	Apple Harvest - Camille Pissarro
Onions   Pierre-Auguste Renoir	Venice Twilight - Claude Monet

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

It's an art movement that developed in the 1890s. It is characterized by a subjective approach to paintings, as artists opted to evoke emotion rather than realism in their work.

Post-Impressionists believed that a work should place emphasis on symbolism, communicating messages from the artist's own subconscious. They perceived it as a way to convey feelings.

Like the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionist shared their work with the public through independent exhibitions across Paris.

Kitchen Table - Paul Cézanne	Seaside Harvest - Paul Gauguin
Toil Today Dream Tonight- Vincent van Gogh	The Bed - Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Gypsy in front of Musca - Pablo Picasso	Woman with necklace of gems- Pablo Picasso

HALLOWEEN 18/19

Halloween is a celebration on the night of October 31. It is mostly practised in the United States and Canada. Children wear costumes and go to people's homes saying "trick or treat" to ask for candy (sweets) and people give it to them. Its meaning is " give me a treat or I'll play a trick on you". People mainly dress up as ghosts, witches or other scary things for Halloween.

HOW TO MAKE SCONES

QUESTIONS:

1. What's the cook wearing?

2. What's he cooking?

3. What does he look like?

4. What can you see in the kitchen?

SCHOOL YEAR 2018 - 2019, THE BEST.

A new school year is ahead of us. After our long summer holidays (who says so?), we don´t know where our "heads" are. I´m a bit lost. What about you? Let´s find our new way together as soon as possible. Let´s work hard, learn a lot and enjoy even more.

MARC CHAGALL - TIBOLI ESKOLA

Enjoy these great drawings that our pupils have created as if they were Marc Chagall.

The end of the current school-year has just reached. A long, happy and peaceful year with its ups and downs. We are also glad to start our long summer holidays. Enjoy the summer as you please. Go to the mountain, the beach or anywhere you prefer, but please find and scatter happiness everywhere you go to.

MARC  CHAGALL QUOTES

• If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
• Colour is all. When colour is right, form is right. Colour everything, colour is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
• If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
• Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (SIMON & GARFUNKEL)

MARC CHAGALL

Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk (Russia). He died on March 28, 1985, in Saint-Paul (France).

Marc Chagall was the eldest of nine children born near Vitebsk, Russia. He was Jews. During his school days, Chagall adopted the habit of drawing and copying images from books. In 1910 he moved to St.Petersburg to continue his studies. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910, too. His influence is as vast as the number of styles he assimilated to create his work. He is much like Picasso, an example of a modern artist.

HELLEN KELLER

Hellen Keller was born on June, 1880 in Alabama. An illness left her blind and deaf. Anne Sullivan helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate, and Keller went on to college, graduating in 1904.

1. TO BE - PAST SIMPLE

2. TO BE - SIMPLE PAST

3. CHOOSE: WAS/WERE

FACE 2 FACE THEATRE COMPANY - 2nd May - SNOWBALL

Oona the Eskimo and her baby polar bear, Snowball, are the protagonists of this animated Arctic adventure. But one day, Snowball goes missing! Where can he be? With songs, dances, magic, and of course much laughter in English, the students help Oona to find her best friend. Join them for a happy ending under the Northern lights!

Storytelling Text (Audio)

If You're Happy And You Know it (Song)

SEVEN OF THE SMARTEST SEA CREATURES

These are 7 of the seven smartest sea creatures:

7. Whales  6. Sea Otter  5. Orcas  4. Cuttlefish  3. The Californian Sea Lion  2. Octopuses  1. Bottlenose Dolphins

VIDEOS  ABOUT  PLASTIC  POLLUTION:

1.Investigating about plastic pollution - Basics.

2.Reduce, Reuse and Recycle to enjoy a better life.

3. What really happens to the plastic you through away.

4. How can we keep plastic out of our Ocean?

LISTENING: A BUSY DAY

JOHN JOSEPH MERLIN

John Joseph Merlin was an inventor. He was born in Huy, Belgium in 1735. He died in London in 1803. He is famous for the invention of inline skates in 1760 and also for the automaton, the Silver Swan.

READING: OFELIA SHOPS

FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS

A funny and engaging way to learn feelings and emotions for children.

READING ACTIVITY

EASTER HOLIDAYS! HAPPY EASTER!

Easter and spring rites remind us how life triumphs over death. Whether in the Christian symbolism of the resurrection or folk traditions of hares and eggs, renewal of life is the common factor. The world is coming alive again after a long and cold winter. This is represented in our symbols of Easter: eggs, baby chicks, fertile rabbits, and plenty of blooms. The magic of spring/Easter means new life, new flowers, and no more snow.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (8 MARCH)

It's a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights" (Gloria Steinem). 

International Women's Day  (IWD) has been occurring for well over a century.

What colours signify International Women's Day? Purple with green represents traditional feminism and purple with yellow represents progressive contemporary feminism. 

Think globally and act locally!

Make everyday International Women's Day.

Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, equal, safe and rewarding.

By Eider Galar Goikolea

SEE YOU SOON DAVID HOCKNEY

"I live the same way as I have for years; I'm just a worker. Artists are. Michelangelo, Picasso - they worked all the time. In the last four years of his life, Van Gogh's time is almost all accounted for. He did all those drawings, wrote all those letters. What other time was left over? Just enough for sleeping, that's all. But you never hear about artists staying in bed, because they don't."

From the book: 

"LOVING VINCENT" PAINTED FILM - HOW IT WAS MADE

The animation-style, stop-motion film is made entirely from real oil paintings. The result looks as if Van Gogh's vivid figures have come to life. The story considers what might have happened if Van Gogh did not kill himself, but was in fact murdered.

To capture changing backgrounds, facial expressions, and movement, each canvas was re-painted an average of 76 times. between them, the artists executed a total of 65.000 frames in oil paint.

GOYA AND THE COURT OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Goya was a Spanish painter (1746-1828). He painted many portraits of the Spanish Royal Family. His most famous paintings are Charles IV of Spain and His Family. His masterpieces in painting also include The Naked Maja, The Clothed Maja and The 3rd of May 1808.

Goya was born in Fuentetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746. In about 1749, the family moved to Zaragoza. Goya later moved to Madrid. He tried to join the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1763 and 1766, but he failed. he traveled to Rome, too.

At the age of forty, Goya was appointed painter to King Charles III. In 1789, he was promoted to court painter under Charles IV. The enlightened monarchy of Charles IV came to an end when Napoleon´s armies invaded Spain in 1808.

Exhibition in Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa: Goya and The Court of enlightenment (14th February - 28th May).

WORKING DOGS

A working dog is a working animal, a kind of dog that is not merely a pet but learns and performs tasks to assist or entertain its human companions. Detection dogs can be employed at airports, police stations, borders and schools. Tracking&Hunting dogs are trained to be the eyes and ears for the humans.

There are more types of working dogs: Herding dogs, bird dogs, guard dogs, sight dogs, trackers.....

HOLLYWOOD VS BOLLYWOOD

Difference between Hollywood and Bollywood:

Hollywood is a physical place in Los Angeles, California, USA. Hollywood has become popular world-wide, with many of its films being released in almost all countries. 

Bollywood is an informal term that is used to represent the Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is not a physical place. It's a representative term for popular Hindi films.

Hollywood and Bollywood are both popular cinemas. They are two completely different cinemas for different audiences and cannot properly be compared.

LOVING VINCENT

Vincent Van Gogh is a well-known post-impressionist artist. Colour was the chief symbol of  expression for him. He was born in Holland in 1853 and he died in 1890. He was the son of a pastor and educated in a religious and cultured atmosphere. Vincent was highly emotional, lacked self-confidence and struggled with his identity. it took years for him to discover his calling as an artist. You can read his biography and discover the stories about his life and work.

Virtual Vincent Van Gogh Museum (video)

Vincent (Starry, starry Night) - Don Mclean lryrics

Van Gogh Alive Exhibition (Video)
Worksheet