ST PATRICK'S DAY

St. Patrick's is the Saint Patron of Ireland. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th. There are parades everywhere and people wear green clothes. The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland.
Watch this and enjoy the day:

This is a webpage with lots of activities:

http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day/history-of-st-patricks-day/videos/green

RUGBY SIX NATIONS

The six nations rugby championship started yesterday.
Good luck, Ireland:
This is Ireland's call, the National anthem for rugby:

LINKS TO CAMBRIDGE EXAMS

Activities for my stuidents of 4º ESO- Here you have some links to practice the Cambridge Exams. Remember you have to work hard and be responsible:

For the Key English Test:

http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_grammar.htm

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-listening-cambridge-Key-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-listening-cambridge-Key-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

For the Preliminary Test:

http://www.englishaula.com/en/pet-exam-writing-cambridge-preliminary-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/index.htm

For both:

http://jesvasar.weebly.com/ket-pet-free-online-practice.html

For the First Certificate:

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/

HAPPY CHRISTMAS by JOHN LENNON

HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) by John Lennon 

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas (War is Over, if you want it, war is over now)repeat with verse
For weak and for strong
The rich and the poor ones
The road is so long
So happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

THANKSGIVING

THANKSGIVING DAY is the 4th Thursday of November. This is the most important CELEBRATION in the US.It's even more important than CHRISTMAS since this is a Christian celebration and not everybody in the country are Christians. On THANKSGIVING DAY, People in the US have a long weekend and travel to meet their families. They eat ROAST TURKEY.
This celebration started a long time ago when the PILGRIMS who had come from England collected the 1st HARVEST and decided to gather together and invite the Indians who had helped them to survive to have a meal together.
Here are a couple of PILGRIM SQUIRRELS, which I bought in Williamstown in 1993. They are SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS.  You can buy anything related to THANKSGIVING in all the shops in the country these days.

If you want to have more information about this celebration, check the Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

This website is very interesting to know more about the PILGRIMS:

THE PILGRIMS

And the following video explains very clearly this celebration: 

THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS

GUY FAWKES NIGHT

Today is GUY FAWKES NIGHT. It's a festival celebrated in Britain. It's also called BONFIRE NIGHT, CRACKER NIGHT AND FIREWORKS NIGHT. As you can imagine, there are bonfires and fireworks in many places. This festival commemorates the failure of the GUNPOWDER PLOT. In 1605 a group of Catholics tried to blow up Westminster Palace and kill King James I. Guy Fawkes was of of those men. Nowadays people make cloth "Guys" and burn them in the bonfires. Children also carry "Guys" with them and go out asking for "a penny for the Guy". They also say this rhyme:

"Remember remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder Treason &Plot
I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot"