DICTIONARY ACTIVITY

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Cambridge Learner's dictionary (no traduzione ma pronuncia audio)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/

Oxford Dictionary (con traduzione italiana ma no pronuncia audio)

http://oxforddictionaries.com/

Collins Dictionary (con traduzione italiana e pronuncia audio)

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/

Wordreference (con traduzione italiana e pronuncia audio)

http://www.wordreference.com/it/

Cerca nei dizionari le seguenti parole dal testo “Where does Halloween come from?”Scrivi la loro traduzione migliore che trovi per questo contesto.

ATTENZIONE: ricordati di cercare la “forma base” della parola, il singolare di un sostantivo, la forma base di un verbo ecc. ecc.

Controlla anche la frase da cui prendi la parola. Prima di cercarla decidi se è un verbo, un sostantivo o un'altra parte del discorso.

people

dressed up

harm

still

carried

turnips

moved

trick-or-treating

Ora traduci le seguenti frasi:

1. They dressed up like ghosts so the spirits would not harm them
2. When people moved from Ireland and Scotland to the United States, they started using pumpkins.
3. This is where trick-or treating comes from

SPECIAL WEATHER FORECASTERS

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A VERY SPECIAL WEATHER FORECAST

must haves

YOU MUST HAVE IN YOUR EXERCISE BOOKs

FUNCTIONS

• funzioni unità 7- chiedere opinione
• asking for tourist information
• asking for and give directions
• expressing intentions and ambitions

VOCABULARY

• M eans of transport
• places to visit
• places around town
• jobs

GRAMMAR

• comparativo-superlativo
• going to- esprimere intenzioni future

CIVILISATION-CULTURE

• Columbus day
• text “where does halloween come from?”
• school in italy vs school in the usa
• animal farm: characters, the seven commandements

daily routine

Click here and make this exercises about daily routines

Try again! Riprova fino a che non sei sicuro.

Poi fai la daily routine del tuo compagno (ex. he gets up at 7 o'clock...) Puoi farlo con word e aggiungere immagini

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND ANIMAL FARM

Each main character (Old Major, Napoleon, Snowball, Boxer) represents a historic character involved in the Russian Revolution
Can you match them? Open your file with the characters table and add the people they represent.

Here there's a timeline of the Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1917 deposed the czar (in the February Revolution) and installed the Bolsheviks in power (in the October Revolution). After winning the civil war in Russia, the Bolsheviks established the Soviet Union in 1922.

1914

• July 15 (July 28 NS) - World War I begins
  

1915

• September 5 (September 18 NS) - Czar Nicholas II assumes supreme command of the Russian Army

1916

• December 17 (December 30) - Rasputin is murdered
  

1917

• February 23-27 (March 8-12 NS) - The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
• March 2 (March 15 NS) - Czar Nicholas II abdicates and includes his son.
• April 3 (April 16 NS) - Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
• October 25 (November 7 NS) - The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd (also called the November Revolution if following the Gregorian calendar)
• October 26 (November 8 NS) - The Winter Palace, the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars (abbreviated as Sovnarkom), led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia

1918

• March 3 - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I
• March 8 - The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
• March 11 - The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
• June - Russian civil war begins
• July 17 - Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed

1920

• November - Russian civil war ends

1922

• April 3 - Stalin is appointed General Secretary
• May 26 - Lenin suffers first stroke
• December 15 - Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics
• December 30 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
  

1924

• January 21 - Lenin dies; Stalin will become his successor

ANIMAL FARM PAGE 10

HOMEWORK DUE TUESDAY 19TH MARCH

Click here to read page 10 when Snowball paints the 7 commandements on the wall.

Then compare in a table your rules with the ones written on the wall by the pigs. 

ANIMAL FARM FULL TEXT

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