Ghosts of Windsor Castle

Form 6

WINDSOR CASTLE

A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years, Windsor Castle, the largest occupied castle in the world, remains a working palace today. The Queen uses the Castle both as a private home, where she usually spends the weekend, and as an official Royal residence at which she undertakes certain formal duties.

Watch video and answer the questions: 

Who are the ghosts of Windsor Castle?

 Do you believe these facts? 

What Belarusian castles and legends do you know?

You can see the beauty of the castle nowadays:  Virtual Tour: Windsor Castle 

You can also find more facts about the castle in the internet and share this information with your classmates.

Belarusian Castles

Form 6

Watch the video and answer the questions:

Have you ever been to any of these places?

When did you go there?

What did you see?

Did you like the trip? Why? Share your impressions. 

Types of Schools

Form 10

Let's work together.  School Forum

Let's speak together. British Schools

Environment

Form 11

Let's learn English with songs! 

Play, fill in the words, be ready to discuss the environmental problems.

Earth Song, Michael Jackson  (use google chrome)

 

Education

Form 10

There are schools all over the world. The educational systems of all countries are different. English-speaking countries are known all over the world. People from different countries are eager to study in Great Britain,

YOUR TASK:

• to do internet research on educational systems of Great Britain and Belarus;
• to find out similarities and differences among them;
• to make schemes of British and Belarussian educational systems (https://www.text2mindmap.com/);
• to send the schemes to the e-mail: rechits79@gmail.com;
• to discuss with classmates the differences of British and Belarussian educational systems.

PROCESS:

I. go through all these links and study the material about educational systems:

Great Britain

http://projectbritain.com/education.html

http://projectbritain.com/education/schools.html

http://www.learnenglish.de/culture/educationculture.html

Belarus

https://www.euroeducation.net/prof/belarco.htm

II. make schemes of British and Belarussian educational systems

III. send pictures of your schemes to my Viber

IV. be ready to discuss the differences of British and Belarussian educational systems.

Appearance

Form 7

Do you know what a 'toddler' is? Do these exercises and learn this and other words to talk about people's appearance.

English in My Life

How many languages can you speak? British people are generally not very good language learners. In a recent survey, 62 per cent of the population only speak English!

What are the British like when it comes to learning languages?

Statistics

Brits are famous for not speaking foreign languages. According to a survey published by the European Commission, this bad reputation is totally justified. The results of the survey state that the British are officially the worst language learners in Europe! Let’s look at some statistics:

British Teenagers About Mass Media

Form 10

What's it like to grow up online?
 
Read British articles:

The secret online world of British teens

The wisdom of teenagers

Compare different  attitudes with yours.

Questions

Form 6

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Types of questions 

Special questions Test 1 

Special questions Test 2 

Special questions Test 3 

Tag questions 

Tag questions (puzzle)  

Modal Verbs

 Form 6

GRAMMAR PRACTICE 

Modal Verbs (video + exercise) 

Have to and its forms

Must vs. Have to

Interviewing

Form 8

Some tips on how to interview someone

If you were a journalist, what questions would you ask a music celebrity?

Make a list of questions.

Cooking Vocabulary

Form 6

 

Prepositions

Form 5

GRAMMAR PRACTICE 

Prepositions of place

Prepositions of time and place 

Prepositions of movement 

Giving directions (video task)

Fill in the prepositions (puzzle)

Art Therapy

Form 10

 Comment on the words of wisdom: 

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." 
(Pablo Picasso)

Art and Secrets

Form 10

Do you think only people can keep secrets? Not so fast! Paintings and other works of art can do that too. Many of these messages are often political, moral, or based on religious allegories and artists couldn’t find another way to express them and not being punished. Sometimes artists used their imagination and hid playful images, jokes and even riddles in their paintings. Some of them have already been found by the keen eye of the specialists, others, however, remain hidden.

10 hidden secrets you never noticed about famous paintings:  

DO YOU KNOW MORE SECRETS IN FAMOUS PAINTINGS?