1st ESO; REVISION 2ND TERM

Hi boys and girls, here you can find some exercises to review the 2nd term:

1st ESO HOMEWORK

THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has been celebrated as Federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Thanksgiving was also celebrated nationally in 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington. As a federal and public holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans (as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow) and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought

HALLOWEEN

Halloween is celebrated on October the 31st every year. It originated from a pagan holiday and the Christian holiday of All Saints’ Day. The name Halloween is a shortened version of All Hallows’ Eve. Today, it is more of a fun day for children and has largely lost its religious roots. Halloween is probably most famous in the U.S.A. Irish immigrants took it to America in the mid-1600s and it slowly spread across the country. Halloween is not celebrated in many countries around the world although many people know about it. Some Christians are not so happy that people celebrate Halloween. They believe the holiday is un-Christian because of its origin as a pagan "festival of the dead."

Halloween has many easily identifiable symbols. The colours orange and black are widely used. In particular, orange pumpkins and fires and black witches, cats and costumes are common features of this day. One of the biggest Halloween activities is trick-or-treating. This is when children knock on doors and ask for a small gift. If they don’t get anything, they’ll play a trick on the person who opens the door. Food also plays a big part of Halloween. Toffee apples are very popular and so is anything made from pumpkin. Halloween is also a popular topic for Hollywood. Many horror movies have been made about it. Because of this, Halloween is now known in many countries that never actually celebrate it.

Here there are some activities to do in class:

 1. a song about Halloween.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=8615  

2. vocabulary

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2631

3. Some songs:

REPORTED SPEECH (4TH ESO)

Here you have some extra exercises on Reported Speech that we´ll correct in class:Rephrasing Exercises

THE JUNGLE BOOK, Rudyard Kipling. Burlington Books. 3rd ESO

Here you have the activities you should hand in before the exam:

Activities

PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, Eleanor Sutherland. Burlington Books. 4th ESO.

Here you have the activities you should do before doing the exam:

Activities