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Holiday Time!: Classrooms Around The World
Holiday Time!: Classrooms Around The World
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Holiday Time!
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“Quick!”, “I’m in a hurry!”, “I have no time!” Forget
all these words and phrases for a day: May 21 is World
Slow Day! If you too are tired of always rushing around,
Quiz
take advantage of this day and rest a little. You don't
How many years has
World Slow Day been
always have to do everything in a hurry! The goal of this
running?
international day is to help people live more sedately and
do things in their own time. So, on May 21, remember to set
[ ] a. 20
your alarm clock for a little later, slow your pace and enjoy a [ ] b. 10
day without haste! [ ] c. 12 The answer is on page 14.
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Find out about the new movie, Jurassic World … and take our quiz
Classrooms around to find out which dinosaur you are! Have a great summer break
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Holiday Time!
12 Let’s visit...
Windsor Castle and see you soon! Samantha
Hi, I’m Grammy.
In this edition of Let’s Start learn about:
6 Report
Holiday greetings! 14 Games Galore
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Cinema
Jurassic
World
Fallen Kingdom
Do you like dinosaurs? This is the fifth film about the
is the perfect movie for you! dinosaurs of Steven Spielberg;
Jurassic World comes out at the first film was Jurassic
the cinema this June. The film Park, in 1993. All the films
mixes many genres together: share a common thread: the
action, science fiction, protagonists have brought the live together? What happens if
adventure and fantasy. The dinosaurs back to life. But will scientists lose control? Let’s go
perfect mix to keep you glued they be able to control them? and see the movie, and find out
to the screen! Fallen Kingdom Can humans and dinosaurs the answers!
1 Comes out at the cinema a They have an element that unites them.
Idiomatic expressions
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Holiday T i m e !
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Classrooms around the world
Hello! We are
the kids of Klagenfurt
English School. Soon school will
end for the year, and our teacher,
Rachel, has given us a job: write
about our holidays. Here is what
we will do this summer!
1 Take pictures
2 Go biking
4 5 3 Go diving
4 Barbecue outdoors
5 Go canoeing
6 Make sandcastles
7 Go boating
8 Sunbathe
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Add other holiday
activities. _______________________________________
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holiday vocabulary
five 5
Report
Holiday greetings!
6 six
Blogging
Holiday blogs are virtual diaries. We can
write all about our holiday: where we are,
what we do and don’t like, what we want
to do ... This way, _____ friends can read
about ______ adventures from home. And
that’s not all! Travelers can take inspiration
and ideas from our holiday!
Interesting fact
Everyone likes getting
postcards, but the mail
can be slow. To solve this
problem, we now have
electronic postcards. They are
like traditional postcards
but virtual. They are sent
by email and arrive
immediately!
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This month...
Trooping
the Colour
Do you want to see a unique
event? Don’t miss Trooping the
Colour in London! Let’s find out
about this British celebration.
What is it?
Trooping the Colour is a celebration that marks
the birthday of the British king or queen. This
tradition started over 260 years ago!
Today, over 1400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and
400 musicians come together each June in a great
display of military precision, horsemanship and
fanfare, to mark the Queen’s official birthday. In
fact, in the UK, Trooping the Colour is also known
as ‘The Queen’s Birthday parade’.
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review of the Present Simple and structures
introduced over the year.
What happens?
Every year, on a Saturday between
11-17 June, people gather in the
centre of London to celebrate.
The streets are lined with crowds
waving flags as the parade moves
from Buckingham Palace and
down The Mall to Horse Guard’s
Parade, alongside Members of the
Royal Family on horseback and in
carriages.
The display closes with a Royal
Airforce display, watched by
Members of the Royal Family from
Buckingham Palace balcony.
slowly march with the colours and flags to make sure that every soldier could recognise
others of his own regiment. So while today the ceremony is one of the most spectacular of
London’s annual traditions, it began just as a way to help soldiers find their regiments.
4. Sometimes the guardsmen get too hot in their heavy .................................. – and they faint!
The answers are on page 14.
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Which
di n o sau r
TEST
are you?
1 My ideal holiday is ...
a [ with my friends, in the mountains or in a nature park.
b [ in a mysterious place ... an abandoned village or a castle!
c [ at the sea, with my family!
Profiles
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Me and my pet
Hello! I am Amélie
and these are my
budgerigars, Romeo
and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet are my
budgerigars. They’ve been living
with me for two years. They
review of structures introduced during the year
Lots of cuddles!
Juliet likes to sit on my
shoulder. Romeo, on the other
hand, really loves cuddles – he
loves it when I stroke him! Romeo
has blue and white feathers;
Juliet, on the other hand, has
white and yellow feathers. They
are very colourful and make me
very happy!
p a r a b le
Amélie a n d h e r tw o in s e
budgerigars
Two lovers
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B = 5 G = Q 5 6 b Q J H
D = b I = J
E = H U = 6
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Let’s visit...
Windsor
Castle
Built in the 11th Century, Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest 4. It survived the
inhabited castle in the world, and The Queen’s favourite weekend ......................................
home. Complete the facts about the castle (1-6) with the words in the period of the English
box below. Civil War, when it
was used as a military
headquarters by
minor • flag • refuge • tumultuous • enormous • strategically
Parliamentary forces and
a prison for Charles I.
1. The castle is ...................................... – 5 3. The castle was originally 5. Queen Victoria
hectares (13 acres) in size. You’ll need designed to protect Norman made a few
at least 2 ½ to 3 hours to see it all! dominance around the ......................................
2. How do you know if Queen Elizabeth outskirts of London and changes to the castle,
is in residence? Look for oversee a which became the
the ...................................... ...................................... centre for royal
flying from the castle’s round tower – important part of the River entertainment for much
this means she’s at home. Thames. of her reign.
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review of structures introduced during the year
Where is
Windsor Castle?
Windsor Castle is located in
the county of Berkshire, west
of London. It’s easy to get to! The
nearest train station to Windsor
Castle is Windsor & Eton Riverside
which is just a few minutes’ walk
from the Castle. This station is easily
accessible from Central London,
being just half an hour from
London Paddington and
an hour from London
Waterloo.
Don’t
forget
Windsor
town!
The castle isn’t the only attraction in the
area. Windsor itself has plenty to see
and do. Match the places (1-4) with their
descriptions (A-D)
1 Legoland Windsor Resort
2 Windsor Great Park
3 Savill Garden
4 Fudge Kitchen
a. Enjoy a collection of gardens and exotic woodland,
including a rose garden opened by the Queen in
2010.
b. Watch fudge (a delicious English sweet) being
made – this factory and shop sells over 200 types
of fudge!
c. Immerse yourself in the world of Lego in this fun
theme park.
6. Windsor Castle was used as a ...................................... d. Walk and cycle through ancient parkland – you
by the royal family during the Luftwaffe bombing might even see some deer!
campaigns of the Second World War and survived a fire
The answers are on page 14.
in 1992.
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Answers
Page 2: c, 12. Page 3: Activity: 1c, 2b, 3a, 4d. Pages 4-5: Free choice. Pages 6-7: In the text: our, their, our, our, our, our, our. Activity: 1c, 2a, 3d, 4b. Pages 8-9: Fun facts: 1.
aged, 2. strike, 3. horseback, 4. uniforms. Page 11: Budgie. Pages 12-13: Windsor Castle: 1. enormous, 2. flag, 3. strategically, 4. tumultuous, 5. minor, 6. refuge; Don’t forget Win-
dsor town: 1c, 2d, 3a, 4b. Page 14: True or False: 1.T, 2.F (it’s west of London), 3.F (the queen often spends time there), 4.T, 5.F (there was a fire there in 1992 but the castle survived).
Page 16: Fun facts about dinosaurs: 1. ‘terrible lizard’, 2. mass extinction, 3. Megalosaurus, 4. palaeontologist, 5. Argentinosaurus.
The answers are below.
5 A fire destroyed the whole castle ten years ago.
4 Legoland Windsor is nearby.
3 The queen doesn’t spend time there anymore.
2 The castle is located south of London.
1 Windsor Castle is the largest and oldest castle in the world.
F T
sentences below and decide if they are True (T) or False (F).
Have you read the story about Windsor Castle? Read the B
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It was the equivalent to 17 African elephants! The answers are on page 14.