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Super Bowl

Super Bowl Sunday will be on Sunday February 5th Here are a few website to learn about the Super Bowl and laugh at the images and commercials !

First the basics about the game on this YouTube video


Here is a photo from NBC slide show about Super Bowl you can find online by clicking here   and here 

A presentation from Time magazine that shows the top 10 best commercials broadcasted during the Super Bowl in previous periods  if you click here.
Super Bowl is a great time for advertisement because it is the greatest TV audience in the year.

Flashmob

The ultimate flashmob ? quite impressive !

PANCAKE TUESDAY

Do you wish to know what is Chandeleur in English ?
Well there are two words for it one for the religious day : candlemas, the other for the pancake day and it is then called Pancake Tuesday.
If you wish to explore the subject and to know how Pancake Tuesday is seen from the UK here is the link you must open. Click here .

You will discover new words Click here, and funny ways to check if you remember the words click here and here and here

You can also read about pancakes here  and have the best pancake recipe ever click here.

Enjoy it !

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Valentine Day

It will be Valentine day soon you must get ready with
- all the vocabulary you need Click here first 

a picture quiz to make sure you know the words Click here.

Alphabetical order word search (easy). Click here.

Easy word search on the same topic. Click here.

More difficult word search Click here.

Jumbled words. Click here 

Easy crossword. Click here.

More interesting and difficult :
You can watch the history of Valentine day,scroll down to do the listening quiz after.
Click here

Read a text and do the reading comprehension exercises, click here.

Easy gap fill exercise. Click here.

Last but not least Amy Winehouse song Cupid, do not forget the listening quiz !

Click here.

Chinese New Year and horoscope

All about Chinese New Year;

First vocabulary :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/chinese-new-year/picture-vocabulary.html

Check if you know it here :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/190109/wordsearch.html

Learn about Chinese zodiac signs :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/chinese-new-year/chinese-horoscopes-vocabulary.html

Check if you know them here :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/chinese-new-year/chinese-horoscopes-picture-match.html

and here :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/190109/crossword.html

Then you can find out what is your Chinese zodiac sign and read about your character and good or bad qualities. It is a little difficult but I am sure you will enjoy it.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/190109/1901094.html

MUSIC

This is something really different, you can compose music and send it :

Here for classical music with the New York Philarmonic you can learn and compose in the workshop
it is both a game and a composition you can record and send to a friend or...enemy !

http://www.nyphilkids.org/composition/main.phtml?

learn about instruments
http://www.nyphilkids.org/lockerroom/main.phtml?

You can invent you own instrument
http://www.nyphilkids.org/lab/main.phtml?

and then try to play like this :


Classical music still a beautiful website very cleverly done :
http://contrapunctus.thirdangle.org/

This is to create your own personal sound badge, hurry to answer the questions it determines
the music :
http://soundbadge.net

You can just create hand symphonies with clapping hands here and help the American Heart Association as well.
Just click on the hands to turn them on and off :
http://handsonlycpr.org/symphony/

You will create music by creating a town here :
http://www.isleoftune.com/

This one is a little surprising at first but turns out to be very easy :
http://www.glitchscape.com/

Just explore and enjoy.

Easy grammar exercises for the 6th and 5th graders
Click here and do them all. let me know if you like them comment please !

I am sure you wish to improve your winter vocabulary here are some exercises you can do :
- on winter sports click here
- on winter clothing and weather, click here