Primary School Teacher Halloween Kit

1. Learn the Halloween Song about going trick-or-treat with the children in your class (don't forget about the movements). They are sure to enjoy it.

2. Watch the cartoon about this cute little witch. Your pupils will like the chants and songs after the story. Moreover, it's a good chance to revise House, Furniture and Parts of Body vocabulary.

Winnie the Witch

3. Watch a series about Wizadora with your pupils.

Wizadora

Appearance and Personality - Vocabulary Exercises

1. Read and learn the new words. Write down them into your vocabulary.

ordinary pleasant pleasant-looking a beard moustache athletic distinguished generous moderate resolute tactful sociable

звичайний приємний приємної зовнішності борода вуса спортивний видний щедрий стриманий рішучий тактовний товариський

talkative qualified honest stubborn kind gentle clever practical impractical full of common sense

балакучий кваліфікований чесний впертий добрий м’який розумний практичний непрактичний сповнений здорового глузду

2. Complete the story with ‘m, am, ‘s, is, are. Translate the story about Helen’s  family.

Hi, I__ Helen. I__ an ordinary schoolgirl. People say I__ a pretty girl. I__ slim and tall. I go in for sports and I have a very good figure. My hair __long and fair, my eyes __blue. I have a snub nose and full lips. I took after my father in character that’s why I’d like to start telling you about my family with my Dad.

My Dad __42. He has got dark hair and grey eyes. He looks both athletic and distinguished. He __generous and moderate, though resolute, he’s tactful. My father __always busy.

I’m very happy to look like my mother. She __a beautiful woman and she doesn’t look her age. My mother is a doctor and is very qualified for her job. My Mum __very sociable but not talkative and has beautiful manners.

Then, I have an elder brother. His name __ Alex. He __a nice guy, very honest. He __a student. Sometimes I think that my brother __a bit stubborn. Nevertheless he __pleasant to deal with. We get along very well. We __ friends. Alex looks like our father. He __handsome, neither slim nor stout. He wears a beard and moustache. He has a straight nose and thin lips. He isn’t married yet.

And finally my Granny. Her name __Helen too. I took my name after my grandmother. She __a pleasant-looking woman in her sixties, with soft brown hair and warm dark-brown eyes. She __kind and gentle. My mother __a clever woman but a bit impractical, and she needs my granny’s advice. My granny __practical and full of common sense.

3. Look through the text and find the English equivalents to the phrases.

Кирпатий ніс, мати гарну фігуру, бути звичайною школяркою, світле волосся, наслідувати характер тата, бути щедрим, виглядати спортивним, видний, виглядати як мама (тато), привабливий, приваблива, не виглядати на свій вік, мати гарні манери, трохи впертий, прямий ніс, не стрункий і не товстий, носити вуса та бороду, з ним приємно мати справу, за 60, тонкі губи, повні губи, карі очі, потребувати поради, трохи непрактична, бути дуже практичним, мати здоровий глузд.

4. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

practical  brother  sense  deal   character   look   straight   age  ordinary   snub   married   qualified   wears   distinguished   stubborn   moustache

1.         I want to say that I am an ________ school-girl.

2.         I took after my father in ________ and I _______ like my mother.

3.         I have a ______ nose but my brother has a ________ nose.

4.         People say my father looks ________ and my mother doesn’t look her _____ .

5.         My ______ is pleasant to deal with.

6.         He is a bit ________ .

7.         My brother wears a beard and ________ .

8.         He isn’t ________ yet.

9.         My mother is very _______ and full of common _______ .

10.     She is very _______ for the job.

5. Complete with the correct preposition:

1. I took … my father in character.

2. Nevertheless he is pleasant to deal … .

3. I go … … sports because I want to have a nice figure.

4. I’d like to start telling you … my family.

5. Certainly I have a lot … interests.

6. My grandmother is a pleasant-looking woman … her sixties, … brown hair and dark-brown eyes.

7. Her colleagues say that my mother is qualified … for the job.

6. Complete the sentences about yourself.

ABOUT MY FAMILY AND MYSELF

Hi, I am … (name).  I am a student of … .

People say I am … (pretty/ good-looking/ beautiful…). I am … (tall/ average height/ short) and … (slim/ neither slim nor stout/ stout). My hair is … (long/ shoulder-length/ short) and … (blond/ fair/ dark/ red). My eyes are … (blue/ grey/ brown/ green). I have a … (snub/straight) nose and … (full/thin) lips. I took after my … (father/ mother/ grandfather/ grandmother) in character.

My Dad … (how old?). He is a …(businessman/ miner/ lawyer/ driver/ farmer/ doctor/ worker/ teacher/ builder/ …). My father has got …. hair and … eyes. He is… (риси характеру: generous/ moderate/ clever/ honest/ resolute/ …).

I’m very happy to look like my mother. Her name is… She is a …(beautiful/good-looking) woman. She has … hair and … eyes. My mother is a … (doctor/ teacher/ shop-assistant/ businesswoman/ housewife/ bookkeeper) and is very qualified for her job. She is … (риси характеру: full of common sense/ a bit unpractical/ a clever woman/ kind and gentle/ …).

Then, I have a/an …(elder/younger) … (brother/ sister). His/Her name is… . He (she) is …(риси характеру). Sometimes I think that my … (brother/ sister) is a bit …(stubborn/ talkative/ lazy). He (she) looks like my …(father/ mother). He (she) is … (handsome/ good-looking) and …(tall/ short/ average height). His (her) hair is… and his (her) eyes are… . He (she) has a …(straight/snub/small) nose and … (thin/full) lips. He (she)…(is/isn’t) married.

Our family is (friendly/ nice/ wonderful). 

The United Kingdom - Video and Wordlist

This episode of the famous BBC programme offers you a very clear introduction to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For my third year students and all those who are interested.

The United Kingdom (Wordlist)

across

aircraft

Angles

arrive

Atlantic Ocean

automobile

beautiful
beans
beanstalk

British Isles

Jack and Beanstalk (Home Reading)

Завдання до позааудиторного читання

 PRE-READING.

1. Match the words to their translation:

1)    magic beans 2)    beanstalk 3)    cow 4)    price 5)    climb 6)    castle 7)    giant 8)    golden hen 9)    harp 10) axe

a) лізти b) корова c) замок d) велетень e) чарівні боби f) сокира g) стовбур боба h) ціна i) золота курка j) арфа

READING

2. Read the tale and answer the questions:

1) Why did Jack take the cow to the market?

2) Who did Jack meet on his way to the market?

3) What price did the old man offer for the cow?

4) What did Jack’s mother do with the beans?

5) What did they see in the morning?

6) Who lived in the castle?

7) What things did Jack steal from the giant?

8) How did he escape?

 POST-READING

3. Put the sentences into the correct order:

1) A huge beanstalk grows up into the sky and Jack climbs it.

2) Jack climbs up again to get the giant’s magic harp.

3) Jack goes to the market and meets a strange old man.

4) The boy enters a castle of a giant and steals a golden hen.

5) Jack returns home with the beans and his mother throws them away.

6) The giant runs after Jack and the boy cuts the beanstalk with an axe.

7) The old man offers seven magic beans for Jack’s cow.

8) Jack and his mother become rich, but Jack gets bored soon.

4. Look through the text again and find who said these words:

-        That’s a nice cow!

-        How stupid! Oh you silly boy!

-        I’m going to climb it.

-        Come in, before my husband arrives home.

-        I smell the blood of an Englishman.

-        Master! Master! Help me!

5. Transform direct speech into indirect speech:

Remember: Present Indefinite – Past Indefinite

                     Future Indefinite – Future-in-the-Past

                     Present Continuous – Past Continuous

Example: “I’ll buy the cow”, - said the man.

                The man said that he would buy the cow.

1)    Jack’s mother said: “We need money to buy food”.

2)    The strange man said: “That is a nice cow”.

3)    Jack said: “I’m off to market to sell it”.

4)    The old man said: “I’ll give you a good price for her”.

5)    Jack said: “I’ll take the beans”.

6)    Jack said: “I’m going to climb the beanstalk”.

7)    The giant said: “I’ll grind his bones to make my bread”.

8)    The giant’s wife said: “You are imagining things”.

9)    She added: “There is no Englishman here”.

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This is the Way") is an English language nursery rhyme and singing game. The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell as an English children's game in the mid-19th century. He noted that there was a similar game with the lyrics 'Here we go round the bramble bush'. The bramble bush may be an earlier version, possibly changed because of the difficulty of the alliteration, since mulberries do not grow on bushes.

Mulberry

Halliwell said subsequent verses included: 'This is the way we wash our clothes', 'This is the way we dry our clothes', 'This is the way we mend our shoes', 'This is the way the gentlemen walk' and 'This is the way the ladies walk'.