English Test Unit 3

For your test you need to study:

Vocabulary and grammar on page 43 Pupil's Book  and page 24 Workbook. present simple passive.

-ed and -ing adjectives  (page 44 PB,  WB p. 25)

adjectives with -ful  (PB p. 45, WB p. 26)

adverbs with -ly, -ily   (WB p. 27)

What are the effects of thermal energy?

 Thermal energy can have different effects.

It can change a solid to a liquid: Melting.




It can change a liquid to a gas: Evaporation.

Thermal energy can cause chemical changes. 
These changes are permanent, so they cannot be reversed.

Also, thermal energy causes molecules to vibrate. As a result, the material expands.  (Expansion.)

Watch this video to see an example of expansion. 

And going back to our lesson on how heat travels: one more example of convection currents: warm air rises!

-ed and -ing adjectives

Remember, "-ed" adjectives tell us about how someone feels. "-ing" objects describe something.




Can you complete these sentences?

I am fascinated by....
......................... is really boring!
He is interested in.......
I find ..............fascinating.
She was bored by.................
Why don't you find.............. interesting?
................................was really exciting!
Are you excited about.....?

Try this game:

More games on this page.

And a quiz.

I hope you find these games interesting!  Hopefully you will not be bored!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Cornucopia:  a symbol of abundance

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for all that we have.

What are you thankful for?

Social Science test Unit 3

Our Unit 3 test will be on Tuesday. You need to study pages 32-38. You should be able to explain the concepts in the book, the words in pink or purple letters, things like "brain drain", "rural exodus", etc.  Also, you should understand and be able to answer questions like the ones from the book that we have corrected in class.

 The students from class 5ºB should bring their Social Science books and notebooks on Monday to work on after the trip to MAPFRE.

Artist or engineer?

Here is an advertisement that features Theo Jansen, the sculptor we are going to see.




He says:

"My name is Theo Jansen.   I’m a kinetic sculptor. My sculptures are made of very light materials, and they are powered by the wind. Part of me is an engineer who wants to map the progress of mobility. Another part is an artist who wants to sculpt the air that surrounds us and give it shape. And always I strive to push the boundaries of what we know, and what seems possible to us at this moment in time. The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava designs bridges and other structures in an artistic way.  This bridge in Calgary, Canada, was designed by him. First it was called the Calatrava bridge, but then the name was changed to the Peace Bridge. Can you recognize any of the machines in the beginning? Diggers, bulldozers, cranes...

He has also designed bridges in Bilbao:




Seville:




and this city of Arts and Sciences, which was built in the bed of the River Turia in Valencia.



So, are they artists or engineers? Or, perhaps we can say that they are both!

Upcoming tests

The upcoming tests will be:

Tuesday, 1 December: Unit 3 Social Science.

For this test you do not have to study pages 40-41 about Europe's population. We will work on that topic with some different activities after the exam.

Thursday, 3 December: Unit 3 English Test.

Later I will tell you what you have to study for this.

Monday, 9 December: Natural Science "Heat and Light."

Other upcoming assignments:

--For Wednesday: The Natural Science notebook page about Conduction, Radiation, and Convection. Some of you have shown it to me already-- they look good! 

--After you work with Yvonne on your writing from the workbook, you have to make the corrections and copy it into your notebook. This is for Friday (5ºA) and Monday (5ºB).