Let's move onto a new topic in our Science lessons we are going to study Europe and its features: physical and political ones.
First of all we are going to look for PHYSICAL FEATURES, secondly we will learn about CLIMATES, thirdly we will have a look to POPULATION AND DIVERSITY and we will finish with the EUROPEAN UNION.
Let's start with the PHYSICAL FEATURES OF EUROPE.
Have a look to this picture and try to answer the questions:
Where are the majority of mountain chains in Europe?
Which are the three longest rivers?
Which is the highest mountain?
This video may clarify some concepts about Geography of Europe with some photos and explanations.
Physical features of Europe.
The Great European Plain: From the Pyrenees to the Ural Mountains.
Mountains: Most of them are in the South like the Alps or the Balkans.
Compact groups of mountains: These are called plateaus, like the Central Plateau in Spain, or massifs, like the Central Massif in France.
Peninsulas: (A piece of land which is almost completely sourrounded by water) like the Scandinavian or the Iberian.
Islands: Like Iceland or the British Islands.
Coast and Rivers.
Europe has coastlines:
In the north with the Artic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
In the south - east with the Caspian Sea.
In the south with the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
In the west with the Atlantic Ocean.
There are lots of rivers which cross Europe. The longest is Volga, which is 3.692 Km.
IMAGINARY A PARTY-PHOTO CALL: You are going to create your own collage using press clippings. The collage will consist on two pictures. One of them will be you wearing a costume and another will be a famous person wearing another costume. Take a picture of this collage and with thinglink create a picture as follows.
Look the Class Book page 18 .
Use this vocabulary:
Kinds of clothes: baggy, checked, long-sleeved, patterned, plain, short-sleeved, striped and tight.
Use the Grammar ticket POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES (A.B. page 14) to make the sentences and describe both outfits:
MY
HIS or HER.
Use the Grammar ticket GOING TO (A.B. page 16) to write the script and show it to your teacher before you make the video. You are going to be interviewed by your partner about the outfits. The costumes which you and your famous person are going to wear in an "IMAGINARY PARTY".
Presentation.
Hi, how are you?
Fine, thanks and you?
Everything's right. My name is (interviewer's name). What's your name?
My name is (interviewee's name).
Can I ask you some questions, please?
Yes, of course.
Nub.(questions and answers about the outfits)
Are you going to go to the imaginary party?
Yes, I am.
What are you going to wear in the imaginary party?
I am going to wear (your outfit)
Is (famous partner)going to go to the imaginary party?
Yes, he/she is.
What is he/she going to wear in the imaginary party?
He/she is going to wear (his or her outfit)
Farewell.
Ok, this is all. I hope you enjoy in the party.
Thanks. Goodbye.
See you soon.
Insert the video on the picture. (Don't forget to write the script and show it to your teacher)
To finish the task you have to embed the two pictures in your Kidblog's post. After you have to send me by EDMODO your kidblog's url.
Now it is time to study how the population works and how we can study the population focusing on their jobs. In the video and the following link you can review some concepts about the economy like: population, primary sector, secondary sector....
Order the differents sector businesses which appear in the video in this table:
As you know things related with Economy in Spain are changing a lot nowadays. When we talk about the active population is decreasing and the unemployed people is increase. Let's check in the internet what the unemplyed rate is at the moment. Unemployment rate 2014 (February)
PRIMARY SECTOR in Spain:
Agriculture: dry crops such grain, grapes and olives. And also Fruit and vegetables are grown in Murcia or Valencia.
Livestock farming: Cows, sheep, pigs and poultry.
Fishing: has declined, but it still continues in some areas.
Mining: In the north as León or Asturias, but it has declined.
SECONDARY SECTOR in Spain:
Manufacturing: Specially automobile, chemical, textile,food and telecommunications.
Construction: It increased a lot in the last years but nowadays has declined, it is one of the industries with more unemployment people.
SERVICE SECTOR in Spain:
This is now one of the most important sector in the Spanish economy. The main services are tourism, trade and transport.
It's time to move into a new topic in Science. We will change the way completely because we will pass from the Natural Science to the Social Studies. We have learnt about nature and enviroment until this moment and now we are going to deal with social facts as population, political organization, Europe, other countries.....
We are going to review some concepts about population we learnt last year. This will be useful to apply it to study the Population of Spain.
Write down in your notebook some words which appear in the video in relation with population.
Do you know what is the population of Spain nowadays? Let's check into your computer the most updated data.
And also, do you know what was the population in Spain when you were born?
Is it higher or lower than nowadays? There are two reasons for this data to change:
The comparaison between the birth rate and the death rate.
The movement of inmigrants.
POPULATION STRUCTURE:
The population of Spain has some characteristics:
There are more women than men.
Most of the inhabitants are between 16 and 65 years old.
It is ageing. People are getting older.
THE POPULATION DENSITY IN SPAIN.
The population density in Spain is 93 inhabitants / km2.
In this map you can see what areas has high population density and which of them have low population density.
Today, Y5B is going to start Unit 1. First of all, we will watch the trailer of "The Borrowers" and we are going to speak about them (Also we will do some activities).
Let's read a bit more about "The Borrowers". WIKIPEDIA: "The Borrowers" After reading the first paragraph try to answer the following questions:
Who was the author?
Is it a new book or an old fashioned one?
Why was titled "The Borrowers"?
Furthermore, we are going to practice and learn the prepositions of place in English, we are going to focus our attention on these ones:
behind
between
in
in front of
on
next to
under
With the following song you will identify all of them:
With the following links you can practise and play with the prepositions.
We have walked along the medieval time in our country with the VISIGOTHS, AL ANDALUS and THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS. We are going to review a bit all of it with a new THINKING ROUTINE: THE HOT WORDS. What is a HOT WORD? It is a word that can help you to remember lot of things about a topic. So let's think during a minute about three hot words about each one of the topics we have learnt during this unit.
Now let's watch a video to introduce what happened in Spain after 1492: THE SPANISH EMPIRE. At the end of the video you should be able to answer these questions:
Which was one of the conquerors?
Which continent was the biggest part of the Spanish Empire in?
Which metal was important during this period?
SPAIN AFTER 1492
Columbus reached America in 1492.
In this year also the Catholic Monarchs unified the kingdoms of Spain.
Charles I and Philip II acquired new possesion during the 16th century.
In 18th Century the kings established ABSOLUTE MONARCHY.
THE TERRITORIES OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE
Between 16th and 19th century Spain has possesions in every part of the world: Canary Islands, America, Philippes in Asia and several teritorritories in Norh Africa. The kings also inherited territores in central and southern Europe.
By the end of 19th century most of these possessions no longer belonged to Spain.
WRITERS AND ARTISTS
In the 16th and 17th centuries were a great centuries for art and literature in Spain: THE GOLDEN AGE.
Literature: Miguel de Cervantes wrote El quijote. Famous poets like Quevedo and Góngora. Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca wrote many plays.
Paintings: Diego Velazquez was one of the famous painters of this time.
We have been talking about: VISIGOTHS and about AL ANDALUS. We are going to review how you are learning with a THINKING ROUTINE: THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS. Just to remind you:
GREEN: what you have already learnt.
ORANGE: what you are trying to improve or going deeper.
RED: what you haven't learn at all.
Let's have a look about a famous Spanish TV serie, at the end of the video you will answer some questions:
Who were the kings when they got Granada?
Were there any kind of war or battle?
THE CHRISTIAN RECONQUEST
Around year 1000 Al Andalus weakened and broke up into TAIFA.
Christian Kingdoms expanded.
The Christian Reconques was completed in 1492, when the Caholic Monarchs conquered Granada.
THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS
Around 1230 the Christian Territory was divided into:
The Kingdom of Navarre included Navarre and part of la Rioja.
The Crown of Aragon included the Kingdom of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca with the Catalonian Counties.
The Crown of Castile included the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Leon. Later will include Andalusia.
Portugal was an independent kingdom.
In 1479 Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, married and united the Crown of Aragon and Castile. They were known as Catholic Monarchs.
THE KINGDOM OF GRANADA
It was the last Taifa Kingdom
(Granada, Malaga and Almeria)
It was weakened by internal disputes. Finally it was conquered by the Catholic Monarchs.
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