Answers to the riddles

These are the answers to the riddles on animals. Listen carefully. How many did you guess? Congratulations!

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Cayetano's Animal

Cayetano has described an animal. Listen to his description and guess the name of his animal. Do you think it is easy?

Sara's Animal

This is Sara's Animal. Do you know what animal it is? Send a comment with your answer.

Vicente's Animal

Here you can listen to Vicente's description of an animal. Listen and guess his animal.

Carmen's Animal

Carmen has described an animal for you to guess what it is. Listen to her and write a comment with the answer.

Ana's Animal

Listen to Ana describing her animal. Can you guess what animal it is? Send a comment with your answer.

Celia's Animal

Here you are Celia's description. Listen to it and don't forget to send a comment with your answers!

Lorena's Animal

Here you can listen to Lorena's description of an animal. Listen carefully and send comments saying what animal it is.

Paula María's Animal

Paula María has described an animal for you to guess what it is. Listen to what she says and send comments with your guess. Good luck!

Answers to The Directions Rap

These are the lyrics to the activity I posted on May 7 (The Directions Rap). Read them as you listen to the song again and pay attention to the mistakes you made. The places in town are typed in green. All your answers were quite good. Congratulations!

Please can you help me?
I can't find the swimming pool
Turn left at the library
Then it's next to the school.

Help me, I'm lost
and I'm new in this town
I can't find my map
I don't know my way around.

Where is the museum please?
It's opposite the town hall.
Go straight on at the traffic lights
Turn left at the shopping mall.

Help me, I'm lost
and I'm new in this town
I can't find my map
I don't know my way around.

Plase can you help me?
Where is the zoo? The zoo?
Well, just turn around
It's behind you!

The Directions Rap

As you know, we have been working on neighbourhoods and towns. Now we can name different places in our streets, and of course we can ask for and give directions.

Listen to this rap titled The Directions Rap and write comments answering the following questions:

a. How many speakers are there? What kind of a problem has one of them?
b. How many different places in town can you hear? Write them.
c. These are four sentences from the rap, but the words are not well arranged. Can you order them?
1. me ? can Please you help
2. the is museum Where please?
3. find pool can't I the swimming
4. the Where zoo ? is

Giving directions and walking around town

Here you can find interesting activities to review what we have learned in class:

In this website you'll find a list with useful expressions for giving directions and managing yourself around town.

If you click here you can listen to dialogues asking for directions.

Here you can listen to another dialogue as you read it.

Now you are ready to listen to some sentences (click here) and look at a map and say if these sentences are true or false . . . if you need it, you can read the tapescript!

And in this website you can play hangman.

Have fun . . . and learn many things!

The Beech Tree

I'd like to have a garden

With a beech tree on the lawn;

The little birds that lived there

Would wake me up at dawn.

And in the summer weather

When all the leaves were green,

I'd sit beneath the beech boughs

And see the sky between.

by Rose Fyleman

Spring Rain

The storm came up so very quick
It couldn’t have been quicker.
I should have brought my hat along,
I should have brought my slicker.

My hair is wet, my feet are wet,
I couldn’t be much wetter.
I fell into a river once
But this is even better.

By Marchette Chute

March Wind

March wind is a jolly fellow;

He likes to joke and play.

He turns umbrellas inside out

And blows men's hats away.

He calls the pussy willows

And whispers in each ear,

"Wake up you lazy little seeds;

Don't you know that spring is here?"

Lost!

"Peep! Peep! Peep!" Poor little chick!

Little cry so weak and small,

Meadow grass so tall and thick,

And the clover tufts so tall!

Little heart in sore distress,

Longing for the mother wing;

Through the weedy wilderness

Searching for its sheltering!

By Evaleen Stein

I Meant to Do my Work Today

I meant to do my work today,

But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,

And a butterfly flitted across the field,

And all the leaves were calling me.

And the wind went sighing over the land,

Tossing the grasses to and fro,

And a rainbow held out its shining hand--

So what could I do but laugh and go?

By Richard Le Gallienne

Little Seeds

Little seeds we sow in spring
Growing while the robins sing,
Give us carrots, peas and beans,
Tomatoes, pumpkins, squash and greens.

And we pick them,
One and all,
Through the summer,
Through the fall,

Winter comes, then spring, and then
Little seeds we sow again.

By Else Holmelund Minarik

My Spring Garden

Here is my little garden,
Some seeds I’m going to sow.
Here is my rake to rake the ground,
Here is my handy hoe.

Here is the big, round yellow sun;
The sun warms everything.
Here are the rain clouds in the sky;
The birds will start to sing.

Little plants will wake up soon,
And lift their sleepy heads;
Little plants will grow and grow
In their little, warm earth beds.

Trees

Trees are the kindest things I know,

They do no harm, they simply grow

And spread a shade for sleepy cows,

And gather birds among their boughs.

They give us fruit in leaves above,

And wood to make our houses of,

And leaves to burn on Halloween

And in the Spring new buds of green.

They are first when day's begun

To tough the beams of morning sun,

They are the last to hold the light

When evening changes into night.

And when a moon floats on the sky

They hum a drowsy lullaby

Of sleepy children long ago...

Trees are the kindest things I know.

By Harry Behn