Category Archives: Modern Languages

Felices Vacaciones – Happy Holidays

 

Boys and Girls,

Summer holidays are a few days around the corner and the first thing I want to say is congratulations. Congratulations “Felicitaciones” on your hard work, your patience and your positivism to go through all this, you are amazing!

To finish this term and this school year,  I thought we could do something nice and special, by using a few materials and one word or a phrase you have learnt in Spanish during this time; the one that it was stuck in your head the most, the one that sounded funny or the one that reminded you of something. Once you have it, we will do a colour print so you can hung it somewhere and remember for ever!

I chose to do a word that it might be new for you, it is one of my favourites “Vacaciones” which means “Holidays” more similar to “Vacacions”.

 

Materials

-Any markers that you have that are not permanent.

-White paper, hopefully a bit thicker than normal.

-Zipper bag

-Water to spray

-A black marker. permanent if possible.

Step 1

Write the word you chose, use any handwriting you want.

Step 2

Colour the bag with the markers, if you put it on top of your word you will see what parts you want covered.

Step 3

Spray water on it, you can use a brush or even your fingers to spray water in it.

Step 4

Turn it around and let the ink touch the paper, with your fingers move the ink around. Very carefully remove the bag.

Step 5

Let it dry. Once it is dried, stick it to your wall, make a card out of it or put it on a frame. Well done!

 

Have a wonderful summer holidays, enjoy them as much as you can and make lovely memories with your beloved ones. Well done to you all!

 

 

 

Anagrams in Spanish

Hola boys and girls!

I hope you had a lovely weekend, it was certainly really nice to go outside and enjoy the warm sunshine. Today we will be doing some anagrams in Spanish. All the topics that are in the Sway are things we have worked with during these past months.  You can choose any that you like, such as, numbers, magic words and colours.

Look at the next sway and choose your topic.

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Leave a comment of your work. Enjoy!

Scots, Spanish & French – Languages

 Bonjour! Hola!

I hope you are enjoying your new topic for this week boys and girls. Since I moved in to Scotland I have loved everything about it, specially its language. That’s why with Ms Rees we thought it would be so fun to mix all languages and give you a try matching words to their language.

Here is a word document that will allow you to see the words you will be looking up, once you find the meaning in Scots, Spanish and French you put them in the column where they belong.

Vocabulary Chart

Activity

In this Sway you will have one slide for each language with the words mixed up, try and find to which language they belong. Below the Sway you will find 3 links to dictionaries that could help you.

Let’s Begin.

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Scots Dictionary

Spanish to English Cambridge Dictionary

French to English Cambridge Dictionary

 

Spanish & French Artists- Art Week

 Bonjour! Hola!

Boys and Girls today you will be learning about some famous artists, a bit of their history, where they lived and their most famous pieces of art. To do that, you will see the information on the sways and you will locate every important place in relation to them on Google Earth.

You will be looking at four artists, two from Spain and two from France. They all did amazing pieces of art, some of them you can find them in museums and others you can see from high up in the sky!

Spicy: Look up for the places given in the Sways, write in your journal about the one you thought was most interesting.

Hot: Choose your favourite artist and do some research about him so you can tell us more.

Let’s begin.

Spain

-Antoni Gaudí

-Pablo Picasso

France

-Claude Monet

-Gustave Eiffel

 

First, a reminder of how to use Google Earth in this sway.

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Spain

Let’s explore these two well known artists by clicking in the sway.

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France

Let’s explore these two well known artists by clicking in the sway.

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Comment about your thoughts and your work.

 

Spanish, French/Drama – Art Week

Hola Methlick!

 

Ms Rees and I have got a challenge for you today, can you guess? I think it might be a bit tricky at first but it always is and in any language you do it. Even for me they are still tricky in English, but that is what makes it fun!

Trabalenguas…..that is the Spanish word for Tongue Twisters! Now, tongue twisters are one of many exercises that actors, actresses, singers and anyone who has to talk for a big audience do at some point of their careers to explore their voices.

For you, this will help you to improve your confidence, have your voice in control and play.  You can do this with everyone at home. I will include some in Spanish and French.

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Healthy Food – French/Spanish

Bonjour! Hola! Methlick,

This is week 2 of Health Week and for languages we have a special activity for you with the help of  Ms Rees. You will learn some words related to food in  French and Spanish since this week our focus will be Healthy Food/Sports. This is followed by a challenge we thought you would enjoy lots! The challenge is related to our photo. Now, the vocabulary will be in one sway and the challenge in the next sway.

Are you ready?

 

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Click here to see your challenge:

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We will be looking forward to your comments.

Ms Rees and Ms Maturana.

Written Numbers in Spanish – Spicy & Hot

Methlick Primary,

Today we will take our numbers a bit further, we will be working with numbers from 1-20 by practicing how we write them.  Click on the Sway and read the activities. If you would like to practice your numbers in Linguascope write a comment and I will send you the information.

Buena Suerte! (Good Luck)

Ms. Maturana

Sway

Números del 1-20
Escucha (listen) to the song y repite (repeat) the numbers you hear.
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Crossword

Crossword Mild-Spicy-Hot

 

Wordsearch

Word Search Mild-Spicy-Hot

 

Target Board

Target Board

Let’s Travel!- Spanish Speaking Countries

Hola Methlick!

Today our activities will take us around the world. We can’t leave our houses just now but that doesn’t stop us from exploring. You are going to learn which countries speak Spanish, where you can find them in the map and their flags. You can choose from spicy or hot and  there will be extra challenges too!

We will be using Google Earth, if for some reason it doesn’t work, you can always use Google Maps.

Let’s see.

Banderas – Flags

Spanish Speaking Countries
There are 20 countries and 1 territory that belongs to the US, that Speak Spanish has their mother tongue: España – Ecuador – Venezuela – Argentina – Perú – Cuba – República Dominicana – Ur…
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Magic Words – Spanish

During this period of being at home we have learnt to be more thankful about people, moments and opportunities. Also, the beautiful Assembly we had yesterday gave us the opportunity to think of different ways to say thank you.

So when we are thankful about something or someone we say “Thank you”  and that is our first Magic Word. We usually use 3 magic words all the time, can you remember the other 2?

Your challenges for today is related to these important Magic Words, click on the sway to see them.

Magic Words
The following words can make a huge difference in our lives by using them. We use them all the time and lately we might have been using them even more. Today we will use them as much as we …
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Colores in Spanish!

Buenos días Methlick School!

I hope you’ve had lovely holidays with your family at home. It feels amazing to be back and do different activities with you. The first challenge for you will be to answer the following question: Do you know how many countries Speak Spanish as their mother tongue?

I will give you the answer at the end of the week. Let’s see who gets closer to the answer!

Today Martes 21 we will be learning some colours in Spanish. You will be able to choose from Mild -Spicy -Hot activities.

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Los Colores
To start let’s watch the following videos and play!
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Activities here:   

Mild

Hot

Also, I found this great number colouring sheets in Twinkl in case you want to colour more (Claro: Light – Oscuro:  Dark ).

Spring Colour by Number

Today is Friday and the answer is: 20!

Well done for trying. Let me name them for you:

Argentina, Chile, Perú, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, México, Guatemala, Honduras, República Dominicana, Cuba, Panamá, Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua,  Ecuatorial Guinea, Costa Rica and Spain.

*Puerto Rico is not a country but a US Territory and they speak Spanish as a mother tongue too!

If I missed any just let me know 🙂