SONG: HAPPY CHRISTMAS (JOHN LENNON)

http://www.metrolyrics.com/so-this-is-christmas-lyrics-john-lennon.html

This is the song you´ll sing at the Christmas Talent Show at school. I hope you practise it at home.

A BOOK OF LOVE POETRY

We have celebrated February writing some poems in the classroom. I hope you like it!!

Peace Day

We celebrate Peace Day on January 30th. Many famous people have promoted the idea of having PEACE in our world. One of them was John Lennon, from The Beatles group.

Listen to Lennon´s  song and complete the blanks.
                                 
                            GIVE PEACE A CHANCE (John Lennon)

 All we are_________________ is ________________ PEACE a ____________________!
All  we are_________________ is ________________ PEACE a ____________________!



                  WHAT IS PEACE FOR YOU?

                                                         
For me , PEACE  is love.

NELSON MANDELA

People all over the world feel sorrow for Nelson Mandela´s death on December 5th.  Nelson Mandela was a unique civl rights leader who dedicated his life to promote justice and peace in the world.  Born in South Africa, he fought against apartheid, a system where non-white citizens were segregated from whites and did not have equal rights.  He was in prison for more than 20 years for his protests, but became a symbol for everyone in the world.

TASK 1: Choose 6 nouns from the paragraph  and make a picture with all of them 

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea."— Mandela, 1994.^[9]

TASK 2:  Could you find out the African name of Nelson Mandela ?

TASK 3:  Circle the verbs in the past and write the infinitive and the meaning of each of them.     (YEAR 6 only)