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Do you know this famous family?

What are their names?

The mother's name is ...................

The father's name is ...................

The daughter's name is ....................

The sons' names are ...........................

The dog's name is ........................

Family Trees

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Families are different from one another and so family trees as well.

Have a look at The Simpsons Family Tree.

Homer is Lisa's father --------------------------- Lisa is Homer's daughter.

Marge is Bart's mother -------------------------- Bart is Marge's son.

Maggie is Bart's sister --------------------------- Bart is Maggie's brother.

Homer is Marge's husband----------------------- Marge is Homer's wife.

Herb is Lisa's uncle ------------------------------ Lisa is Herb's niece.

Selma is Bart's aunt ----------------------------- Bart is Selma's nephew.

Abraham is Maggie's grandfather ---------------- Maggie is Abraham's granddaughter

Abraham and Mona are Bart's grandparents ----- They are Abraham and Mona's grandchildren

Who are the rest?

What has Ruby got?

Halloween at IES Cristóbal Colón 2011

It's Halloween

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True or False?

1. Halloween is traditionally celebrated on the night of 31st November, the night before All Saint’s Day.

2. In England Halloween was called ‘All Hallow’s Eve’.

3. On Halloween night all evil spirits stayed at home.

4. Halloween is based on an ancient Celtic holiday and the name‘Halloween’ means ‘Winter’s End’.

5. In past times people put lamps or lanterns outside their houses to keep away evil spirits.

6. People believed that witches, ghosts and goblins went around at night looking for a living body!

7. On Halloween people dressed up as ghosts and witches so that the spirits would not steal their body!

8. Nowadays people don't pumpkins with faces in their houses.

9. The pumpkin is sometimes called the ‘John-o-lantern’.

10. ‘Trick or treat’ is a game children play at Halloween to play jokes (treat) or get sweets (trick).
  

 

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Happy Halloween!

Pronouns

1. Put the words or phrases in the correct list:

Rachel  -  daughter  -  Chris -  Sam and you

mother -  my sister and I -  uncle - Sarah and Michael

brother -  a girl and a boy - aunt - the dog

Joey and I  -  a cat  -   father and you

grandmother and grandfather

You

We

They

He

She

It

2. Fill in the blank spaces with the right subject pronoun.



a. (Maria) Is she tall?

b. (Alex) Is ______ thin?

c. (Mr and Mrs Michael) Are ________ rich?

d. (The house) Is _______old?

e. (Vicky and Greg) Are _________clever?

f. (Angela) Is _________tall?

g. (The trees) Are ___________brown?

h. (Greg) Is _______ a good student?

i. (Vicky) Is ___________ten years old?