AUSTRALIA DAY

    
AUSTRALIA DAY   

#australia #australiaday #nationaldayaustralia #aborigines     

January 26th is Australia Day: the National Day of Australia. 
It commemorates the arrival of the first British ships at Botany Bay or Sydney Cove in 1788. On that day British people entered the country  and  never left it again. Most of the ships carried prisoners who were to live in Australia for the rest of their lives, since the 18th century British rulers did not want to have any convicts in their society.
 However, the first Europeans to arrive in Australia had been the Dutch, who gave the island the first name: New Holland.
Not every Australian citizen or resident agrees with this festivity. In fact, Aborigines prefer to call this day Invasion Day or Survival Day, since that event endangered  their own life and culture.

This month's blog post focuses on Australia Day and is intended for a wide range of learners of English: beginners, post-beginners, and pre-intermediate students, though more advanced ones will hopefully also find it useful. As for CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference), this activity is suitable for A1-A2, and even B1 students. 

All the pictures were taken by myself, except the ones depicting Aborigines, in Australia, during the month of August in 2018.



I hope you find this presentation useful for you or your students.

Find the key @
https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/2019/01/australia-day-key.html

January 25, 2018
Maribel Miró

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CHRISTMAS MAGICAL CHARACTERS

That #Christmas is one of the most worldwide widespread festivities is no  news,  especially as for the celebrations focused on these three #Magical Characters: #Grand Father Frost & Snegurochka, #Santa Claus, and The #Three Wise Men.

 In most of the  western countries we are familiar with Santa Claus, probably because of the huge influence USA exerts on the rest of the world. However, two of the most deeply rooted traditions in Europe, and from there  spread over to the other continents, are the ones related to The Three Wise Men and Grand Father Frost  and Snegurochka.
This blog post presents the most important facts concerning these three figures:
. their name
. the date of the festivity
. what they look like 
. what they are wearing
. where they come from
In spite of their different origin and their belonging to different cultures, they all share the most important features:
. they know all about you
. they bring presents to the children around Christmas 
. all of them are rooted in tradition.

So, learners of English (beginners, post-beginners and intermediate) can go through this info, which will enable them to establish comparisons between them, or perhaps to write texts describing each one of the characters or  work in pairs asking and answering questions about them. 
As a follow up, finding the similarities in them, in spite of their diverse origin and culture, may be also  an interesting task to do.

I hope you find it useful.

Maribel Miró 
December 19th, 2018

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BLACK FRIDAY, CYBER MONDAY, GREEN MONDAY

Just a few days before Black Friday, this month's blog post revolves around Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green Monday, the three big shopping days in the world. Though born in the USA, Black Friday has spread to several countries around the world, such as UK and Spain, where shops are either open in the early morning or kept open till very late in the evening. The success of Black Friday produced  Cyber Monday, and a few years later, Green Monday.
Aimed at A1, A2 & B1(beginners, post-beginners & pre-intermediate)  learners of English, this activity can be worked as a reading exercise followed by either a speaking activity or a writing one.
I hope you find it useful

Maribel Miró

November 20th, 2018

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If you wish to make comments about this site, please email me at maribelmiroperez@gmail.com

Please, remember that

All materials on maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es are the property of Maria Isabel Miró Pérez-  the copyright holder-and are protected by international copyright laws. You may print free materials provided on maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es for your own personal, non-commercial use in the classroom or at home, provided that you retain all copyright information or other required logos and /or headings on the materials. You may not reprint, distribute, electronically save, modify, transmit, present before an audience, post to a website, forum, blog etc. any materials from this blog without prior express written permission from Maria Isabel Miró Pérez.

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AN EASY LETTER

This month's blog post consists of writing an easy letter. 
Aimed at A1 & A2   learners of English, or beginners and post beginners, all they have to do is select a country out of the three given ones and, accordingly, choose from the optional items. 
A few minutes' previous brainstorming might help your students relate the images of the countries and sights to the given options. 
Finally, they could be asked to read out/write their complete letter.

I hope you find it useful

Maribel Miró
October 29th, 2018

10 WORDS FROM FARSI IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. KEY

       

                                         

                                     Here is the key to last month's presentation '10 Farsi Words in the English Language'. I hope it is a useful means to check it.

Maribel Miró

October 5th, 2018.