Wallon International: November 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012

One Direction Web Quest

Use these links to find the answers to the quiz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Direction

http://www.onedirectionmusic.com/gb/home/

1. Who are One Direction?

2. How many members are in One Direction?

3. What are their names?

4. Where are they from?

5. How old are they?

6. What year did they become famous?

7. Do you know a song by One Direction?

8. Can you find a picture of One Direction?

9. Can you find a video of One Direction?

10. Do you like One Direction? Why?

11. What was the band's first hit single called?

12. How many albums have they made?

13. What are their albums called?

14. When were their albums released?

15. What is their most recent single called?

16. What is your favourite One Direction song?

17. When did you first hear of One Direction?

18. Can you fill in the gaps:

You're insecure
Don't know what for
You're turning heads when you ____ through the _____
Don't need _______
To cover up
Being the way that ____ ____ is enough

Everyone else in the ____ can see it
Everyone else but you

Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your ____ gets me overwhelmed
But when you _____ at the ground it aint hard to tell
You don't know
You don't know you're __________!
If only you ____ what I can ____
You'll understand why I want ____ so desperately
Right now I'm looking at ____ and I can't believe
You don't know
You don't know you're __________!

19. What is this song called? When was it released?

Monday, November 19, 2012

You were a tourist in London!

Discover what you can visit in London.

Choose your favourite attractions,

- here for the Top 10 Tourist attractions
- here for more tourist attractions

Choose two museums and two attractions maximum to visit in two days.

Imagine you have just spent two days visiting London.

Write a letter to a friend or parent to explain your time in London.

What did you do? How was it?
What didn't you do? Why not?

Here is an example:

London, 18^th November 2012

Dear Sam,

I had a great time in London! On Saturday morning, I went to visit the British Museum. It's free and it's really interesting. I saw lots of dinosaurs. You know I love Prehistoric animals! I really liked the exhibition on the Renaissance too. The Museum is enormous and at lunch time I was really tired. I didn't go the the Victoria and Albert Museum because I didn't have time.

I had a picnic in Hyde Park. I saw squirrels! They were so cute!

In the afternoon I went to the London Dungeon! That was so scary! London is really a cool city. In the evening, I didn't cook, I went to an American Burger restaurant. The food wad delicious and the burger was enormous! Breakfast on Sunday was really good too!

I didn't see everything in London. There are lots of attractions! I decided to go on the London Eye. Wow! I took some picture for you to see.

See you soon.

Love,

Cindy

Basic information about London

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Clothes

My teenager has got brown hair. She has got blue jeans. She likes pink. She has got three bracelets.
Who is she?

Make your own descriptions and try them on your partner!

vocabulary and GAMES on clothes

My little monkey has got black on this nose and on his chin. He's got a blue T-shirt. Who is it?

Your turn (with parts of the face)!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

A visit to Madame Tussauds in London

Look at this family visiting the wax museum. What did they do? Who did they see?

And listen to these people and look who they are standing next to!
Who do you know?
What are they talking about? social media ? social housing? social problems?

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities, like Las Vegas, New York, Hollywood, Sydney, Berlin, Amsterdam, Shangai, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as "Madame Tussaud's", but the apostrophe is no longer used.

Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and infamous murderers.

visit the madametussauds.com website

History

Marie Tussaud, was born as Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761–1850) in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling.

Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.

During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. In her memoirs she claims that she would search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks. Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. When the doctor died in 1794, she inherited his vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33 years travelling around Europe.
She married François Tussaud in 1795 and called the show: Madame Tussaud's.
In 1802, she went to London to exhibit her work.
As a result of the Franco-British war, she was unable to return to France, so she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection.
By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London, and opened a museum.

One of the main attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors. This part of the exhibition included victims of the French Revolution and newly created figures of murderers and other criminals.