Who Was Guy Fawkes? - Bonfire Night

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On the 5th of November Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated mainly in Britain. With this festivity, the British remember that King James I survived an assassination attempt. A group of people wanted to blow up the parliament and the main guardian of the gunpowder, called Guy Fawkes, was arrested. In order to remember this day, people build large bonfires, light fireworks and burn figures of Guy Fawkes.

Today, I would like to share with you this video that I found on Youtube in which the story of Guy Fawkes is explained  in a very simple way. We can explain the story of Guy Fawkes to our students using this video.

English teachers usually teach the same festivals in class such as Halloween, Christmas and Easter, but I think that is very important to introduce other less commonly heard of festivals like this one. 

What's your opinion on this subject? Which festivals do you typically teach? Do you often teach other less known festivals? If so, what other festivals do you include in your lessons?

Crafty Halloween!

Another idea to celebrate Halloween in class could be to doing new Halloween themed crafts. As well as doing recipes in class, crafts are a good way to use the English language in a context and for a purpose. This will help students to realize that the language they are learning is important to understand other people.

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When doing crafts in class, I always like to use materials that can be easily recycled and reused. For this reason, I have classified these crafts depending on what kind of material you will need to use to create them. Let's get started!

1. Using Paper Plates. 

In almost every house, we can find leftover paper plates from birthdays or parties. Paper plates can be a good material to do easy crafts such as the following:

SCARY GHOSTS

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We can make scary ghosts to decorate our classrooms just by drawing a scary face and adding some extra details with paper like hands.

Easy and Scary Recipes for Halloween

In just a few weeks, one of the most important festivities from English Speaking Countries will be celebrated. Halloween is on the 31st of October! As we know, festivals are a great way to introduce sociocultural aspects from the English Speaking Countries. In this blog, I would like to share with you some ideas to bring Halloween into your classrooms and to help you to adapt and introduce some activities to the necessities of your students. For this reason, I'm going to try to post a variety of Halloween themed posts during this month. 

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To start, I would like to share with you some spooky and easy recipes to make with children in class. Although cooking in class could be a little messy, we can have a great time, it can be very motivating for our students and they can learn a lot from different aspects of this activity, such as following instructions, ingredients, kitchen tools...

Recipe 1.  Scary Bananas and Little Pumpkins.

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In all kind of parties, there are usually lots of sweet and not very many healthy food choices. But, as you can see in this picture, we can provide healthy and scary treats for our kids. We can make some scary ghosts using bananas and chocolate chips. As well, we can turn clementines into pumpkins just peeling them and adding some stems.