The Best Extreme Sports

Follow up activity (Unit 5 / Lesson 2 / Think Teen 1 Αρχάριοι)

Watch the video and list 10 extreme sports that you can see on the video
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suggested answers: white water rafting, snowboarding, scaling, canoeing, BMX, rock climbing, parachuting, mountain biking, abseiling, paragliding, skydiving, cliff jumping, parkour, skateboard,
bungee jumping

Olympic Games Posters from 1896

The students can watch this video that contains a beautiful record of all posters from 1896 onwards and get inspired to create their own poster so as to participate in the "English for the Games" competition organised by the British Council. Enjoy!



http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-for-the-games/competition

Olympic Games Mascots

• LONDON 2012

http://www.london2012.com/mascots


BEIJING 2008


ATHENS 2004


OLYMPIC MASCOTS FROM 1972



Choose one of the mascots and find the following information:

• The Origins of their names
• The Artist who created them
• The Philosophy behind them

International Women's Day - 8th March

International Women's Day - Παγκόσμια ημέρα των Γυναικών from lefteris hristou on Vimeo.

VISIT
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp

Dickens' LIfe (BBC)

Here is the script of the video.
We can use it with our students in different ways (jumbled sentences, gapped text etc)

1. • Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children.
2. • He moved to London in 2022
3. • At 12, Charles Dickens went to work at a blacking factory, labelling bottles for 11 hours a day
4. • His father was imprisoned for debts
5. • He began work as a solicitor’s clerk in 1827
6. • He began to collect names and characteristics of the people he saw
7. • He began a journalistic career in 1831
8. • Writing became his passion
9. • He was beginning to taste success
10. • His first piece of fiction was published in 1835
11. • The same year he met Cathering Hogharth, fell in love and got married
12. • The next few years resulted in much writing and many children
13. • As his writing became more popular and his fame more widespread, rumours were spread of his drunkenness and admission to an asylum
14. • He kept a pet raven
15. • In 1842 Charles and Catherine set sail for America with his family
16. • On landing in Boston they were mobbed by crowds
17. • He visited the unusual that inspired his writing
18. • In summer of 1844 he went to Italy
19. • Upon his return he started editing a new radical newspaper
20. • He founded a refuge for homeless women
21. • He performed his works at public readings
22. • Aged 44 he bought the house his father had pointed out at him years before
23. • It symbolised achievement
24. • Whilst he was organising a theatrical project, he met and was spellbound by a young actress, Ellen Ternan
25. • This relationship caused the end of his marriage
26. • In 1865, while Charles and Ellen were returning from Paris, their train crashed
27. • Only at the last minute did he remember to retrieve from the wrecked carriage the final part of “Our Mutual Friend”
28. • The incidence left Charles very shaken
29. • For a while he kept his busy itinerary, but then his health began to fail
30. • He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.
31. • He is buried at Westminster Abbey.

TWIN with UK schools

 Find a UK partner school in

http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/twin-for-2012

to work together on the topic of Olympic Games!

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