My attempt to discuss the cultural differences between Eater here and in he UK, we ended up solving fun and tricky math questions, here's a great blog with a lot of them:
http://dailybrainteaser.blogspot.hu/search/label/Trick%20Teasers?refer=self

These questions reminded me of magic tricks, which often use the same principles as tricky maths questions: some weaknesses of our thinking, our lack of critical thinking or rather the fact that we over generalize things and fail to pay attention to detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23GgDanyppU


We also found this old book:

It is written in a language that seems to be a cool resource for further exploitation :)

Lesson four

Today we reviewed what happened to Megan, updated this blog together and rehearsed the dialogue at the airport. We made a paper plane too :)

 Here is a raw version:






Homework:

Watch the video and wirth the script. (Feel free to change anything.)

Lesson three

We reviewed Megan. She is smart and really nosy. Her favourite thing to do is to dance but she is not really good at it. (She has got a dog too.)
Barbi had some further questions and Lili answered them.
Lili made cartoons with the words obnoxious and furious.



We mentioned some differences between American and British pronunciation.
We had a brainstorming session about Megan.
We rehearsed the story.

Lesson two

We reviewed the writing task and extended it with questions and answers.


We saw the golden bridge and the silver bridge on the lake.

http://www.panoramio.com/user/1115290?with_photo_id=6001279



 

Click here for the golden bridge:

http://pixabay.com/en/aranyh%C3%ADd-sunset-lake-balaton-82173/

We are going to create a magnet story of a journey :)

Our main character is Megan. She is going on a journey, with each station of the journey she's going to be better and better at....

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Homework:
Describe Megan :)

Lesson one

We learned how to use the flip cartoon app  to practice words with tricky spelling.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flip-boom-cartoon/id435535855?mt=8

Here's our video:




We found out what things in the room were attracted to a magnet and what not:

Then we started to focus on places.

We discussed holiday resorts and used Google Maps street view.

How to describe a place?

Homework:

Write about what you see from your window.