Favourite Team Sports

Write about your favourite team sport. 
Here are a few tips:

• Where do you play this sport?
• How many players are there in each team?
• What equipment do you need?
• How long is a match / How many minutes do you play?
• How do you get points?
• What are the rules?

A Teen Camp

Imagine you're the manager of a teen camp. Design a leaflet to advertise your camp. Don't forget to include the following:

- the name of the camp,

- what type of camp it is (sports, arts, technology, adventure),

- what activities someone can do there,

- who it is suitable for (age of participants, interests),

- dates it is open,

- fees (if it's not free).

Kristian's Exploration Camp

type: adventure
activities: exploring the local forest
age: 11-15 years old
dates: 1-10 August

Kristian's Exploration Camp is a teen camp on Kopaonik Mountain which lasts 10 days. The kids can wake up any time they want under the condition to arrive on time for breakfast which starts at 8 a.m. At 11 o'clock we are going for a walk around the forest and having lessons about the nature's wonders. We will come back to camp at 6 p.m.

For more information, call us at: 333-444-5555.

Kristian Balaž, VIII2

Muffin's Camp

type: sport

activities: playing any kind of sports

age: 6-17 

dates: 1 July - 15 August

If you want to have the unforgettable summer, you need to come to Muffin's Sport Camp. It is on Mountain Zlatibor in Serbia.
This camp is for boys and girls who are between 6 and 17 years old. Here you can do any kind of sports. You can swim, play volleyball, football, handball or basketball. Also, the camp has a room with computers. Every evening we have parties around the pool.
The camp is open from July 1st to August 15th. Two-week session costs 250 € and four-week session costs 450 €.
Come and spend your best summer in Muffin's Sport Camp.

Anja Berić, VIII2

Summer Camp in Zlatibor

type: adventure

activities: sleeping in a tent, lighting fire, riding a horse, visiting the Potpeć Cave, learning about mushrooms and herbs

age: 10-15 years old

dates: June 20th - July 1st

cost: 250 €

Are you afraid of sleeping in a dark forest with lots of insects? If you aren't, come to summer camp in the nature! 

There are lots of things to do:

- learn about mushrooms and herbs

- sleep on a tent

- visit the Potpeć Cave

- learn how to light fire

- ride a horse

You can come between June 20th to July 1st or August 15th to August 26th.

The camp costs 250 € and it's for the children who are 10-15 years old.

Tijana Varađanin, VIII2

Milan's Summer Camp

Welcome to Milan's Summer Camp! It's an adventure camp. It starts on 1st June and ends on 27th August. It's the camp for those who are 13 to  19 years old. 

In this camp, you can go swimming, rafting, scuba-diving or hiking. In July, you can go to Disneyland, but you must pay £100 if you want to stay 2 weeks. You can go on a trip to the countryside if you like planting flowers and trees. You'll go to the museum and see a lot of sculptures and souvenirs. This is very interesting. You'll probably have a great time. In the end, you'll go to the cinema and watch action films, like Transformers or Iron Man.

Milan Jakšić, VIII2

Summer Sport Camp

type: sport

activities: playing volleyball, football, basketball

age: 11-15 years old

dates: 1st July to 20th July

Are you looking for something exciting to do this summer? Yes, then come to Summer Sport Camp on Mountain Tara. 

Visit the National Park Tara with us, play volleyball, basketball and football. Those who don't like these types of sports can go hiking in the mountains. We also have a snack between the visit to the National Park and activities. 

This camp is for children aged 11 to 15 years and costs 3,000 dinars. 

The camp starts on 1st July and ends on 20th July. 

Be sure to visit our camp because you will have a great time and get to know Mountain Tara better.

Ivana Varađanin, VIII2

School of Shooting

type: shooting camp

activities: shooting

age: 12-25 years

dates: 1-31 July

If you're interested in guns and would like to learn how to use them, sign up!

in our camp, we learn the basics of shooting, but also play, socialize, have fun and much more. 

Anyone aged 12 to 25 years may participate. 

The camp runs from 1 to 31 July and it's free!

Milica Vesin, VIII2

WEG 2015

Thanks to a Maths colleague of mine, several of my older students have participated in this year's World Education Games and competed against students around the world in Spellodrome and Mathletics.  Judging by their reactions during and after this online competition, my students found it amusing and fun.

My Teacher

Write about one of your teachers. You can use the following as a model:

My teacher's called (name). He/She's my (subject) teacher. My teacher's (e.g.clever) and we learn lots of new things with him/her. His/Her lessons are very (e.g. interesting) and we like them. 

Svetlana is my Music, Science, Maths, Art and Serbian teacher. She works in a school in a small town. There are 24 children in my class. My teacher is very nice and smart! I really like my teacher.

 Manja Galić, IV2, 28 September 2015

My class teacher is Svetlana. She has red hair and a beautiful smile. She is a good teacher. She loves dresses. 

Mina Brkanlić, IV2

This is Dragana. She's my English teacher. She's very beautiful and clever. My English teacher wears glasses. She's very good. She likes listening to music. 

Nađa Blažić, IV2

European Day of Languages 2015

For this year's European Languages Day my colleagues and I prepared some interesting interactive quizzes, tongue twisters, associations and other language games. Traditionally, we celebrated this day with the representatives of other primary schools from our town and nearby villages.

We started our celebration with a short film showing different quotes about the importance of learning foreign languages, as well as mother tongue. It was followed by a fun activity called 'Getting to know you' in which two volunteers from each team tried to find their 'fellow countrymen' just by using gestures, without speaking. The teams then checked their knowledge of the languages spoken in Europe in the quiz about the alphabets, word origin, family of languages and language in general. We continued with the listening game called 'Look who's singing' and the teams were asked to guess the language they heard in the songs performed by the former winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. Then, in the association game called 'European Record Breakers' the participants and the audience found out a few interesting things about the European countries which broke records in different areas, while in the 'ABC game' they were required to order the given English words starting with the letter T as they appear in the dictionary. The 'Translation Workshop' was a real challenge because the teams translated messages by using the Braille Alphabet. The programme ended with another fun game - the students read tongue twisters in Serbian, Italian, German and English.

Pen friends

Dear Pedro,

Thanks for your letter. I hope you're well.

Let me tell you about me and my family. I am 14 years old and I live in Kikinda, Serbia. My mum is a housewife and always does her best to make the flat comfortable for the rest of us. My dad has several jobs. He's a businessman, audio engineer and a musician. I also have a brother, Gabriel, who is 1 year old.

School starts at 8 o'clock in the morning shift and at 1 o'clock in the afternoon shift. I always go on foot. When I come home I always do my homework. Then I usually surf the net or hang out with my friends. I also have tennis lessons. At the weekends I always go out with my friends.

Write soon.

Yours, 

Kris

Kristian Balaž, VIII2, 10 September 2015

Dear Pedro,

thanks for your letter. I hope we can meet each other in the future.

I'm 14 years old and I live in Kikinda. I have a sister and she is 10, soon to be 11 years old. My sister and I get along well. My mum writes traffic tickets and she works at the firehouse. my dad is the head of the local fire department.

I go to Sveti Sava Primary School. School starts at eight o'clock in the morning shift and at one o'clock in the afternoon shift. When I go in the morning shift, I wake up at 6.30 and in the afternoon shift at nine or eight. In the morning shift, my dad takes me in the car, but in the afternoon shift I go o foot. I get back home at 1.30 or 6.30. I usually do my homework in the evenings.
I have been playing volleyball since I was nine. I have my practice 5 times a week. I often listen to music or watch TV series.
What about you? What kind of music do you listen? What do you play?
Write soon.
Yours,
Anja

Anja Berić, VIII2

Hi Pedro,

Thanks very much for your letter. I'm so happy to meet you.

Firstly, I will describe you myself and my family. My name's Tijana and I'm 13 years old. I live in Kikinda, Serbia, with my parents. My mum is a chemical technician, but she hasn't got a job. My dad is and engineer. He works as a CNC programmer. I'm a pupil at Sveti Sava Primary School. My older sister, Tamara, who lives in Novi Sad, is 21 and a good student.

This is my typical weekday. I wake up at 7:15, have breakfast and go to school on foot. My lessons start at 8. At 13;30 I'm at home and I do my homework for two hours. Then, I play computer games and watch TV. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 19 I have table tennis lessons. At the weekend, I usually go out with my friends. We like going rollerblading.

What about you and your family? What's your favourite free-time activity? 

Write again soon.

Lots of love,

Tijana

Tijana Varađanin, VIII2

Dear Pedro,

Hello. My name is Milan and I'm your new pen friend. I'm 14 years old and I live in Kikinda, Serbia. I go to primary school and I am in Class 8. The name of my school is Sveti Sava.

My father is an electrical technician. My mother is a teacher and she works in my school. My sister is 12 years old and she is caring and pretty. We live in a flat. It is opposite my school.

In my free time I usually play football with my friends. On Fridays, we always go out. We like going to the cinema. I love horror films. They are so scary.

Well, that's all about me for now. Write back and tell me about yourself.

Milan

Milan Jakšić, VIII2

Hello, Pedro,

My name is Ivana and I hope we'll get to know each other well.

I'm 14 years old and I live in Kikinda, Serbia. My dad is a taxi driver and my mum i a shop assistant. She works at a kiosk. They both work long hours. I have a brother, Nikola, who is 9. We are very different. My grandpa Slobodan lives with us.

School starts at 8 o'clock. I wake up every day at 7, get ready and then my dad takes me in his car to school. I get back home at 1.10 in the afternoon. I usually do my homework in the evenings. In my free time, I go out with my friends or watch a film. I love playing volleyball and my hobby is acting.

Well, that's all about me. Write back soon and tell me about yourself.

Ivana

Ivana Varađanin, VIII2

Dear Pedro,

Thanks for your letter. In this letter I'll write something about myself.

I am fourteen years old and I go to Sveti Sava Primary School. I live in Kikinda, Serbia. My father is an electrician. He works in Belgrade. My mother is a shop assistant. My sister is twenty-three years old and she has graduated from Medical University in Novi Sad.

In the morning shift, school starts at eight o'clock. My Grandma wakes me up at seven o'clock, but I extend to half past seven. I can't have breakfast and I go to school on foot. I get back home at twenty past one in the afternoon. I have lunch and after that I have my practice at three o'clock every day. Before practice I do my homework and learn new lessons for one hour. At seven o'clock in the evening I water the plants and trees in my garden. At ten o'clock I go to sleep.

Tell me something more about you.

Best wishes,

Luka

Luka Važić, VIII2

Dear Pedro,

Thanks for your letter. What are you doing right now? I'll write you something about myself.

I am 13 years old and I live in Kikinda, Serbia. I go to Sveti Sava Primary School. My father is a security worker and he works in Srpska Crnja and Kikinda. My mum is a cleaning woman in a primary school in Kikinda. My brother is 9.

Every other week school starts at eight. I wake up every day at 7. I don't have breakfast and I go to school on foot. School is over at ten past one in the afternoon. I go home, have lunch and do my homework. In the evening, at 7 o'clock every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, I have my training. It is over at 10 o'clock in the evening. After that, I go home. 

On Saturday and Sunday, I go out with my friends. I love action movies and rap and trap music. Do you like rap and trap music?

Write me soon,

Milica

Milica Vesin, VIII2  

Fun activities

One of the 2-3-minute activities for practising word order, just right for the beginning or the end of the lesson, includes group work. I shared it with my students the first time I saw them after our summer holidays.

I asked them to organise groups of four. Each person said a random letter and then, as a group, they made a sentence with the words starting with the given letter. 

Here are a few interesting sentences my Year 8 students came up with:

JCAZ: Jump carefully around zebras. (Julijan, Bojana and Branislava VIII4)

KERB: Katy eats red bananas. (Kosana, Andrea, Tijana and Ivana VIII4)

SMND: Summer memories never die. (Dunja, Ivana, Miroslava and Emilija VIII4)
ETIA: Every tiger is amazing. (Elena, Tijana, Ivana and Anja VIII2)