The colours of the rainbow - Cittadinanza Informata

Un video per scoprire in inglese come si forma un arcobaleno e un breve quiz per verificare se si è capito tutto.

Seguono un po’ di trucchi per ricordare l’ordine dei colori e un gioco per metterli nell’ordine giusto.

Trovi poi miti e curiosità sugli arcobaleni spiegati in un video. È vero che al fondo di un arcobaleno c’è una pentola piena d’oro? Che forma ha l’arcobaleno? È davvero un arco?

C’è anche un set di flashcards per imparare i vocaboli del video e un testo da completare: è molto difficile!!! ma c’è la soluzione 😉

Infine come premio: un video con straordinarie immagini aeree e due versioni della celebre canzone “Over the Rainbow” (con il testo).

Enjoy!

Rainbows are one of nature’s magic tricks. How do they form?

Got it? Check with this short quiz:

The video suggests a method to remember the order of the colours of the rainbow in English using an acronym (a word formed with the initial letters of a sequence of words).

Another acronym is: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

You can also use: Read Only Your Good Books In Venice.

Or you can invent your special acronym.

The classical method is the name: ROY G. BIV, as in the children’s song below.

Order the 7 colours of the rainbow. Roy G. Biv will help you!

Is it true there’s a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?

What shape is a rainbow? Is it really an arc?

Watch this video and find out!

And here’s where you find the vocabulary you need to understand the video:

FLASHCARDS: https://quizlet.com/_97r4ko?x=1qqt&i=31lq9m

Nate Byrne, from ABC Australia NEWS tells us about rainbows: what their real shape is , how they form and why.

Check what you have learnt with this test:

Well done! You’ve learnt a lot. You deserve some fun.

Look at this perfect circular rainbow from an airplane:

…and now watch and listen to Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow” from the 1939 movie “The wizard of Oz” and to Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole’s world-famous version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_Over_the_Rainbow/What_a_Wonderful_World

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high

There’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I’ll wish upon a star

And wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where troubles melt like lemon drops

Away above the chimney tops

That’s where you’ll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly

Birds fly over the rainbow

Why then, oh, why can’t I?

If happy little bluebirds fly

Beyond the rainbow

Why, oh, why can’t I?