FATAL COMBINATION: Teleworking and no sport (QUARANTINE: DAY 46)

My back aches, my hands ache, I've got sore eyes, swollen legs... and I won't say anything about my super-happy belly!!! Teleworking and no sport, or any kind of physical activity, is deteriorating our bodies, apart from our minds. This situation is literally killing us!!!

 

However, some good news: the plan of de-escalation in Spain sounds really well!!! and we are really looking forward to beginning to go back to our normal life and daily routines, although with restrictions. We will be able to do some sport, but at a certain time and under some conditions. For instance, social distancing.

Coronavirus: What is social distancing? - BBC News

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200429 / 29 April 2020    >>>  Coronavirus: How to avoid back pain while working from home  -    Language related to 'our body'.  Need-to-know language: postures, aches, extremities & small of your back.

 

 

 

Coronavirus: Spain plans return to 'new normal' by end of June (BBC News)

Spain to begin return to work despite fears of resurgence (The Guardian)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  30

Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%)

Comments written and corrected:    About 600

Emails exchanged: almost 2200

PASEN announcements & messages:   almost 2200

Things handed in and corrected: more than 1000

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 11,500 (Average of 250 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    9  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 2 online exams)

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Thursday, 30^th April

Tasks for today:

• Do exercises on page 80.

• Do the writing exercise 12:

  
  

  Wr12: Ejercicio de producción escrita sobre el tema:  A report about an animal and comparison with your pet (informe sobre un animal y comparación con tu animal doméstico) utilizando comparativos, superlativos y el comparativo de igualdad, además de todo lo que hay en la pagina 80. Se harán 3 párrafos: 1º descripción física del animal (en el módelo llegaría hasta "...up to 113 kilograms"); 2º descripción de su características, como si fuera su personalidad, y el tipo de cosas que hacen, comen.. (en el modelo sería lo que queda del texto); y 3º comparación con un animal doméstico utilizando comparativos de superioridad, superlativos y el comparativo de igualdad.

    

Solutions to listening exercises on page 75 (On Monday I will give you the solutions to listening exercises on page 78):

Exercise 11

Does Ethan guess the animal in each riddle?  No, he doesn’t

Exercise 12

	Animal	Colour	Size	Lives in	Eats
Riddle 1	Rat	Black or Brown	Not as big as a dog	Cities	Rubbish
Riddle 2	Rabbit	White, Brown, black, grey	Bigger than a rat	Country	Plants

 

As tomorrow is 1st May and there is no class, this is today's homework for the weekend:

• Unit 8 (Smart Planet 4) , page 90 

  
  

See you on Monday for our online class!

 

 

Tasks for today:

• You will just watch these episodes about genetics, elderly people and pensionists:          Modulo 7          Unit 3A            Unit 3B   

• On Monday in our online class we will be correcting some RELATIVE CLAUSES & REPORTED SPEECH, apart from the exercises on the Passive Voice and Conditional Sentences.

Glossary about TELEWORKING proposed by Sofía Morea (1º Bach A)

sore eyes, swollen, to deteriorate, de-escalation, restrictions, lockdown, severity of the outbreak, manufacturing, some of the toughest confinement measures, before the plan kicks, gradually, to glimpse, to lurk, to forecast, to embark, to loom, a rise in contagion, countermeasures, overstretched intensive care units, prudently, to disengage

Any more proposals?? 

Here's another one by Anabel Prados:   

non-essential workers, work from home, telecommuting, distance, supportive, telework, telecommute,  workplace, workweek,  videoconferencing,   teleconferencing, workforce, mobility, productivity, absenteeism,  workday, workspace, flextime,  jobseeker, workless, interoffice, deskbound,  employers, workaholics.

 

I just wanna see my friends (QUARANTINE: DAY 45)

...but you gotta be patient!!! (Listen to the song!!) They've just announced that there may be a possible return to school by the end of May!!!  EXCELLENT NEWS!!!

 

 

However, some sad news too....

NEWS REVIEW >>>> CORONAVIRUS: Oktoberfesr cancelled!!! (BBC Learning English)

Related articles for you to read:

'Bitter pill': Bavaria cancels Oktoberfest over fears of coronavirus spread (The Guardian)

Coronavirus: Major European tourist events cancelled - BBC News

 

 

What is the Oktoberfest?

 Tradition and beer: the Oktoberfest | DW English

 

 

STAY HOMAS, Judit Neddermann - Gotta Be Patient (Confination Song VI)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  29

Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%)

Comments written and corrected:    More than 550

Emails exchanged: almost 2100

PASEN announcements & messages:   almost 2000

Things handed in and corrected: almost 1000

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 11,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    9  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 2 online exams)

 

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Wednesday, 29^th April

Homework for today:

• Do you want to create your own avatar?

  Creating an avatar of yourself

   

• Finish pages 78-79.

• Comparatives and superlatives: exercise for you to do 04  

 

Tomorrow I will give you the solutions to the listening exercises on page 75.

 

Today's homework:

• Unit 8 (Smart Planet 4) , page 88-89  

  Tomorrow, even if we haven't got any classes, I will give you some instructions as there will be no post on Friday in this blog and remember that we will have our online classes next Monday at 9 a.m.   

 

You'll have to do this writing exercise by 11th May >>>

Wr16: Ejercicio de producción escrita sobre el tema : "Telling a story", bajo el formato de carta informal/email, en el que se utilizarán tiempos de pasado y los adverbios vistos en la página 89, además de otras sugerencias incluidas en esta página.

 

NO HOMEWORK FOR TODAY!!! 

Ghost airports (QUARANTINE: DAY 44)

During this Coronavirus crisis, there are ghost passengers and ghost flights, as there are no passengers to fly and sometimes planes fly just with the crew and a few passengers or no passengers at all. However, there are also ghost airports, which are not only airports that are no longer used, but also special airports with no passengers!!!!

 

Surprisingly, among these, you can find some of the most profitable airports in the world, like the one in the Mojave desert or the one in Teruel , which is the most profitable one in Europe. But how can this be possible? Have a look at these newspaper articles and documentaries and you'll find out: 

• The airport in Spain where planes go for a long nap (CNN)

• The huge ghost airport where planes go to sleep (Sky Shades)

• Spotting at Teruel – Spain’s storage and maintenance airport (Airport Spotting)

• The biggest and most profitable airport without passengers in Europe is in Teruel (Expansión) This piece of news is in Spanish. It includes a very interesting video!!!

• No passengers, no planes: ‘Ghost’ airports of Europe (CNBC)

• Chinese group buys Spanish airport for $11,000 (CGTN America)

• EU frees airlines to halt ‘ghost flights’ in coronavirus fightback (The Guardian)

 

 

Can you tell me the different uses this kind of airports have and why they make so many profits?  THIS COULD BE YOUR COMMENT!!!

 

Mojave Air & Space Port - Commercial Space

What Happened Inside the Airplane Graveyard?

 

How do you call an airplane which is not allowed to fly? See the solution at the bottom of this post, just below!!!

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  28

Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%)

Comments written and corrected:    More than 550

Emails exchanged: almost 2100

PASEN announcements & messages:   almost 2000

Things handed in and corrected: almost 1000

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 11,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    9  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 2 online exams)

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Tuesday, 28^th April

By the way, do you remember about the Mojave desert? Have you seen the pictures above?

1º ESO     CLASS    (<<<Click here)

Next Tuesday we will have our next online class (we will go on correcting UNIT 6) and remember for individual tutorials you write an email to me and we arrange a day and a time.

El próximo martes tenemos la siguiente clase online  >>  seguiremos corrigiendo la unidad 6 y recuerden para tutorías individuales me tienen que escribir un email y concertamos un día y una hora.

Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound. Here's again the link to the session, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/379e7c0b009640fea3b23156deeba859

 

Tasks for today:

Watch this video   >>>      AS...AS... COMPARATIVES

 

Solutions to yesterday's translation sentences:

1. Excuse me, where is the post office? It's over there, on the left.

2. Where's the police station? I'm sorry, I'm a tourist.  I think it's straight ahead.

3. Where's the nearest supermarket? The nearest one is in Market Street, opposite the bank and next to the pet shop.

 

Solutions to dictation 02 and translation:

1.Tim is as old as Mike.   >>>  Tim es tan viejo como Mike

2. He is the nicest boy in the class.    >>>>   Él es el chico más amable en la clase.

3. They are brothers.    >>>>    Ellos son hermanos.

4. There aren't any pencils.   >>>  No hay lápices.

5. Janet doesn't walk to school.    >>>   Janet no va andando al instituto.

6. Look, I see him now.     >>>    Mira, yo le veo ahora.

7. Tom should go to bed now.    >>>   Tom debiera irse a la cama ahora.

8. Susan can run quickly.    >>>   Susana puede correr deprisa.  

4º ESO

Remember to send me the number of mistakes committed in yesterday's verb exam 02.

Smart Planet Digital books

Solutions to Friday's workbook pages 54-55 (Unit 6) - Review:

1.    1.g     2. d    3. h   4. a    5. i     6. j   7. c   8. b    9.f    10. e

2.   1.ridiculously     2. much too    3. quite   4. extremely    5. a bit      6. really   7. kind of   8. totally

3.   1. were developed     2. was invented    3. is sold   4. are found    5. are produced     6. won't be needed   7. will be replaced

4.   1. That's the birthday present which/that I bought for my mum last weekend.
      2. Xavi is the boy whose dad used to work with my dad years ago.
      3. Yesterday we visited the museum where Edison's first light bulbs are displayed.
      4. This is the guitar which/that he made himself at the age of 16!
      5. Is that the man who/that helped you the other day?
      6. I think that's the girl whose bag you found this morning.

5.  1.c     2. c    3. a   4. b    5. b     6. a   7. b   8. c    9.b    10. a    11. c   12. c   13. b    14. a

6.   1. Can you tell me about     2. Is it easy    3. How much memory   4. What's the sound like
      5. How long does the battery last     6. Has it got a   7. Could you show 

These are the tasks for today: 

• Unit 8 (Smart Planet 4) , page 87

  

THE ENGLISH WITH SPEAK >>>> Cabin fever: an expression for lockdown (BBC Learning English)

 

 

 

 

1º Bach  >>>  Homework for today:

• Unit 8 - pages 98-99

• Here are two episodes that deal with the topics of sport and genetics: 

  Module 7      Unit 2A            Unit 2B         

 

And remember to send me the mistakes committed in the verb exam.

 

 Young Roger Federer Was Absolutely Insane (18 & 19 Years Old)

Coronavirus: Grounded planes and deserted airport terminals (BBC News)

Sir Charles (QUARANTINE: DAY 43)

Here we are in our SEVENTH WEEK of quarantine and confinement as authorities are allowing us to do certain things outdoors and the death toll has dropped significantly these days.

COVID-19 & the smog (BBC News) Do you remember what 'smog' means? Have a look at these posts:

No more pollution in our cities, please!!!

Paris: World Climate Summit 2015

 

 

 

 

Let's start by revising the comparatives of equality:

English in a Minute:  AS...AS... COMPARATIVES (BBC Learning English)

 

Here's another great basketball player. Do you think he is as good as Dr J Julius Erving? He also played fot the Philadelphia 76ers, but he ended his career in the Phoenix Suns.

 

 

Charles Barkley - Sir Charles

 

BREAKING NEWS  >>>>  Coronavirus: Spain records lowest daily death toll as lockdown eases (BBC News)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  27

Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%)

Comments written and corrected: 550

Emails exchanged: almost 2000

PASEN announcements & messages: more than 1800

Things handed in and corrected: almost 950

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 10,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    9  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 2 online exams)

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Monday, 27^th April

1º ESO  

Tasks for today:

• Unit 6 (page 78) >>  Exercises 1-4. Do the exercises on this page: COMPARATIVES OF EQUALITY (as...as...)  

• Let's revise GIVING DIRECTIONS by watching this video:  

  Follow me  04   - Left, right, straight ahead

   

Translate these sentences into English:

1. Perdone, ¿dónde está la oficina de correos? Está allí, a la izquierda.

2. ¿Dónde está comisaría? Lo siento, soy un turista.  Creo que está todo recto.

3. ¿Dónde está el supermercado más cercano? El más cercano está en la Calle del Mercado, frente al banco y junto a la tienda de mascotas.

Solutions to Thursday's COMPARATIVES & SUPERLATIVES 03 exercise:

1) bigger, the biggest    2) smallest     3) hottest      4) closer    5) bright, brighter    6) far, farther    7) cold, colder

4º ESO    CLASS    (<<<Click here)

You have to do the verb exam below and send the number of mistakes committed.

Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound. Today we will be correcting Unit 8 in our session: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/55c766d756b946bd8cf62f7443269e0b

  

VERB EXAM 02. Write the past and past participle forms of each verb

1. TEACH      2. SWEAT     3.  ANSWER     4.  DRINK      5. WEAR     6. SET      

7.  SLEEP      8. HEAR  9. DRINK  10. FEED  11. SWIM     12. GET   13. EAT        

14. MAKE     15. LEAVE    16. FEEL     17. PAY      18. DRIVE   19. MEET    

20. LIE (YACER)    21. RUN    22. BRING    23.FLY    24.TELL   25. BEGIN  

26. READ    27. SPEND  28. WASTE   29. COST     30. DEAL  31. DIG   

32. BECOME     33. HOLD     34. LEAD    35. SPEAK     36. CARRY  37. STING  

38. MEND   39. PUT   40. RUN    41. SWEEP    42. SPIT     43. SMELL    44. SHAKE    45. THROW   46. WRITE     47. SEE     48. KEEP   49. BEAT   50. BLEED

 

 

1º Bach     CLASS      (<<<Click here)

You have to do the verb exam above and send the number of mistakes committed.

Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound.

 

Today we will keep on revising from 11 a.m. to 13 a.m.  the PASSIVE VOICE & CONDITIONAL SENTENCES (and correcting exercises in my site) in our session, whose link is, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c32436f87fda4ceea41aa7897f70a93b