Can flowers make bees smile?

 

Surely, flowers can make people smile!! Of course, bees love flowers, but bees are in a real danger and so is humankind if we don't take care of them. I'm a bee friend myself, so are farmers as bees are so important for their crops, and you?

 

Here's a listening exercise connected with the issue: What's happening to our bees?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) and this Lingohack episode:

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200826 / 26 August 2020    >>>  Free flowers to bring happiness -    Language related to 'happiness'.  Need-to-know language: lift the spirits, spread a smile, joy, boost (someone's) morales & random act of kindness.

 

As well, many of our students in 1º & 2º Bachillerato (last year in 4º ESO: Lucía García, Rocío Valdés (B1- Cambridge), David Bacas, José Corzo, Daniel Del Pozo, Francisco González, Álvaro Martín, Cristián Ramón (B1- EOI)  and 1º Bachillerato: Lucía y Marina Guirado (B1- EOI)) have brought us happiness as they have succeeded in their B1 and B2 exams. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THEM!!! 

 

It is time now to TEST YOUR LEVEL OF ENGLISH with this tool. Try it out!!

Project about A Foreigner in New York by María Prados (2º Bach A)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our students are having some problems with the use of adjectives, so here are two proposals:

• Articles: The Grammar Gameshow Episode 28

• English in a Minute:  When to use THE to talk about places   (BBC Learning English)

 

 

And some other activities for you to do: 

• The English We Speak:  What does 'roast' mean?   (BBC Learning English)

• How to express OBLIGATION: HAVE TO vs MUST (6 Minute Grammar, BBC Learning English)

• English in a Minute:  How to use ADJECTIVES WITHOUT NOUNS   (BBC Learning English)
  

• Learners' questions:  FILL UP / FILL OUT / FILL IN (BBC Learning English)

 

 

 John Legend - Preach (official video)

BEATING COVID-19 (new page in our site)

What is this school year, which is about to start, going to be like? 

 

We will need to be more careful and, as we have already some experience, we will be using a kind of school diary where we will be informing of all the tasks we do in class just in case you cannot come to school. 

 

So this is our brand new page in our site: BEATING COVID-19

WEEK 0 (from 14^th to 19^th September, 2020)

   

2º ESO  >>>  Homework for this week:

• Getting Started Unit         

• Entry test
  

 

Smart Planet Digital books

4º ESO   >>>>  This week's homework:

• Starter Unit   
  

• Entry test 
  

 

  

  1º Bach  >>> HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK:

• Starter Unit

• Entry test
  

2º Bach  >>>  HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK:

• Starter Unit

• Entry test & Selectivity exam 0 + Start a Covid-19 glossary
  

Some activities for you to do: 

• News Review:  SpaceX splash down   (BBC Learning English)

• Listening exercise for you to do: Is this the era of distrust? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• Learners' Questions: How to talk about past mistakes correctly (BBC Learning English)

• A quizz on The future from the past (BBC Learning English)

 

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200909 / 09 September 2020    >>>  What is 'blue health'? (Surfing therapy) -    Language related to 'therapy'.  Need-to-know language: healing properties, rehabilitation, stimulate, the blues & ride out the storm.

COVID-19 glossary:

therapy, healing properties, rehabilitation, stimulate, ride out the storm, outbreak, lockdown, pandemic, infected, safety distance, face mask...

You can send me all the words you find connected with this issue.

Mysterious craters appeared in Siberia

 

Climate change and the melting of the permafrost are behind this strange phenomenon: the appearance of craters in Siberia. Do we still need to convince people that we have a serious problem on Planet Earth? So get down on it!! (What does this expression mean?)

And here's another interesting topic related to climate change:

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200923 / 23 September 2020    >>>  Melting glacier -    Language related to 'speed'.  Need-to-know language: rate, accelerated, rapidly, exceptional & quickly.

 

And school is starting next week, so get down on it!!! 💪😉👍

 

Here are some articles for you to read about the issue:

• Siberian craters: Big releases of methane could pose broad problems (CNBC)
  

  

• There's a 'Doorway to The Underworld' in Siberia That's So Big It's Uncovered Ancient Forests (Science Alert)
  

  
  

• In Siberia there is a huge crater and it is getting bigger (BBC - Earth)

• Are Siberia's mysterious craters caused by climate change? Scientists find four new enormous holes in northern Russia (Daily Mail)
  

 

 

Today we'll be doing a writing exercise: 'A biography' & a review of the whole unit with our 1º ESO students:

                                                            SPORTS TIME

(Cambridge University Press)  You will do the exercises  on pages 91-92.

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Take a free English class:  The Future: Continuous and Perfect   (BBC Learning English)

• Listening exercise for you to do: What does your blood type say about you? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• News Review: Djokovic hits line judge (BBC Learning English)

• A quizz on Opinions (BBC Learning English)

 

 

 

 

 Kool & The Gang - Get Down on it (official video)

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200902 / 02 September 2020    >>>  Could driverless cars save lives? -    Language related to 'driving'.  Need-to-know language: test track, control freak, swerving, liable & competent.

Influencers in our society

 

 

 

Who is an influencer? What is their role in our society? Not long ago it was a word I had never heard of before, but it's incredible how relevant they may be among our teenagers and, therefore, for the future generations.

 

 

 

First, let's do a Selectivity exam for you to do  related with the topic   >>  Are today's influencers living their best lives?  

And here are some articles for you to read about the issue:

• Influencers: How a 'new breed' of social media stars changed the game (BBC News)
  

• The Role of Social Media Influencers in the Lives of Children and Adolescents   (Frontiers)

• Instagram worst social media app for young people's mental health (CNN)
  

• Girls and social media: 'You are expected to live up to an impossible standard' (The Guardian)
  

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• The English We Speak:  Living in a bubble   (BBC Learning English)

  

• Take an English Class on the: COMPARATIVES (BBC Learning English)

• News Review: Kamala Harris makes history (BBC Learning English)

  
  

• A quizz on the Prefixes (BBC Learning English)

 

Today we'll be revising HOW TO EXPRESS INTEREST with our 1º ESO students:

                                                            SPORTS TIME

(Cambridge University Press)  You will do the exercises  on pages 89-90.

 

 

 

Project about A Foreigner in New York by Sofía Morea (2º Bach A)

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Solutions to USE OF ENGLISH exercise in the previous post:

21.  c   22. a  23. c   24. c   25. b   26. a   27. d  28. b  29. c  30. d   31. d  32. c  33. c  34. c   35.  d   36.  d   37.  b   38.  a   39. c   40. c

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200916 / 16 September 2020    >>>  Bon Jovi helps food bank -    Language related to 'helping people'.  Need-to-know language: hands-on, philanthropic, stepped in & godsend.

"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"

George and Mildred - The Bad Penny (Part 1)