Round 1 almost over!!

Our first term is coming to an end. Fortunately we have had all our classes face to face (in-person clases), at least those groups I teach. Despite all these tough times with the pandemic, we are all making a tremendous effort complying with all the security mesures at school and so far no cases have been reported to have anything to do with what happens inside our school premises.

However, we cannot be happy at all as we live locked down most of the time. At the moment we have to stay in our own local town and we are not allowed to meet any relatives or friends living outside our hometown. Times of solitude, loneliness. But, as the song below says "let's be lonely together!"

 

Here's a listening exercise for you to do about this issue:

6 Minute English:  Loneliness (BBC Learning English)

How many words do you know related to 'loneliness'?

Avicii - Lonely Together ft. Rita Ora (official video)

 

Some other activities for you to do: 

• 6 Minute Grammar:  Verb patters: LIKE, LOVE, PREFER or HATE   (BBC Learning English)

• Upgrade your vocabulary:  Stop saying VERY   (mmmEnglish)  >>  EXTREME ADJECTIVES
  

• English in a Minute:  4 English word pairs   (BBC Learning English)
  

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For what it's worth

 

Do you know what "For What It's Worth" means? It is also the title of a song by the Buffalo Springfield and it has always been an anti-war protest song. Actually, it wasn't in the beginning. It was a consequence of a curfew, like the one we have nowadays due to the pandemic.

 

Here's the real story for you to read it:

‘For What It’s Worth’: Inside Buffalo Springfield’s Classic Protest Song (Rolling Stone Magazine)

For What It's Worth by the Buffalo Springfield (Music Video with lyrics & another one with lyrics both in English and Spanish). 

 

 

 And it was also part of the soundtrack of the film Forrest Gump (the best scene in the film)

Why the race to find Covid-19 vaccines is far from over (The Guardian)

 

In a few days' time we are coming to our deadline to hand in compositions/writing exercises, making comments... so pay attention to the listening exercise I propose and the other activities: 

• A listening exercise for you to do:  Let's talk about lateness   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• News Review: Calls for ban on 'anti-vax' social media (BBC Learning English)

• Very useful for you:  22 ‘LOOK’ Expressions & Phrasal Verbs: look up to, look back on, look as though + MORE!   (mmmEnglish)
  

• English in a Minute:  4 verbs to use instead of 'walk'   (BBC Learning English)
  

• Learners' Questions: 'LIE' , 'LIE' or 'LAY' (BBC Learning English)
  

 

 

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No matter how...

No matter how tough the situation becomes, we will face it and defeat it. Watch this commercial and pay attention to the vocabulary used.

 

 

Viruses will never defeat humans - Seegene

 

How Hard I Try by Filous ft. James Hersey (Official Music Video).

Some other activities for you to do: 

• A listening exercise for you to do:  Could you be victim of online fraud?   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• News Review: Kamala Harris: First female US vice-president (BBC Learning English)

• Learn about time expressions:  15 Time expressions   (English with Lucy)
  

• English in a Minute:  4 ways to exaggerate like a Brit   (BBC Learning English)
  

•  Learners' Questions: Using 'FOR' & 'TO' for reasons WHY (BBC Learning English)
  

 

Some articles for you to read about US elections:

• US election results 2020: Joe Biden wins presidency, defeating Donald Trump (The Guardian)
  

• Biden overtakes Trump to win presidency (BBC News)
  

• Biden begins transition plans as Trump refuses to concede (CNN)
  

• Trump's refusal to accept loss puts transition work on hold as inner circle remains split (CNN)
  

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On the right way!!

 

On the right way... Yes, on the right way to SUCCESS!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to our students at the IES Mediterráneo (Salobreña) for their good results in their B1 and B2 exams at the Official Language School: Ana Muñoz (2º Bachillerato) has passed her B2 exams and these students in 1º Bachillerato have passed their B1 exams at the Official Language School: Nuria Díaz, Lucía Espinosa, Susana Pérez. As you can see, taking into account all those who passed a month ago ( Can flowers make bees smile?  ), we have a total of 11 students in the level of 1º Bachilleratoand 9 students in 2º Bachillerato that have already got their B1 and so have 8 students in 2º Bachillerato, four of whom have also got their B2. 

And latest wonderful news: Sofía has just got her C1 (Cambridge)!!!!

 

 

However, that does not mean we are at the end of the road. This is just the beginning of a road: THE ROAD TO SUCCESS!!! as we have many other goals ahead: having the best of marks both at school (  English in a Minute:  'At school' or 'At the school' (BBC Learning English)  ) and in Selectivity, and getting their B2 (especially those students in 1º Bachillerato) next June. That's the way our great Rafa Nadal faces life so as to get such incredible results in life. 

 

 

 

'Could that potentially be the   turning point' in your lives as it happened in the 1000th Rafa's victory when playing against Feliciano López? This was Nadal when he was just 16!!!

 

 

Rafa Nadal in Challenger (16 years old) - 2003

 

 

Some other activities for you to do: 

• A listening exercise for you to do about CLIMATE CHANGE:  Melting ice sheet: Is it too late?   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• News Review: US election day 2020 (BBC Learning English)

• Learn about time expressions:  15 Time expressions   (English with Lucy)
  

• Learners' questions:  Using FOR & TO for reasons why (BBC Learning English)

 

Some newspaper articles and pieces of news on the US elections:

• Joe Biden narrowly ahead of Donald Trump as count continues (The Guardian)
  

• US Election: How can America reunite after this race? - BBC Newsnight

• US Election 2020: Trump claims 'historic election interference' - BBC News

 

 

LIVE CBS Special Report 2020 presidential election (BROADCASTING RIGHT NOW)

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