As I said last year, it is a Good time to take stock of the situation!! after this damned leap year (2020, a leap year) . Could you tell me the best things that have happened, if any, this past year and the worst things, which are a lot and quite obvious?
Something is for certain, we are much better as a society and as human beings, and we have realised how important little things are. Meeting your friends and relatives, hugging and kissing them, hanging out with them, going to school, breathing fresh air, playing with our friends, attending sport events, attending musical events.... or just going to the cinema are some of the many things we have had real problems to carry out. Or just the freedom to go out or move from one town to another when we were locked down.
We always have to thank whoever for having such facilities and think that perhaps in little hamlets in Africa they are used to have the lack of all these comforts or the lack of water and food.
The top 10 words of 2020! Do you know them all?
Which ones do you think they are? Try to guess them before watching the video. In the next post I will give you the solution, anyway.
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English with Lucy: 20 Weird things ONLY British people do! (BBC Learning English)
English in a Minute: LOOK vs LOOK LIKE (BBC Learning English)
Talking about HUMAN EMOTIONS: Why are young people so lonely? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
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ResponderEliminarThis year has been very different in which we have learned to value things that before didn't seem so important or we didn't give them the importance they deserved.
ResponderEliminarI think that with everything that happened this year, the way of living and seeing life has changed for most people.
This year we have experienced the beginning of a global pandemic in which many people have died, the terrible Australian forest fires, the death of Kobe Bryant and much more.
Although it has not been the year we expected, we must see the good in things, although in this case there are few.
I have learned to value more moments with my family, a simple hug, and to live the moment without thinking about the future.
I'm sure 2021 will be a better year.
SARA PEINADO 4A
Everyone thought that 2020 was going to be an incredible year, at the beginning of the year everything was going well but a few months after starting the first positive for COVID-19 was given, this virus began in China and it was not given much importance anymore They said that few cases would come to Spain, when cases began to appear they began to worry, as the weeks went by, everything began to get much worse and became out of control, in March they had to lock us up in our homes and we were several months without to be able to leave our houses until little by little it began to be able to leave but with measures. This year has been the worst for me because due to this virus we have had to be locked up for a long time, we cannot visit our family, we have to be locked up in our house at 11, this year I hope it improves since they have found the vaccine for COVID-19 and I hope the crisis is not so strong and people are not left without houses, money ...
ResponderEliminarAll this has taught us to value the work of doctors, and all the people who have been helping to stop this nightmare, from all on they will give it the importance that doctors should have had for years and that they see that the first is health.
I believe we can all agree 2020 has been a very rare year from its beginning to its ending. It has drastically changed the way we live and our own mindset. We had to learn to limit our contacts as much as possible in order to protect them from the virus. That is a really big effort, but maybe this year has made us realise some other things.
ResponderEliminarOn the one hand, this year has made us appreciate some things we had taken for granted. Now, we know the importance of true friendships, we learnt who is going to be by our side regardless of the situation and to value small details like a hug. We have become closer to our family, and now we have more respect for elderly people and our grandparents, as we have missed them and worried about them constantly. Moreover we must also highlight how positive has been the lockdown to our environment, we have proved that we can really do significant changes by slowing down of lifestyle.
On the other hand, this year started with the wrong foot. First, there was a horrible wildfire in Australia which destroyed a large portion of the "Earth's lung" and many animal lives. Second, there were some important tensions between the two giants, the US and China, which could have led to a third world war, but that thankfully stoped just in time. Third, the death of Kobe Bryant. And finally, this pandemic we are in, and the lockdown. This has definitely been by far the worst part of the year, many people have died ,the unemployment rate is too high and every single person has had a though time.
To sum up, I will say there is hope. The vaccines will improve the situation and by the end of this new year the pandemic might be over. 2021 seems like is going to be a better year.
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ResponderEliminarThe year 2020 has changed our lives completely, in different ways. Now, we are surprised if we see someone that doesn’t wear a mask in the street, or if someone comes into a shop and he doesn’t use hydroalcoholic gel. Besides, it is curious that if we are watching a series or a film, we are also surprised if there are situations with crowded places.
ResponderEliminarIf we think about all the year, it is a little difficult to highlight something good, but we can. For instance, we have learned how to work or study in our homes, with our computers and a lot of dedication. Moreover, now we value the little things which used to be normal and now they aren’t. For example, going out with friends and having dinner in a restaurant. With the pandemic it is now something that we have to do cautiously, and thinking about the risk we take.
Nevertheless, we cannot avoid and forget all the people who have died during this year, and the people who have suffered serious situations and those who have been taken to hospital because of the covid. There are a lot of families that cannot say goodbye to their deceased relatives and they haven't even been able to bury them. It is difficult to think about other disasters that have occurred this year such as covid, but there are. For instance, all the natural disasters like Australian forest fires early in the year or climate change.
To sum up, this year has been so difficult in different ways, but we can only think that 2021 will be better. The vaccine can improve our lives, but we have to continue to be careful and protect ourselves. I think that if we continue complying with the right measures, we are going to improve our situation a little
The coronavirus has been the biggest problem of the year. Many people have died because of it, and it has also generated an economic crisis because many shops have had to close temporarily, losing a lot of money. Also, during the pandemic we couldn't see our family or friends, we couldn't go to school, and the online classes were very boring because we couldn´t talk with anyone. There were also fires in Australia´s forests or floods in Indonesia. Not forgetting the murder of George Floyd, or the death of basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.
ResponderEliminarAlthough we have also been locked at home for some time, it has helped to reduce the pollution. We have valued more the work of nurses, doctors and other health staff. We have also seen many solidarity acts such as volunteering, fundraising ...
2020 has shown us that there are still many good people.
And personally, I have also experienced many good moments this year; I have met many amazing people, I have learned to appreciate the little things, I have spent more time with my family, I have read many books during quarantine, and I have also done a lot of sport. Although I wouldn´t like to be confined again, I think it has been an experience that has brought us good things as far as possible.
2020 has been a strange year. It is true that it hasn´t been the best one, but it has also brought many good things, at least to me. I think some of the words that we have used the most this year are: confinement, pandemic, facemask, coronavirus, video call, quarantine, infected, PCR...
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ResponderEliminar2020 has been a very strange year that has affected everyone and that has changed the lives of all the people, from children to elderly people. 2020 started and we could see on tv that a virus, which orignated in China, was seriously affecting many people. Besides, in January some terrible forest fires broke out in Australia, in which hundreds of trees were burned and many animals such as koalas or kangaroos have were burned to death. We can see it on many images on Internet and we feel really sad. Also we can add the death of the basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.
ResponderEliminarIn March, Coronavirus-19 arrived in Spain and a lockdown started. Covid-19 has spread and millions of people have been infected. It is finishing with the life of many people mainly with old people or people with respiratory or cardiac problems. Nevertheless young people without any problems have died.
Coronavirus is very infectious, and without knowing if we have the virus we can transmit it to 3 or 4 people approximately. Because of this situation everyone must be at home except doctors and nurses, who had to stay in hospital, apart from other works
Fortunately, in May the number of infections decreased and new normality arrived. We could go out with friends or with family. Shops, restaurants and gyms opened again but the use of face masks was mandatory.
However, not everything has been bad this year. We have learned to value the little things and enjoy them. For example, a year ago we didn’t appreciate how lucky we are. Last year we could spend time with family and friends without being afraid of spreading a virus and without a limited number of people. We have spent Christmas at home and without many relatives and parties could not be celebrated.
Finally, this year has been hard but we have to be optimistic and think about the good things the new year can bring us. Next year, we hope covid-19 ends and everyone gets the vaccine.
Last year was a very difficult year because of a lot of problems that it had, but you can also be optimistic and see the few good things that happened during this horrible year, although I would like them to be many more.
ResponderEliminarOn the one hand, we have all the bad things that we lived, we have the confinement, the time that all of us spent in our houses and we couldn't go out, we also have the face-masks, the object that we must wear to all the places that we go, and we must be wearing it always, and, of course, we have all the people that died because of this illness, and all the people that died in this war against the pandemic. We also had other problems, for example, all the wildfires in Australia.
On the other hand, we have the good things that passed last year, they are fewer than the bad things, but we always need to be optimistic, for example, we have all the rockets that Space X sent to the space, or that scientists have discovered an enzyme that can split up plastic.
In conclusion, we need to keep moving forwards and hope that this new year will be better than last year, in my opinion, it will be better, we only need to wait until the vaccine will improve the situation.
Francisco González 1ºBach
ResponderEliminarThe coronavirus has completely changed 2020. 2020 has been a bad year, for many things, fires, wars between countries, a tragic explosion in Lebanon, they confined us because there was a global pandemic coronavirus, we had many restrictions when they let us leave but still many people did not follow the rules and at first they infections up but later people began to follow the rules a little more.
Fortunately, all that is over, I hope that 2021 is not the same as 2020 and things improve even a little, now that there are people who have already been vaccinated and more people will be vaccinated I think things can improve a lot
Pablo Javier Flores Funes 4ºA
2020 is a tragic year for all person in gthe world, because the pandemic of de covid-19 affected to all the world. Who would know that this year would be so bad and so rare NOBODY.It has been a year that has changed our lives taking a 180º turn. Let's hope that soon the new normal can be reached because this way of life with the masks and all the protocols to follow is a bit hard and heavy since we are not used to it, hopefully this vaccine will help us and that little by little we can reach a new normal in which we find all the lost hugs and all the things that have not been done due to the sanitary conditions experienced up to now.
ResponderEliminarAntonio Fermín Carrascosa Megías 4ºA
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ResponderEliminarLast year had very few good things, but one of them is that we could stay with our family for a long time. Another good thing that has happened is that no one in my family got infected with the Covid virus. I hope this year they won´t get it either.
ResponderEliminarThe worst things last year is that we lived this global pandemic, the wild fires in the Amazonas rainforests, etc.
From all these mistakes we have learned to value the time with the people that we love, a simple walk, the liberty that we had to be able to go out when we wanted,etc.
RAQUEL PEINADO TORRES 4ºA
This 2020 we have had a very bad time, not only because of the appearance of the coronavirus, very bad things have also happened, for example in January Kobe Bryant died, in March the quarantine began and we were locked up in our homes for three months. For some people the quarantine was fine, but there were many other people risking their lives, unemployed hoteliers, etc.
ResponderEliminarMany people have lost their job, or have kept their job, my father continued working and that was what kept us, but with the risk of being exposed to the virus. My uncle and aunt had coronavirus but luckily it was mild.
Anyway, I just hope that 2021 is better than 2020 for me and others.
Rocio Avellanedas Nocete 2°ESO A
2020 has changed our lives a lot in every way.
ResponderEliminarOne of the things about the pandemic is that people have learned to value things that before we didn’t give importance.
For example go for a walk,see our grandparents and meet with our friends.
Members of my family were infected by COVID but luckily everyone is fine.
José Adrián González 4A
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ResponderEliminarNowadays, we are living a very complicated situation due to the coronavirus. The year 2020 has changed our lives in many ways. A recent study has shown that the Cononavisurs has not only brought us bad things, but has also brought us many good things. Have you ever thought about the positive things you have had this year?
ResponderEliminarOn the one hand, the biggest problem this year has been the Coronavirus, which is a disease caused by a new virus which had not been detected in humans before. This virus first appeared in China in December and affected many people around the world because it is very easy to transmit from one person to another person. However, the coronavirus has not been the only reason why this year has been very complicated for everyone, there have also been other very serious problems due to climate change. For example, at the beginning of the year there was a terrible wildfire in Australia that destroyed much of this territory and many animal lives.
On the other hand, this year has made us appreciate small details and moments of life which were almost insignificant and now we have realized how lucky we were. For example, last year we could see both our friends and family but now we can’t because of the fear of infecting them with the coronavirus or the distance that the government did not allow us to transfer to another province or even to another municipality. Therefore, now that we can’t see them, we miss those people that we used to see every day as our grandparents.
Last but not least, we must be aware of the difficult year we have passed. Although not everyone has had the same difficulties. For example, there are many people who have lost their job or even a family member from whom they have not even been able to fire.
Taking all into account, not only do I hope that this year will be better in every way, but I also hope that this year all the population is vaccinated and the coronavirus will not be a problem in this way.
The year 2020 for the whole world has been disastrous since there have been many problems around the world, controversies, fights, fires and the biggest problem of all has been the coronavirus but at the same time we can say that it not only brought us bad things, There have also been good things that we have to take into account.
ResponderEliminarOn the one hand, we mean that this year has been bad due to the coronavirus, it is a virus that reached our visas more than a year ago and that has changed the lives of everyone, not being able to leave home by having to You wear a mask and not being able to give hugs and affection to the people we love.
On the other hand, it brings us good things such as realizing the things that we have and did not value in the absence of COVID such as going for a walk, watching the sunset with your friends and spending more time with family.
The year 2020 for the whole world has been disastrous since there have been many problems around the world, controversies, fights, fires and the biggest problem of all has been the coronavirus but at the same time we can say that it not only brought us bad things, There have also been good things that we have to take into account.
ResponderEliminarThis 2020 we have had a very bad time, not only because of the appearance of the coronavirus, very bad things have also happened, for example in January Kobe Bryant died, in March the quarantine began and we were locked up in our homes for three months. My uncle and aunt had coronavirus but luckily it was mild.
Álvaro Molina Martín 4ºA
ResponderEliminarThe year 2020 was very difficult since it was the year of the global pandemic by covid-19. There were many negative aspects, such as not being able to leave the house, constantly using hydroalcoholic gel, having to wear a mask, not being able to interact, thousands of deaths, teleworking.....On the other hand there were good things like knowing how to value the simplest things like seeing that our grandparents are healthy
and other relatives and to be able to leave freely. Thanks to the vaccines, this situation has completely changed, returning to normal.
Antonio González Lozano