The V- Day came and Covid vaccines have started to be administered at hospitals in the UK. In a few days' time we will also begin here in Spain, as well as in most European countries. Is it the light at the end of this long dark tunnel?
Related articles for you to read about the issue:
Covid vaccine: UK woman becomes first in world to receive Pfizer jab (The Guardian)
Covid-19 vaccine: First person receives Pfizer jab in UK (BBC News)
And the latest about the pandemic:
Covid: Ireland, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK (BBC News)
And this is what this elderly lady said after being vaccinated: "Go for it. It's free .... If I can do it, so can you". Now we will have to keep alert to see its possible side effects.
Good news now that Christmas is coming. Here's a song by Train: Shake Up Christmas (version with lyrics)
REVISION FOR Bachillerato
161. TENSES. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense. Some are active, some are passive. Then fill in the dotted gaps (....) with appropriate words.
Reuters News Agency
Martin Webb (1)____________ (work) for the Reuters News Agency (a) ............. ten years. He describes the company.
'Reuters is one (b) .............. the world's biggest news agencies. It (2) ____________ (supply) news and stock market prices to media world. It (3) _____________ (start) by Paul Reuter in 1849 - with pigeons! Reuter (4) _______________ (be born) in 1816 in Germany. During the 1840s he (5) _______________ (employ) as a bank clerk in Berlin. German bankers (6)______________ (need) to know the prices on the Paris stock exchange, but the French telegraph system only went as far as Belgium. From there the information (7) _______________ (send) to Germany (c) .............. train. The journey (8) _______________ (take) nine hours. The same information (9) ______________ (carry) by Paul Reuter's pigeons in only two hours!
Reuters (10) _______________ (change) a lot (d) .................. those days. Over the past fifty years, we've opened offices in many different countries - and we (11) ____________ still ____________ (expand). Now, news and stock market prices (12) _________________ (send) all over the world within seconds.'
162. Look at the previous text again and do what you are asked:
1. Define 'pigeons' __________________________________________________________
2. Find a word in the text for the following definition: "a person whose job is to do written work or look after records or accounts in an office, bank, court of law, etc. ___________
163. TENSES. Think about last school term and write sentences with the clues given imagining it is Tuesday. 22nd December, that is to say, right at the of the term:
1. Albert / tell / us / to work every day __________________________________________
2. We / have/ only one exam / before our term exams.
_____________________________________________________________________
3. The TENSES exercise / be / really difficult for us
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4. One day / we / not bring / a composition / Albert / tell us / to do / so / he / get / furious with us
___________________________________________________________________________
5. One day / we / talk / about Maths / when / Albert / come / into the classroom
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164. PRONUNCIATION. Cross out the silent letters in the following words:
LISTEN TALK WRITE KNIFE
165. Insert the second sentences into the first ones by means of RELATIVE CLAUSES:
1. The new teacher is called Albert. We are having him for English this year.
2. Albert comes every day at 8.30 sharp. He has to feed his baby before school.3. Where is the department store? Your father works there.
4. My father works in El Corte Inglés. It is in Granada.
5. Who is the girl? Last Monday you were talking with her in the pub.
166. Follow-up questions. Write questions asking for further information. (Do not use YES/NO QUESTIONS).
1. We had a wonderful meal in that restaurant. __________________________________?
2. My family has paid a lot of money for our new house. _________________________________ ?
3. My uncle had a wonderful holiday. _____________________________________________ ?
4. My job is really interesting. ________________________________________ ?
5. Joan is writing a letter. ____________________________________________ ?
6. I'm going to the cinema tonight. ________________________________________ ?
167. Change the following sentences into the PASSIVE VOICE ( one of them has got two possibilities, so write it at the end)
1. Millions of people use Internet nowadays.
2. Albert must cook lunch for his baby every day.
3. A police car is following that green van.
4. How many times did the children break this window last year?
5. Nobody asked John a lot of questions.
168. Say what you do when you do not do something yourself.
1. Your mother wants you to paint the house, but you can't paint it yourself, .....
so you ________________________________________________________
2. Some students don't like doing English homework,....
so they ________________________________________________________
169. Translate the following sentences into English:
1. Se beben milliones de latas de Coca-Cola todos los días.
2. ¿Cómo crees que es la vida de una monja? Quizás un poco aburrida, pero interesante también.
3. El no quería que nadie viera su nuevo coche.
4. Ellos finalmente entendieron lo que su padre había querido decir.
5. "Creo que al bebé le gusta mucho aprender inglés porque está muy interesado en buscar palabras en tu nuevo diccionario", le dijo la madre al padre.
Some other activities for you to do:
The English We Speak: Contact tracing (BBC Learning English)
You must not confuse these words: Luggage or Baggage? Complex or complicated? Beside or Besides? (English with Lucy)
English in a Minute: ALONE vs LONELY (BBC Learning English)
News Review: BREXIT: Deal or no deal? (BBC Learning English)
LINGOHACK >>>
- Episode 201216 / 16 December 2020 >>> Tackling a tide of plastic - Language related to
'helping the planet'. Need-to-know language: the final straw, strong sign, responsability, functioning & trajectory.
What a damned year! Again another great legend, the Italian football player Paolo Rossi has passed away.
Football's Greatest Series Documentary >> Paolo Rossi (and 1982 final WC Italy - Germany FR 3:1)
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ResponderEliminarIn 2019 in China a virus called coronavirus was discovered. At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, the virus entered Spain, in March we were confined since many people began to be infected and the infections could not be controlled or stopped.
ResponderEliminarThe coronavirus has affected many people in just one year.
This year has been a very different year, for example there has been no Easter, summer and Christmas have been different since there are Restrictions, security measures and many other rules to try to stop and control infections.
Thanks to expert scientists from different parts of the world they have been working very hard to find a vaccine that can fight the coronavirus and the Covid vaccines have arrived on time and seem to be effective. A 90-year-old British woman has become the first patient of the world to receive Pfizer Covid-19.
Older people will be vaccinated first, people who work in hospitals ...
In conclusion, the vaccine to combat Covid-19 has arrived, they are already vaccinating older people.
In the news they say they will vaccinate in stages, in 3 stages.
Paolo Rossi was born in Santa Lucia on September 23, 1956 and died on December 9, 2020. He was an Italian striker. The mark in the 1982 FIFA World Championship, scored 6 goals, to win the golden boot as the best player of the tournament. He was 1 m and 74 cm tall, He was very tall. He had long dark black hair. Abel Martinez Padilla 2ndA
ResponderEliminarIt is a fact that Coronavirus has affected thousands of people in the world. Restrictions, security measures and many other rules have banned a lot of people move with normality. But fortunately Covid vaccines have arrived on time and they seem to be effective.
ResponderEliminarIn the last months scientists from different parts of the world have been working very hard in order to find a vaccine that can fight the coronavirus. It has been a long and difficult way both for those who have worked day and night to achieve it and for us who have looked forward to this end. A 90-year-old Uk woman has become the first patient in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19. In addition, the vaccine is expected to reach all cities and towns in Spain soon.
On the other hand, a new variant of Covid-19 has been discovered in United kingdom. This latest news has put this country on alert and has made them take more drastic measures such a the closing of borders or stronger restrictions during the Christmas period for millions of people. The new Covid-19 variant is known to be up to 70 percent more transmissible, although the OMS says there is no evidence that the new variant is more deadly or reacts differently to vaccines.
In conclusion, the new vaccine has come to stay and they have already been administered in many hospitals in the Uk, and with a little luck they will be in Spain and in other European countries very soon.
Paolo Rossi was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Thanks to him and his six goals, Italy got to win the World Cup in Spain in 1982. Also in this World Cup he won the golden boot as the top scorer and the golden ball with the best player. For me Paolo Rossi was a skilled and fast player, he could be compared with Vieri who has more goals in the Italian team. But from what I have seeen Paolo Rossi will be more remembered.
ResponderEliminarHe was a great player who will always be remembered for how decisive he was.
Alejandro Venegas Mancilla 2ºA
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ResponderEliminarCole Sprouse is a famous actor. He is 28 years old, he is tall (1.82). His girlfriend was Lili Reinhart. They both appeared on my favorite series, Riverdale. He was born in Italy, and he is one of my favorite actors
ResponderEliminarRocío Avellanedas Nocete 2°ESO A
In November 2019, in the Chinese country a new strange illness was discovered, coronavirus was called due to its shape if we look through a microscope.
ResponderEliminarStarting in 2020, we didn’t expect what was going to happen. In March, the situation in Spain was uncontrollable. The Coronavirus was in all of Spain, we hadn’t the necessary resources to fight against it. The number of infected didn’t stop increasing as well as the number of deceased. Spanish government banned going out to the street, only to shop the necessary and the people who had to work. We were locked down, stay at home, they told us. Four months later we were allowed to go out, but now with new rules.
All the celebrations from this time have been very strange. Summer without festivities, Christmas without family, and January without parades. But it can change. Now, we have a vaccine or being a little more specific, vaccines. In Spain two different vaccines have been marketed by Pfizer and Moderna companies.
In my opinion, vaccination can be a good option, but always having in mind that it has dangers.
Paolo Rossi was a good player, one of the best Italians along with Andrea Pirlo and Gianluigi Buffon. Paolo Rossi played for Juventus, for AC Milan. He won the World Cup in Spain in 1982, he died at the age of sixty-four.
ResponderEliminarOliver Lozano 2ºA
Paolo Rossi was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Thanks to him and his six goals, Italy got to win the World Cup in Spain in 1982. Also in this World Cup he won the golden boot as the top scorer and the golden ball with the best player. For me Paolo Rossi was a skilled and fast player, he could be compared with Vieri who has more goals in the Italian team.
ResponderEliminarBut from what I have seeen Paolo Rossi will be more remembered. He was a great player who will always be remembered for how decisive he was. Around a year ago, a strange virus appeared in China and they called coronavirus by its form, at first it was not dangerous and had it under control but in a short time, all Chinese were infected and quickly solved the problem but spread to Italy, where people could not control it and in a short time I arrived in Spain, where it was much more aggravated. Many people lost their jobs and Spain has a big crisis, you could not work because of quarantine and now they are closing some premises because of the accumulation of people.
Álvaro Molina Martín 4ºA
In mid-2019, a virus appears in China that we all think that it would not be so much at the beginning of 2020 the virus spread everywhere, before the end of the 2nd quarter of this year due to a very critical situation of covid-19 they lock us up for a long time stopping the whole country until everything started to go better, but almost control. And all the countries were getting vaccines and given these good results and thus being sent by all countries to start vaccinating from the oldest to now people my age. I hope this will end soon and finally I begin to see it end.
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