Keeping us alive

This fire, this desire to live... or just the love for our lover, relatives, friends... is keeping us alive and is making us fight day after day in these tough conditions.

 

 

The DIY diabetes kit that's keeping us alive (BBC News)

Blood tales: the magic liquid that keeps us alive (The Guardian)

 

   Here's a song by Jonathan Roy:   Keeping Me Alive 

 

 

 

Some activities for you to do:    

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  Listening exercise for you to do: Working for yourself   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• English in a Minute:   4 ways to use 'LIKE'   (BBC Learning English)

• The English We Speak : Workation   (BBC Learning English) 
  

 

Here are a couple of interesting articles about cybersecurity and your data on the web (Nightfall): 

• 5 Tips for Building a Culture of Security Among Remote Employees  

• 4 Most Common Types of Cybersecurity Threats  

 

 

 

Here are some projects by our students:

• Project about Jane Eyre by Aroa Bolaños (2º Bach A)

• Project about Jane Eyre by Ana Muñoz (2º Bach A)

 

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• Episode 210210 / 10 February 2021    >>>  Roller-skating making a comeback -    Language related to 'new hobbies'.  Need-to-know language: challenge, switch off, craze, life's too short & captivated.

 

Nadal is still alive at the Australian Open:

 

 

Top 5 shots - Day 8 | Australian Open 2021 - Highlights | Tennis | Eurosport

 

 

Wild wolves not to be hunted in Spain any more!!

 

 The hunting of wild wolves is to be banned at last!!! This was a wish Dr Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente had long, long time ago. But who was this great man?

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, the Spanish David Attenborough

 

Some videos about this great man, who was a naturalist and broadcaster (in Spanish):

• Félix el último héroe 

• Some scenes with wolves filmed by him
  

• El hombre y la tierra: Capítulo 55 - El lobo | RTVE Archivo

 

 

 

Wolves 101 | Nat Geo Wild

 

Valley of the Wolves | Awesome Animals

 

There has always been a controversy between those people protecting these wild animals and those people affected by the attacks of the wolves on their herds of sheep, cattle... and that is the main issue of this new law. 

 

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

 

• Would we all be better off living with wolves? (The Guardian)
  

• The mystery of Spain’s dead wolves (El País)
  

• Return of the wolf haunts Spanish farmers (The Irish Times)
  

• The Spanish 'wolf man' who survived 12 years  in the wild (BBC News) Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja: Did this man live with wolves?
  

• Harmless or vicious hunter? The uneasy return of Europe's wolves (The Guardian)
  

 

Some activities for you to do:    

• A word to describe an experimental project : Moonshot   (The English We Speak, BBC Learning English)

• News Review:   INDIA: flood in Himalayas   (BBC Learning English)

• New English expression : I'll send him packing   (BBC Learning English) What does 'to roast someone' mean? 

 

mmmEnglish shows us How To Create More Confidence [& Stop Being Shy]

 

 

 

   Here's a nordic lullaby:   The Wolf Song (with English subtitles) 

 

 

Nadal is back in Australia playing the Australian Open, but also another great young Spanish tennis player:

Carlos Alcaraz: Spain’s Next Nadal? | Trans World Sport

 

Whatever will be, will be

 

Tough times to live. Many of our students are still kept confined in their homes either because they have tested Coronavirus positive or just because they have been in contact with someone who has tested positive.

With our BEATING COVID-19 page in our site and some online classes we are all trying to lessen the effects of this lockdown, but we need our students' effort to overcome this situation successfully.

What's the opposite of the verb 'to lessen'? What word does it come from? What does the expression 'Whatever will be, will be' in Spanish?

 

 

 

Let's start going through some interesting phrases to learn about COVID-19 pandemic:  

Contact tracing  ,   Flatten the curve   ,  New normal   ,    Living in a bubble

 

   I came across this old song and I thought it would be quite suitable for the situation we are going through. Just below we have a version with the lyrics. Pay attention to them and make a comment about the message given. Here's my musical hint in its  original version (film scene)  

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Listening exercise for you to do : Can a woollen hat really keep you warm?   (BBC Learning English) Where does 'woolen' come from? Can you give other examples?
  

• English in a Minute:   4 PHRASAL VERBS for clothes (and accessories)   (BBC Learning English)

• News Review : Myanmar: Military takes control   (BBC Learning English) What does 'to roast someone' mean?

• BBC Master Class: Using stative verbs in the continuous form (BBC Learning English)
  

  
  

 

mmmEnglish: Perfect Your English Grammar | Stative Verbs & Continuous Tenses ❌

 

 

 

 

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