Spring into action before it is too late!!

In a bit more than a month we will be starting a new school year, there are still no movements from our students. What's the matter? Spring into action (Friday phrase, BBC Learning English) before it is too late. Remember you can write comments, hand in the Control Sheet of the compulsory readers we have got for next year...

Some activities for you to do: 

• News Review: Record oil profits  (BBC Learning English)
  

• Listening exercise for you to do:  When will the Covid-19 pandemic end?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)    

  

• Quizz on: Expressing purpose   (BBC Learning English)

• Frankenstein (Drama story) Episode 5:  The milk of human kindness  (BBC Learning English)

• English in a Minute:  STOP TO DO vs STOP DOING SOMETHING     (BBC Learning English)

 

   

Here's my musical hint for today: I feel for you by Chaka Khan, and pay attention to the harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder. Here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing and dance along!!

 

 

mmmEnglish shows us how to Practise Talking On The Phone In English: Call the Bank With Me!   

Notice all the words related to the semantic fields of BANKS.

 

 

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

Mind Your Language - Juan's hillarious mixup with fate/fete/fit  

 

 

 

Football:  Football’s Greatest International Teams - Netherlands 1974  

   

 

 

 

 

 

DART mission

There are times when fiction becomes reality and that is the case of the Dart mission. Here you've got an article for you to read to learn about what it really is:

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission (NASA)

 

and another one explaining the reasons why:

 

Dart mission: why is Nasa crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid? (The Guardian)

 

 

And here's "Armageddon", the film whose plot is similar to what it is really going to be done:

Armageddon - Official Trailer 

Another video related to the film: Armageddon - Shuttle Crash 

 

The original soundtrack of the film is my musical hint for today: I don't wanna miss a thing by Aerosmith and here are the lyrics, which I recommend you to have a look at. 

 

 

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• 6 Minute Vocabulary:   Weather words and MODAL VERBS   (BBC Learning English)

• News Review: Omicron: New Covid strain, new travel restrictions  (BBC Learning English)

• International Law : Who are the actors in international law?   (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise about you borrowing a person you wouldn’t usually meet for a half-hour candid conversation and learn what it is like to be in their shoes: The Human Library: Life as an open book (BBC Learning English)

 

* "if I were in your shoes" means, according to Cambridge Dictionary: used when you want to tell someone what you would do in their situation. For example, "If I were in your shoes, I think I'd write to her rather than try to explain over the phone".

 

Omicron variant in Europe earlier than thought - BBC News 

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

Episode 211201 / 01 December 2021    >>>  Dog rescue with a drone   -    Language related to 'seeing things'.  

Need-to-know language: thermal imaging, heat signatures, spot, the naked eye & jumps out.

 

 

TENNIS  >>>  Vintage Forest Hill

NASTASE-MC ENROE FOREST HILL 1978 

 

 

Slow, but where's the point in hurrying?

 

People may think I'm a slow learner, perhaps the world is going too fast, so where's the point in worrying if I get to my destination in time or I achieve my goals? However, what is the point in living a pointless life? A life without goals to achieve?

 

Listen to the song below and then: first, fill in the gaps in the first verse and, secondly, how would you translate the expression: "where's the point in + Verb in the -ing form"?

"Slow Learner"

People say '_______  _______  ________  __________?'
Or '________  ___________  ____________  _____________?'
I'm a slow learner
________  ___________  ____________  _____________
It's my way, has to be true
The world ________  ___________  ____________  _____________
But where you're concerned
________  ___________  ____________  _____________ to last
Where's the point in worrying
If we should start a little late
Where's the point in hurrying
When waiting feels so great?
I'm a slow burner
________  ___________  ____________  _____________ a while ago
I'm a slow learner
I do everything slow

Breaking news:

Covid: New variant classed 'of concern' and named Omicron (BBC News)

New UK Covid measures to be announced to tackle Omicron spread (The Guardian)

Omicron: What we know so far about the new COVID-19 variant | DW News

 

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• The English We Speak:   Another string to my bow   (BBC Learning English)

• News Review: Adele gets spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages  (BBC Learning English)

  

• International Law : Who are the actors in international law?   (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise for you to do: How green is nuclear energy? (BBC Learning English)

   

   

   

   
  

  

 

Here's my musical hint for today: Slow learner by Mark Knopfler and here are the lyrics, which I recommend you to have a look at. 

 

mmmEnglish talking about Zero and Real Conditionals, and when to use them

 

Project about  Jane Eyre  by José Corzo (2º Bach A)

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 211124 / 24 November 2021    >>>  Denmark's green hydrogen   -    Language related to 'energy'.  

  Need-to-know language: renewable, clean fluel, plant, grid & fossil fluel.

Back to school!!

Tomorrow we will be back to school and the new school year is just about to start. I wish you all a safe year full of luck and success!!!

 

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Breaking news!!! I have just learned that María González (2º Bach) has passed her B1 exam at the Official Language School (EOI)

Some articles for you to read about the return to schools:

• How do we keep schools open? What if my kid hates masks? Parents’ questions answered (The Guardian)
  

• Back to school: How are pupils being kept Covid-safe? (BBC News)
  

• Prepare for back-to-school Covid surge, Sage experts warn (The Guardian)
  

• Millions of pupils return to school amid Covid spike concern (BBC)

 

Here's my musical hint for today:  Go to School, back to school , the perfect song to begin our school year:

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Upper-intermediate grammar reference:   PASSIVE reporting structures   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• English in a Minute:   STEAL vs ROB    (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise for you to do: Is technology harmful to youngsters?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• Drama, Father and Son : Episode 8: Was it suicide?    (BBC Learning English) 

  
  

   

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

Episode 210901 / 01 September 2021    >>>  'Paintings' for people with visual impairment   -    Language related to 'senses'.  

Need-to-know language: texture, contrast, tactile, sighted & triggers.

 

 

News Review:   Emma Raducanu wins US Open    (BBC Learning English)

 

US Open 2021: Daniil Medvedev vs Novak Djokovic Highlights 

 

 

Boys' Singles Final | Juncheng Shang vs Daniel Rincon Highlights | 2021 US Open

Time to open up ?

It is time to open up and start forgetting about all the hard times we have been through: pandemics, school, exams, restrictions..., but there's no need to rush when there are still a lot of people to be vaccinated.

 

English in the News: Covid: Is the EU opening up? (BBC Learning English)

 

Related article for you to read:

EU plans to reopen to fully Covid-vaccinated foreign tourists from June (The Guardian)

 

Here's my musical hint to rock the night when  things get back to normal: Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode"   and here's a version with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. And now let's a movie clip from the film Back to the Future where Michael J. Fox... 

 

 

and also with the lyrics for you to sing and dance along!!!

 

Some activities for you to do:  

 

• British Chat:  What was your first kiss like?  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute:    5 Ways to use HARD (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise for you to do: Hermits   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• English in the News: Long working hours kill 745,000 people a year, study finds   (BBC Learning English)

Vintage tennis: Rafael Nadal: Most Dominating Tournament Ever (French Open 2008) 

 

 

Vintage NBA basketball: Top 10 Magic Johnson Plays. 

 

 

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 210519 / 19 May 2021    >>>  Dark Sky Reserves -    Language related to 'working from home'.  Need-to-know language: struggling, aberration,  splitting, hybrid & through the roof.

 

 

We're all a family at IES Mediterráneo!!!

Tough moments for everybody at school, both students and teachers!!! But remember we're all a family at IES Mediterraneo with the same goal: DO OUR BEST!!! 

 

Having this goal in mind and due the COVID protocol, we are all in the need of a quieter world, as you will see below. Remember what happened to nature when our cities went silent during the lockdown.

 

 

My musical hint for this long weekend: Sister Sledge - "We Are Family"  (1979)  and here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along:

 

 

Some activities for you to do:  

 

• English in the News:  INDIA COVID: Hospitals overwhelmed  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute:    How be polite in English GIVING OPINIONS AND TALKING ABOUT MISTAKES (BBC Learning English)
  

• A listening exercise for you to do: A quieter world   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• News Review: Nomadland wins at the Oscars   (BBC Learning English)

 

Some articles for you to read about the issue:

 

• India Covid: Hospitals overwhelmed as deaths pass 200,000 (BBC News)
  

• As COVID-19 floods India’s hospitals, the better-off also scramble for care (Reuters)
  

• ‘The system has collapsed’: India’s descent into Covid hell (The Guardian)
  

 

 

With regard to the need for a quieter world, especially in Spain and at our school, here are some interesting articles for you to read:

 

Pandemic made 2020 ‘the year of the quiet ocean’, say scientists (The Guardian)

 

'The bliss of a quiet period': lockdown is a unique chance to study the nature of cities (The Guardian)

 

Lockdown 'silence' reveals mesmerizing sounds (CNN Travel)

 

Will the world be quieter after the pandemic? (BBC News)

Windows to the sea (Ventanas al mar ): Some stunning drawings done by our students!!!

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 210428 / 28 April 2021    >>>  The reconstruction of Notre Dame -    Language related to 'reconstruction'.  Need-to-know language: dismantling, mangled, rafters, sprouted & contemporary.