Sparking your interest (QUARANTINE: DAY 66)

 

I always try to spark your interest by introducing you to topics you may want to know about, but as you'll see now I don't need any electricity to do it!

 

 

Here's a listening exercise for you about 'ELECTRICITY'  >>>> Electricity facts to spark your interest!!! (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

So how would we translate the expression 'to spark your interest' into Spanish?

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  42

Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%) at least once during the quarantine, but only 40% of them are really working!!!!

Comments written and corrected:    more than 700

Emails exchanged: more than 3600

PASEN announcements & messages:   almost 2600

Things handed in and corrected: almost 1800

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: almost 19,000 (Average of 250 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    18  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 7 online exams) and several individual online tutorials

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Wednesday, 20^th May

Homework for today:

• Do exercises on page 92 (Unit 7).

   

  Have a look at the song below by Pharrell Williams, especially the version with lyrics and try to see what it means.

Here are some things to do based on the OLD THAT'S ENGLISH episodes you have watched these previous days:

1. You are the waiter. How do you offer a customer a table?

2. You are the customer. How do you ask the waiter for the menu?

3. You are the waiter. How do you ask the customer what they want to eat?

4. Tell me STARTERS in the menu.

5. Tell me MAIN COURSES in the menu.

6. Tell me DESSERTS in the menu.

7. Tell me DRINKS in the menu.

8. You are the customer. How do you ask the waiter for the bill?

 

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Today there's no homework for fake students who did fake exams:

• As a result of massive cheating in the exams we did on Thursday and, especially, on Monday, the results in the fake exams done by the fake students (mainly those who cheated) the results in them have been invalidated and a note to the parents has been published in PASEN.

   

  Here's the original message sent to the families through PASEN >>>

   

           Me dirijo a las familias para comunicarles que, dado el alto índice de anomalías en los exámenes (especialmente el del lunes), se anulan tales exámenes por no haber actuado la mayoría de los alumnos con un mínimo de honestidad. Probablemente pagarán justos por pecadores, pero en estas circunstancias es imposible. Por tanto, la calificación final se hará conforme a lo que se ha dictaminado por las autoridades educativas: tener en cuenta las 2 primeras evaluaciones y mejorar tal calificación si es posible conforme al trabajo realizado durante la cuarentena.
   

          Reciban un cordial saludo y MUCHA SALUD PARA TOD@S!!!

   

I just ask the students to carry out a reflection on what they did and the hard times we are going through.

 

Let's revise with mmmEnglish the Prepositions of  PLACE 👉 IN / ON / AT / BY

 

 

Here's the second song connected with FREEDOM I present you. This one is by Pharrell Williams:

Pharrell Williams - Freedom (Video)

....and here are the lyrics!!

Another basking shark seen in Motril  (Newspaper El Ideal) >>>>

Un tiburón sorprende a los pasajeros de una embarcación frente al Puerto de Motril en Videos

FREEDOM!!! (QUARANTINE: DAY 64)

 

TENTH WEEK OF LOCKDOWN and at last we got to phase 1!!! We still cannot do much, but at least we can move around the province without any problems. So I can visit you in Itrabo, Salobreña, Molvizar, La Caleta or even in Los Guajares!!!

 

 

You will understand now how important FREEDOM is. This week we'll be having several songs connected with this topic. Pay attention to the lyrics. The first one is by George Michael:

 

 

George Michael - Freedom! with lyrics  

 

 

Important piece of news about the Official Language School and about dates to register and exams for freelance students  >>>>

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  40

Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%) at least once during the quarantine, but only 40% of them are really working!!!!

Comments written and corrected:    more than 700

Emails exchanged: nearly 3500

PASEN announcements & messages:   almost 2500

Things handed in and corrected: more than 1500

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: more than 18,000 (Average of 250 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    17  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 4 online exams) and several individual online tutorials

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Monday, 18^th May

1º ESO

Tasks for today:

• Unit 7 (page 91) >> Exercises 6-9. Send me your answers to the listening exercise (exercises 8 & 9)

• Read the text on page 92 and look up all the words you don't know in the dictionary.

  And tomorrow we will be correcting the exam in our online class!!!

Here are the solution to the Listening exercise on page 78:

Exercise 5 -   Vampire bats can help people with health problems.

Exercise 6 - 

1. They are mammals.      2. Bats prefer countries with warm weather.     3. and some live in trees.
4. can catch 1,200 bats.      5. don't drink people's blood.

Exercise 7 -

1. They can fly.       2. They help trees grow.

and exercise 3 on page 85:

1. You wear them in your hands when it's cold, especially in winter.

2. It is an animal with four legs. It lives in a farm. You can ride on it.

3. You wear it in your head when you ride your motorbike or bicycle to protect you.
4. They are a kind of shoes. You wear them in the summer time.
5. It is a ship. You live in it.
6. An athletic person loves doing sport.
7. You use a racket to play tennis, to hit the ball.
8. It is a long reptile. A python is a snake.
9. (across) It is a place full of sand. There aren't any trees, grass or lakes. There isn't any water.
(down) It is a sport. You do it in the see. You jump and get into the water to see the fish.
10. It is a popular sport in Spain. You play it with a ball and two teams of 11 players each. Messi plays this sport.
11. It is the animal with the longest neck in the world. It lives in the jungle.

4º ESO  

There is only online class for students in levels 4 / 5 as we will be correcting the exam they did on Thursday.

However, if you have any doubt, you can join in the class and ask me.

  CLASS    (<<<Click here)

Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound. Today we will be correcting Unit 8 in our session: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/55c766d756b946bd8cf62f7443269e0b

 

Here are the links to the exams (you'll have to send me your exams by 11 a.m.):

• Exam:     EXAMEN DE MÍNIMOS    

• Exam for Inés Cruz, Abraham & Sara Rodríguez   Examen de PENDIENTES    
  

 

ONE language, THREE accents - UK vs. USA vs. AUS English!

 

 

 

 

1º Bach     CLASS      (<<<Click here)

Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound.

 

Today we will start revising from 11 a.m. to 13 a.m. RELATIVE CLAUSES & REPORTED SPEECH, apart from finishing the PASSIVE VOICE & CONDITIONAL SENTENCES in our session, whose link is, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c32436f87fda4ceea41aa7897f70a93b

 

Here are the solutions to the Listening exercises on page 102:

Exercise 1 - 

Symptoms are any feeling of illness, or any physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease.

Anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about sth. that is going to happen in the future.

Rush is to go or to do sth. very quickly.

Exercise 2 - 

She is going to talk about the main symptoms of exam stress and some easy things you can do to reduce stress.

Exercise 3 -

The main symptoms of stress, How to look after your body & What to do on exam day

Exercise 4 -   A   C   B    B   C

Exercise 5 -   

1. You may also find it difficult to wake up in the mornings, or have problems sleeping at night.

2. What's more, you could be having problems concentrating and lose focus quickly.

3. You might have answered the questions really well.

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200513 / 13 May 2020    >>>  Our plastic ocean (Plastic in the oceans)  Record levels of microplastics discovered on the ocean seabed -    Language related to 'plastic pollution'.  Need-to-know language: accumulation, flushed, breaks down, fragments & fragile.

FULL VERSION 1981 - Borg vs Lendl - French Open Roland Garros

 

NATURE IS SPEAKING!!!

Spain: Civil Guard spots eight-metres-long shark off coast of Granada

Wild life taking over cities (QUARANTINE: DAY 19)

 

A shark at Calahonda beach (Newspaper: El Ideal)!!

El vídeo de un gran tiburón en la playa de Calahonda en Videos

Now that humans have abandoned the streets of our cities, towns and villages, wildlife is taking over. Isn't it bizarre to see wild goats strolling around the city centre? People had never seen the water of the canals in Venice so clean and clear in their whole lives!!

 

Just amazing!!!!   Wild horses taking over skiing tracks in Sierra Nevada!!!   Link to the piece of news (IDEAL: El espectacular vídeo de unos caballos salvajes tomando las pistas de Sierra Nevada)

 

Wild comes marching back while humans kept at bay

 

When Humans Are Sheltered in Place, Wild Animals Will Play (The New York Times)

 

House sparrows flocking back to British gardens, survey shows (The Guardian)

 

Coronavirus: Venice canals clearer after lockdown  (BBC News)

Have you noticed changes to wildlife due to the UK lockdown? (The Guardian)

 

Breaking news   >>>>   These are no fake news!!!   The Official Language School has cancelled the period of registration for the freelance students for the B1 and B2 exams!!!! I'll let you know when the registration time is open.

US death rates v UK, Italy and South Korea - BBC News

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  16

Students participating:  about 65 out of 110 (60%)

Comments written and corrected: 450

Emails exchanged: more than 800

PASEN announcements & messages: almost 1500

Things handed in and corrected: around 400

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: more than 4,500 (Average of 300 visits per day)

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Friday, 3^rd April

No homework for today as we have no classes on Fridays. 

 

 

 

Study for the exam (first 7 units) that we will do after Easter. It will probably be on Tuesday and I will give you 2 hours to do it and send it to me. You will write the answers (handwriting) and send me photographs or scanned images of them.

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These are the tasks for today: 

• Do this exercise about the difference between TOO & ENOUGH: Exercise on TOO & ENOUGH 

• Unit 7 (Smart Planet 4)    >>>   page 80   , and start having a look at unit 8.

• Writing exercise for you to do based on what you learned on page 79    >>>>>   

   

Wr13: Ejercicio de producción escrita sobre el tema: "Describing a celebration" teniendo como referencia lo visto en la página 79. No se olviden de utilizar lo visto en la lección, además del TOO & ENOUGH.

 

Listening exercise for you to do:  Music with a smaller carbon footprint- Touring bands and climate change   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

 

 

 

No homework for today as we have no classes on Fridays. 

 

 

 

Final musical hint  >>>>

 

Bobby Charles - See You Later Alligator

 

 

See You Later, Alligator (w/lyrics) ~ Bill Haley & His Comets

 

 

 

I wish you all the best for the coming Easter holidays no matter how long we have to stay at home as long as we are HEALTHY!