This weather is driving us crazy!!

 

Are we really already in autumn? I don't think so. When I see the beaches full of people swimming and sunbathing I wonder when we used to look for chestnuts in the forests and the days were getting colder and colder, greyer and greyer.

 

 

Extreme weather conditions continues across Europe (Euronews)

Extreme weather wreaks havoc in Europe (DW)

Flooding claims lives in Spain after record rainfall - BBC News

 

 

Here are some activities for you to do:

• News Review: COVID vaccine scientists win Nobel  (BBC Learning English)

• 

  Listening exercise for you to do: Can we save dead languages?  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• English in a Minute: Ways to use 'PURPOSE'  (BBC Learning English)

• Learn how to speak naturally:  How to point out the positive  (BBC Learning English)

 

mmmEnglish gives us a small talk tip:  How to introduce yourself to someone new!     

 

Activities on the PRESENT SIMPLE/CONTINUOUS for my students.....

• in 2º ESO:  ACTIVITIES  
  

• in 3º ESO:  ACTIVITIES  
  

Getting ready for Bachillerato.....

183. EVERYDAY ENGLISH

A. Write questions for these answers (pay attention to the words underlined) :

1. _____________________________________ ? They were singing 'Yesterday'.

2. _____________________________________ ? Because she didn't pass the English exam.

3. _____________________________________ ? I talked with your teachers.           

B. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. ¿Me puedes ayudar a encontrar mi libro? ________________________________________

2. Yo no tengo que limpiar mi cuarto, pero generalmente hago mi cama.  _____________________

3.  Muchos alumnos no han terminado todavía el examen.  ___________________________________

4. Ella quiere comprarse un diccionario porque es muy útil para inglés.  _________________

5. Mañana tenemos un examen de geografía. (en eso quedamos con la profesora la semana pasada)  ______________

Answers to exercises in previous post.....

181. VOCABULARY.  A supermarket is a big place where you can buy your food.  //  A hospital is a building where doctors and nurses work.   //   Birds are animals that can fly.  //  Vampires are people who take blood from other people at night.

182. READING & COMPREHENSION.    1. He has lived there for ten years.  2. No, they didn't.    3. They had a fancy dress party.   4. No, he hasn't.   5. He'll stay there for two months.

 

 

   

Here's my musical hint for today: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan. You can have a look at the lyrics in this version with lyrics.

 

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

 Learn English with the Italian plumber SUPER MARIO movie 

 

 

It is not just climate change, IT IS CLIMATIC EMERGENCY!!!

Next week Madrid will be holding the next climate summit (United Nations Climate Change - December 2019), which should have been hosted by Chile. 

 

Madrid to host UN climate summit after Chile pulls out (The Guardian)

 

 

It is not just climate change what our world has to face, but also a climatic emergency as things are getting worse and worse at such an incredible speed that it might be too late if we don't take action as soon as we can.

 

 

We can make a change ourselves >>>  "Politics plays a big role in the advancement of economics and greatly impacts the environment, technology, and society in general, and this is why we aim to help the world make a better place starting with encouraging healthy political views and ideals. " (ChangeRoots ) Here's an interesting article for you to read: 3 Ways to Make a Difference: Changing The World With Political Awareness

 

Some articles for you to read about CLIMATE EMERGENCY:

• 'Our house is on fire': EU parliament declares climate emergency (The Guardian)

• Climate change: What is a climate emergency? (BBC News)

• 11,000 scientists warn of 'untold suffering' caused by climate change (CNN)

 

Remember the problems derived from the melting of the permafrost:

• The poisons released by melting Arctic ice - BBC Future

• Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted | Environment | The Guardian

 

 

And there are people who have already found some solutions to the problem. For example, here's an example of a Scottish firm who uses sea water or the case of some scientists who have provoked a snowstorm:

• Startup helps Scottish farmers grow gourmet plants with sea water (The Guardian)

• Cooking with seawater – is it the best way to season food? (The Guardian)

• Manmade Antarctic snowstorm 'could save coastal cities from rising seas' (The Guardian)

• Seawater Solutions is tackling agriculture's impact on climate change (The National)  

• Cultivation of barren land with seawater is an idea worth its salt (The Herald)

• Seawater Solutions Scotland  

 

 

Growing Crops in the Desert with Seawater | Freethink

 

6 Minute Vocabulary: Job suffixes  (BBC Learning English)

English with Lucy    >>>  9 RULES OF ARTICLES - A, AN, THE or 'THEE' ? - Use and pronounce correctly every time!

 

 

Stories for Children >>> Nell's books (BBC Learning English)

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 191127 / 27 November 2019    >>>  Mapping the dead (How tech is finding lost graves):   Language related to 'burial'.  Need-to-know language: resting place, headstones, grave, cemetery and decay.