UBI - Universal Basic Income is demanded! (QUARANTINE: DAY 53)

Most people without a job are having problems getting through this quarantine, but also people with jobs depending on the consumption of others, for instance owners of bars, restaurants, hotels, clothes shops... So a universal basic income is needed more than ever! Due to globalization, our economic system has become increasingly fragile.

However, this should be a temporary situation as people need to save money to buy houses, to travel... A century ago, with the previous pandemia, the Spanish flu, no economic crisis came afterwards, but this will not be the case as, apart from the health crisis, we already have a world of misery ahead with a huge economical crisis, added to the ecological crisis we already had. It could be a tale of doom if there isn't a collective action. And so, the solution could be the UBI (Universal Basic Income).

Consumerism will no longer be a problem as we will have to

spend our money properly and, therefore, recycling and reusing will be valid alternatives to just buy new items. As well, we will try to repair or mend items instead of just buying new ones. And we will have found a way out for our ecological crisis. Our cities are already cleaner and there is not so much polution.

We'll get through this pandemia and subsequent crisis in the end!!

 

 

Coronavirus and the Case for UBI | WIRED UK

 

 

Some related articles for you to read:

• Basic income of £48 a week in UK urged (BBC News)

• Has the time come for a universal basic income? (The Guardian)

• Finland basic income trial left people 'happier but jobless' (BBC News)

 

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

Thursday, 7^th May

Homework for today:

• Study unit 6 and do exercises 1-11 on pages 151-152

• We will correct them on Tuesday in our online class.

• Further information about Comparatives >>>  Watch this: 

  MODULE 2    (Notes)  Unit 4   >>   Programmes    1  032  2   033   3   034 

 

Whose avatar is this?

 

 

  And this one??

Solution to yesterday's translation sentences: 

 

1. What does she look like? She is a tall slim dark-haired girl. (She's a tall slim girl with dark hair)

2. I'm looking for my daughter. She carries a small black bag and a parcel.

3. Is she wearing a green skirt and an orange blouse?

4. She is taller than Susan and John looks younger.

5. How tall is he? He is 1 m 80 cm tall.

 

NO HOMEWORK FOR TODAY!!!

 

 

 

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  HOMEWORK FOR TODAY:

Unit 8 - pages 102-103  

Read all the articles and watch the video above and make a glossary (the key words) about Universal Basic Income and send it to me, as this can be a possible topic for next year's Selectivity exam.

Ivan Lendl vs Mats Wilander 1987 French Open Final Highlights

 

We keep committing the same mistakes, perhaps because it's human nature??

Summer is a season of consumption and we tend to consume more than we produce. Actually, we have already consumed so far this year more natural resources than what the planet can regenerate. 

 

This is the first mistake humankind keeps committing forgetting the consequences for future generations.

The World Is Not Enough

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

• Humanity Has Officially Consumed More Than Earth Can Produce This Year (Forbes)

• Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life (The Guardian)

• Europe 'takes too much of Earth resources' (BBC News)

• We’re eating more than we’re producing (CNN)

...what you can do today.

Another mistake my students are used to committing again and again is PROCRASTINATION (What does this word mean? Have a look at this post:  Don't leave it for tomorrow!!! Start now and you'll be ready for next school year.) 

 

Both mistakes remind me of these two beautiful songs by our beloved Michael Jackson, who actually passed away more than ten years ago, that is to say, on 25^th June, 2009.

Human Nature:

Heal the world:

Some activities now for you to do:

 

News Review: Olympic swimmer saves drowning man (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

The English We Speak: Fight tooth and nail (BBC Learning English)

 

'Let's' and 'it's high time' - Learners' Questions

 

mmmEnglish!!  How to use SOME & ANY | English Grammar Lesson 

REVISION FOR 1º Bachillerato

148. Read the situations, and then using the prompts write a CONDITIONAL sentence:

1. As you know, Miguel Indurain retired two years ago. But I think that ( he / win / his sixth Tour de France / if / he / decide / to continue his career)

2. 'Are you coming to town with me this afternoon?'  'Perhaps. ( If / I / finish / decorating the living room, I / come / with you )
3. Gordillo doesn't play basketball very well. ( He / play / in the NBA / if / his talent / be / greater)
4. Most students haven't studied for the exam. ( Why / not study/ if / you / know / it / be / today)
                                                                                                                                            

149. TIME EXPRESSIONS. Complete the sentences with appropriate prepositions or nothing:

1. I left college __________ 1982,  __________ 23rd April.

2. What are you doing  __________ Thursday? My brother came two days  __________ and we     are having a party at home.

3. I like to relax  __________ weekends and especially  __________ Christmas.            

150. Correct these sentences. There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find it     and write the corrected sentence below.

1. Last night I have seen a really good film.

2. I'll phone you as I'll arrive.  

3. I work in this office for 23 years. 

4. Could you tell me how much does this cost?

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

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SOLUTIONS to the exercises in the previous post /for further exercises of this level go to  Mock exams (1º Bach)/:

145.

1. Are ships still built in Scotland ?    2. A song can't be sung well if an apple is being eaten at the same time.   3. Printing was invented by the Chinese.     4. Photographs mustn't be taken in the museum.

5. Oil has recently been discovered near the Falkland Islands.

146. 

1. John said he always played football on Saturdays, but he wasn't playing that Saturday because he was ill.  2. She told him they had been waiting there for him since six o'clock.   3. ... the driver told/warned them not to forget to take all their belongings with them.   4. I asked her where she had gone the previous night and she replied/answered that she had eaten in a Chinese restaurant with her boyfriend.

5. We asked him if he would stay with them (asked him to stay with them) and he accepted (he said he would)

 

147.

1. Where do you live?    2. How many languages do you speak?    3. Why are you learning English?  

4. How long have you been learning English?   5. What will the weather be like tomorrow?

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The future of our society is in real danger

We have got a serious problem in our society, especially in Spain. A great number of variables is affecting this dramatic situation. Educational system, uninterested and unmotivated children, broken families, fall in the number of marriages, increasing divorce rates... would be some of these negative factors.

Perhaps the solution is simple and it is based in just going back to our roots, as it seems to be happening in Scandinavian countries or Germany, where the concept of family is a major concern.

Here are some articles to read about the issue:

• Marriage on the decline as singles rise (BBC)

• Cycle of 'compulsive consumerism' leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds (The Daily Telegraph)

• My advice for a good marriage? Don’t start with a dream wedding (The Guardian)

• Marriage falls out of favour for young Europeans as austerity and apathy bite (The Guardian)

• A crisis in the family (The Daily Telegraph)

• More Americans living without partners, especially young adults (CNN)

 

Interesting previous posts in this blog:

• Families in the future >> DIY families???

• Relationships and laughing

   

Activities for my 2º ESO students:  What would be your ideal family, your ideal teacher, your ideal school? Try finding solution for unmotivated students. You will have use HYPOTHETICAL CONDITIONALS.

 

Here's a listening exercise to do: The future of marriage (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

Here's a new section in BBC Learning English: The Experiment. This unit deals with...

... What they really mean: Sarcasm

 

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