BEING A TEACHER....

BEING A TEACHER IS A DIFFICULT TASK NOWADAYS, SO I DECIDED TO FOLLOW THIS PIECE OF ADVICE BY BRUCE LEE:

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

by Bruce Lee

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martes, 21 de abril de 2020

The fastest cyclist ever (QUARANTINE: DAY 37)

Once upon a time, long time ago, I had the privilege of watching the fastest and best cyclist ever and he was Spanish. He won 5 consecutive Tours de France and many other races, apart from getting the gold medal in the Olympic Games and breaking the one-hour world record cycling!!! He was Miguel Indurain.




1990 Tour de France stage 16 Luz Ardiden - Lemond v Indurain

MIGUEL INDURAIN, LEYENDA DE UN CAMPEON (in Spanish) : parte 1, parte 2 & parte 3.


Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  24


Students participating:  about 85 out of 110 (77%)


Comments written and corrected: more than 450


Emails exchanged: about 1600


PASEN announcements & messages: more than 1600


Things handed in and corrected: almost 900

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 8,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    6

 













RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE


 Tuesday, 21st April




1º ESO  

   CLASS    (<<<Click here)

Next Tuesday we will have our next online class (we will correct UNIT 6) and remember for individual tutorials you write an email to me and we arrange a day and a time.

El próximo martes tenemos la siguiente clase online  >>  corregiremos la unidad 6 y recuerden para tutorías individuales me tienen que escribir un email y concertamos un día y una hora.


Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound. Here's again the link to the session, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/379e7c0b009640fea3b23156deeba859

 

 

Solutions to yesterday's COMPARATIVES exercises:

newer , longer , nicer , bigger , better , fatter , more modern , friendlier , more famous

older , dirtier , brighter/lighter , more interesting , colder , sadder , more difficult , bigger , more expensive

bigger , more beautiful , better , worse , more difficult

faster ,  more interesting , warmer , more polite , more comfortable , nicer

It is more boring with the quarantine now than when we were at school.
It is harder to learn now than before.
I am not happier now than during our school days.

And now watch these two videos about the COMPARATIVES & the SUPERLATIVES (The Grammar Gameshow).










4º ESO 

By the way, next Monday in our online class we'll be correcting Unit 8 and remember for individual tutorials you write an email to me and we arrange a day and a time.

Smart Planet Digital books



These are the tasks for today: 

  • Unit 8 (Finish page 85)   

  • Exercises on MIXED CONDITIONALS:   1    2   3      







English in a Minute:  Mixed Conditionals (Impossible+Hypothetical)   (BBC Learning English)





 

 

1º Bach  

By the way, next Monday we'll have our next online class and remember for individual tutorials you write an email to me and we arrange a day and a time.

 

Tasks to do today:

Unit 8 - page 95

Watch these New That's English episodes to revise vocabulary about MEDICINE:

MODULE 3       Unit 4A            Unit 4B             

MODULE 6      Unit 1A           Unit 1B   




Learn English with Movies | Tom Hanks - “Forrest Gump”

 





1996 Profile of Miguel Induráin! | "Big Mig" on his Tour de France Wins! | inCycle

 

 

 

What I'm learning from being trapped in quarantine with my ex-fiance (The Guardian)

 


 

miércoles, 15 de abril de 2020

Breakout from the outbreak (QUARANTINE: DAY 31)

 

Drawing can be the perfect breakout from the outbreak (Have a look at the bottom of this post to see what 'outbreak' means. And, by the way, do you know what 'breakout' means).

 

 

Now that we have so much time we can learn how to draw. And drawing can be a wonderful way to go through these hard times of quarantine. I know some of you are already quite keen on drawing, but how good are you? I am a hopeless case, although I had technical drawing at school until I was your age.

 

 

Actually, my teacher was Mr Ramón Portillo, a great famous paintor from Seville, whose son used to play the guitar for Pablo Alborán. His son, Porty, used to play tennis with me!!! Could you believe it?

 

Here's one of my earliest posts, where you can read about the issue and just below some musical hints by my good friend Porty:

People from here who have success in life!!!!


 

Porty - Touché  

 

And if you want to listen to the whole album: TANGRAM   




Anyway, going back to drawing, here's a Lingohack episode for you about the issue:


LINGOHACK  >>>

  • Episode 200408 / 08 April 2020    >>>  Marvel's Spider-Man artist teaches kids to draw online -    Language related to 'emotions'.  Need-to-know language: a little bit down, brought a bit of a smile to my face, in (really, really) good spirits, a bit worrying & can't help but feel good.

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





Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  20


Students participating:  about 76 out of 110 (70%)


Comments written and corrected: 400


Emails exchanged: about 1200


PASEN announcements & messages: more than 1400


Things handed in and corrected: about 600

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 6,500 (Average of 300 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    3








RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE


 Wednesday, 15th April



Tasks for today:

  • Unit 6 (page 74)

  • Watch this video about the comparatives: The Game Show    

  • And remember to hand in the dialogue (writing 11) by Friday. 



 


Smart Planet Digital books



These are the tasks for today: 

Unit 8 (page 82- Exercises 1-4)   >>>> Apart from doing these exercises, you will have to bear all this vocabulary in mind when you read OUR THIRD TERM COMPULSORY READER: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde   and when you do your digital project or the Control Sheet of the reader.




As a continuation of yesterday's post, where I presented you with a video on the MODAL VERBS, and the ones we saw before Easter in the posts:

 

... here's another one that may interest you:

How to use English Modal Verbs | Possibility & Probability  (mmmEnglish)



Coronavirus outbreak: Half of coronavirus deaths happen in care homes, data from EU suggests (The Guardian)

Note the uses of these two words: 'outbreak' and 'care homes'

What do they mean in Spanish?



martes, 14 de abril de 2020

EXAMS vs CORONAVIRUS (QUARANTINE: DAY 30)



Exams are an important part of our lives. Believe or not. Every time we do something we also need to test it. I could give you millions of examples. Here are just two of them: for instance, when your mum or dad are cooking, every now and then they have to check how it tastes in case they have to add some more salt or sugar or oil; regarding our Coronavirus pandemic, although there are already some vaccines, they have to be fist tested on animals and later on  a sample of the population before they can be commercialised. 

 

 

Therefore, the more relevant the situation or the product that we want to get is, the more important the exams are. Have a look at all these articles and you'll see how dramatic is the situation elsewhere when important decisions depend on exams:





Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  19


Students participating:  about 76 out of 110 (70%)


Comments written and corrected: 400



Emails exchanged: about 1200



PASEN announcements & messages: more than 1400



Things handed in and corrected: about 600



Visits to blog and site during quarantine: about 6,500 (Average of 300 visits per day)


Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    3







RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE


 Tuesday, 14th April




1º ESO   exam    listening exercise    (<<<Click here)










4º ESO    exam    listening exercise    (<<<Click here)













 

 

1º Bach  

 

As we had our online classes yesterday and it was still holiday (Sorry for the mistake, but I noticed that later, once I had already arranged all the online classes), I will just ask you to read any of the articles at the beginning of this post and tell me your opinion about what you would do with some nationwide exams, like the Selectivity exam, taking into account that very important decisions are to be taken afterwards.

 


News Review:  CORONAVIRUS: UK unites in song   (BBC Learning English)

 

Learn Modal Verbs with Lucy | MUST CAN WOULD SHOULD MIGHT WILL COULD SHALL MAY

 

lunes, 13 de abril de 2020

Experimenting (QUARANTINE: DAY 29)


(FIFTH WEEK of quarantine) Again here we have another opportunity to keep on experimenting. This time we will be trying some online classes, even though I have just noticed that Monday was still part of our "incredible holidays" confined at home. I hope you don't mind.

 

By the way, in spite of being at our Easter holidays, I'm really happy with the work done with a few students, who have completed their 25 comments, written all the compositions proposed, done all the work (even digital projects) regarding our compulsory readers.... and even video sketches!!! 

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!   You are real SURVIVORS, HEROES!!!






Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  18


Students participating:  about 70 out of 110 (65%)


Comments written and corrected: 400


Emails exchanged: more than 1000


PASEN announcements & messages: more than 1300


Things handed in and corrected: more than 500

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: more than 6,000 (Average of 300 visits per day)





RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE


 Monday, 13th April




1º ESO    CLASS    (<<<Click here)


First, can you watch this to revise?

English in a Minute:  "PLAY, DO & GO" for sports (BBC Learning English)

 

Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound. Here's again the link to the session, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/379e7c0b009640fea3b23156deeba859

 

MAIN GUIDELINES FOR TOMORROW'S EXAM:


First, the student has to download the two attachments above: the exam and the audio for the listening exercise in the exam.

Once, you have downloaded them, you have to decide which level you are going to do. If you do level 1, you cannot use anything at all (and, please, be honest). If you do level 2, you have got the possibility of doing it without anything (no folder, no textbook, no dictionary, no translator...) or you can do it with the help of: your folder, the textbook or any other material.

In any case, you must tell me the conditions in which you do the exam. We must be honest as I have to know how good your level of achievement is. If we don't do it in a fair way, we will have fake results and all this work will be useless. Apart from that, I strongly recommend all of you to copy and try to do LEVEL 1 EXAM!!! as this will be the one we will correct later.

Then, you can either print the exam and handwrite it or just have it on the screen of your computer and handwrite it.

Finally, as we have done so far, you will scan or photograph it and you will send it to my by email by 11 a.m.


Spanish: El alumno tiene que descargarse los dos archivos: el examen y el audio del listening exercise del examen. Una vez se lo haya descargado, tiene que decidir qué nivel va a hacer. Si hace el nivel 1 (level 1), no puede utilizar nada (y, por favor, sea honesto). Si hace el nivel 2, tiene la posibilidad de hacerlos sin la ayuda de nada o hacerlo con la ayuda de: el archivador, el libro de texto o otro tipo de ayuda. En cualquier caso, me lo debe decir. Tenemos que ser honestos y yo debo saber cómo está su nivel de conocimientos. Si no lo hacemos bien, todo este trabajo no sirve para nada.
De todas formas, recomiendo que todo el mundo tenga copiado (y si puede, que lo haga a lo largo de la semana) el examen de nivel 1, que será el que corregiremos el lunes 20 en nuestra próxima clase online.
A continuación, o bien lo impreme y lo escribe a mano o bien simplemente tiene el examen en la pantalla de su ordenador y lo escribe a mano en una hoja de su libreta.
Finalmente, como hemos hecho hasta ahora, lo escanean o le echan una foto (comprueben que se vea bien) y me lo mandan por correo electrónico para antes de las 11.

 




English in a Minute:  The differences between 'SPEAK' & 'TALK'   (BBC Learning English)






4º ESO    CLASS    (<<<Click here)


Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound. Here's the link to our session, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/55c766d756b946bd8cf62f7443269e0b

  

MAIN GUIDELINES FOR TOMORROW'S EXAM:

First, the student has to download the two attachments above: the exam and the audio for the listening exercise in the exam.

Once, you have downloaded them, you have to decide which level you are going to do:

  1. LEVEL 1 (pages 3-6) If you do level 1, you cannot use anything at all (and, please, be honest). 

  2. LEVEL 2 (pages 7-9)  If you do level 2, you cannot use anything at all, either (and again, please, be honest)

  3. LEVEL 3 (pages 1-2) This is the exam for PENDIENTES. There is no listening exercise. You cannot use anything at all.

  4. LEVELS 4/5 (pages 10-12) If you do this exam, you can use anything you want if you are in level 5; and just your folder if you are in level 4.

In any case, you must tell me the conditions in which you do the exam. We must be honest as I have to know how good your level of achievement is. If we don't do it in a fair way, we will have fake results and all this work will be useless. Apart from that, I strongly recommend all of you to copy and try to do LEVEL 1 EXAM!!! as this will be the one we will correct later.

Then, you can either print the exam and handwrite it or just have it on the screen of your computer and handwrite it.

Finally, as we have done so far, you will scan or photograph it and you will send it to my by email by 11 a.m.


Spanish: El alumno tiene que descargarse los dos archivos: el examen y el audio del listening exercise del examen. Una vez se lo haya descargado, tiene que decidir qué nivel va a hacer. Si hace el nivel 1, 2 y 3, no puede utilizar nada (y, por favor, sea honesto). Si hace el nivel 4, tiene la posibilidad de hacerlo con la ayuda del archivador. Si hace el nivel 5, puede utilizar además el libro de texto o un diccionario (no traductor). En cualquier caso, me lo debe decir. Tenemos que ser honestos y yo debo saber cómo está su nivel de conocimientos. Si no lo hacemos bien, todo este trabajo no sirve para nada.
De todas formas, recomiendo que todo el mundo tenga copiado (y si puede, que lo haga a lo largo de la semana) el examen de nivel 1, que será el que corregiremos el lunes 20 en nuestra próxima clase online.
A continuación, o bien lo impreme y lo escribe a mano o bien simplemente tiene el examen en la pantalla de su ordenador y lo escribe a mano en una hoja de su libreta.
Finalmente, como hemos hecho hasta ahora, lo escanean o le echan una foto (comprueben que se vea bien) y me lo mandan por correo electrónico para antes de las 11.






 

 

1º Bach     CLASS      (<<<Click here)


Very good morning, ladies and gentlemen!!

 

I hope you are all well, safe and sound.

 

Next Monday from 11 a.m. to 13 a.m. I will be meeting my 1º Bachillerato students to see if you have any doubts about the first 7 units. The session is already in the lecture room here in Moodle (English 1º Bachillerato) and this is the link, just in case: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c32436f87fda4ceea41aa7897f70a93b

 

Let me know if you have any problems or any other activities. If we see that the experience is useful, we'll repeat to give you some important explanations about unit 8.

 

Your teacher,

 

Albert





Here are some films about Sherlock Holmes for my students in 1º Bachillerato:



viernes, 3 de abril de 2020

Wild life taking over cities (QUARANTINE: DAY 19)


 

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



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, 3rd 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.

Smart Planet Digital books



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!