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miércoles, 3 de junio de 2020

Reduce and reuse is better than recycling (QUARANTINE: DAY 80)

A lesson to learn during this quarantine. We have learned certain things during all this time locked down. We don't have to buy so many things and we can reuse lots of things we would throw away so easily before.

We have to be eco-smart!!!

A listening exercise for you to do - Is the recycling system broken? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

Yes, you recycle. But until you start reducing, you're still killing the planet (The Guardian)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded: 50

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 900

Emails exchanged: more than 4100

PASEN announcements & messages: about 3000

Things handed in and corrected: more than 2300

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: almost 25,000 (Average of 250 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES): 24 (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 7 online exams) and several individual online tutorials

Important piece of news for everybody >>>> As you already know your final mark, in case you are not 100% satisfied with the mark, please contact me and we will try to arrange an individual oral interview/exam.

Wednesday, 3^rd June

1º ESO

Tasks for today:

Unit 7 (page 152-153) >> Revising for the exam.

4º ESO

Homework:

Revise for the final exams with the workbook (unit 9) pages 74-83

mmmEnglish! >>> Third Conditional Sentences + Examples | English Grammar Lesson

HOMEWORK FOR TODAY:

Keep finishing all the things you still have to hand in and revising for the final exams.

FULL VERSION 1976 - Connors vs Borg - US Open

Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video) - version with lyrics

domingo, 4 de agosto de 2019

Fat chance of having mild temperatures this summer!!!

Fat chance, extreme weather, ice-creams, too much litter, recycling... are some of the issues we are going to deal with all along this post.

First of all, another hot summer is here again and, although in the south of Spain is not hotter than other average summers, in Central European cities such as Berlin, Paris... are having more than 40⁰ C and these are record temperatures.

LINGOHACK >>>

Episode 190731 / 31 July 2019 >>> Extreme weather: is it caused by climate change?: Language related to 'heat'. Need-to-know language: scorching, heatwaves, heating up, drought resistant & baking.

Warnings remain after floods rip through North Yorkshire homes | ITV News

At the same time, there have been heavy rains and severe floods in the area we visited this year (York and Yorkshire Dales)

UK weather: thunderstorms set to cause further flooding (The Guardian)
Bridge collapses after flash floods in North Yorkshire (The Guardian)
Cleanup begins after downpours cause flooding in Yorkshire Dales (The Guardian)

And what about the forest fires in Siberia?

Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, ‘unprecedented’ satellite images show (The Independent)
'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season (The Guardian)

Does having a fat chance mean that we have eat less ice-cream and fewer refreshments?

The English We Speak: Fat chance (BBC Learning English)

All these disposable containers are a big issue to solve regarding climate change, so here's the solution >>>>

Listening exercise to do: "Coffee cups: Do you use your own?" (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

English with Lucy >>> How to STOP being shy - 6 steps to be CONFIDENT

mmmEnglish: Are you saying these words wrong?

REVISION FOR 1º Bachillerato

151. Fill in the gaps with the comparative forms of superiority or the superlatives of the adjectives given in brackets:

1. Bill Clinton said: "The situation in Iraq is becoming (bad) _____________________________, so we will keep all our forces in the area".

2. Sadam Hussein answered that journalists could ask the Minister of Defence for (far) ______________ information on their weapons.

3. She is (funny) ____________________ person I've ever met.

4. (polluted) _________________ our world is, (big) ______________ health problems we have.

152. EVERYDAY ENGLISH. What would you say in these situations?

1. You are in a bar. Offer to buy your friend a drink.

2. You are late for a meeting. Apologize and say why you are late.
3. Your brother has just come home from the cinema. Ask him for his opinion of the film.

153. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. ¡Ojala que llueva café y que yo apruebe el inglés!

2. Hay menos ejercicios en este examen que en el anterior.
3. El tuvo que cambiarle la batería en la gasolinera que hay entre Torrenueva y Calahonda.
4. ¿Pongo la mesa? Tengo que oir las noticias. No debo perdérmelas.
5. Yo que vosotros, repasaría bien el examen otra vez
6. Cuando los ejercicios empezaron a complicarse, le pregunté a mi hermano mayor.
7. Acabo de recordar que tengo que ir al banco ahora mismo.
8. Arturo no tenía ganas de ir a clase, ni ella tampoco.
9. A Pedro le gusta mucho el fútbol y a Ron también.

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

Robin's Nest - 01 Sleeping Partners

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

148.

1. ... he would have won win his sixth Tour de France if he had decided to continue his career

2. If I finish decorating the living room, I will come with you
3. He would play in the NBA if his talent were greater
4. Why didn't they study if you knew it was today?

149.

1. in, on 2. on, ago 3. at, at

150.

1. Last night I saw a really good film. 2. I'll phone you as I arrive. 3. I have worked in this office for 23 years. 4. Could you tell me how much this costs?

BEING A TEACHER....