Walking in the wind... to the sea, to the mountain, everywhere (QUARANTINE: DAY 59)

 

 

Every morning I get up at 5.30 a.m. and leave home accompanied by my beloved Maths teacher to the sea or, lately, up to the mountain to keep in good shape before I start my work (online classes, teleworking, correcting...). Later I walk to the supermarket, to the market... to do some shopping. And in the evening I take the rubbish out, obviously, walking once again. I walk everywhere. 

 

Stay healthy, my dear students!! It is essential for you and me to face the daily tasks.

 

Musical hint:

Traffic WALKING IN THE WIND  << click on the link to have a look at the lyrics:

 

Cycling could be another option >>>>  Covid-19: A new era for cyclists?

 

Learners' questions  >>>> A cycling resurgence? (BBC Learning English)

Quarantine Scoreboard

Posts uploaded:  38

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 3200

PASEN announcements & messages:   almost 2400

Things handed in and corrected: more than 1300

 

Visits to blog and site during quarantine: more than 15,000 (Average of 250 visits per day)

Video lectures (ONLINE CLASSES):    15  (+ 6 Dictations on line, 4 verb exams and 2 online exams) and several individual online tutorials

 

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE QUARANTINE

 Wednesday, 13^th May

Homework for today:

• To study for the exam revise all the exercises you can from pages 151-152 (Unit 6). Remember we did them last week and we still have to correct them.

 

Smart Planet Digital books

 

Today's homework:

• Do all the exercises you can do from unit 8 in the workbook to prepare for tomorrow's exam and Monday's exam. Use the link above.

 

NO HOMEWORK FOR TODAY!!! 

 

Enjoy the whole album:

Traffic "When the Eagle Flies" (1974) - Full Album

FALKIRK, history and modernity

Falkirk may instantly remind you of the famous battle of Falkirk between the Scots and the English. Here's an extract of the film Braveheart:

Braveheart ~Battle of Falkirk 1298

Well, actually, that is not really what happened. Watch this other commented video.

But that is the past, here's the Falkirk Wheel as a landmark to stay for ever, made to commemorate the new Millenium  >>> Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel

Other videos related to the Falkirk Wheel:   1   2   3   4   

Here are other solutions found in the past  >>>  The Famous Fort Augustus Locks:  1  2   

During my latest Scottish experience I came across several new expressions and words, a really interesting cookery channel (Classic Mary Berry):

• Two examples of this BBC celebrity: a retro version and a nowadays version:

Mary Berry's Easter Feast (part one)

 & some delicious easy beef burgers.

• New expressions and words connected with the road/traffic:

- CITY BYPASS is a synonym for ring road.

- How would you say this expression in Spanish: GIVE WAY? and what does the expression GIVE WAY TO ONCOMING VEHICLES mean?

- Be careful with the word DIVERSION. It is a false friend. Another expression is DIVERTED TRAFFIC.

- What is A BLIND SUMMIT? (Blind summits ahead)

• And, by the way, do you know what a 'front-line teacher' is? Albert is one, for example.

  

And finally here's an interesting episode by Joel & Lia to watch: Questions Brits Have For Americans!

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 140307 / 14 March 2018    >>>  Rescuing crumbling Paris landmark   -  Language related to 'Buildings'.  Need-to-know language: chunks, flying buttress, brace, Gothic masonry & crumbles.