Time to open up ?

It is time to open up and start forgetting about all the hard times we have been through: pandemics, school, exams, restrictions..., but there's no need to rush when there are still a lot of people to be vaccinated.

 

English in the News: Covid: Is the EU opening up? (BBC Learning English)

 

Related article for you to read:

EU plans to reopen to fully Covid-vaccinated foreign tourists from June (The Guardian)

 

Here's my musical hint to rock the night when  things get back to normal: Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode"   and here's a version with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. And now let's a movie clip from the film Back to the Future where Michael J. Fox... 

 

 

and also with the lyrics for you to sing and dance along!!!

 

Some activities for you to do:  

 

• British Chat:  What was your first kiss like?  (BBC Learning English) 

• English in a Minute:    5 Ways to use HARD (BBC Learning English)

• A listening exercise for you to do: Hermits   (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

• English in the News: Long working hours kill 745,000 people a year, study finds   (BBC Learning English)

Vintage tennis: Rafael Nadal: Most Dominating Tournament Ever (French Open 2008) 

 

 

Vintage NBA basketball: Top 10 Magic Johnson Plays. 

 

 

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 210519 / 19 May 2021    >>>  Dark Sky Reserves -    Language related to 'working from home'.  Need-to-know language: struggling, aberration,  splitting, hybrid & through the roof.

 

 

Sci-fi and vaccines

Two interesting listening exercises to do and articles to read:

•   Can science fiction save the world?  (ABC: How science fiction can save the world & BBC: Project Hieroglyph)

•   The cost of life-saving vaccines   (BBC: Rocketing vaccine cost warning & Drug companies cut vaccine prices to the developing world)

Write comments about science fiction films that have found solutions to problems we have had later or about your opinion of vaccines and their prices. Is it all a masquerade? (By the way, what does 'masquerade' mean? Try to explain it in English).

And finally, here's a good way to practise INDIRECT QUESTIONS:

Alice in Wonderland: Part 1 - Down the rabbit hole