We are all wishing to spend the best Christmas ever, but also the safest, and, above all, we all want to enjoy Christmas next year with all our relatives and friends, so we have do things properly.
Here are some interesting articles for you to read with some tips to enjoy and keep safe:
How to have a Covid-safe Christmas (The Guardian)
Have yourself a merry COVID-safe Christmas: 5 tips for staying healthy this festive season (ABC News)
How to have yourself a merry cyber-safe Christmas (BBC News)
Canva is a new ITC tool for your presentations!!! And here's the project done by Marina Guirado on A Foreigner in New York >>>> 😲😲😲😲
Thousands of lorries stranded at Dover as France closes Eurotunnel because of a possible new variant of Coronavirus in UK:
'Disgraceful': lorry drivers stuck at Dover tell of lack of facilities (The Guardian)
Covid: WHO in 'close contact' with UK over new virus variant (BBC News)
New Covid Strain: UK cut off (News Review, BBC Learning English)
Merry Christmas from BBC Learning English
Some other activities for you to do:
Listening exercise: Are trees intelligent? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
6 Minute Vocabulary: PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS (BBC Learning English)
English in a Minute: ASSURE vs ENSURE vs INSURE (BBC Learning English)
Talking about sport: PLAY, DO or GO? (English in a Minute, BBC Learning English)
Rod Stewart: Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
REVISION FOR Bachillerato >>> Solutions to exercises in previous post
161. TENSES.
(1) has worked (2)supplies (3) was started (4) was born (5)was employed (6) needed (7) was sent (8) took (9) was carried (10) has changed (11) are expanding (12) are sent
(a) for (b) of (c) by (d) since
162.1. 'pigeons' are birds that can fly and that in the past were used to carry messages from one person to another 2. clerk
163. TENSES.
1. Albert has been telling us to work every day 2. We had had only one exam before our term exams.
3. The TENSES exercise has been really difficult for us (if we are doing the exam. If not: The TENSES exercise was....)
4. One day we did not bring a composition Albert had told us to do so he got furious with us.
5. One day we were talking about Maths when Albert came into the classroom
165.
1. The new teacher we are having for English this year is called Albert.
2. Albert, who has to feed his baby before school, comes every day at 8.30 sharp.3. Where is the department store where your father works?
4. My father works in El Corte Inglés, which is in Granada.
5. Who is the girl you were talking with in the pub last Monday?
166. Follow-up questions. Possible questions.
1. What did you have for lunch? 2. How much have they paid? 3. Where did he go?
4. Where do you work? / What do you do? 5. Who is Joan writing a letter to?
6. Which film are you watching? Who are you going with?
167. PASSIVE VOICE
1. Internet is used by millions of people. 2. Lunch must be cooked for his baby every day by Albert.
3. That green van is being followed by a police car.
4. How many times was this window broken by the children last year?
5. John wasn't asked a lot of questions. // A lot of questions weren't asked to John.
168.
1. ..... so you have it painted. 2. .... so they have it done.
169.
1. Millions of cans of Coca-Cola are drunk every day.
2. What do you think the life of a nun is like? Perhaps a little boring, but interesting too.
3. He didn't want anybody to see his new car.
4. They eventually understood what their father had meant.
5. "I think the baby likes learning English a lot because he is very interested in looking up new words in your new dictionary", said the mother to the father.
LINGOHACK >>>
- Episode 201223 / 23 December 2020 >>> Lighting up the railway for Christmas - Language related to 'sentimentality'. Need-to-know language: spectacular, wonder, Christmassy, touching & magical.
