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Songs for Confinement

What song makes you feel positive and brightens your day? Let’s make Easter holidays a little bit more enjoyable by sharing songs we really like (the songs must be in English!)

Steps to follow:

  1. Click on the  + button and create a post.
  2. Write the name of the song and the artist.
  3. Click on the “link” button and copy the Youtube address.
  4. Explain why you like this song & write your name when you finish.
  5. Check other people songs and rate them by giving them stars. If you discover a beautiful song you didn’t know before just leave a comment.

Remember to always be polite!!!

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“Another chance” by Roger Sanchez (Batx)

1. What is the video about?

2. What do you think the lyrics of the song mean and what do they have to do with the story?

Lyrics:

If I had another chance tonight
I’d try to tell you that the things we had were right

3. Write a short story about this girl. Why was she carrying a heart? What was she looking for? What happened in the end? Make up an ending for the story.

 

 

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The Disaster that Wiped Out Dinosaurs

I. What do you know about how dinosaurs became extinct?

II. Check the meaning of these words with your partner. Then match the words to the definitions:

 seismic waves   /   ejector cloud.   /    volts of static electricity     /     electrical storm

  1. to strike
  2. to deflect
  3. to shake
  4. to ripple
  5. ground
  6. to attempt
  7. neighbouring
  8. to take shelter
  9. unrelenting
  10. hail
  11. mist
 a. to move in small waves

b. to protect themselves

c. to hit someone or something

d. thin fog

e. the surface of the earth

f. to change direction

g. small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky like rain

h. to try to do something

i. near or next to somewhere

j. to make quick, short movements from side to side or up and down

k. extremely determined; never becoming weaker

III. Watch this video from the Science Channel that brings to life the asteroid striking earth and the aftermath. Answer the following questions:

  1. To what magnitude does the earth shake when the asteroid strikes?

2. What do animals do when the earth starts shaking?

3. At what speed does the ejector cloud approach?

4. What temperature does the air reach in Mongolia?

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Daylight Saving Time

Source: needpix.com

Source: needpix.com

I. What do you know about the daylight saving time? How long have we been shifting our clocks? Do you know why?

II. Match the following words with the definitions:

a. to come up with 1. an important subject or problem that people are talking about.
 b. shift  2.  to (cause to) be used or exercised
 c. to catch on  3. to think of; to produce
 d. issue  4. to change (the) position or direction (of)
 e. to enact  5. to become popular
 f. to cut down on 6. to put something into action, especially to make something law 
g. to come into play to reduce the consumption of something

III. Watch the video about the story of the daylight saving time and do the activity below.

Fill in the gap with the missing word(s):

  1. The idea of shifting time dates back to __________________ ago.
  2. In 1895 George Hudson proposed a time shift. The idea was well received but it didn’t _______________.
  3. In 1905 William Willet developed the idea independently of Hudson. He brought the idea to the Parliament until ______________ in 1915.
  4. During WWI the Germans were looking for ways to ____________________  and decided that ____________________ was the answer.
  5. Today ____________ countries around the world practise daylight saving time.
  6. Critics today say it no longer ___________________.
  7. An etimated __________ of the global population does not use it.
  8. In Australia __________ states and territories do not practise daylight saving time.
  9. In the United States _____________ and most of __________ do not bother with daylight saving time.
  10. The shift to and from daylight saving time has been linked to the increase risk in _______________________ and automobile _________________.

IV. Comment on the following questions:

  • Does the daylight saving time affect you? How? 
  • Do you really think it saves energy?
  • If you were asked to vote for or against keeping daylight saving time, what would you do?

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School Strike for Climate

I. School children around the world have been going on strike.  Would you protest against these things? What would you do? How effective would your protest be? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

Would you? How?  Effectiveness
Climate change
War
Food prices
High taxes
Government corruption
Inequality

II. Read the text and answer the following questions:

  1. Who did the article say students are unhappy with?
  2. What is the name of the international movement?
  3. What are students skipping?
  4. When did the movement begin?
  5. What is the nationality of the student who started the protests?
  6. Where did 45,000 students protest?
  7. What did a student banner say students did, like the sea level?
  8. When is the first worldwide strike?
  9. Which country’s leader asked students for less activism?
  10. When did a journalist want students to strike?

Source: BreakingNewsEnglish

III. Who is Greta Thunberg? What was her speech at the United Nations last year about? Listen to her and then you will comment on some of her statements.

a. “I’ve learnt that you are never too small to make a difference”.

b. “You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency break”.

c. “It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few”.

d. “Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible there is no hope”.

e. “We need to focus on equity and the solutions within this system are so impossible to find that maybe we should change the system itself”.

f. “We have come here to let you know that the change is coming whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people”.

III. Listen to what the Australia’s Prime Minister said about the school strike. What do you think about it?

 

IV. Check the Global Climate Strike website to know about all the demonstrations around the world.

 

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Extra activities (Present tenses)

PRESENT SIMPLE / CONTINUOUS

1. https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.html

2. https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_01_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

3. http://www.engelsgemist.nl/present-simple-present-continuous/

4. https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm

5. https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro

6. https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

 

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE / CONTINUOUS

  1. https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro

2. https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-3.html

3. https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_01_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

4. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/ppsppc.htm

5. https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/present_perfect_or_progressive.htm

6. https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/present-perfect-simple-present-perfect-continuous/

7. http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g9-present-perfect-simple-continuous.php

8. https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g41-present-perfect-simple-or-continuous.php

9. https://www.englishgrammar.org/present-perfect-or-present-perfect-continuous-tense-exercise/

10. https://www.e-grammar.org/present-perfect-simple-continuous/test1-exercise5/

 

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Getting to know each other

Source: publicdomainpictures.net

Source: publicdomainpictures.net

I. Discuss in pairs if these sentences about me are true or false:

I practise yoga twice a week

I have two younger brothers

I’ve been to Italy this summer

II. Now write three sentences about you and guess, in groups, whether they are true or false.

III. Write something you like doing on a piece of paper and put it in a box. Then pick one and guess who wrote it. 

 

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Love better

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I. On St. Valentine’s Day we celebrate love. In pairs, comment on the following questions.

– What do you think people do on this day?

– Do you do something special?

– Do the people you know do something special?

– Do you know people who are very romantic on St. Valentine’s day but they aren’t the rest of the year?

II. So, what is love? Watch the following advert and comment on the questions.

III. Read the following 12 signs you may be in a toxic relationship. In groups of four, discuss what makes a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP and note it down.

Source: https://spinditty.com/playlists/Songs-About-Toxic-Love-Relationships
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