ESO1 TABLE OF CONTENTS STARTER UNIT & UNIT 1

Publicat el 20 d'octubre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

TABLE OF CONTENTS STARTER UNIT AND UNIT 1

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The European Refugee Crisis

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I. What do you know about the European Refugee Crisis? What about Syria?

a) Where is Syria located?

b) When did the Arab Spring take place?

II. Can you join these sentece halves together?

1. Al-Assad

2. ISIS

3. A third of the Syrian people

4. Over 4 million Syrians

5. The vast majority of Syrians reside now in

6. Zero Syrian refugees have been accepted by

a) the Arab states of the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman…).

b) is the name of the family leading Syria as quasi-dictators since the 1960s.

c) have fled the country.

d) is a militaristic jihadist group which wants to build a totalitarian Islamic caliphate.

e) camps in the neighbouring countries (Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt).

f) have been displaced within Syria.

III. Watch the beginning of this video to check your answers.

IV. What do you know about the migration routes into Europe?

1. What are the deadly risks of migrating by sea?

2. How many miles are migrants walking from Istanbul into Greece and then from Greece to Hungary?

3. Why do migrants want to get to Germany?

4. How much do some pay to be smuggled by car?

V. Watch this video and check your answers.

VI. Read this article (Migrant Misery a Gold Rush for Some in Turkey) and answer the questions below.

1. What is the “raft economy”?

2. Why are the streets in Izmir, Turkey, full of tour buses and taxis?

3. How much does a raft cost?

4. How many people can a raft hold? So, what’s its capacity?

5. How much money do children have to pay to get on a raft?

6. Check the meaning of these words in bold in the text (so, same context) and write sentences with them.

a) Izmir is a hub for migrants.

b) It is a boomtown for residents.

c) “Insurance offices” have sprung up.

d) Turkey says it is doing all that it can to stem illegal activity.

e) The smugglers earn a total of nearly $60,000 for each trip.

f) About half of the money goes for bribes and commissions.

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What’s happening here?

Publicat el 4 d'octubre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

1. Look at the picture above. What is happening? Where?

2. Read this text:

Paris is to fine smokers who throw their cigarette butts onto the street, the latest effort to clean up the French capital.

Each year a)_________ City of Paris employees collect b)_________ tonnes of cigarette butts on the city’s c)_________ km of sidewalks and d)_________ km of roads, the City of Paris said in a statement.

It said the e) €_________ fine would be imposed from the first of October.

“Apart from being visual pollution, these butts are a significant environmental pollutant as they contain toxic products that go into the ground and water,” the statement said.

The problem was made worse by the smoking ban in public places introduced in f)_________ which forced French smokers out of cafes and bars and onto the street.

3. Listen to this audio recording and fill in the gaps with the numbers and figures you will hear.

4. Check your answers by reading this short article in The Guardian.

5. Language points:

The Guardian is a British newspaper.

“Butts” is an Americanism. In Britain, what is left of a cigarette when you discard it is a cigarette end.

“Butt” is also an Americanism for the part of the anatomy you sit on. In Britain it is your backside, bottom, bum or arse.

6. Discussion: What do you think? Are you for or against fining smokers? 

[Thanks to The English Blog]

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Maryam Al Khawaja

Publicat el 30 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

I. Would you be able to place Bahrain on a map?

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II. In teams, find out about Bahrain here (each team will be assigned a question):

1) Where is it?

2) Which two countries share a border with Bahrain?

3) What is the capital and largest city in Bahrain?

4) What is the official language?

5) Is it a Republic?

6) What was the population in 2010?

7) What is their currency?

8) What happened in 2002 which caused strong refuse from the most of nation parties & opposition?

9) Which political activists were jailed in 2002?

III. Maryam Al Khawaja was 2012 Freedom House Award Winner. Watch this video and answer the questions below:

1) What is the metaphor she uses to describe the feeling of coming together?

2) She says their demands were not political. What were their demands based on?

3) Who is her father?

4) Why did she think they would not do anything to her father?

5) Abdhulahadi Al Khawaja went on a hunger strike. For how long?

6) What happened to Maryam’s sister?

7) Why does Maryam call what is happening in Bahrain ‘the inconvenient truth’?

8) What is Maryam’s self-imposed responsibility?

IV. What is courage? How would you define it?

V. Watch the beginning of this video and answer the questions below.

1) According to Maryam, what is courage?

2) Who are the two people who really inspired her?

3) How does she define the government in Bahrain?

4) The fact that her father fought for human rights meant that he could be arrested, tortured and killed. What else did it mean?

Now you’re ready for the Students’ Forum on Human Rights.

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Describing people

Publicat el 23 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

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Error correction symbols/code

Publicat el 22 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

Error correction

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Boarding Schools in the UK: Friendship

Publicat el 10 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

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Activities

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Women’s football

Publicat el 10 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

UEFA-Women’s Cup Final 2005 at Potsdam: 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam – Djurgårdens IF / Älvsjö Stockholm at the Stadium “Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion” Source: taken by David Herrmann, 21. May 2005

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Water for elephants

Publicat el 10 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

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Presentation here.

Movie segment here.

1) Watch the movie clip and tick the people / animals you’ve seen in the circus.

2) Watch the video again and make sentences as in the example.

a) The Ringmaster: The Ringmaster’s clothes are red.

b) The two acrobats:

c) The dog:

d) The tight rope girl walker:

e) The last trapeze swingers:

[Thanks to http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.br/2012/12/water-for-elephants-possessives-s.html]

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Revision on Dates

Publicat el 10 de setembre de 2015 per MIREIA XORTO PRADOS

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