WINNING STREAK

winning streak a series of consecutive successes, a run of good luck, as in

Our son-in-law has been on a winning streak with his investments.

This expression comes from gambling.

Source: https://www.dictionary.com

Today's  activities for 1A2 students:

Dear students,

We, the teachers at the school, are missing you so much that we have created this video to let you know. I hope you enjoy it! (= Los profesores de la EOI os echamos de menos tanto que hemos preparado un vídeo para transmitíroslo. Espero que os guste)

And now, roll up your sleeves and start doing the homework (= Y ahora, arremangaos y empezad a hacer los deberes): 

1) Read this information

2)  Student's book p. 75:   3  GRAMMAR  a & b  (audios 7.5 -- 7.6)

3) Student's book p. 167:  7A   a & b (answer key) 

4) SB p. 75:  4  PRONUNCIATION a (audio 7.7) & b (audio 7.8)

5) Listen to the instructions for the next activity on page 75


Today's  activities for students of C2:

Dear students,

We, the teachers at the school, are missing you so much that we have created this video to let you know. I hope you enjoy it!

And now, roll up your sleeves and start doing the homework:

1) Here are the clues for today's word. Only 4 letters! Yes, you can!

2) Today's song has been sponsored by Esperanza.Thank you!



3) Sing the song! Come on!

4) Now you have to read about the song and do the activities related to it (page 3 onwards) 

5) Listening. Here you have the instructions for this activity.

6) And, of course, apart from keeping positive and taking care of yourselves, you can do the activities I gave to students of C1 yesterday!

CUT YOUR LOSSES

to cut one's losses    to avoid losing any more money than you have already lost; to abandon an enterprise or course of action that is clearly going to be unprofitable or unsuccessful before one suffers too much loss or harm.

   An inner voice was urging her to cut her losses and go back to England

   Let's cut our losses and sell the business before prices drop even further.

Sources https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/cut & https://dictionary.cambridge.org

Today's  activities for students of C1:

Dear students,

Keep busy and positive!

1) Do the activity about today's song and then listen to it and check your answers!



2) Sing the song!

3) Breaking news!  Choose the best option for each of the headlines (page 2)

4) Now listen to part of a radio programme and do the activities suggested

5)  Finally, read the article on pages 3-5 and do the fill-in-the gap activity.

6) And keep reading Born a Crime. Chapter 7 for next Monday

QUARANTINE SHAMING

quarantine shaming publicly criticizing people who are leaving the house for daily activities and not abiding by social distancing rules

SOURCE:https://lbpost.com/news/quarantine-shaming-is-now-a-thing


Today's  activities for 1A2 students:

Hello, everybody 
Do you miss the lessons? I do!  
Well, these are the activities you have to do: 

1) Listen again to audio 6.12  with the transcript on page 151
    If there is anything that you do not understand, please write to me at cme_333@hotmail.com
    (= Si hay algo que no entendéis, por favor escribidme un correo electrónico a cme_333@hotmail.com) 

2) Student's book pages 68 & 69 Revise and Check   (audio  6.20)
      Answer key

3) SB p.74  1  READING AND LISTENING  a, b  (audio 7.1), c  (audio 7.2) &  d (answer key)

4) p. 151  Listen again to audio 7.2 with the transcript on page 151

5) SB p.74  2  VOCABULARY  a, b (audio 7.3) and  c


Today's  activities for students of C2:

Hello, everybody
I hope you are all safe and well and that you find enough things to keep you busy and stimulated.
I miss you!
Well, these are the activities I have prepared for today:
1) Try to discover what is the word behind the cryptic and regular clues.
2) Do the activity based on today's song (page 5) and then listen to it!  





3) Try to fill in the gaps in the headlines and the article about QUARANTINE SHAMING.

4)  You also have to leave a comment on this post!!!

5) And, as usual, you can also do the activities I uploaded yesterday for students of C1.

GLOBAL PANDEMIC-INDUCED HOARDING

to hoard /hɔːd/ to collect large amounts of something and keep it for yourself, often in a secret place:

During the siege people began hoarding food and supplies.

There would be enough food on a daily basis if people were not hoarding.

hoarding the act of collecting large amounts of something and keeping it for yourself, often in a secret place:

The food shortages have been exacerbated by hoarding.

Today's  activities for students of C1:

Dear students, 

I hope you are all well and coping alright with the confinement and those who have to go to work, please take care.

Looking forward to seeing you!

 

1) Breaking news!!!  Do the activity with some of today's headlines. Do you know the meaning of all the words given as options? If you don't, make sure you look them up in a monolingual dictionary!

2) Listen to today's song and correct the eight mistakes in the lyrics (page 2).  Answer key (Don't print it!)



3) Now read an article about the phenomenon of panic-buying and do the corresponding activities.

HOUSEBOUND

-bound suffix (PREVENTING LEAVING) (causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition:

During his long illness he was completely housebound (= he could not leave the house).

She has been wheelchair-bound for several years.

(Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org)

Today's  activities for 1A2 students:

1) Student's book p. 67  4  PRONUNCIATION  d:
    Make TRUE sentences about you adding (= añadiendo) some extra information, for example: 

● I usually listen to the radio in the car. I sometimes listen to podcasts in English.

● I never read a newspaper in the morning. I usually read the news on the Internet.

    etc.

2) Record yourself reading those sentences ↑ and send the recording to the teacher (Please, send it to this email address cme_333@hotmail.com)

3)  Read the information about my daily routine. Can you do something similar about yourself?
     You have to adapt the table to your own routine! Model in WORD  + Model in OpenOffice

4) Answer key to activities on page 165  6B

Today's  activities for students of C2:

1) Try to find out what is today's word

2)  Listen to today's song with and without the lyrics. Do you like it?

3) Sing today's song!!!

4) Now, go to page 2 and read the information about -ward  and  -bound

5) Record yourself explaining how you feel and how you organize your day now that you are housebound. What do you find the most difficult? Send the audio to your teacher. Send it to this address: cme_333@hotmail.com, as the usual one, the mestre@casa one, is not working at the moment. Thanks!  Deadline: Monday 30th March.
The best "entries" will get a prize!!! 

6) You can, of course, do the activities I uploaded for C1 yesterday.

BACK FROM THE BRINK

brink a point at which something, typically something unwelcome, is about to happen; the verge.

Today's  activities for students of C1:

1)  BEFORE you listen to today's song, try to fill in the gaps in the lyrics with the words in the box. 

2)  Now, listen to the song and check your answers

3) Now,  ♪♫  SING THE SONG!  ♪♫ 

4)  Choose the BEST option to complete each of the five pieces of news  (page 2)

5)  GUESS! What are we going to listen about today?  Choose A, B or C:
        A)  Coronavirus in Africa
        B)  Psychological effects of confinement

        C)  Kākāpō

6) Listen to today's audio and do the activities about it.

7) If you are interested, you can listen to the whole programme

PANIC BUYING

panic buying (alternatively spelling panic-buying) occurs when consumers buy unusually large amounts of a product in anticipation of, or after, a disaster or perceived disaster, or in anticipation of a large price increase or shortage.

Panic buying is a type of herd behavior. It is of interest in consumer behavior theory, the broad field of economic study dealing with explanations for "collective action such as fads and fashions, stock market movements, runs on nondurable goods, buying sprees, hoarding, and banking panics."

a run on sth a situation in which many people suddenly buy a particular product:

There's been a run on umbrellas because of all this rain.

Today's  activities for students of C2:

1)  Today's word. How difficult was it?  (Don't print it! Don't waste paper!)

2) Today's song. Listen to the song with the lyrics and read the information about it. How do you like it?

  

 3) Read the article about how to wash your hands properly and fill in the 42 gaps with an appropriate word. You can find the missing words in a box at the bottom.     ANSWER KEY  (Do not print it! Don't waste paper!)

4) And, of course, you can do the activities I gave students of C1 yesterday! 

REMOTE LEARNING

Remote learning: a brave new world for us

Nusret Gökçe ( born in 1983), nicknamed Salt Bae, is a Turkish butcher, chef, and restaurateur, who owns a chain of steak houses. His technique for preparing and seasoning meat became an Internet meme after a viral video, "Ottoman Steak", posted on 7 January 2017 on his restaurant's Twitter account, was viewed 10 million times on Instagram, after which he was dubbed "Salt Bae" because of his peculiar way of sprinkling salt: dropping it from his fingertips to his forearm, and then letting it fall onto the dish. Due to the viral exposure gained from this post, Gökçe's profile has expanded enormously and he has served a wide range of celebrities and politicians from around the world.

     (Source: Wikipedia)

What does bae mean?

 Bae /beɪ/ is a slang term of endearment primarily used among youth in African-American communities and through influence the term rapidly made its way to North Americans. It came into widespread use around 2013 and 2014 through social media and hip-hop and R&B lyrics.It usually refers to a person's romantic partner, especially a boyfriend or girlfriend, but has also been used as a general term of affection for things, including inanimate objects.The term originated as an abbreviation of the word "baby" or "babe".

       (Source: Wikipedia) 

Today's  activities for students of C1:

1)  Listen to this radio programme and try to complete the text with the 30 words missing  (answer key provided) 

2) BORN A CRIME, chapter 6 

3) Do the activity about job losses due to the coronavirus (answer key)  

ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS?

Don't worry! Be sensible (= sensat@)  and stay at home!!!

Today's  activities for students of 1A2:

1)  Student's book p. 65  4   READING a, b,  c (audio)  and d (You have to send your answers to part d by email to the teacher!!! = Tenéis que enviar las respuestas del apartado d  a la profesora por correo electrónico:  cuenca_est@mestreacasa.es)


2)  SB p. 66  1  LISTENING AND SPEAKING   a, b (audio), c  & d (audio)

3)  SB p. 66  3  GRAMMAR adverbs of frequency  a & b → SB pp. 164 & 165  Grammar Bank 6B

4) SB pp. 70 & 71  1 (a, b, c & d),  3 (a & b) & 5

5) SB pp 72 & 73  1 (a, b, c), 3 (a & b) &  4  



Today's  activities for students of C2:


1) Try to solve the mystery of today's word!  (Don't print this!!! Don't waste paper!!!)

2) Listen to the song below and try to complete the lyrics that you will find on page 4 of this document: 



3)  Read page 1 of the document to revise some vocabulary.

4) Read the article about TOUTING FOR PUNT TRIPS (pages 2 & 3 of the document) and try to fill in the gaps with the words given.

5) If you want, you can do the activities that I gave to students of C1 level yesterday!!! 

STAY HOME

Today's  activities for students of C1:

1. Listen to today's BBC news bulletin and do the activity on pages 3 & 4   (answer key provided)

2. Try to complete the texts on pages 1 (Tom Hanks)  and 2 (Spiders)   (answer key provided)

3. Revise and read chapter 6 of Born a Crime

4. Don't forget about the piece of writing for 25th March!!! 

A FORCE MAJEURE EVENT

1A2 level speaking cards_set 2 + answer key

1A2 level photocopies from 5^th March (listening test) + ♪ audio

1A2 level pronunciation 3^rd person singular

C1 level_Photocopies from 9^th March + ♪ BBC NEWS (audio) + ♪ Seven Seconds by Youssou N’Dour and Neneh Cherry +

C1 level_Photocopies from 11^th March + Trevor Noah on the Coronavirus (video) + ♪ Let's Face The Music And Dance by Nat King Cole

C2 level_photocopies from 10^th March + ♫ Let's Face The Music And Dance by Nat King Cole

C2 level_photocopies from 12th March + ♫ BBC News 7^th March (audio) + ♫ Dream It Possible by Jane Zhang

C2 level_writing task for 26^th March

I COULD USE SOME HELP

DESTREZAS C1_ video to improve our writing

C1 level_Photocopies from 2^nd March + ♪ All Star by Smash Mouth

C1 level_Photocopies from 4^th March + ♪ Waterloo by Abba + Improving our writing (video)

C2 level_photocopies from 3^rd March + ♫ All Star by Smash Mouth

C2 level_photocopies from 5^rd March + ♫ Skyfall by Adèle + ♫ Ex-cons jobs (video)