VIDEO: AS HUMANS HIBERNATE, ANIMALS TAKE OPPORTUNITY TO ROAM FREE

Topic for Unit 6: nature. A video of how wild animals gained space while humans were in their houses due to Coronavirus lockdown.

NOUNS vs VERBS: THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THEIR STRESSED SYLLABLE

 Vocabulary is very flexible in English, the same word without any ortographic difference can be a noun or a verb, but the difference lies in its pronunciation. The stressed syllable changes: if it's a noun, the first syllable is stressed. When it's a verb, the stress falls on the second one. Above some examples, but there are many others.

CURIOUS ABBREVIATIONS

SUFFIX '-IFY' TO MAKE VERBS

 

VIDEO: THE GRETA GENERATION: YOUTH ACTIVISIM AROUND THE WORLD

Unit 5's topic on Social Issues is introduced with this video.

UK CULTURE CLASS BY DAMIEN SHEEHY FOR 1ºBAC STUDENTS

This morning, 1st BAC students had the opportunity to listen to the Irishman, from Dublin, Damien Sheehy, who, courtesy of Burlington Publishers, visited our school and gave a cultural talk about the United Kingdom.

A speech about: 

- the British flag ("The Union Jack"), (Info about this is also in this blog: HERE1)

- the difference between Northern Ireland, part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland, (Info about this is also in this blog:  HERE2).

- why British drive on the left, which countries do so and the reason why. (Info about this is also in this blog:  HERE3).

Damien with Guillermo González (B1ºB) explaining the reason why the British drive on the left.

- Scottish traditions (pagpipes, kilts, tartan...)

The speech came together with some quiz questions for the audience to answer:

1- Which country (out of 4 given) doesn't drive on the left? 

Answered correctly by Martin Golán (B1ºB), who took the help of 50%. The answer was Iceland.

2- What's the most forgotten object on the London tube?

Answered correctly by Victoria Orrico (B1ºC) & Alejandro Fernández (B1ºB), who took the help of the phone call to Damien's mum. The answer being the mobile phone, the object that is mostly lost on the tube.

Damien's mum helping Victoria & Alejandro with their answer via a phone call.

3- Where is Welsh mostly spoken outside the UK?

Question for Román Alemparte (B1ºA), who had the help of the rest of the audience, but the answer was really unexpected: Patagonia in Argentina. So they didn't answer it correctly.

The audience voting to help Román with his answer.

Damien with some of the boys and their English teacher at the end of the speech:

MODAL VERBS BASICS VIDEO LESSON