Today we're back to school. Classes begin again, with more students in them and the rest of COVID19 rules still in use: masks, open windows, set entries, classrooms for each group...
This year I'll personally be teaching 2ºESO, 4ºESO and 1ºBAC and each of my groups will have their own virtual online classroom with links to posts on this blog.
COVID-19 stole our hugs and kisses but it couldn't steal our ability to work together against this pandemic.
Dancing to the same beat, the IES Plurilingüe Rafael Dieste (A Coruña) and the Granton Middle & High School (Wisconsin), want to send a message of hope in the fight against COVID-19.
Thanks to students, teachers, administration and service staff for taking part in the making of this video.
Today the USA celebrate their own great tradition of THANKSGIVING that is followed tomorrow by their great merchandising export BLACK FRIDAY. But this year both activities will be conditioned by the COVID pandemic.
We're including a link with guidance for a safe Thanksgiving celebration, which we could adapt to our Christmas celebrations in a month's time.
Finally this weeks sees us all going back to school. Here's a video with some tips to prepare for this year's weird comeback. After the video you have a questionnaire to answer with your opinions about studying during quarantine, this year's school comeback and your views about what you need to do in English. I'd like all my students to take part in the questionnaire and send it back to me, so I can see how things are. Thanks. The results of the questionnaire will be shown on another post.
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At the beginning of another school year with many doubts and questions, what we surely know for certain is that until things get back to normal, if they ever do, we won't have subject classrooms any more. The students of a group will stay in their classrooms and the teachers will be going to them.
The picture shows what my subject classroom (ING3) had on the wall board with projects my students had done over the years. As this won't be my only classroom, the works have been all taken down and this post is a way to remember them.
Hope we'll be able to go back to this classroom system again some day.
This year I'll be teaching two 4th ESO groups, two 1st BAC groups and two 2nd BAC groups. Hopefully I'll already know a majority of students as we've worked together last year, so I'll already know how you are in English, which will help a lot when dealing with the new course.
Due to last term's lockdown, there will be changes in the order of lessons in some courses (1st BAC) to make sure we study things we didn't do in the last course. In 2nd BAC the book already puts in earlier lessons things that weren't seen in 1st BAC this last course.
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10 key Coronavirus vocabulary you need to understand: - SOCIAL DISTANCING - SELF-ISOLATION - HERD IMMUNITY - HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS - FLATTENING THE CURVE - STOCKPILING & PANIC BUYING - ZOONOTIC - VACCINE - CORONAVIRUS vs COVID-19 - BEST PRACTICE
Watch this video from the BBC with instruction to prevent Coronavirus or any other virus diseases. The telephone numbers mentioned in the video are for the UK only. In Galicia there's a free-phone information number 900 400 116 or 061.
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At the peak of the coronavirus histeria, it's worth reminding that the best way to prevent the spreading and protect ourselves is a correct personal hygiene, which includes washing your hands. Because hands are the main gateway to the widespread of germs and viruses. Are we washing our hands correctly? Watch the video below to check.
All international media is full of news about the incidence of the Coronavirus. here's a video with some basic information about it. To know more about how to prevent it, click HERE.
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