Dec 9, 2021
Lesson 4/4 45min
Hello Margarita!
Homework was to do pages 15, 16 and 17.
Today we'll do the Listening sections,page 14
and proceed in our book.
Quizlet:
https://quizlet.com/au/180282394/cae-result-unit-1-flash-cards/
Dec 2, 2021
Lesson 3/4 45min
Hello Margarita!
Homework do page 13 and read page 15
Today we'll do the Listening section
and proceed in our book.
Nov 24, 2021
Lesson 2/4 45min
Hello Margarita! Happy Thanksgiving!
Homework: page 13 and read page 15
Today we'll do the Listening section
and talk about the Thanksgiving holiday.
Nov 18, 2021
Lesson 1/4 45min
Hello Margarita!
Today we'll begin our study for the Cambridge Advanced Exam.
Homework was: pdf page 11 parts 1 and 2 and look at the Vocabulary and Grammar on page 13.
Nov 11, 2021
Lesson 3/3 45min
Hello Margarita!
Today discussed our study for the Cambridge Advanced Exam and began Unit 1.
BNE offers daily practice with a Listening Activity:
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2111/211101-cop26.html
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2111/211101-cop26-dictation-01.html
VOA news videos do the same.
Oct 27, 2021
Lesson 2/3 45min
Hello Margarita!
US national parks are overcrowded. Maybe ‘selfie stations’ will help.
This reminds me of our Woodlands lesson. During this time of stress people are flocking to the forests! Here's a website about the benefits of forest bathing.
Oct 20, 2021
Lesson 1/3 45min
Hello Margarita,
Today we'll discuss China's nouveau riche with this GQ video series.
1. How do the Chinese view luxury and luxury products?
2. What does it mean to the Chinese to engage in the sports and leisure activities of the wealthy?
3. What you think of Sarah Jane Ho's lessons for the Chinese nouveau riche?
4. How did the banana eating lesson seem to you?
5. What was your impression of the Austrian village in China?
6. It's not surprising that rich Chinese send their kids to boarding school, but it's surprising to me that their
government lets them do this. What do you think?
7. The episode about millionaires finding true love was interesting. What did you think?
8. How did the luxury shopping look to you?
9. The Chinese will pay $295 for a hamburger? Is that smart? Remember the $100 jar of British air? These people would buy it as joke or a novelty item!
10. What about $30,000 headphones? or $25,000 a night for a hotel room?
Oct 7, 2021
Lesson 1/ 45min
Hello Margarita,
This time you will teach me all about muslin based on this BBC article.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210316-the-legendary-fabric-that-no-one-knows-how-to-make
Oct 7, 2021
Lesson 1/ 45min
Hello Margarita,
Today, ‘Like Uber for snake emergencies’: tech takes the sting out of bites in rural India.
Sept 23, 2021
Lesson 5/5 45min
Hello Margarita,
Our topic is how the Woodland benefits city kids' mental health.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2107/210723-woodland.html
Vocabulary.com
https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/7967768
People who live on tree-lined blocks have fewer heart problems
https://www.studyfinds.org/green-neighborhood-long-live-healthy-heart/
This slideshow offers 3 solutions to stress and the supporting science.
1. Intuition has long thought that woodland are beneficial now science can tell us why. What does Russian wisdom say about the benefits of the forest?
2, We spend less time in nature: 90% of our time is spent indoors causing stress to build up. How much time do you spend indoors?
3. Had you heard about negative ions before?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion
4. Negative ions from water and photosynthesis float in the air, enter our noses, go into our bloodstream and to our heart and brain. Have you ever thought about how important content of the air we breathe is?
5. Some people have negative ion machines in their homes. What do you think about this?
6. What do you think of "forest bathing"?
7. Phytoncides is described as tree air or 'spring in the air' can kill bacteria in our bodies. Should this be prescribed as a treatment for patients? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoncide
8. Geosmin is also beneficial although I have not found exactly how it helps the human body. However it is true that the smell of rain on the earth is very pleasant and gives us a sense of welbeing.
Sept 16, 2021
Lesson 4/5 45min
Hello Margarita!
Today we can do a follow-up to our lesson about the benefits of trees (woodland).
We can read and discuss the Dr Seuss book called "The Lorax".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLFHdMNin0c
Discussion
Sept 10, 2021
Lesson 3/5 45min
Hello Margarita!
Discrimination dominates the music and investment industries
September 2, 2021
Lesson 2/5 45min
Hello Margarita!
Europe’s unluckiest train station gets new lease of life as a hotel.
I cannot find a good video for our topic. Just watch a minute or two of this Spanish couple's review to get a look at this place.