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COVID-19 Advice for the Public (World Health Organization)-Learn and Reflect

Pandemics: The Big Picture

“Pandemics: The Big Picture” από World Economic Forum διατίθεται με άδεια χρήσης CC by-nc-sa-2.0

STEP 1: Load the following link. Read and/or watch the basic measures that WHO (World Health Organization) proposes to protect yourself and others against the new coronavirus. Use an online dictionary to help you with vocabulary.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

STEP 2: Take two online quizzes to check your knowledge on coronavirus.

https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/fact-or-fiction-how-much-do-you-actually-know-about-coronavirus-covid-19

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/17/learning/News-Quiz-Coronavirus.html

STEP 3: Answer the following questions.

QUESTIONS: Which basic protective measure from the ones you read in STEP 1 do you find the most difficult to follow? Why? What can you do/have you already done to refine your habits?  Is there any tip you can share to help others follow this protective measure? How can this measure help you and the community? How do you spend your day now that we are all staying at home?

The Singing Tree: An Interactive Installation

Technology, art and inspiration have combined into a glorious interactive Christmas tree in the halls of the  world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Every year, the museum commissions a designer to create a Christmas tree for the Museum’s Grand Entrance. This year, it’s the set designer Es Devlin who has installed a mesmerizing, constantly changing audiovisual Christmas tree, to which you are asked to contribute. You don’t have to be in the city to do so. You can actually do it online! Watch the video below to see how this year’s tree was made, where Es Devlin’s inspiration came from and how people actually transform the tree. For more information visit the relevant page and if you feel like it, contribute your own wish-word to the tree!

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/christmas-tree-installations

 

 

Two Poems About Rain

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Rain In Summer

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night –
And I love the rain.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Read the poems. List all the verbs that the poets use for the rain. Describe the images of the rain in each poem. Are there any similes in the poems? Compare the two poems: how are they similar/different? What feelings do you get from them?

You can copy these poems on a template or write your own and create some art. Get inspired!

Basketball Shape Poem

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International Workers’ Day: Women In The Development Of The Labour Movement

International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some places, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists, communists and anarchists and occurs every year on May Day, 1 May, an European spring holiday since the late 19th and early 20th century. The date was chosen for International Workers’ Day by the Second International, a pan-national organization of socialist and communist political parties, to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 May 1886. The events were triggered off during a labor rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. The police responded with wild gunfire, killing several people in the crowd and injuring dozens more. Find out more about May Day along with language activities here.

The struggle for better labour conditions has been long and alive. What is often neglected in textbooks and the media is the impact women have made in labor history despite the numerous roles women have played to organize, unionize, rally, document, and inspire workers to fight for justice. Relevant sources and material follow below.

“Bread and Roses” is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song by James Oppenheim. It is commonly associated with the successful textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Women in the labor movement at buzzfeed.com

Women in labor unions at shmoop.com

Women who sparked labour movement at theguardian.com

Women in labor history at  zinnedproject.org

Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 digital photo collection at zinnedproject.org

Bread and Roses slogan at en.wikipedia.org

Teaching Resources at bctf.ca

Poems for workers-An anthology at marxists.org

When Slang Vocabulary Becomes Official

Do you know and use any slang words and phrases? Do you rock your slang vocabulary or does it often deck you?

Browse the following links to find:

Are These Back-To-School Tips Good Enough For You?

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photo credit: pixabay.com

Happy or not, the new school year is starting soon and all kinds of tips and advice on how to prepare best for it swarm in mind. From back-to-school essentials to organizational skills or strengthening of social life all contribute to a hopeful and exciting school year.

The following USNews article, 3-Back-To-School-Resolutions-for-High-School-Students  by Alexandra Pannoni focuses on just three essential resolutions that can prompt speculation and discussion in the EFL classroom during the first days. Read the article and find out what these resolutions are. Then use the extra links to formulate a wider view on the issues involved so you can state your personal opinion.

The whole activity could also generate various writing tasks like opinion essays or a collaborative table of Best Tips For A Successful School Year.

EXTRA LINKS

Digital Footprint  by

kidsmart.org.uk

teachhub.com

teachthought.com

telstra.com.au

Extracurricular Activities by

education.more4kids.info

kidshealth.org

 

Regular Houses VS Tiny Houses: Are You For Or Against Micro-Living?

photo credit: https://littleyellowdoor.wordpress.com/

Would you do it? Would you deny regular home space and fit your needs into the size of, say, a roomy shed? In fact, this is already happening around the globe. The tiny house movement has been swelling in the past few years while lifestyles, needs and consequently house sizes are shrinking. This trend has even found ground at schools as a project idea.

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Plant Your Coffee Cup!

Imagine every cup of coffee that consumers discard turning into a beautiful tree. Imagine the immense problems of deforestation and overgrazing being tackled by just sinking your empty cup of coffee into the ground. How cool would that be?

Well, a company in California called Reduce. Reuse. Grow has already imagined and designed  a biodegradable coffee cup that has seeds embedded in its walls so that it can be planted and grown! There are instructions on the bottom of the cup about how you do it.

The whole project was placed on fund raising some months ago and is now 100% funded waiting for the next step to be taken: commercial testing and potential partnering.

Read the following relevant article “A Biodegradable Coffee Cup With Embedded Seeds That Grow Into a Tree When Planted” posted at laughingsquid.com for more details. There are images explaining the planting procedure further down in this article.

 CHALLENGE!!!

Can you give instructions on how to plant a coffee cup successfully so it can grow into a tree? Remember to use sequencing words. After your attempt check how you have done by reading The World’s First Plantable Coffee Cup