Homework for 1 April - not a joke!

Here are the things we agreed you'd do for Wednesday, 1 Apr:
1. on your blogs, post three words or phrases from the video on how pandemics spread with explanations and example sentences
2. find a fake story about COVID-19 epidemic (could be a really stupid or small one) and explain how you know that it is fake
3. do this exercise on indirect questions and reporting
Reporting March 2020

How pandemics spread

Watch this video about how pandemics develop and answer the questions below.
Choose three words and/or phrases from this video that you think are worth learning. Make sure you can teach the rest of us what they mean (explain the meaning, give examples, put the phrase in context).
How pandemics develop?

Questions

1.       What can the pandemic curve look like? What does the shape of the curve depend on?

2.       Why is it so important to ‘flatten the curve’?

3.       How does the metaphor with lily pads and the pond help us understand pandemics?

4.       Why do pandemics die down?

5.       How differently did Philadelphia and St Louis respond to the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918? What were the results?

The Columbian Exchange - vocabulary

Study the words and try to recall how they were used in the video.

VERBS	NOUNS	ADJECTIVES	ADVERBS
to diminish to expose sb to sth to decrease / decrease of to conquer to succumb to to starve / starvation to grow crops to breed animals to double to vaccinate sb / vaccine to wipe sth out	variation smallpox measles mumps typhus chicken pox venereal syphilis a culprit a villain malnutrition a survivor abundance of famine extinction immunity / immune an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) an STI	susceptible to infertile revolutionary demanding impoverished	continually dramatically definitely inadvertently

Soap and viruses

Here is a video on why washing our hands is an effective way of fighting viruses.
How soap kills viruses

A. Watch the film and make sure you can answer these questions (do it in your notebook, not on the blog):

1.       Why does washing hands with water doesn’t help to get rid of viruses?

2.       In what way does soap help destroy viruses?

3.       What role does water play in this process?

4.       Why do we need to wash our hands for 20 seconds?

5.       What experiment is shown in the video?

6.       Why is hand sanitiser not as effective as soap?

B. When answering the questions, try to use these words, which were used in the film:

to prevent sth

to annihilate sth

to be surrounded by

to stick to sth

to float

to dissolve in sth

a two-sided molecule

to be attracted to water / fat

to pull sth apart

literally

to demolish sth

to rinse

harmless

down the drain

to glow

UV light

to come off

C. On your blog, answer the question below in a 100-word paragraph. In your text use at least three of the words from the vocabulary list above.
Is social distancing that we all have to practise now difficult or easy for you? Why?

Dear 1b

My dear students,

I'd like to express my deep concern over your lack of activity on your blogs.
You have received two different tasks and, so far, only one of you has uploaded their work on their blog.
Let me remind you: this is not holiday time. We're likely to be in this crisis mode for quite some time. So you'd better get a grip and start working. Prove to me (and everyone else) that you are responsible, independent and disciplined people who can make progress without direct supervision.

All the best,
Anna Sikorzyńska

Something to do while the school stays closed (2)

Here ia a conversation about how coronavirus can be dealt with in some countries:
How to deal with the epidemic

Watch it and then write a response to this question on your blogs:
Do you think the response of the Polish society and government to the coronavirus epidemic has been appropriate? 

Something to do while the school is closed

Watch this video about the consequences of Europeans conquering the Americas and make sure you can answer the questions below. 
The Columbian Exchange

VIEWING QUESTIONS

1.What diseases were brought  to America by Europeans? Which disease was ‘a gift’ from the New World?

2.Which animals were imported to America from The Old World and how were they used?

3.Give examples of The New World food that was exported to Europe.

4.Why did Africans come to America?

5.Give 3 positive and 3 negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange.

Then write a short paragraph on your blog, answering this question:

Is the impact of globalization on our life positive or negative?

Flying penguins explained

Flying Penguins

Video for Monday 9 March

The Science of Lying