WATCH THE CHRISTMAS VIDEO and ANSWER THE QUESTIONS (second and third year)

 Watch the video answer the questions

1)While watching the video (till  one minute )

Focus on the daughter. Write at least 3 sentences about her (her personality, her behaviour, her dreams)

Focus on the father. Write at least 3 sentences about him  (his personality, his behaviour, his problems)

2) Before watching the video till the end students are asked to predict what's going to happen

3) After having seen the video students should answer the question' What's the message of the video?', What's its meaning?'

Some of the best Christmas videos to be used for didactic activities

Some of the best Christmas videos which I've been using with the students in my school to learn both about Christmas vocabulary and Christmas festivity

 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/worst-christmas-presents

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/video-uk/christmas-shopping

Has lockdown taken women back to the 1950's( Watch the video and answer the questions)

 

While watching the video answer the questions

1.      How many hours do women work more than men these days?

2.      Who finds it more difficult to stay positive?

3.      How many women fully-worked before the pandemic?

4.      What’s a survey? Translate into Italian

5.      What does the word earnings mean? Give a synonym in English

6.      What improves productivity, according to Jayne-Anne Gadhya?

7.      What does flourish mean? Give a synonym in English

8.      According to what the journalist says who is more susceptible to Covid 19-men or women?

9.      According to the kind of research reported by Julia Gillard do men and women share the same amount of household chores these days?

10.   What do job losses mean? Give an explanation in English

11.   What’s the percentage of women working in health and caring professions?

12.   What does flexible working mean? Translate into Italian

13.   What does employment mean? Give a synonym in English

14.   Women are conditioned to stepping in doing more home taking the burden on because it’s just a kind of legacy. Explain this long sentence in another way in English.

15.   Give a synonym of the word burden

16.   What does Julia Gillard finally advocate for men and women. What’s the best thing for companies and their progress?

 

Webquest about Greta Thunberg

 Webquest about Greta Thunberg

Find information about Greta Thunberg

 

1)Who’s Greta Thunberg?

2)When’s her birthday?

3)Has she got any brothers or sisters?

4)Where is Greta from?

5) What’s her nationality?

6)How old is Greta Thunberg?

7) What are her parents’ names?

8) What does she study?

8)Greta has Asperger's Syndrome. What is it?

9)When did she start protesting?

10)Greta started a school strike by herself.What day of the week did Greta miss school?

11)Which magazine named Greta one of the most influential teens of 2018?

12)When did she organize her first global strike?

13)Why did Greta travel to the USA on a boat?

14)Who did she meet on February 26 2020?

15)How many important speeches has she done?

16)Where was her first  globalclimate strike?

17)She says to older people, "We don't want you to be hopeful, we want you to..."

18)What does Greta Thunberg fight for or against?

19)What change does Greta Thunberg want to see in the world?

20))What can we do to stop climate change in Greta's opinion?