Week 26: March 25th, 2020- Pangolins, Bats and Hope

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- Dear all, I'm uploading an exercise we're doing today. It's been designed by a teacher of the department, Nicola Holmes, to whom I want to express my gratitude for being so generous. It's a really good listening we can do together today. Please have this file open in your devices BUT ONLY LOOK AT THE FIRST PAGE.
- In preparation for the class I recommend you to be in front of a biggish screen, to be able to see the exercise, and have, if available, headphones on, as we're doing quite a lot of listening.
TODAY'S CLASS:
- We exchanged information about pangolins and bats.
- We listened to Mar's presentation on a voluntary project she did last year involving blind people and guide dogs in the USA. Thanks a lot Mar, I'm linking the vocabulary document you prepared.
- We did Nicola's exercise on a COVID 19 survivor in Wuhan. This is the exercise, together with the transcript and key. Here you have the audio. This was the first ingredient of hope.
- We also had a look about another hopeful side, the beginning of the spring. We saw a short video to extract  the four activities the specialist recommends to do at the beginning of the spring in your British garden.

Homework: on spring.
Choose one of these topics and tell us something about it for next class. You can prepare your presentation and send it to me too!

• Spring traditions
• Spring flowers
• Spring myths
• Spring equinox
• Spring allergies
• Spring weather
• Spring film releases (coronavirus time)
• Spring food