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That's the kind of site that could be part of my research to prepare resources to teach students how to talk about the current pandemic.

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COVID-19: Talking about coronavirus in English - vocabulary & expressions

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Understand and learn to speak about COVID-19 in English. In this important session, I'll explain the most common vocabulary related to the coronavirus. You'll learn: nouns such as symptoms, outbreak, pandemic, transmission, and social distancing; verbs and expressions such as to ban gatherings, to protect the vulnerable, to restrict travel, and to flatten the curve; adjectives such as contagious, symptomatic, mandatory, and unprecedented.

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A Dictionary guide to Coronavirus-related Words

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A Dictionary guide to Coronavirus-related Words

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Doing research on COVID-19: dictionaries keeping track of changes in language

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Deciphering the terminology you're likely to hear

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Merriam-Webster unabridged

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The issue of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has brought into the public conversation a number of other terms to watch out for. Use this list for a guide to pandemics, social distancing, quarantining, and more.

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To read from the comfort of your home office

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A Collection of Words for Working from Home

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Throw on your loungewear, cocoon yourself in the blankets, and binge-watch your favorite show. Not sure what any of that means? Then read this list of words for working from home.

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Here's a glossary appropriate for upper intermediate students (B1).

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This glossary of terms related to coronaviruses and in particular is intended for learners of English though it may be of interest to a wider audience. In times of crisis, knowing and understanding the terminology involved may help counter some of the fearmongering and lies that such times breed.

A virus is a micro-organism, too small to be seen without a microscope, that causes infectious disease in animals and humans.

In December 2019 a new disease was identified in China. On investigation, the disease was caused by a "new" virus of the coronavirus family, and has since been officially named COVID-19.

It is believed that COVID-19 originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, though whether zoonotically via a local live animal market or through viral manipulation in a local laboratory using American research and money remains a mystery to the public. It subsequently spread to other countries and was officially pronounced a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.

Peter Heilig, Dr. med. Univ.-Professor
Each of the following terms, listed in alphabetical order, has 1) a basic definition and 2) an example sentence showing how the term may be used in context.

asymptomatic (adjective): showing no symptoms of a particular disease - She had no idea her husband had coronavirus because he was asymptomatic.

carrier (noun): a person or animal that transmits a disease to others, whether suffering from it themselves or not - People who are asymptomatic can still be carriers.

carry (verb): be infected with a disease and able to transmit it to others, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic - Some people may carry coronavirus without knowing it.

community spread (noun): transmission of a disease directly within a community and not by importation from a foreign source - With this many new positive cases, the evidence suggests that we now have community spread right here in our county.

contact tracing (noun): identification and monitoring of people who may have had contact with an infectious person - By insisting on strict contact tracing as soon as someone was potentially infected, they managed to control the spread of the disease.

contagious (adjective): describing a disease that can pass from person to person, usually by direct contact; describing a person with such a disease. See infectious - Patients who are still contagious are kept in isolation.

COVID-19 (noun): official name for the novel coronavirus disease that emerged in China in 2019. COVID-19 = COrona VIrus Disease-20 19 - All countries are requested to report any new confirmed case of COVID-19 within 48 hours.

covid performance art (noun): manifested mostly in the form of high-production-value TikTok videos of nurses with time on their hands mindlessly dancing in often-empty hospitals - The production value is far too high and hospital protocols are likely too strict for this covid performance art to have been made "organically". Someone likely paid to have them produced. The question is why.

epidemic (noun): occurrence of a particular disease in a large number of people in a particular area. See outbreak, pandemic - The city was devastated by an epidemic of cholera in the 19th century.

herd immunity (noun): an indirect protection from a disease resulting from a large percentage of the population gaining immunity (as a result of either recovering from the disease or being vaccinated) - This virus is unlike other coronaviruses because there is currently no herd immunity to it, he said. According to Prof. Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, herd immunity to Covid-19 by vaccination is not possible because it still infects vaccinated individuals.

iatrogenesis (noun): illness or death caused by a doctor or nurse conducting medical treatment - During the Covid panic, and mainly in New York, an estimated 30,000 Americans were killed by ventilators and iatrogenesis in April 2020.

infectious (adjective): describing a disease that can be transmitted through the environment; describing a human or animal capable of spreading an infection. See contagious - Avoid the dogs as they may still be infectious.

isolation (noun): separation of infected people from healthy people for serious contagious diseases like COVID-19 - Travellers arriving from the infected area were immediately put in isolation.

mask (noun): a piece of fibre or cloth that fits over the nose and mouth to protect other people from the wearer's germs and/or the wearer from germs in the air - The World Health Organization have historically offered varying advice on whether or when people should wear masks.

outbreak (noun): a sudden occurrence of a disease (or other unpleasant thing). See epidemic, pandemic - There was another outbreak of the disease in 1993 but the cause was uncertain.

pandemic (noun): occurrence of a particular disease throughout a whole country or the world. See epidemic, outbreak - Just after the First World War there was a pandemic of flu which killed up to 40 million people worldwide.

pandemic amnesty (noun): a proposed official agreement to take no action against people guilty of crimes during the Covid pandemic such as forced vaccination or illegal deprivation of liberty - LET'S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY. Let's focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.

patient zero (noun): the person identified as the first to become infected with a disease in an outbreak - Authoritites usually try to determine who patient zero was in any given outbreak as can help answer important questions about how, when and why it started.

PCR test (noun): test that detects viral particles in blood or other body fluids. (PCR = polymerase chain reaction) - Although the PCR test is widely used to diagnose Covid-19, Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in connection with his invention of the PCR method, doubted the validity of using the PCR test for this purpose.

quarantine (noun): isolation and monitoring of people who seem healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop symptoms - For centuries it's been common for ships arriving from infected areas to be kept in quarantine at the docks, originally for 40 days which is where the term comes from.

SARS-CoV-2 (noun): Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2; final official name for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. (This virus was previously known as 2019-nCoV.) - SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus and COVID-19 is the name of the disease.

self-isolate (verb): isolate oneself; put oneself in quarantine, away from other people - The prime minister's wife has tested positive for COVID-19 and the couple are now self-isolating and working by phone and Skype.

social distancing (noun): practice of encouraging people to minimize contact and closeness, whether by banning large or even small groups/meetings (football matches, nightclubs), or by maintaining a minimum distance between people (for example one metre or two metres) - The government has instructed schools to take social distancing measures to slow the spread of the virus.

superspreader (noun): person infected with a virus etc who transmits or spreads it to an unusually large number of people - One so-called "superspreader" in South Korea infected at least 37 people at her church with the virus.

vax (noun, informal): vaccine, vaccination - Have you had your flu vax this year? | anti-vaxer, anti-vaxxer (noun): a person opposed to vaccines and vaccination on principle - Some anti-vaxxers are against vaccines on religious grounds and others just believe vaccines are dangerous to health.

ventilation (noun): the supply of air to the lungs to support the breathing of an ill or anaesthetized person; used liberally on Covid-19 patients at the start of the pandemic until the practice was found to kill patients - We very very readily would put people on mechanical ventilation...which might have actually caused more harm than good. (Dr Fauci)

ventilator (noun): a device used medically to support the breathing of an ill or anaesthetized person; the use of a ventilator is called ventilation - The early use of ventilators/ventilation "in NY City during the pandemic killed many people" (Dr Kevin Bass).

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The language we use to talk about the new coronavirus disease that started in 2019 - COVID-19. With definitions and example sentences. Vocabulary for ESL learners and teachers.

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Vocabulary exercises: Talking about COVID-19

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Vocabulary exercises: Talking about COVID-19

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1. People who show no signs of a given disease are a) asymptomatic b) unsymptomatic c) unsympathetic 2. Which is a virus? a) COVID-19 b) influenza c) coronavirus 3. Which is a disease? a) COVID-19 b) SARS-CoV-2 c) coronavirus

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Great site from The New York Times! Here students can find articles on the pandemic.

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World News for Students of English

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English news and easy articles for students of English

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What is Level 2

Level 2 is for intermediate students. In this level, we use 2000 most important words in spoken English. In our short news we mark every word which is from a higher level. When you understand all words in Level 2, you know 2000 words in English and it is time to go to Level 3. When you read and listen to Level 2 every day, very soon you can know 2000 most important words in English.

How to improve your English with News in Levels:

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Level 2 - English news and easy articles for students of English

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Level 2 is written for intermediate students. It has 3000 words. It is enough for speaking with foreigners but not native speakers yet.

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Here's a selection of healthy recipes suggested by the World Health Organization to be read and discussed with students.

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Research on Child Labour for Project Work (year 9)

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Research on Child Labour for Project Work (year 9)

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Bookmark 1 on Diigo

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Bookmark 2

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HUMANIUM * We make children's rights happen

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Research on English-speaking Countries for Project Work (year 8)

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Research on English-speaking Countries for Project Work (year 8)

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Bookmark 3

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The Home Office list of English Speaking Countries

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Bookmark 4

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English Speaking Countries List | Lingoda Online English Language School

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Listening Test for A1/A2 students (a rather frustrating experience with SurveyMonkey)

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Web survey powered by SurveyMonkey.com. Create your own online survey now with SurveyMonkey's expert certified FREE templates.

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Students will be invited to finish the story. Each group will add a paragraph or continue and create an exciting ending.

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Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more. Author: Maria João Carvalho, Catalog: A Canoe Adventure, Published: Apr 24, 2020

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Memes on Environmental Issues (Years 8 and 9)

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Memes on Environmental Issues (Years 8 and 9)

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Created with ToonyTool to be used as an example. Students will have to make their own.

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Created with ToonyTool.

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Made with ToonyTool. Great tool for memes and posters to raise awareness on environmental issues.

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It's possible to use MyStorybook to make a portfolio with students' resources on Environmental Problems.

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We hope that our work will encourage you to actively help protect our planet! by majocar

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Students can use Blabberize to draw attention to endangered species.

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Only after I made this video did I realize that Susana had used the same template. Well it proves it's a nice one!
In this case I'm using it to revise the Future (will+infinitive) and the First Conditional for year 7 students.

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Congratulations!
You're almost there. Once your Powtoon is ready to be downloaded we'll send you an email.
If this Powtoon contains live video, the export process may take a bit longer.

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Powtoon.com | See What I Created with Powtoon - Mission Impossible

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Powtoon gives you everything you need to easily make professional videos and presentations that your clients, colleagues, and friends will love! No design or tech skills are necessary - it's free, easy, and awesome!

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I adapted a worksheet for my year 9 students. Topic Work

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The World of Work | Interactive Worksheet by Maria João Carvalho | Wizer.me

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Wizer.me free interactive worksheet - The World of Work by teacher Maria João Carvalho

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I created a set of activities from scratch for my year 7 students. Topic: City Life.

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Wizer.me free interactive worksheet - City Life by teacher Maria João Carvalho

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Before reading the short story A Serious Case by Chris Rose (LearnEnglish British Council) students will be asked to analyse this word cloud and guess the main topic of the story. It would also be interesting to ask them to write a short story of their own including the words that stood out: friend, spider, psychiatrist, day, plastic. Then they would read A Serious Case and compare it with their own.

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Another option for the same activity

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Topic: Work
Year 9 students
Before reading the article

ANDRÉ SARAIVA: “THE NIGHT IS NOT A TIME, IT'S A PLACE” about a graffiti artist students try to guess what he does, details about his life and they will be asked to elaborate on the topic Graffiti ( is it art or vandalism?, what's the role of graffiti ...)

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A mind map to teach media-related vocabulary: Broadcast Media

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Another mind map to teach vocabulary: Print Media

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Year 9 students will be asked to make a mind map with information on their future job.  This will be their reference with the topics they have to focus on. They can use the same template or choose another one.

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software - Canva

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software - Canva

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Teaching shops and public places (year 7 students)

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The British tend to use the word SHOP and the Americans STORE. Butcher's is the abbreviated form of butcher's shop. So 's is the Possessive Case.

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Words to describe a city and talk about City Life.

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Life in the Future through our students' eyes. Practising the Future and First Conditional

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Using Padlet to promote creative writing

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Using Padlet to promote creative writing

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A contest involving several classes. Students had to imagine a different ending for a story.

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Using Padlet to share resources and promote a debate (Class 8C)

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Using Padlet to share resources and promote a debate (Class 8C)

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Reflecting on the pandemic, its consequences and our future

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Students from class 9C had to interview a relative and collect information about that person's job. They had to make a video or a presentation.

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Class 7B made wordclouds to learn Irregular Plurals.

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Students from class 9C share their work via Padlet.