Voluntourism

Watch the video and answer the questions (check your answers in "comments").

1. What are many Americans planning to do on holiday?
2. What kind of activities do they mention?
3. Why can doing this benefit your wellbeing?
4. What is "Charity Watch"?
5. Why is it necessary?
6. What is a good idea?

Click here to read about some pros and cons of this kind of tourism.

Ecotourism

Click here to listen and read about ecotourism (choose the speed and accent you prefer). 

Click here to read an article about the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of tourism.

Tourism

Click here to do a listening activity about green tourism in London.

Click here to read a text about tourism in Egypt.

Here a podcast about A Day Trip with a Difference.

Holidays and Travelling Vocabulary

Click here to see the presentation we saw in class. There are more posts related to this topic in "Holidays" and "Travelling" in contents.

School strike for climate- Greta Thunberg

Click here to listen to a talk by the Swedish girl Greta Thunberg. You can read the script.

The Future

Click here to look at old posts about this topic.

A short grammar explanation and exercise about the future continuous and future perfect here.

Cities of the future. Click here to listen to a podcast.

Environment and Climate Change

Food Wastage Footprint

Watch the video and complete the information. Check your answers in "comments".

1. The loss and waste of 1/3 of all the food the world produces each year means:

            -an ________________________

-all of the _________________________ used for growing, processing, packaging, transporting and marketing that food are wasted.

2. 28% of the world’s _____________________________________ grows crops that are wasted.

3. The water wasted in growing them equals the ______________________________ of the Zambese or the Volga rivers, an amount which could cover all the world’s water household needs.

4. Forests and ____________________________ are lost along with their ______________________.

5. Food producers can invest in better _______________ and _____________ technology to avoid food loss.

6. Food retailers can reduce prices of that imperfectly shaped vegetable and _________________ unsellable yet ______________ surplus grocery food to those in need.

7. Individual consumers can be:

            -more careful shoppers, use better methods to store and recycle __________________

            -and _________________ smaller _______________ in restaurants.

8. Policy makers can…

-develop capacities of food producers to adopt _______________ technologies.

-revise those ___________________ so perfectly safe food is not discarded.

-launch ______________________________ to inspire consumers to try to stop food wastage.

-reduce landfills through investments in transforming food waste into _________________ and biogas.

9. It will take the _______________________ of all to reduce food loss and waste so that all the natural resources used to produce food will end up as _________________ for the world’s population instead of as ___________________ in landfills.

Banning cars

Click here to read a text about a Spanish city that banned cars.

Ecological Footprint

The Living Planet Report ranked the UAE (United Arab Emirates) as having the highest per capita Ecological Footprint in the world. In response, an initiative was launched to better understand the Ecological Footprint and monitor consumption patterns in the country.


Watch the video and make notes. Why does the speaker mention the following? Check your answers in "comments".

o Footprint

o 57%

o 4.5

o Imported products

o Natural disasters

o Adopting new habits

Click here to listen and read  Click on "environment" in contents and have a look at old posts with vocabulary and more listening activities about the same topic.

Plazo de preinscripción EEOOII

Se ha abierto el plazo de preinscripción en la EOI de Albacete para el próximo curso 2019-2020. Por favor, comunicádselo a cualquier persona interesada en matricularse como alumno nuevo. Muchas gracias.



ABIERTO PLAZO DE ADMISIÓN ESCUELA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS DE ALBACETE 
                                                            9-23 MAYO 
• Enseñanza y certificación oficial de alemán, francés, inglés, italiano y español para extranjeros. 
• Niveles A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 y C2. 
• Si tienes entre 14 y 16, años matricúlate en cualquier idioma que no curses como primera lengua en tu instituto. A partir de 16 años, elige el idioma que más te guste. 
• Matrícula anual de 85 euros (120 horas lectivas + prueba de certificación) 
• Solicita realizar la prueba de nivel de competencia para acceder al curso que mejor se adapte a tu nivel. 
REUNIÓN INFORMATIVA MIÉRCOLES 15 MAYO 2019 
20:30 AULA 501 (5ª PLANTA)
EOI ALBACETE (Avda de España, 12) 

Technology report

Click here to do a very easy listening activity that provides some good ideas to speak about this topic.

Click here to watch a video about 5 technological advances on the brink of huge breakthroughs.

Writing a cover letter or email / application letter or email

                                                                 Click here to see an old post.

     Another post with an example here.

Future probability and possibility

Click here to review different ways to express probability.

 

Women in Technology

Click here to watch a video and do a comprehension activity.

The jobs will lose to machines- and the ones we won't

Watch the video and fill in the gaps. Use between one and three words in each one. Check your answers in "comments".

 A research at Oxford University concluded that one in every two jobs have a high risk of being ____________________________________ (1). 

 Machine learning is a powerful branch of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from ____________________________________(2) and mimic what humans can do. 

The speaker’s company, Kaggle, knows a lot about the jobs machines might automate or ____________________________________(3). 

Machine learning started in the early 90s with simple tasks such as assessing credit risks from ____________________________________ (4) but now it’s capable of far more difficult challenges. Last year scientists built algorithms able to match ____________________________________ (5) given by human ophthalmologists. 

Humans have no chance of ____________________________________ (6) on frequent, high-volume tasks. However, machines can’t handle novel situations without learning from ____________________________________(7) data- something humans can do. For instance, the physicist Percy Spencer did it when he invented ____________________________________(8). 

Therefore, the future of any single job will depend on to what extent that job is reducible to frequent, high-volume tasks or it involves tackling ____________________________________(9). 

Humans will be the ones creating marketing campaigns and developing ____________________________________(10).