Posts

Showing posts with the label article-based

Beauty standards

Image
 Which picture corresponds to which paragraph? True or false? Pale skin was more popular than tanned skin until the 20th century. In the 17th century it was fashionable to have insects for pets. Paduang women with short necks couldn't marry. Dinka women from Sudan think that thin men are ugly. Find the opposites: handsome thin long tanned brave blond cowardly dark-haired fair-skinned fat short ugly

Nature and quarantine

Image
What is going on in the picture? What is the police officer doing? Why do you think this happened? How is this related to the coronavirus lockdown situation? https://youtu.be/78EvLw2hs2U Watch the video and say how the behaviour of the animals has changed since the start of the lockdown. Read the article and choose the best title: Animals invade cities Lockdown experiences Unexpected threat Learning new lessons Cottontail rabbits in the gardens of Milan, dolphins in the port of Cagliari, fish swimming in the canals of Venice. While humans are locked inside their homes, nature quickly conquers new urban spaces. What does this teach us? It only took a few weeks of Coronavirus lockdown for animals to crawl out of their dens and finally start imposing their presence in the streets, gardens and squares of the large Italian cities that are now unusually quiet after people have been locked inside their homes to better deal with the health emergency. While half the planet has now become sort o...