Taking you on a spring journey through Spain, Slovenia, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece, “Rick Steves’ European Easter” celebrates this 2,000-year-old story in a variety of cultures.
Tag: Educational Video
Keep your hands nice and clean
Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :
What on earth is it?
They’re so tiny we can’t see them
They’re invisible to us
Viruses can make you sick
Under a microscope
Attach to different parts of our body
A day or week off school
The common cold
A stuffy nose
They make you feel really really sick
You can rest for a while
This type of coronavirus
A shortness of breath
They struggle to breath
A natural immune system
Severe symptoms
Not able to fight it
Stop the virus from spreading
Stop it from spreading
Wash your hands often
Don’t let people sneeze around you
Sneeze into your elbow
All sorts of nasties
Keep everybody safe
Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :
A global health emergency
A really simple experiment you can do at home
Dishwashing liquid or some soap
Viruses are obviously invisible
Viruses and bacterial
Wash those off by rinsing our hands in water
Why soap and water is so important
You can use regular soap
Wash away the virus
Wash your hands thoroughly
Rinse their hands in water
Pout some soap on the top
Make sure your palms are thoroughly rubbed together
The back of each hand
In between your fingers
Interlock them and rub your fingers together
Clean inside your nails
Make sure your wrists are also covered
Don’t forget your thumbs
Sing the song Happy Birthday twice
Rinse off all the soap
Rubbing your hands together
Final bit
Make sure that you dry your hands with a clean towel
And there you go
How to wash your hands nice a easy
Birdwatching – How to attract birds to your garden
[The Guardian]
Vocabulary to learn after watching the video :
We’re all lined up with our binoculars looking
We’ll get the guide books out
There’s just a real buzz
There’s a fantastic diversity of wild life around us
This is the world that we live in
We should be interacting with it and connecting with it a little bit more
Our species count at the moment is 63
Your classic garden birds
With a big, resplendent (shining brightly) orange chest, lovely
They are brightly colored.. not brown.. really easy to spot
Bird watching is a very accessible pastime
It’s entertaining, it’s educational, it’s fun and its free
If you want to encourage birds into your garden all you need to do is put out your bird feeders
It’s a very easy meal… It’s like a take away
Sunflowers seeds and peanuts will bring in a lot of species
Get a mixture of seed, you can put all sorts of things
Squidge it into a yogurt pot
Let it set for half an hour and then hang it out
Energy rich food for the birds
They want to come in, grab some food and then retreat
Many bird species feed on insects
Getting people connected with nature
If you get people bird watching they will be hooked for life
Vocabulary in Chunks 