ES project how to

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Lesson 2-4

I'll go through the presentation quickly then you can ask questions, make groups and go through the presentation again before next week Monday so you can write down any other questions

Goals: at the end of this week:

1. You will have listened/read idioms and phrasal verbs about dealing with difficult situations.
   
2. You will have formed groups
3. you will have thought about the topics for the presentation
4. you will have written down any questions that you think of while going through the presentation again.

We find ourselves in unusual times. 

The pandemic of the Corona virus affects everyone. We watch the news on a daily basis to see what measures world leaders take and how society responds to these developments. Our school has been closed for a while and will stay closed until at least the May break. 

Those of us who are lucky enough to be well and virus-free

 may be finding the sudden changes to our lifestyles challenging. With this in mind, I thought we’d focus on words and phrases around the theme of dealing with difficult situations.

Let’s start with some nice idioms.

 If you make the best of it,

 you make a difficult situation as pleasant and positive as it can possibly be: For now, we’re stuck in this apartment, so we’ll just have to make the best of it.

If you look on the bright side,

 you think about the advantages of a difficult or bad situation: It’s not an ideal situation but, looking on the bright side, I get to spend more time with my family.

To count your blessings is

 to feel grateful for the good things in your life during a period in which there are lots of difficulties: We’re all healthy and we have food in the cupboard. You’ve just got to count your blessings, haven’t you?

If you rise to the challenge,

 you show strength of character in a bad situation, dealing successfully with it: Knowing Julia, I’m sure she’ll rise to the challenge.

Finally for idioms, in a difficult situation, if you grin and bear it, 

you accept it without complaining: There’s nothing you can do to change the situation. You just have to grin and bear it.

There are some useful phrasal verbs in this area too.

 If you put up with a bad situation, 

you accept it and deal with it: It’s a tricky situation for everyone but we have no choice – we just have to put up with it.

To get through a difficult period

 of your life is to manage to live through it: It’s going to be tough, but we’ll get through it together.

To resign yourself to something bad in your situation

 is to accept that you cannot change it: I don’t like working in the evenings but I’ve resigned myself to it.

Everyone is dealing with it in different ways.

There are already a lot of tips for adults on how to deal with working at home with their kids. 

But what about you?

Everyone is dealing with it in different ways.

How do you do things to stop yourself from feeling boxed up?

Everyone is dealing with it in different ways.

How do you get through this? 

Can you still concentrate? 

Can you stay away from the TV/Netflix/Shows/TikTok

What is your successformula (if you have one)?

Your assignment will be 

to make a tips/how to presentationclip about dealing with homeschooling and the lockdown. (That means your audience are students of your age group.)

So how do you do it:

Follow the next couple of slides as your How to guide to start this project that we are going to work on for the next 2 weeks.

Discuss and brainstorm in a group of 3

Make groups and 

come up with tips on what students could do at home to get through these times an still do well at school. 

think of a: Bonus tip 

on how to deal with being with your family constantly

Finish with 

topics you would like tips for

Create

 a presentation 

Then record the screen and create a voice-over to present your tips

You can create

A PowerPoint

A Prezi

A Powtoon

A presentation with any other presentation program

Everyone is going to speak

Next lesson

You will start the next step in the brainstorming session and structuring your How To clip

Sources:

https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2020/04/01/making-the-best-of-it-dealing-with-life-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/