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Thursday, April 28, 2022

ESTOU BEN NO MUNDO

MENOS PLÁSTICOS


Dentro do proxecto integrado de centro Estou ben no mundo o alumnado de 4º ESO estivo traballando no temas dos envases de plástico na nosa vida cotiá e de como podemos reducir o seu uso.

Estes foron o seus traballos:

1. Enquisa e reconto do promedio de envases plásticos por familias na clase e en toda na ESO.





2. O uso do plástico en cosmética e productos hixiénicos femeninos e as súas alternativas:



3. Como evitar o uso innecesario de plástico




Monday, February 1, 2021

HOW TO EXTRACT ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FROM A TEXT

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/covid-vaccines-what-are-the-implications-of-new-variants-of-virus

Covid vaccines: what are the implications of new variants of virus?

UK, South Africa and Brazil variants indicate changes may be needed

In common with others, the virus that causes Covid-19 mutates as it spreads. Most mutations have little or no effect, but some can change the behaviour of the virus. Mutations in a variant found in the UK in September has helped the virus spread more easily and potentially more dangerously. Further changes in variants that emerged in South Africa and Brazil may help the virus resist antibodies induced by vaccines and Covid infections from the first wave.

OPTION 1: ALL VIRUSES CHANGE AS THEY SPREAD AND COVID IS NO WAY DIFFERENT:  MUTATIONS HAVE EMERGED.

OPTION 2: COVID 19  WORDLWIDE SPREAD HAS TRIGGERED THE EMERGENCE OF DIFFERENT MUTATIONS (THAT CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE VIRUS).

OPTION 3: THE COVID PANDEMIA HAS HELPED NEW MUTATIONS TO APPEAR MAKING IT MORE RESILIENT TO VACCINES.

Why would the vaccines be updated?
If scientists spot
new variants of coronavirus that are resistant to current vaccines then the vaccines will need to be redesigned to make them effective again. The more people who have immunity, either through vaccination or past infection, the more evolutionary pressure there is on the virus to evolve around that immunity. And when there’s lot of virus around, as there is now, there are more opportunities for resistant variants to emerge.

TO FIGHT THE NEW VARIANTS VIROLOGISTS WILL HAVE TO REFORMULATE THE VACCINES . AS MORE POPULATION GETS INFECTED MORE RESISTANT THE VIRUS BECOMES.


How are vaccines redesigned?
It depends on the vaccine. There are
two vaccines being rolled out in the UK at the moment, one from Oxford/AstraZeneca, the other from Pfizer/BioNTech. Both contain genetic instructions for the spike protein which covers the surface of the virus. When the immune system encounters the spike protein it raises an army of antibody and T cells that is then primed to attack the virus should it come along. Updating the vaccine is not hard, at least conceptually: scientists simply replace the genetic code for the old spike protein with the code for the spike protein from the new variant.

The two existing vaccination procedures use mRNA to trigger an immune response ( antibody T cells that fight the virus back). By substituting the genetic code we will be able to defy the mutation .


How long does it take?

The vaccine can be redesigned on a computer within days. What takes more time is the manufacturing, testing and then large-scale production. Small batches of redesigned vaccine could be ready for testing within a month or two of the decision to update the formulation. Shots of the updated vaccine would then be tested in the laboratory to see whether they elicit the right immune response and do not raise any safety concerns. Regulators are in the process of deciding precisely what tests would be needed to make them confident an updated vaccine was safe and effective. It is highly unlikely they will require vaccines to go through a whole new round of clinical trials, just as seasonal flu shots are approved without such trials. As happened first time around, the updated vaccine could go into production while regulators pore over the safety and efficacy data, so that shots can be distributed as soon as the vaccine gets the green light. Though faster than updating flu vaccine, which is still grown in eggs, the whole process would still take months.

THE UPDATING PROCESS WON'T TAKE LONG BUT THE  SAFETY AND EFFICACY TESTING, REGULATIONS AS WELL AS PRODUCTION WILL DELAY ITS DISTRIBUTION.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

...FINAL COUNTDOWN...?


 

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE RIGHT EXPRESSIONS:

1.The House of Representatives shall be _______  _____ members ______ every second year.

2. The purchase of  a bulletproof vest is a ______________ expense.

 3. FBI has worked _______ in _____ ....to arrest and _______multiple individuals who _________ part in thr destruction.

4. We have _____________ over 160  case files.

5. " The brutality we _____ ______ on the 6th will ____ _____ ________ by the FBI."

6 . The __________ mob has _______ arrested for minor crimes like ___________________.

7. The President _________ storming the Capitol on Antifa people.

8. They _______ ________ your shirts, your hats, and ____________ your flag.

9. The House of Representatives passed a ____________ today asking Pence to _________the President__________ the 25th Amendment.

10.  ....even though their own lives ______ _______ by the coup that the President ________instigated.

 

 

 

Thursday, January 7, 2021

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?

 

Trump supporters breached into the Capitol

Something that had not happened since the British set fire to the Capitol in 1814.

Watch this speech by the great actor and presenter Stephen Colbert of The Late Show and answer the questions below:

1. How do Trump supporters call themselves?

2. What does GOP stand for?

3. Who was the first Republican president of the United States and what did he achieve?

4. When did the Republican Party emerge and who composed it?

5.  Supporters of the QAnon movement were among the crowd that stormed the Us Capitol. What is QAnon ? https://www.bbc.com/news/53498434

6. Mention some of the conspiracy theories . 
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/covid-top-10-current-conspiracy-theories/

7. Stephen Colbert mentions Stacey Abrams. Who is she?




Saturday, September 26, 2020

FUTURISTIC CITIES

 AKON CITY WANTS TO BE THE MODERN METROPOLIS

GO TO AKON CITY OFFICIAL WEBSITE AND FIND MORE INFORMATION TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

STEP 1


1. WHERE IS THIS PROJECT BEING DEVELOPED? GIVE EXACT LOCATION

2. WHO IS DEVELOPING IT?

3. WHAT ARE ITS PRINCIPLES?

4. WHY ARE OPEN SPACES SO IMPORTANT?

5. MENTION SOME OF THE DISTRICTS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.

STEP 2

Listen to the video and take notes of the most essential information


STEP 33

NOW READ THE CNN ARTICLE AND WRITE YOUR OWN REFLECTION ABOUT ALL THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE HEARD AND WATCHED . MINIMUM 14O WORDS


Monday, April 20, 2020

BBC NEWS ON SPAIN'S FARMING

WHAT IS  THE BBC SAYING ABOUT ...OUR FRUIT LABOURERS IN SPAIN?




1. What do most fruit laborers earn per one hour of work?

2. According to the law, how much should they be earning?

3. What is a shanty town?

4. Does their pay slip reflect the number of working hours?

5. How long do they normally work?

6. What is the temperature they have to stand while picking up fruit?

7. What is these workers main problem?

8. Why did Yusef report his boss for?

9. What are the workers on strike?

10. What does the companies owner say?