Halloween 2020

Labor School Students,

Halloween is approaching and to celebrate it at LaborEnglishZone we give you again a very interesting post on the origins of this holiday.

Have a nice Halloween and enjoy the post!

ESO 1 Remedial Task for ESO 2 Students

 

Dear ESO 2 students,

This is an announcement for those of you who have the subject pending from last year.

In order to pass ESO 1 English, you must complete a set of remedial activities for each term and hand them in to teacher Raquel following this schedule:

Term 1 task (unit 1, unit 2, unit 3): by Tuesday 15^th December.

Term 2 task (unit 4, unit 5, unit 6): by Tuesday 23^rd March.

Term 3 task (unit 7, unit 8, unit 9): by Monday 3^rd May.

You may find the aforementioned activities by clicking on each of the links above. However, as you know, the students concerned have already been provided with a printed copy of every task at school.

Those of you who fail to hand in their homework by the due date must sit an exam in May.

No copyright infringement intended. For educational, non-commercial purposes only.

Daylight Saving Time - Autumn 2020

Daylight saving time (DST)—also summer time in several countries, in British English, and European official terminology—is the practice of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.

When DST starts in central Europe, clocks advance from 02:00 CET to 03:00 CEST.  

Though mentioned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, the modern idea of daylight saving was first proposed in 1895 by and it was first implemented during the First World War. Many countries have used it at various times since then.

Why incompetent people think they're amazing?, by David Dunning

How good are you with money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that we’re not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities. David Dunning describes the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Lesson by David Dunning, directed by Wednesday Studio, music and sound by Tom Drew.

View full lesson at https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-incompetent-people-think-they-re-amazing-david-dunning.

 No copyright infringement intended. For educational, non-commercial purposes only.