Bon dia,
Des del departament d' idiomes de l' Institut d' Alcarràs us vull fer arribar una sèrie d' escrits que han fet alguns dels meus alumnes en llengua anglesa durant aquesta setmana.Tots ells han estat molt contents de participar en aquesta iniciativa.
Us vull donar les gràcies en el seu nom i en el meu per la tasca que porteu a terme en aquests temps tan confusos i difícils que ens toca viure.
Molts ànims i molta força!!!
Salutacions,
Salome Doladé
Professora d' anglès
CARTES:
From: Natalia Márquez Jiménez To: Dragon Covid
Dear Covid,
I shouldn’t call you in a loving way because you don’t deserve it but I will do it for education.
Since the beginning of this new decade that everyone waited so hopefully, when you appeared, you have only brought us worry and fear. Because of you, we are in our homes, missing moments of our lives, without being able to see the people we love and without being able to enjoy a walk in the park. You are destroying thousands of lives, thousands of families, and thousands of businesses that need to be reopened because many people live on them. So please stop and let us live.
I hope you know the legend of Saint George well because I want you to know that even if you don't go, this battle we are going to win it. I suppose you were wondering why we are going to win it. Well, it will all be thanks to the great work that our brave knights are doing. They face you every day to ensure that you gradually go extinct. They also save many princes and princesses who are infected and whose lives are in danger because of you.
We have never experienced this situation, but they say that from negative things you also learn many other things. Looking from the positive side you are helping us to be more supportive, to value more what we have and to collaborate all together without giving importance to our opinions. So enjoy this thank you well, because it’s the only one that I’m going to give you.
Finally, I politely ask you to disappear again because we are going to defeat you in this battle as in the legend.
Write a creative short text about SOLIDARITY AND COOPERATION DURING CONFINEMENT TIMES. Think about the situation we are líving to find your inspiration. It can be any kind of text: a letter, a poem, a tale, a short story…. Use your imagination!
(Open this letter in 2050 at eight o’clock)
23-04-2020, Alcarràs
Dear future Júlia,
Look at the clock, it will seem you that it is a normal hour. Thirty years ago, you were anxious for the needle marking this number. After a boring day, you went to open the window and clap your hands with all your strength. You spent this energy to show your gratefulness to all the people that couldn’t stay at home. Those who, day after day, put their health at risk to save other people. You greeted your neighbor, the ones that their faces transmitted you support and, thanks to them, you realize that you weren’t alone.
The days stopped being called Monday, Thursday, Wednesday… They were just called days. The meetings with friends and family meals became nostalgic video calls.
Grandparents crying on the other side of the screen without being able to hug their grandchildren was the most endearing moment of the day. At night you informed of how the panorama was outside, helplessness and fear were the words to describe your feelings when you saw reality.
You stopped counting the days that were left to finish the course, and you started to count how much time was left to go back to classes, to see your loved ones and never let them go again. You decided to do sport, though you didn’t know if you could show your abs on the beach or just watch them at the mirror when you will have a shower.
Spring came, you spent your favorite season of the year sunbathing on the terrace and changing the wardrobe. You left behind the coats and sweatshirts and you put the t-shirts, shorts, sandals and especially the masks more close at hand.
When you finish reading this letter, look around you, hug the people around you, don't be afraid to love and live the moments. Everything can change in a short time and I hope you have the luck to never regret not having done something.
Yours respectfully,
Júlia
THANKS
TO THEM
I write these lines from the hospital bed. Who would have
thought that my most wanted holiday will turn out to be a nightmare…
As soon as the alarm status was given, I decided that it
would be best to stay away from my family because I was in a country where the
risk was more exposed.
I had to do it for them, because I loved them too much and
I didn’t want to put their lives in danger. It was better to stay for a long
time without them than at all.
After fourteen days of confinement, something that I was
most afraid of proved to be true. The virus that was spreading throughout the
world, was also in my body.
I immediately called to the hospital and they came to pick
me up. They told me to not worry and
keep calm because everything will be fine, but I was scared thinking it
wouldn't be.
The days passed and every day a nurse came to give me the
medicines. She was talking to me to make me feel better. She told me that she
had two children at home, but she missed them because every night she was
sleeping in the car for fear of getting them sick. I thought how hard it was
for them and how much they were doing for us, for our health; they were putting
their own lives in danger. They worked so many hours a day without having a
break, but when a patient was healing, their faces were illuminated. I could
see that they were proud of their job.
Thanks to the fact that they were working together, I was
able to overcome that difficult situation. Because they were an united team,
all the world overcame that pandemic we were all scared of. It was a long and a
difficult road, but together we set out that everything would be fine, and so
it proved to be.
Nonetheless
Dear son,
Years ago I realized that there are many good people in
the world. There was a time when everything stopped. Where people who were
going to become heroes and didn't even know it. It would be a life lesson that we could never forget, where
people were contributing with their grain of
sand. There was a time when every day at the same hour the applauses filled the streets with hope and grattitude
towards those heroes who saved lives daily even though they knew they could
lose theirs. Those applauses for all the fighters, doctors, nurses… who managed to beat the virus and for those who couldn’t and
unfortunately left us.
We never imagined that a hug would be so valuable and a
call could be so special and exciting. That our houses after months would be a
kind of prison and being less than a meter from who we love would be illegal.
It helped us to learn and so that when we left we weren't the same, but we were
better.
Maybe, for the first time, being apart brought us closer
than touch could.
If you are reading this, I hope that it doesn’t take a
global health pandemic to appreciate the small but great things in life.
Kisses,
Mum.
LETTER
ABOUT COOPERATION AND SOLIDARITY
Dear COVID-19,
As you know, you are the worst problem in these days. You have been
worrying all of us because your coming has changed completely our lives; we
can’t go to school, we can’t meet our friends and our relatives, we can’t go
outside… All started on the other side of the world; China
and, when social media started reporting us about you, we thought that you were
too far away, but look, you’re just here now!
COVID-19, we hate you, why don’t you leave us? Hospitals are collapsed
because of you, and there are lots of people fighting every day and taking a
risk of becoming ill. Lots of families are at home, trying to keep working on
their jobs, studying, taking care of vulnerable people that could die if you
damage their health. A few weeks ago, we were living on our own without
imagining that something like you could arrive, so you must know that you are
terrible, a killer and, if you were a person, our society would make you enter
in prison because we consider you guilty about what is happening. Yes, you are
bad, but, although all you have done, I want to thank you.
Thanks for making us know that if we are all together, we can do
everything. Thanks to show us that we are powerful and that, all humans united
can change the world. We have never been in a situation like this, but you have
opened our eyes and now we consider more valuable some things that before we
didn’t appreciate; family, health, school, friends, love… Now we know that
little things that we had before fill a big space in our lives, and when we
don’t have them, this space becomes empty, so, with cooperation and solidarity
we will win this fight.
You have damaged a lot, and we won’t let you do it again, because now we
are united, and when we are all together, we become powerful and strong, so bye
COVID-19.
I hope not to see you anymore,
Sara
Nawal
Menhaje Chouaib
1º BATX A
INS
Alcarras
SPECIAL TIMES
Coronavirus, what? Hahaha
Yes, that’s how we laughed a few months ago
we thought it is a disease like
existing in our day.
But what happened?
The virus we’ve laughed at, has become
our biggest nightmare.
And not just a nightmare of mine or yours,
but of the whole world.
Those laughter turned into tears
that are visiting the doors
of any house they find in their path.
It all started with an animal,
and went as far as turning the streets into
ghosts, the parks in impossible
dreams. Closed schools, canceled the parties,
banned travel.
There are no planes and ships.
The confinement was ordered to stop the spread
of infections.
Hospitals were full and doctors were tired.
All that’s going on are negative things
and the good things, where are they?
We have left traffic and congestion,
but we have breathed new life into the atmosphere
to flourish again as it did
millions of years ago.
The air was clear again,
Plants can finally breathe,
birds can sing.
But we, humans, what have benefited from?
We have finally awakened
from that dream in which we lived,
and we have realized the true reality that surrounds
us.
We have finally learned
to value the things we have and the people
we love.
We have finally joined our hands,
and decided to help each other in order to
win.
Our motto has become
The importance of solidarity and cooperation
between human beings.
Despite the situation we live in,
we haven’t let ourselves be carried away
by panic and hopelessness.
We were and we are maintaining our unitary power.
Us in our houses and
our heroes outside their houses,
together,
we are all working, suffering, and enduring
to pat an end to this story.
One hand doesn’t clap,
but two hands, yes.
Let us maintain our cooperation,
for the sake of ourselves, our families,
our friends and our relatives.
The story we want to tell our children
must have a happy end.
During pandemic times
A small enemy is outside,
Everybody stays at home
Hoping it will end soon.
Essential workers in the front lines
And reckless citizens in the streets,
Toilet paper is running low
And everybody is getting bored.
Some with their music at max
Others doing masks at home,
People try to help each other
And others try to lift their mood.
In these tough times
When loneliness is a must for some,
Solidarity shows though
And creativity improves.
-Andreea Bariz
Dear nurse,
I am
writing to thank you for all that you do for those infected with this virus,
COVID-19, for patience ...
Thank you
for trying to cure them, for entertaining them, for spending time with them.
Hope you
all can do this!
I also want
to congratulate the infected for being so brave and enduring
THAIS GODIA
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