Living With The Virus: Recent Episodes
Living With The Virus
Coronavirus changed everyone’s lives. However, when it comes to speaking out, it is adults who create content on the web. That’s the reason why this show was created. In this podcast, you will listen to a series of English as a Foreign Language students who want to document the way their lives have changed and how it is to live in the "new normality". Guided by the teacher Carlos Caballero, these students explore the different areas of this unexpected new lifestyle.
This show was framed on project-based learning at Instituto de Lenguas UIS (ILUIS) in Bucaramanga, Colombia, with the help of different groups of Conversational 2.
The CoVid vaccine was expected by every single person around the world. However, when it became a reality, there were some challenges to face. Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen are just some of the vaccines that are helping the world go through the pandemic. Coming back to school, hanging out with friends and more social events are getting back to normal, but it is not always easy.
This is the first episode of the new season of this show. This time you will listen to three English students review the pandemic so far giving some extraordinary facts. Did you know that a way of facing the pandemic was building up a hospital in just ten days? How many people do you think had died up to March 2021? You can find these and more information here.
When everything boomed about seven months ago, everyone had to stop doing their everyday activities. It was hard to go on with habits, but slowly people managed to do it. However, during this time, all of us could learn and discover new things. In this episode, you will find a set of activities you can do during the pandemic.
The pandemic has affected our ways to study, living and also working. As we, teenagers, don't work, we can only talk about the perspective of our parents. Some people started losing their jobs, and some others had to go back. For sure, the ones that got affected the most were doctors and medical personnel. They had to risk their lives and their families every day to help us overcome this situation.
We all know that the CoVid19 pandemic was out of the blue, everything has been unpredictable and quite different month by month. It is also the case for our emotions. The way we have felt have varied during the current pandemic, the unexpected situations have changed the way we feel towards our surroundings.
Since we saw our friends in the middle of March, we didn't know it was our last time together at school. From that moment on, a lot has happened, and we had to get used to different situations. Some of us have been lucky to get plenty of resources in order to learn as proper as common, but it hasn't been the case for everyone. Computer screens and chats have become our new way of interacting. In this episode, we talk about the different ways we have been learning since the pandemic started in our country.
In this second chapter, we show how everything changed and the different aspects that are included. One of them is the virtual classes that are affecting the learning process of some students, we cannot go out and it means that we have to coexistence all the time with our families and that is not easy.
In this first chapter, we talk about how our life used to be before this pandemic. When we could go out and see our classmates, and enjoy face-to-face classes that we didn't think we would miss, we showed how everyone's lives were and how it will take a long time to be as before.
In this trailer, you cand find some opinions and information about topics that might be of interest to you. We will talk about the principal and most affected sectors by this pandemic that is affecting people everywhere and every time. We must be learning, taking care and being careful with this current situation.