An Elephant in The Room: Social Distancing

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SOCIAL DISTANCING
1. Answer the next questions: Use simple sentences to express your ideas.

a. What do you understand by ‘Social Distancing’?


Keep a distance between the other person.
b. What is the most difficult thing for you about “social distancing”?
Not being able to hug my friends, being able to be with our entire group of friends.
c. What do you miss the most about your life before covid-19 and the social distancing?
Being able to go out without the mask, go out with my friends, go for a walk with my parents.
2. Read the informal expression in the box and write 2 DIFFERENT IDEAS about what you think this phrase
means. (DON’T GOOGLE THE PHRASE YET)

AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM


- an elephant in the room means it's so big you can't ignore it.
- an elephant in the room means what you don't want to see but is there.

3. Look for the real meaning of the phrase AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM and write three sentences using
this phrase.

it is a metaphorical expression that refers to an obvious truth that is ignored or goes unnoticed.
 I met my parents for dinner and the elephant in the room was the fact that I am 40 and single.
 Hunger in the third world is the elephant in the room for western politicians.
 Maybe we can acknowledge the elephant in the room, we can both relax a little.

4. Listen the audio 1 and the audio 2 and select which one mention the phrase AN ELEPHANT IN THE
ROOM.

AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2

5. LISTEN to these different songs with the same name: Six feet apart (by Luke Combs) and Six feet apart
(by Alec Benjamin). Write the phrases or verses you like the most from each song.

Six feet apart (by Luke Combs) Six feet apart (by Alec Benjamin)
Just how long this thing goes I can't ignore
But there'll be crowds and there'll be shows Him like before
And there will be light after dark Not anymore
Someday when we aren't six feet apart Oh I, miss you most at
Six feet apart when you're
Right outside my window
But can't ride inside my car

6. For questions 1- 10 choose from the parts A-F. (The parts may be chosen more than once)
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IN WHICH PART OF THE SONGS DO WE READ ABOUT…


1. The singer feeling lonely? E - A

2. The sound insects make? A

3. The singer’s family? B

4. Different kinds of entertainment? C-F

5. A great number of people together? B

6. The singer using metaphor to talk about distance? D

7. The singer talking about going to the past? F

8. Personal hygiene? C

9. The singer doing something creative? A


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7. In simple sentences write the similarities and the differences between the two songs.

1. They have the same name.


2. Their singers are different.
3. Your handwriting is different.
4. They have similarity in what they express.
5. in one they talk about insects and going back to the past, in the other they talk about family.
6. have a different musical rhythm.
7. One song talks about loneliness and the other about the family that it misses.

8. Which song do you like the most? Why?

I like the most SIX FEET APART BY LUKE COMBS because, he talks about how he misses the family, his
friends, hugs and handshakes, he says that there will be light after dark, I liked this song, since it resembles the
quotation of what's happening.

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