BEING A TEACHER....

BEING A TEACHER IS A DIFFICULT TASK NOWADAYS, SO I DECIDED TO FOLLOW THIS PIECE OF ADVICE BY BRUCE LEE:

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

by Bruce Lee

jueves, 25 de enero de 2018

Stop boozing for a while!!!


Boozing?? What does it mean? What is the difference with 'drinking'? Why should we stop boozing in January? 

Yes, some people believe that we should do it during this month in order to keep healthy and make our body recover from all the Christmas excesses.






Here's a listening exercise to do and some articles to read about the issue:

 

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And here's a Selectivity exam for you to do and that we may correct in class if you like:

The big bottle    As you said, it is also FALSE that the police are afraid teenagers..., because it is the city councils the ones that are afraid ("cautious").    They accept 'repair, mend, fix' as opposites of BREAK   TO COME ACROSS S.O./STH is to meet or find s.o. or sth.  by chance (example: "I came across this book in a second-hand shop")

 



Learn English Through Story - Jane Eyre - beginner level

You can listen to the story here!!!

 

 

Learn English with Papa  >>>  During / While / Meanwhile - How to use them in English

 

Activities for my 2º ESO students:  Watch the video and write 3 sentences with the words: 'during', 'while' & 'meanwhile'. Then listen to the current soundtrack of my blog and tell me the title of the song you are listening to and what it means in Spanish.

 

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18 comentarios:

  1. I go to my job at 18:00 pm, meanwhile I watch the TV or play videogames.
    During the classes I pay attention to the teacher.
    In my job I do bills in the computer while I accept calls from the people that is interested in some product of the company.
    The soundtrack is called: ¨You're the sunshine of my live¨
    Significa: ¨Tu eres el brillo de mi vida¨

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    1. Boozing? What does it mean ? It means drinking alcohol, especially in large quantities. What is the difference with “drinking”? As nouns the difference between drinking and boonzing is that drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages while boozing is the act of drinking heavily.

      It is an open secret that at the begenning of a new year a lot of peple decide to do their best that year. Owing to this fact, it very common to see on social media how they make a list of resolutions for the year that it is coming.

      A great amount of these resolutions are related to healthy life style, for example: taking up yoga classes, going to the gym or stopping boozing. Why should people stop boozing in January? I reckon that they should do it in order to make their body recover from all the Christmas excesses.

      To conclude, I would like to add that I believe that there is nothing wrong with drinking occasionally, but it can turn out to be a serious issue if someone does it everyday, especially if it is excessively.

      IRENE RAMÓN 2ºBACH

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  4. I was doing my homework while my sister was slepping.
    While I was at school I paid attetion to all what the teacher says.
    During my trip, my grandmother stayed at her house.
    The soundtrank says:¨You're the sunshine of my life¨
    In the spanish it is translated:¨Tu eres el brillo de mi vida¨

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    1. You should not drink while driving.

      I will play football during the holidays.

      I do my homework in the afternoon meanwhile, my pet waits for me to go out to the street.

      You are the sunshine of my life.

      Eres el resplandor de mi vida.

      You are the sunshine of my life

      That's why I'll always be around,

      You are the apple of my eyes,

      Forever you'll stay in my heart


      Eres el sol que ilumina mi vida

      Por eso siempre estaré contigo,

      Eres la niña de mis ojos,

      Por siempre estarás en mi corazón.


      I feel like this is the beginning,

      Though I've loved you for a million years,

      And if I thought our love was ending,

      I'd find myself drowning in my own tears.


      Siento como si esto fuera el comienzo,

      aunque te esté amando desde hace un millón de años,

      Y si alguna vez encuentro que nuestro amor termina,

      me ahogaré en mis propias lágrimas.


      You are the sunshine of my life,

      That's why I'll always stay around,

      You are the apple of my eyes,

      Forever you'll stay in my heart.


      Eres el sol que ilumina mi vida,

      Por eso siempre estaré contigo

      Eres la niña de mis ojos,

      Por siempre estarás en mi corazón.


      You must have known that I was lonely,

      Because you came to my rescue,

      And I know that this must be heaven,

      How could so much love be inside of you?


      Tú debías saber que yo era demasiado solitario,

      porque llegaste para rescatarme,

      y sé que esto debe ser el paraíso,

      ¿Cómo puede caber tanto amor en ti?


      You are the sunshine of my life, yeah,

      That's why I'll always stay around,

      You are the apple of my eyes,

      Forever you'll stay in my heart.


      Eres el sol que ilumina mi vida,

      Por eso siempre estaré contigo,

      Eres la niña de mis ojos,

      Por siempre estarás en mi corazón.


      (chorus) Love has joined us,

      Love has joined us,

      Let's think sweet love.


      (Coros) El amor nos ha unido,

      El amor nos ha unido,

      Pensemos dulce amor.


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  6. In our day-to-day lives, it is a widely-known fact that alcohol is quite present in our lives. After Christmas holidays, many people decide to give up booze for the next month in the hope that it will do them some good. However, is it effective quit drinking and stay dry for only 30 days?

    To start with, most of teens go always to a lot of parties, and there, they have alcoholic drinks. Lately, it is very ordinary to see younger and younger children vomiting and ambulances treating them. Youngsters usually drink to be sociable and not to be distinguished from the rest.

    Another fact is that in every special occasion we usually drink alcohol, especially on Christmas holidays and then, they decide quit drinking in order to improve the health and save some money. Furthermore, sobriety helps you sleep better, although many people use drinking as a crutch. Apart from that, the resolution of staying dry during January isn’t effective unless you keep on at least 66 days.

    Taking all into account, nowadays there are such long amounts of campaigns against drinking and more real cases are shown on television so as to concern parents not to drive drunk and not to allow their children consume alcohol. This is a worldwide problem that many people are involved in and as long as we are concerned of it, we will reduce deaths and damage as a result of alcohol.

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  7. During the summer i go out everyday with my friends. I am going the shopping with my mother meanwhilei am listening music in my mp3 player. I was studiying while my father cocked

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  8. Jane Eyre is a story written by Charlotte bronte, published in 1847 by Smith, Elder and Company who got great popularity encumbrando to the author as one of the best romantic novelists, and is today considered a classic of literature in English.

    The novel was initially titled Jane Eyre: an autobiography and published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell. It had immediate success, as for readers as critics. One of its most staunch defenders was the writer William Makepeace Thackeray, to whom many attributed the work, because the author remained anonymous until a time after its publication. As a thank you, Charlotte dedicated the second edition of his novel to him. It can become an autobiography, since the author had a secret love with a Belgian professor named Constantin Heger. The novel is considered one of the first feminist stories.

    Jane Eyre has had several adaptations to the cinema. One of the most modern dates from 1996, in which we can find the award-winning Anna Paquin (playing Jane Eyre as a young man) or Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as Geraldine Chaplin and William Hurt. But this is not the most famous adaptation of the novel to the cinema, since Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine starred in a film well remembered in classical cinema, characterizing Rochester and Eyre, respectively.

    In 2007, the BBC made an award-winning series on the story. In 2010 and 2011 she was taken to theater in Dublin by Michael Colgan, starring the singer Andrea Corr. In 2011, a version directed by Cary Fukunaga was premiered, starring Mia Wasikowska in the title role of the play, an actress who is remembered for her starring role in Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton.

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  9. WHILE:

    You mustn't smoke while you are in a school.

    I listen music while I do homeworks.

    He was arrested while he was stealing.

    DURING:

    People was run during the crime.

    I was sleep during two hours.

    I pay attention to the teacher during the class.

    MEANWHILE:

    There isn't any teacher in class, meanwhile I going to draw

    The dinner isn't make, meanwhile go to

    Dinner isn't done, meanwhile you must go to have shower

    SONG: "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?" (29/05)
    "¿Como se supone que vivo sin ti?"
    "You're the sunshine of my live" (25/01)
    "Tu eres el brillo de mi vida"

    Daniel del Pozo Quesada 2º ESO A

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  10. The difference between drinking and getting drunk is very simple,
    drinking is an act by which yes, you can drink alcohol but with a limit you can also drink other types of drinks such as soft drinks, and getting drunk is drinking so much alcohol that you are not able to know what you are doing.

    This is very bad because it can cause commas and especially accidents, accidents after drinking alcohol are at such a high rate that there is more and more and not the other way around.
    The mixture between any drink can also be very bad and if it is mixed with designer drugs or any type of substance that can make you feel better or that your head goes away it can end up causing death in an extreme situation.

    2ºB

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  11. I hate the people who talks during the races because in the start of the races we need very much concentration.
    I'm doing this commentary during a video of youtube.
    My dog are barking during break his toy.



    While I was walking a dog bites me
    While my father were cleaning my bike I help him to re-build the bike
    While my mother were going to her work I was eating my lunch.



    I was in Algerciras in a race meanwhile in Castell de Ferro was the birthday of my cousin Noa
    Gustavo Alcojor was in Malaga in a skatepark meanwhile his brother Alejandro Alcojor was in Algeciras training me and my friends of the andalusian bmx.
    I was doing this comment meanwhile my trainer are doing enduro in Motril

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  12. Taking large amounts of alcohol is bad for your health, as it affects a large part of the body.
    Today a large part of the population consumes alcohol in a non-moderate way, this is occurring more often in young people, which will have greater risk of diseases in a series of oraganos.
    In my opinion this should only be consumed in adults and in a moderate way.

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  13. Jane Eyre is a novel about a love story where the protagonist named Jane falls in love with a rich man named Rochester. Despite the fact that both had a hard time being together, they finally got married at the end of the book.

    The book tells us the story of a young woman named Jane Eyre who lives with her aunt and her cousins ​​in her Gateshead Hall who abused her. When Jane was ten years old, Mrs. Reed send Jane to Lowood where Jane studied and met her friend Elena Burns. Later, Jane accepts a job as a governess for a French girl named Adèle at Mr. Rochester's house in Thornfield. There, she met Rochester and fell in love with him. However, on the day of the wedding two people appeared at the church who said that Mr. Rochester was already married to a woman named Bertha. Therefore, Jane she didn't want to marry him and she fled from that place to be away from Mr. Rochester, who hadn't told her that he was already married. Later, Jane was given accomodation by the Rivers family because she hadn't money when she realized they were her cousins. So, when her uncle died, she shared her inheritance with them. Finally, Jane decided to return to Thornfield, to search for Rochester, where she learned that there had been a fire, because of which Rochester was left blind and had his hand amputated. However, Jane wanted to be with him and they finally got married.

    Last but not least, I am going to talk a little about the author of the book. Charlotte Brontë was born on April 21, 1816, in Yorkshire, England. After her mother died, she was sent to Cowan Bridge boarding school with her two older sisters who were also writers. Charlotte worked as a teacher and governess before collaborating on a poetry book with her two sisters, Emily and Anne. Her experiences at this school as poor living conditions are reflected in the first part of her novel, Jane Eyre which was published in 1847. The first novel she wrote, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857. In 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls. One year later, she died on March 31, 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire, England.

    From my point of view, this is a very interesting book. I really enjoyed reading this wonderful love story with very captivating moments. I have to admit that it is one of the few books that I have read in English that I liked and I would read it again. Therefore, I recommend it to entertain ourselves on cold winter nights. In addition, I think this novel is more interesting than others because it is set in the 19th century.

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  14. Jane Eyre is a novel which tell the story of an orphan girl who didn´t have the love of her family and ends up having a love story. Her love story has many problems but love win.

    The novel tell the story of Jane Eyre, a girl who lives with her aunt and her cousins in Gateshead Hall but the important thing of here is that Jane is not acepted and abused by her family. Later her family takes her to a religious school called Institution Lowood for orphan girls, there she meet a girl called Helen Burns and she makes her friend. Jane is a very good student and becomes a teacher when she is 18 years old. She becomes a governess of a girl called Ádele Varens who lived with a man called Mr.Rochester. When Jane crossed with him she feels attracted, after some time he proposed marriage to her. The wedding day she realize that Mr.Rochester is a married man, after that Jane moved away. Finally she returned to Mr.Rochester and got married.

    I´m going to tell something of the autor of this novel. Charlotte Brontë had two sisters that were writers too. She was born in Thorton, Yorkshire. Charlotte and her sisters were sent to a College in which she was inspired the institution Lowood. She wrote four novels more besides Jane Eyre and unfortunately her sisters died of Tuberculosis in 1848 and 1849. Charlotte married with Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854 but finally she died of Tuberculosis while she was pregnant on 31 March, 1855.

    From my point of view is It is a novel of the time but with a more modern air. For me is an interesting book for her moments, problems and her love story. I will read this book sometime more and I recomend the book to someone who likes the drama and love stories with a lot of problems.

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  15. ’’Jane Eyre’’ by Charlotte Bronte is one of the best books you can ever read. The setting for this novel is in the northern England countryside and the fictitious villages of Gateshead Hall, Lowood, Millcote, and Moor House during the 19th century. In this novel, we get to recognize the conflicts between love and independence, conscience and passion, and the struggle of a young girl and woman to maintain her self-esteem.

    Concerning the author, Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, and the eldest of three Bronte sisters who were all writers. Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in 1816, Charlotte's father was an Irish Anglican clergyman. After Charlotte's mother died of cancer in 1821, the clergyman and also father had no time to care for his daughters. Therefore, in August of 1824, he sent Charlotte with her two sisters to the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. This school became the basis for Lowood School in the novel Jane Eyre. Bronte then continued her education at Roe Head in Mirfield 1831-1832 and became a teacher there between 1835-1838. During the period 1843-1844, Charlotte attended a language school in Brussels, Belgium, where she fell in love with a married professor at the school. This life experience is strongly shown in Jane Eyre in the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester at Thornfield Hall.

    The main character of the story is Jane Eyre, a nine-year-old orphan, who is being raised by her maternal aunt, Mrs. Reed. The story begins with Jane telling her life story in the first person. She relates how as an orphan since being a baby, she has been raised by her maternal uncle's wife, Mrs. Reed. Recently she has been treated very cruelly both physically and emotionally by her aunt and cousins. Later, her aunt decides to send Jane to a boarding school for orphans at Lowood School. After being a model student and surviving a typhoid epidemic at the school during her first year, Jane graduates from Lowood six years later and stays two more years as a teacher.

    Later, shortly after finding work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Jane starts to find some real happiness in life. She is entrusted with educating the ward of the master of Thornfield Hall, Mr. Rochester, a man of about 40. After formally meeting Mr. Rochester and numerous hours spent talking together, Jane truly falls in love with him. However, a series of bizarre and spooky events occur at Thornfield Hall which forces Jane to leave and seek her fortune in another place.

    All in all, ‘’Jane Eyre’’ is an exciting and captivating love story. What’s more, the early sequences, in which Jane is sent to a boarding school in Lowood, are based on the author's own experiences, which makes the story even more interesting.

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  16. Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Company, and is today considered a classic of English-language literature.
    The novel's setting is somewhere in the north of England,
    At the beginning of the novel, Jane is a 10-year-old orphan girl who lives with her rich aunt and her three cousins with whom she does not have a good relationship.This is a love story where the protagonist fights for her loved one despite the difficulties presented to her
    It is a Bildungsroman (a literary genre that focused on the moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood), and tells us all the good and bad things that happened during her life, until her adulthood.

    Concerning the author,She was an English novelist and poet; sister of the writers Anne and Emily Brontë.Charlotte Brontë was born on April 21, 1816, in Yorkshire, England.
    She had 5 siblings: Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Maria, Elizabeth and Branwell.Charlotte's father was an Irish Anglican clergyman.. When her mother died (23 September 1821), her aunt helped her father raise her and her brothers. Charlotte and three of her sisters They were sent to a school, the Clergy Daughters School, which was an inspiration for her novel Jane Eyre.
    There, two of her sisters died of tuberculosis, so she and her sister Emily were sent home. Some time later, Charlotte went to another school, Roe Head School, in England, and became a teacher. Charlotte worked as a teacher and also worked as a governess before collaborating on a book of poetry with her two sisters, Emily and Anne. .
    In May 1846, the three sisters published a joint collection of Poems under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, also recognized by Shirley (1846) and The Professor (1857). which was published two years after her death.
    The first novel she wrote, "The Professor," was published posthumously in 1857. In 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls. A year later, she died on March 31, 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire, England.
    Jane Eyre was written in 1945 and was very successful.
    We can say that she was inspired by her own life to write Jane Eyre, because there are many similarities between them, for example, she was sent to a school when her mother died, or that she also became a teacher and governess as Jane.

    The book tells the story of a young woman named Jane Eyre who lives with her aunt and her cousins ​​in their Gateshead Hall, who abused her. When Jane was ten, Mrs. Reed sent Jane to Lowood, where she studied and met her friend Elena Burns. Later, Jane accepts a job as a governess for a French girl named Adèle at Mr. Rochester's house in Thornfield. She there she met Rochester and fell in love with him. Later, shortly after finding work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, she begins to find true happiness in her life.
    After many events, Jane ends up marrying Mr. Rochester and they have a family.

    From my point of view, the novel "Jane Eyre" is a gripping and captivating love story. From my point of view, this is a very interesting book. It is a book that I would recommend because it tells us everything that Jane goes through after the death of her parents, what Jane's life is like after everything that happened. It is a cruel and miserable story, with moments of passion and love. It is a love story, but being set in the 19th century makes it different and captivating.

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