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

viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2018

Teachers and being a teacher

Do you know when the World Teachers' Day is?




 

What do you think teachers should be like? What is 'being a teacher' for you? Before trying to find the answers, watch these videos


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RELATIVE CLAUSES (i)

Non-Defining Relative Clauses (Extra information)

These relative clauses give extra information about the antecedent, so they are not essential to the understanding of the message and you can omit them. They go in between commas and the relative pronoun can never be omitted. The relative pronoun THAT can never be used.
- We use the relative pronoun WHO when the antecedent is a person and is the subject or object of the relative clause.
 John,


 who


 came to the party
 , studied with me at the elementary school. 


 you saw at the party
 she was dancing with at the party


- We use the relative pronoun WHICH when the antecedent is an animal or a thing and is the subject or object of the relative clause.
 That dog,


 which


 barked in the street
  , belongs to my uncle. 


 you saw in the street
 she was playing with

- WHOSE (connection of possession)  
Mr Smith, whose wife is waiting for the bus, is my boss.
- WHERE (Adverbial of place). It can be substituted by WHICH + preposition.        
We visited Buckingham Palace, where the Queen lives

NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES. Insert the clauses in brackets into the main sentences as non-defining relative clauses. Remember to add the commas.

1. Mont Blanc .... is the highest mountain in the Alps.  (it is between France and Italy) 
2. Alfred Hitchcock .... worked for many years in Hollywood.   (he was born in Britain)
3. We recently visited Cambridge .....   (Albert studied there many years ago)
4. Susana ..... loves travelling.   (she is in 3º ESO)
5. London .... has over 6 million inhabitants.  (it is the capital of Britain)
6. Mr Baraq Obama .... has never visited Spain.   (he is the former President of the United States)

 

 

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14 comentarios:

  1. NON-DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES. Insert the clauses in brackets into the main sentences as non-defining relative clauses. Remember to add the commas.
    1. Mont Blanc .... is the highest mountain in the Alps. (it is between France and Italy)
    2. Alfred Hitchcock .... worked for many years in Hollywood. (he was born in Britain)
    3. We recently visited Cambridge ..... (Albert studied there many years ago)
    4. Susana ..... loves travelling. (she is in 3º ESO)
    5. London .... has over 6 million inhabitants. (it is the capital of Britain)
    6. Mr Baraq Obama .... has never visited Spain. (he is the former President of the United States)

    1. Mont Blanc, which is between France and Italy, is the highest mountain in alps
    2. Alfred Hitchcock, who was born in Britain, worked for many years in Hollywood
    3. We recently visited Cambridge, where Albert studied for there many years ago.
    4. Susana, who is in 3º ESO, loves travelling
    5. London, wich is the capital of Britain, has over 6 million inhabitants
    6. Mr Baraq Obama, who is the former President of The United States, has never visited Spain

    Daniel del Pozo Quesada 3º ESO B

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  2. Do you know when the World Teachers' Day is?
    The World Teachers Day is the 27 of November in Spain, in United Kingdom is the 5 of october and in USA is on the first thuesday of May.

    What is 'being a teacher' for you?
    I think being a teacher is be a example for your students and teach them.

    Daniel del Pozo Quesada 3º ESO B

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  3. The teacher day is the 27 of November in Spain, but teacher´s day international is the 5 of October.
    In my opinion a teacher should be good explaining and he should send works and homework, because although we hate the homework it is very important to learn to do the exercises.
    In my opinion being a teacher is very hardwork because you need to know what to do with the students and you need a lot of time to correct the homework and to correct all the work that you send to your students.
    I think that be a teacher is a very hard work and I think that they lose a lot of time to teach we all of their subject and for this reason I admire the teacher who correct all homework that he send.

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  5. A teacher refers to the person who has studied teaching and is responsible for teaching students, whether children, primary or secondary, among others, in schools, colleges or universities.
    Teaching is not only about the dissemination of academic knowledge, since teachers must also absorb what their students think and guide them in the right way.
    The profession of teacher involves many demands that are often not taken into account

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  6. The Teacher´s day is on 27 of November in Spain, but Teacher´s international day is on 5th October.
    In my opinion a teacher should be good at explaining and he should give us homework to do , because although we hate homework it is very important to learn to do the exercises.
    In my opinion, I think that being a teacher is very hardwork because you need to know what to do with the students and you need a lot of time to correct the homework and to correct all the work that you send to your students.
    I think that be a teacher is a very hard work and I think that they spend a lot of time teaching us all about their subjects and for this reason I admire the teacher who corrects all homework that he gives.

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  7. In my opinion being a teacher is very hardwork because you need to know what to do with the students and you need a lot of time to correct the homework and to correct all the work that you send to your students.
    I think that be a teacher is a very hard work and I think that they lose a lot of time to teach we all of their subject and for this reason I admire the teacher who correct all homework that he send.

    Natalia López Carrascosa 3ºA

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  9. When I was a child I wanted to be a teacher in the future, because I thought that teaching other people things that they don´t know and you know was an incredible and necessary work. Now, I don´t really know what I want to be, but I know that the life of a teacher is more difficult than I thought. A teacher must teach a lot of different classes, so they must remember all the things he has done with everyone, and it is very difficult. They have to spend a lot of time correcting exams or preparing the class for the next day, what takes away their free time. And sometimes, they have to deal with some persons that don´t want to receive lessons and only want to disturb, so I think they have much patience. But I think the work have some good things too. They don´t work at the weekend and they don´t work during the summer or during the Christmas, either. But I think if they are in the school everyday is because they want to bring up students so that they become better people. They keep working a lot for us in order to archieve this goal, so I think they´re incredible!

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  10. The teacher day is the 27 of November in Spain, but teacher´s day international is the 5 of October.
    If you want to be a teacher yo have to know that you have to be patient, nice and respectful.
    Not only the teacher work in the morning teaching you, they have to correct the exams, prepare the classes and more things that they have to do every day.
    Sometimes with the work they don´t have time for them also of what when they have persons that only want disturb in classes so that it doesn´t leave than the other people learn.
    Teach have a lot of good and bad things.
    In my opinion is a hard work and have satisfactions like teach to another person to succeed

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  12. As everyone knows, teachers have a lot of responsability and hard work, people think that they only work in the morning but it is not true.
    Firstly they have to prepare the class for the next day the previous day and organise their time to correct all the exams or activies from students, moreover they have to do exams to know what the students know and to to make reports for the students' parents
    In the class they have to do a lot of things such as explaining to the students. They also have to control the naughty students that disturb and don't let the others learn.
    For all their work they have a special day: 27th of November in Spain,but really the teacher´s day international is the 5th of October.
    To put all in a nutshell I have to say that they do more work than I thought, but I believe that they have long holidays to rest from teenagers.

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  13. The teacher day is the 27 of November in Spain, but teacher´s day international is the 5 of October.
    From my point of view being a teacher has to be very difficult. People think that a teacher only works in the morning, but the truth is that they work all day.

    In the afternoon they have to prepare the classes they are going to give the next day and they also have to correct things about the students and many more things they have to do throughout the day. besides, teachers have to have a lot of patience, calm and know how to control so many students at the same time and all people do not know how to do that.

    In conclusion, teachers have more work to do than we think, but they also have a lot of vacations like summer and between trimesters.

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  14. The teacher's day on November 27th in Spain, but the teacher's international day on October 5th.
    I think that you have to be very patient with the students to become a teacher.

    Being a teacher is very difficult because you have to spend a lot of your free time to correct things and the exams of the students. Also sometimes you have to put up with bad behaviour in class and the truth is that students talk a lot and do not have much respect for teachers.
    Some people hate teachers because they say they are just there to fail you or to say bad things to your parents so that they punish you, but they are there to teach you and help you to be someone in the future and have to put up with them. bad behavior of their students.
    I admire teachers for all the hard work they do and for helping us to be smarter people and better for the future that awaits us. They are not bad they just want to help us and if they fail you, it means that you have not studied enough and that you have not tried hard to get a pass.

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