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

domingo, 27 de enero de 2019

Music and creativity



And talking about music, have you ever seen someone playing the drums like this?





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Music is very much related to creativity and creativity is something that our students may need in the future if they want to search a job. Read these articles about the issue and then watch the talk that follows:

 

CMS-Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

 

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Revision for ESO students:




A. Put the word in the right place.

1. The radioactivity was great that they had to be underwater for eight days. (so)
2. The cinema is cheap, isn't it? (enough)
3. I am short to reach the shelf. (too)
4. Peter is a lazy fellow that he never does his homework. (such)
5. I'm afraid he hasn't got up. (yet)                                                                             

B. Choose the correct word.(Circle it)

1. I have been awake   since / for / ago  three hours.
2. That old tree has been standing    since / for / ago   fifty years.
3. She hasn't seen Peter   since / for / ago  last Friday morning.
4. I came to live in this town a year   since / for / ago  .
5. Mary's husband hasn't been ill   since / for / ago  the day they were married.          

C. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.

1. Jack (cut) ________ the grass. He (cut) ________ it every week in summer.
2. He (just write) ________________ a new book.
3. I won't know the answer until I (see) ________ him.
4. She (play) _____________________ for two hours.
5. By the time he reached the theatre, the play (already start) ________________.
6. When I (get) ________ home, smoke (come)________ out of one of the upstairs windows.
7. My watch has stopped ________. (work)
8. Look outside! It (rain) ________ again.                                                                 

D. Change the sentences from an active to a passive construction.

1. Someone must do the job.  
2. They're considering your application for the job.
3. I asked you to come.
4. They won't announce the name of the new managing director until next month.
5. They haven't manufactured this kind of lock for years.

E. Insert the second sentences into the first ones by means of a RELATIVE CLAUSE.

1. The music was good. We listened to this music last night.
2. Mao Tse-Tung was a famous politician from China. The history of  China goes back thousands of years.  
3. This is the hotel. I stayed at this hotel when I last came to London.
4. I grew up in Salobreña. It is a little town in the south of Spain.
5. I'll never forget the day. I met you that day.


10 comentarios:

  1. I never saw a man playing drums like that but I have to say that I was seeing the video for 20 minutes and I love it

    A. Put the word in the right place.

    1. The radioactivity was great that they had to be underwater for eight days. (so)
    The radioactivity was great so they had to be underwater fot eight days

    2. The cinema is cheap, isn't it? (enough)
    The cinema is cheap enough, isn't it?

    3. I am short to reach the shelf. (too)
    I am too short to reach the shelf

    4. Peter is a lazy fellow that he never does his homework. (such)
    Peter is a lazy fellow such he never does his homework

    5. I'm afraid he hasn't got up. (yet)
    I'm afraid yet he hasn't got up


    B. Choose the correct word.(Circle it)

    1. I have been awake since / for / ago three hours. _FOR_
    2. That old tree has been standing since / for / ago fifty years. _SINCE_
    3. She hasn't seen Peter since / for / ago last Friday morning. _SINCE_
    4. I came to live in this town a year since / for / ago . _AGO_
    5. Mary's husband hasn't been ill since / for / ago the day they were married. _FOR_


    C. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.

    1. Jack (cut) _IS CUTING_ the grass. He (cut) _CUTS_ it every week in summer.
    2. He (just write) _HAS JUST WRITTEN_ a new book.
    3. I won't know the answer until I (see) _SEE_ him.
    4. She (play) _HAS PLAYED_ for two hours.
    5. By the time he reached the theatre, the play (already start) _HAD ALREADY STARTED_.
    6. When I (get) _GOT_ home, smoke (come)_WAS COMING_ out of one of the upstairs windows.
    7. My watch has stopped _WORKING_. (work)
    8. Look outside! It (rain) _IS RAINING_ again.

    Daniel del Pozo Quesada 3º ESO B

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  3. I used to go to my uncle's house and saw him playing the drums since I was a child. I think he play drums as well as that guy.

    A. Put the word in the right place.

    1. The radioactivity was great so they had to be underwater fot eight days.
    2. The cinema is enough cheap, isn't it?
    3. I am too short to reach the shelf.
    4. Peter is a lazy fellow such he never does his homework.
    5. I'm afraid he hasn't got up yet.

    B. Choose the correct word. (Circle it)

    1. I have been awake for three hours.
    2. That old tree has been standing since fifty years.
    3. She hasn't seen Peter since last Friday morning.
    4. I came to live in this town a year ago .
    5. Mary's husband hasn't been ill since the day they were married.

    C. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.

    1. Jack is cutting the grass. He cuts it every week in summer.
    2. He has just written a new book.
    3. I won't know the answer until I saw him.
    4. She has played for two hours.
    5. By the time he reached the theatre, the play had already started.
    6. When I got home, smoke was coming out of one of the upstairs windows.
    7. My watch has stopped working.
    8. Look outside! It's raining again.

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  4. The world as we know today is advancing faster and faster and we realize that, in many ways, creativity is what really makes us different from other people. Music is very much related to creativity and creativity is something that we may need in the future if we want to search a job. But, do schools teach children to increase their creativity?

    On the one hand, creativity is very important in our lives; for example, if you are the owner of a company and you are not creative, your company may close because today there is a lot of competition and creativity is what makes you different.In addition, we know that schools teach music and art, and that´s really good for the students.

    On the other hand, the sad truth is that schools were never designed to produce creativity. Not many people are aware of it, but the education systems in many countries are based on the 19th-century Prussian model. Children were taught to obey, not to challenge or think creatively.” Innovate or die” is not just a slogan, it’s a vital truth.

    All in all, it's good to have music classes at school, however that doesn't mean that they make us more creative because teachers propose an activity to follow, and that's not very creative.In my opinion, creativity is something very important to get a job nowadays because the jobs that don't need it are less and less and they are replaced by machines.

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  5. Nowadays, there are many activities which are remplacing. This means that, for example, new technologies are doing that people each day are using less imagination, so they're losing creativity.


    This can be a problem, because in our diary live, we should think about all. When somebody try to get a job, it is better than this person have good and new ideas, so it is good to be creative. Besides, robots can take away our jobs, but there's one thing they don't have is imagination, a quiality that only we have.


    It is true, that all people is creative, but if they do not put it into practice. This is present in some schools, but not in all. Subjects like art or music, develop imagination, and it is good for students.


    However, there are schools where this type of education and subjects there are not. Personally, I prefer subjects like art because when I was in my two first years of shools, I did different works and they were very funny

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  6. Since we are little we go to school and our teachers teach us to study by learning things from memory or arithmetically. The world we know today is advancing faster and faster and education is the same in most countries since 19th-century . Should schools change?

    Technology advances faster and faster and robots can do everything better than us, like memorizing texts quickly, solving problems, reading ... That is why schools should teach us things in which robots can not improve us. There is one thing that they do not have is imagination, a quality that only we have and that makes us different from each other.
    In the future, the person who knows more won’t be the person who gets the best job because the robot knows more than anyone. So, the person who will get the best job will be the person who has more creativity.

    In summary, schools we should help to find what we are given better and the qualities that we each other have that make us different from other people.


    Desirée Rodríguez Arias, 4ºA

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  7. Nowadays, there are many activities which are remplacing. This means that, for example, new technologies are doing that people each day are using less imagination, so they're losing creativity.
    Technology advances faster and faster and robots can do everything better than us, like memorizing texts quickly, solving problems, reading ... That is why schools should teach us things in which robots can not improve us. There is one thing that they do not have is imagination, a quality that only we have and that makes us different from each other.
    In the future, the person who knows more won’t be the person who gets the best job because the robot knows more than anyone. So, the person who will get the best job will be the person who has more creativity.

    Natalia López 3ºA

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  8. The world we know is advancing faster and faster and education is the same in most countries since 19th-century. The schools can change?

    The new technologies are doing that people are using less imagination, so they are losing their creativity, do schools teach children to increase their creativity?


    This can be a problem and should be solved, because you have to be creativity, imagine you are writer or a film director, a robot wouldn't think for you and if you don't have ideas you may have to leave your passion for lack of imagination.

    Although nobody has taught us how to create and what creativity is neither at school nor our parents. So the subject of art or music is important because we can develop our creativity without us realizing.

    Our creativity can make us have a better job so it's better to create ourselves instead of being all day glued to the screen.


    Mari Trini Ortiz 4°A

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  9. Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas or concepts, of new associations between known ideas and concepts, which usually generates original solutions. Creativity is synonymous with "original thinking," "constructive imagination," "divergent thinking," or "creative thinking." Creativity is a typical skill of human cognition, also present to some extent in some higher primates, and absent in algorithmic computing, for example.

    Creativity, as with other brain capacities such as intelligence, and memory, encompasses several intertwined mental processes that have not been completely deciphered by physiology. They are mentioned in the singular, for giving a greater simplicity to the explanation.

    In music we need a lot of creativity both to compose and when you want to interpret some composition since to compose you have to be different from others but it will be something boring, something that has already been seen and to interpret some composition you also have to be different you have to interpret it more personalized, as you like more.

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  10. From childhood we go to school and our teachers teach us to study learning things by heart or arithmetically. It must also be said that there are no schools or education in a developed country, than in an underdeveloped country. Today with the existence of new technologies, these are causing many people to be replaced by machines that employers do not have to pay salary or make medical insurance in case of accident.
    In my opinion I think that we should give more money to countries that do not have an education as good as ours, also employers instead of replacing workers with machines, or that they should hire more employees so that there is less unemployment.

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