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.
You may feel overwhelmed and stressed due to the amount of homework you have to do and the number of hours you spend studying for the exams, but I wonder if you have worked regularly all along the school year. In most cases, I have my doubts!
The English We Speak: In over my head (BBC Learning English)
I may admit that certain situations are unavoidable, but preventive actions can always be taken. A good glass of fresh orange juice provides you with enough vitamin C to prevent colds, some exercise and avoiding the use of electronic devices makes you sleep better... and working all the year long results in better marks and less anxiety at the end of the school year!
Here's my musical hint for today: The Heat is On by Glenn Frey. And here are the lyrics for you to sing along.
Yassin El Fachati ( a student in 1º ESO B at our school) presenting Portalico's Restaurant (Writing 14)
In the Middle Ages armies would set siege on castles or even entire towns so as to make them surrender because of the lack of food supplies or just water. Now with the Strait of Hormuz blocked we are actually having problems with petrol, but also with certain fertilisers and... food!
Road towards success in the Selectivity exam.....
(and here's the rubric to evaluate the composition)
A1- d (line 3: "in conjunction with quite varied intonation and expressive gestures.") A2- b (lines 16-18)
A3: FALSE (lines 3-4). “He spent the rest of his life hospitalized.”
A4: FALSE (lines 9-10). “Auburtin was attempting to support the hypothesis that the brain did not work as a homogenous mass, at least when it came to higher functions such as language.”
A5: TRUE (line 13). “He could count (and understand time).”
A6: FALSE (lines 19-20) “Although not all of Broca’s colleagues accepted his conclusions (, the road to studying the biological basis of language had already been taken).”
Still
in the clay season and just before Roland Garros, with Jannik
Sinner seeded number 1, Carlos Álcaraz out of that race for the moment
being because of his wrist injury, but with the emerging new Spanish
champ Rafa Jódar, here we are in Rome, just before Roland Garros.
Once upon a time there was a great (tennis) emperor who ruled all over clay courts named RAFA NADAL ( L'imperatore di Roma , NADAL: l'imperatore è tornato a Roma!!! ).
We all thought "there ain't no sunshine when he's gone", but life goes
on. So, I wonder now who will the be the next (tennis) emperor in Rome.
Jannik Sinner recognised after the match against Rafa Jódar in Madrid what a good player his opponent was. A display of fair play from the talented Italian tennis player, current ATP number 1 seeded.
In sport and many other areas of life, modesty is such an important value to compete and also to grow. You never reach the summit, there are always challenges in life and they don't have to be extraordinary. Simple goals such as having a family or carrying out everyday tasks may be as important as winning a major tournament.
Everywhere in the world you can see and hear people crying for help. Wars, droughts, poverty, floods... There are few solutions to all these problems, but those in charge must have the will. There is still hope, as the quote below states.
In Spain we have got plenty of problems everywhere (housing, corruption, immigration, jobs...), but "we still have a cup" and we have got the power in our hands to try to change things if we make the effort. We should not waste that possibility, especially our students.
