Music and creativity

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

or...  >>>

• Genesis - Phil Collins e Chester Thompson (solo de bateria).avi

• Best guitar solo of all times - Mark knopfler

• Montserrat by Jeff Lorber Fusion

 

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:

• Everyone is born creative, but it is educated out of us at school (The Guardian)

• Creative subjects being squeezed, schools tell BBC (BBC News)

• Why we need to let kids be creative (CNN)

• What should schools put first? Discipline or creativity? (BBC News)

 

CMS-Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

 

Lucy tells us how to sound more British >>>

John McEnroe, The Commissioner of Tennis in another of his hilarious shows!!!

McEnroe & Friends on the Death of the Davis Cup

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.