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.
The hydrological year is coming to an end. In terms of rain water collected, experts take their measures from 1st October to 30th September.
As an example, not more than 500 litres have been collected in the weather station near Capileira over this period. Meanwhile, last year nearly 1,000 litres were collected and the average amount of water collected historically is over 700 litres. Therefore, the dams or reservoirs in Rules and Beznar have got less water than last year at this time.
At the same time you have just had some terrible floods in the south east of Spain due to a cold front. The climate change is a reality and people don't help. For instance, every time I play tennis at the sports facilities in Salobreña I see how the drinking fountain is kept running water and how loads of water are being wasted!!!
Have a look at these articles related to the issue of drought and floods:
Episode 190925 / 25 September 2019 >>> Would you crowdfund a cow? Becoming a young farmer in the UK: Language related to
'work'. Need-to-know language: tough business, hurdles, running, traded a life & life-changing.
Autumn, or Fall (as the Americans say), is here. It is the time of chestnuts and walnuts, the days are shorter and shorter and some places in the world are just gorgeous to go sightseeing. That is the case of New England in the United States.
Episode 190918 / 18 September 2019 >>> Rainbow recycling: Language related to
'categorisation'. Need-to-know language: sort, colour code, jumbled up, separate & cross-contamination.
School has just started and a new school year is well ahead full of difficulties, exams, bad moments... but also good moments. Anyway, "you gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger..." than ever before (I advise you to listen to the song by Des'ree and have a look at the lyrics). My students in 1º ESO will have to look for adjectives related with PERSONALITY.
.... And now search for two mistakes. If you watch this other video, you will find the answer!!!
Nevertheless, as I have just said, there are good moments to
come, actually very good moments and one of these could be our VIII Study trip to the British-Irish Isles. After our zero meeting in May we will be having our first meeting on Thursday during the break in the language department. You are welcome to come just to inform you about the activity and if you are interested in participating, here's the link to the form.
This is the form you have to fill in if you are interested:
Remember we decided to go to Cambridge and you'd better have a look at this post where there are some useful information about the destination and the activities we could do.
Today is the big day for these warriors, both the Spanish and the Argentinian warriors, in the Basketball World Cup Final in China, where the Imperial Terracotta Warriors once lived. Good luck to both teams because they really deserve it and I do hope that we enjoy the game!!!
SPAIN >>> BASKETBALL WORLD CHAMPIONS 2019 IN CHINA!!!
After every summer holiday we wonder how tourism affects the beauties of nature or cities. It is true that it is superb booster for the economy of certain countries, such as Spain, but all that glitters is not gold, as you can see in the following articles and listening exercise.
Episode 190911 / 11 September 2019 >>> Searching for the Loch Ness Monster: Language related to
'the unexplained'. Need-to-know language: mystery, definitive explanation, plausible, inconvinced & unidentified.
it was almost 3.3o in the morning after almost 5 hours of tough battle on court when our beloved rafael nadal did it again to win his 4th US
Open and his 19th Grand Slam, and the first player who wins 5 Grand
Slams in his thirties!!!
affecting teenagers, such as screen abuse, mobile phones, couch potatoes... All of them have something in common: PHYSICAL INACTIVITY, that is to say, A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE, whose main consequence is OBESITY and some other health problems such as insomnia, eyesight problems...
Pau Gasol stated this is a real problem recently. Here are some articles for you to read about the issue:
Episode 190904 / 04 September 2019 >>> Ban on zoo trade in baby elephants: Language related to
'law'. Need-to-know language: prohibited, compromise, loopholes, exceptional circumstances & significant victory.
So, you'd better stop wasting it!!!! 
As an example, not more than 500 litres have been collected in the weather station near Capileira over this period. Meanwhile, last year nearly 1,000 litres were collected and the average amount of water collected historically is over 700 litres. Therefore, the dams or reservoirs in Rules and Beznar have got less water than last year at this time.
